But the only way Arsenal can match them is to be smarter and operate in a similar manner to how Liverpool has operated. That’s my entire point. Kroenke can’t just cut a check for £200 million out of KSE to fund players because that’s illegal. You’re only allowed to spend money the club has generated through revenue and player sales. You can’t put the cart before the horse.
The signing to be of Saliba indicates he is in fact the CB they were looking to invest in, until the Kos fiasco started it seems unlikely they even put thought to signing another CB apart from Saliba this summer.
As messed up as it is it rings true, which of course means there won’t be a quality CB budgeted for this window.
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You may be correct about that, but surely after this Kos bullshit plans must change. They should drop the Zaha chase now and use those funds to try and bring in a CB who will improve us immediately because we are in such a desperate need of that.
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But Arsenal have 250m in the bank
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It’s a special Arsenal bank.
You can put money in but you can’t take it out. 
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I recall Ornstein saying that a CB for this season was on our list even after signing Saliba. Haven’t had time to find the article / tweet but considering he is basically the mouthpiece of Arsenal, I’d say there is a high probability it is true.
There should be an even bigger resolve to sign a CB now given the Koscielny situation. I get that we have a lot of CBs in the squad, and that buying a new one is unlikely without getting rid of one or two first, but that doesn’t change that a CB was on our agenda.
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It’s too late you obtain anyone of real quality
Ziyech, Fraser, Lozano, Bergwijn, Malcom…Bale (a completely unrealistic dream).
If you’re talking about a CB, never mind the above 
I agree, but it isn’t too late to obtain someone who will at least improve the situation for the time being and we still should try to do such a deal imo
No, they don’t. Last year they had £231 million thanks to a profit that was driven largely by player sales (without which they would have had a £42 million operating loss). We don’t know the figures for this past season, but it would be expected that the club would suffer its first operating loss since 2002 and that it would be more than the £42 million they would have lost the previous year without the player sales.
Being outside the Champions League is killing the club’s revenue. The difference between what Arsenal got for reaching the Europa League final and what Spurs got for reaching the Champions League final was almost £60 million. So even if Arsenal had as much cash reserves as everyone seems to think, it would be stupid business to just spend it all. They would have no cash on hand to cover future losses if the club remains out of the top competition. Plus they have about £20 million per year in outgoing debt payments.
Spending all the cash reserves would be like a person going out and spending everything they have in the bank on a new car while they were laid off from their job.
That’s a poor analogy because Arsenal will have guaranteed income of about 400m compared to the guy losing his job having a guaranteed income of zero.
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No it wouldn’t. It’d be like a person laid off from a specialist IT job buying the tools so they could opperate as an IT company.
No one is demanding we take all of our savings but how about 50% of it? Spend £150m when Chelsea are out of the CL and you know what, we might improve future revenues.
The manager wants Zaha, Tierney and a CB - Getting it fucking done. Shouldn’t cost more than 100m - which should be nothing for AFC - CL or not
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It’s a shite analogy given not only the 400m revenue but the fact any investment should generate more revenue
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Lool
we gonna sign him next summer. You have my word for it.
I don’t think we should spend all of it but to use your analogy, it’s like having a car and not buying any fuel and have it sit on the drive rather than actually use it, because you didn’t want to take any money out of the bank to fill it up.
From Emery’s point of view he must be pretty desperate after watching our inept defensive displays and it’s not like we need luxury signings, we need quality in several positions and in this window.
To spend another season out of the CL, because we are too tight to invest, is going to push us even further behind our rivals, not just financially but no decent player is going to want to come here, or stay here, when they see our lack of ambition.
Not investing adequately in this window and have the money sitting in the bank is a false economy.
We’ve done it before and it’s never worked so we will just repeat the same mistakes.
But if any club in the PL are the leaders in false economy and repeating the same mistakes, look no further than us.
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I like the part about him making fun of the size of Casillas’ wee wee.
How do you know Arsenal isn’t “investing adequately?” They seem to be targeting the positions of need. Their biggest problem is difficulty in unloading a number of players brought in under Gazidis whose wages make them unattractive to the sort of clubs where they should be playing. Having such a big squad also somewhat limits how many players Arsenal can bring in. Plus, in some cases, there’s probably room for some youth. So why don’t we wait until the window is over to judge whether or not they’ve “invested adequately?”
As for the “same mistakes,” this is the first summer transfer window for the new front office team. How do you know they will make the same mistakes? They need to be given a chance. Plus, it’s not reasonable to expect them to fix everything in one transfer window.
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Looks like he’s made for the Prem, good.
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