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That spend will have been made in the expectation of receiving ~£50m for White though, so it doesn't follow that because we've spent that money we didn't have to sell. The gamble with selling is that we can cover the loss of White (or generally any player) and improve elsewhere.

He's hardly going to tell them that they had to prize his fingers off the doorframe at Lancing with a crowbar, is he?

We've bought £50m by exchanging one of our players for that much money

I think he's one of those players who'll look better the better the side he plays in. Stick him in next to Van Dijk at Liverpool and he'll look about £70million.

Nice cropping skills

Let's just say they were both a bit, erm, incongruous. Or to be more generous, optimistic. I just had a look at the Wikipedia page on the 2003-04 season to remind myself what football in general and the Premier League in particular were like back then. Take my advice: Unless you want to...

To be fair, I think suggesting Arsenal should be included in such a league is illustrative of an underrated sense of humour. Also, we could say that about any of the owners of clubs we're trying to sell our best players to, so I consider it to be priced in already.

Do we all hate Kroenke? Don't get me wrong, I don't like him, but I really couldn't care less how much Arsenal spend or how that compares to what their fans expect :shrug: I'll send some hate his way when he shoots some babies in the face.

Wasn't Magna Carta written in Latin, which probably contributes to it being unrecognisable as English? Personally I think "shit 'Plain English Campaign'" gets the point across much more succinctly.

That's the obvious 1 out, 1 in solution. Over the course of the season, with injuries, cards, workload management and tactical changes, somebody else will have to play there a good chunk of the time.

Yeah, there are plenty of options in or around the squad. It was the implication in your previous post that Webster alone carrying the ball forward covers the loss of White that I was picking on, if we play the same system then we need the CB on both sides to be doing that. Veltman and Burn...

White will need to be replaced with an equivalent on the other side to Webster, or it'll completely mess up how we play. Or we could instead go to 4 at the back to have an extra player elsewhere. Looking at the signings we've been made or linked with I assume we're going to be playing with 8...

I went to Leeds once, and I still can't wear tight trousers.

I've heard if we don't sell White by midnight then his shoes will turn back into pumpkins.

If he's anything like me, it'll be because Rafa's beard gives him the horn. To be fair, at least Everton's owner has a sense of ambition, it's just not been matched by actual competence over the last few years. I think the Everton fan base has a lower proportion of entitled prats than Arsenal's...

Anybody with a passing interest in reality thinks he could do better than Arsenal.

A cynic might suggest that there are people at Arsenal who want to tell the world how much they're trying to spend on the team, who may not be the same people who are actually responsible for how that money is spent. They might further point out that it doesn't make sense for an aspiring...

You originally wrote: There is manifestly a difference between "wanting" and "would have been willing to". The rest of my post is the part that you clearly disagree with, which is what makes this an interesting conversation. I'll make the generous assumption that you're fishing or trolling and...

??? Guaranteed starter in the team he'd been playing in for the whole of the previous season, who play good attractive football and where he was a fan favourite. Assuming they offer a sensible wage. In one of the few cities in England really worth the name. And assuming he's leaving Brighton on...

I admire your commitment to only engaging with points that agree with your perspective :bigwave:.