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Originally Posted by Damien
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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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. |
l think you will find looking back at the match that the defence was all over the place and were lucky not to concede at least three goals and what happens if Wilshere gets injured because if he does Arsenal are up the creek without a paddle and even if he is fit Arsenal lack strength in depth in many areasand need to purchase at least 3 or 4 quality players to replace the ones that have left.