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Originally Posted by Damien
Song was considered a flop written off by many until he turned good. Koscielny has absolutely panned early last season. Sagna as well. Sometimes the faith pays off and we get a good player. You need to gave them playing time.
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I remember because I backed Song and Kosh on Arsenal Land while everyone was either saying loan Song out when he was peaking good form and dubbing Kosh a flop when you could blatantly see him fighting for the cause. Indeed faith does pay off but what about the long list that are ego inflated fools?
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Originally Posted by Damien
This season he brought in Arteta who has been good, Mertesacker who has been good, Chamberlain and Jenkinson who have also been promising. His youth policy, i.e having faith, has seen Coquelin and Frimpong show promise as well. If Wenger has listened to all the complainers we would have Schwarzer in goal instead of Szczesny. Another incidence were Arsenal fans were spitting blood at Wenger's faith but one that was a brilliant decision.
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Agree, Arteta has added alot including us looking a lot more solid in the middle of the park. Merts getting there but you can tell he's a Lidl purchase too. Oxo cubes raw quality agree. His faith is paying off but those who show raw quality deserve it, not those who can neither put it down or learn from mistakes. the goalkeeper coming through was a good one but also remember he put in a big money bid in for Reina
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Originally Posted by Damien
The wage bill is around the 4th/5th biggest in the league and that is where we typically end up. However it's done with minimum transfer fees. That is an achievement. We have some money but nothing like that of United, City and Chelsea, Arsenal made a small profit last year.
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overall its good but look closer ignoring the rest of the clubs, look at Arsenal only and you'll see a lot being wasted. those fund could be spent paying someone worth while that can actually make a difference for us whether it be fit or able to do sometihng with the football.
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It's not going to change. We can no longer compete for the title, not until FFP comes in at the very least. Get used to it.
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we can challenge, fair play doesn't need to be used as some scapegoat, in fact it can't be with millions of players out there able to do a much better job than some of our current lot which are in reality, deadwood.