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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
I tend to agree, the G14 or however many it is now seem determined not to allow anyone else into their exclusive little club
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G14 disbanded ages ago with 191 clubs being members of the
European Club Association take their place. From the UK the following clubs are members:
- Arsenal
- Aston Villa
- Chelsea
- Everton
- Fulham
- Liverpool
- Manchester City
- Manchester United
- Newcastle United
- Tottenham Hotspur
It's rather disingenuous to claim it's only the rich protecting themselves albeit that was probably the prime motivation for them. It's main goal is to curb wage inflation, when clubs are purchased by rich oil barons who think nothing of paying wages of over £200,000 a week this creates upward pressure on the clubs who are constrained by actual economics. Wages bills in football are already absurd and unless we create some kind of pressure to push them down they will only get higher and higher.
As an example the Football League, hardly the preserve of the rich, are also considering implementing a
Fair Play System.
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Originally Posted by denphone
Well Arsenal were lucky last night to get away with a 1-0 win against Udinese and have many problems to boot as well as at times they looked all over the place in the match, up front Chamakh was absolutely woeful but walcott was probably their best player but midfield and defence would be my concerns as Song again went missing in his so called defensive midfield role and Rosicky looks past it by a mile and defensively their full backs are alright going forward but are not that good at defending.
All in all Arsenal play lovely football but my concerns are when they have not got the ball and also Arsenal lack leaders on the pitch as well like Adams/Petit/Vieira and until they get these type of players in their side l fear that they will struggle to win anything.
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The defence were fine. They were the reason that Arsenal did a get a draw. Sagna and our center-backs were dominant and when they did make a mistake our keeper was equal to the challenge. They were also confident and clam in dealing with set-pieces.
In midfield we need someone to replace Nasri and Fabregas but Wilshere was also missing last night and he is quite an important player for us now. Has the creativity and control that was missing last night.