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Saturday 2 July 2011

Is any of the dead wood going to leave? Spurs new stadium bid again

Rosicky stays - "oh for fu..."

Amid all the talk of Nasri and Clichy and Fabregas possibly leaving Arsenal it seems that we have been overlooking those players we would actually be content to lose for next to nothing. Unfortunately it seems that every other club in Europe is also overlooking them. This past week we have heard a bit more about three of them - Nicklas Bendtner, Denilson and Tomas Rosicky.
We'll start with Bendtner. Despite his father/agent doing his best to offer him to every side in Germany there have been no takers. This week it was claimed, in The Sun, that any deal for Gary Cahill may have taken a setback as Bolton weren't interested in taking the Dane as a make-weight in any agreement. If you consider that Nicklas Bendtner is on £52000 per week it is probably not too much of a surprise. He's the sort of player that would do well at a side like Bolton - with Lee planting crosses on to his forehead Bendtner would get plenty of goals and would be an ideal (and better) replacement for Elmander. However, if a team won't pay the wages he is on (or even get near to those wages) why should he go anywhere? This is a problem for us as, while he continues to be a passenger in the Arsenal squad, we have to foot the bill - and this prevents the acquisition of other players.
Denilson's agent, meanwhile, has made it clear that AC Milan are not interested in signing him. It seems that they are not the only ones. Consequently the modern-day Ray Wilkins is returning to Arsenal for pre-season training this week. Again, Denilson is on a higher than average weekly wage for a player of such average ability. Can you see a pattern developing here?
The final denouement was added by the news that Tomas Rosicky is also going nowhere and that Arsene Wenger has told him he continues to be part of his plans. What sort of wage do you reckon Tomas might be on? Given that he was given a new contract despite missing more than a year through "injury" I suspect it is a very healthy one. 
The point is that Arsenal are paying these guys so much money that they have become nigh on impossible to sell. From their point of view they have no desire to move somewhere and get paid less - particularly not a veteran like Rosicky. Make no mistake we have a problem of Wenger's making - he decided to pay these guys based on potential, rather than achievement. As a result they now sit in an artificial comfort-zone from which they would be mad to escape voluntarily. Frankly, I could cry, such is the state we have got ourselves in to.


I heard this morning on Sky that Tottenham have resurrected their plans for the swamp and their attempts to make it open to 60,000 neanderthal-like knuckle-draggers. I have to say that I paid very little attention to the news item but I did notice one bit that stood out. The news-reader said that Spurs would be looking for "public-funding" to assist with the plans. What? Public money to develop Shite Hart Lane? In a recession? With thousands of public servants being put out of work and having their pensions slashed? A multi-million pound private enterprise wants tax-payers money to fund some new stands? If that happens then there should be some kind of national protest, shouldn't there? After all, this is the Club that pays Tom Huddelstone thousands of pounds every week to masquerade as a professional athlete - that puts paying Bendtner £52000 in the shade in my opinion. Public money? Not a scooby.


I'll leave you now and await the inevitable backlash from the newsnow Spurs feed (I'll be disappointed if I don't get any abuse whatsoever). More on Monday.

21 comments:

  1. as proven against your lot huddlestone has way more footballing skill than bentner could dream of, difference is we are not prepared to pay him £52,ooo a week!! you pay average players astronomical wages and it's your own fault, lets see how you get on with no fibreglass, nasri or clichy, your on the slide and have been for a while now but losing your best players will just make you weak, feel a spurs double next season against your crap players.

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  2. You're getting upset about spurs asking for funding from the public sector yet the goonies impotents stadium got plenty of public monies. You'd still be at the library had you not received public help. Once again a short sighted hypocritical goonie pops his head out of his hole are blurbs out nonsense.

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  3. Stoney - Arsenal's stadium was not funded by any public money whatsoever. In fact, knob-jockey, Arsenal had to pay millions in to public coffers to pay for community stuff away from the stadium, as well as numerous affordable housing projects and re-generation in the area - all from Arsenal, not the Islington tax-payer.
    Soursman79 sums up all you Spuds by saying how they will do the double over Arsenal next season - that's why you'll never be a top side, because the ambition is to beat Arsenal, and not worry about real success.

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  4. tottingham fans: 'the straws! i must clutch at them!'. this appears to have passed on to their board.

    onward to real news, not those mid-tablers (...ok, high mid-tablers) there's almost 2 months of transfer window to go; it's been open not even 48 hours; and people are being comically impatient.

    once a few of the big moves (which we are unlikely to be involved in - i'm talking the city and chelsea money type deals) happen, the log-jam will clear and the market will erupt.

    maybe even denilson will go.

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  5. DvbrisG. It did have assistance from public monies. It had millions. You're talking absolute nonsense. Arsenal admitted it themselves and it has been reported in the media on many an occasion. Shockingly ignorant of you really. Purporting to be a top goonie and you don't know sh!t about your beloved club.

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  6. Wow, do you have tourettes?

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  7. Are you a fascist? "..is there an intellectual issue? Given that you follow Tottenham I would suggest I've answere my own question." - in the least, you're clearly a snob.

    missed the 'd' off 'answered' there you odious little man.

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  8. A fascist? Odious little man? Snob? Clearly you are correct James. I bow down to you. Spurs fan reading an Arsenal blog? Thought so.

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  9. You gooners are worse than Chelski fans these days with your lack of knowledge. Levy is applying for funding due to the fact the development will throw up over 1000 jobs and is not only a stadium, it will incorporate a hotel, supermarker and much more. It's a massive lift to an area even I can say as a Spurs fan that desperately needs it. It is a shit hole and this can only be a good thing.

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  10. 'It is a shit hole'

    Sounds like home from home for them and as an Arsenal fan who has suffered visiting the toilet that is shite hart lane must say it sounds perfect.

    spurs truly are the dirty benefit career claimant of football. levy with his begging bowl out. careful! 'arry will pinch it when you're not looking

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  11. Arsenal didn't receive any money from the public purse directly.. however they did have the traditional money grabbing fees worth many many millions waived by the local council, which is basically the same thing.. stoney, dvbrisg.. you're both wrong

    On to the players being paid too much issue.. the anti-wenger brigade are morons.. you do realise that its the chairman who negotiates and ok's contracts, right? it's not Wenger.. he just says who he wants.. those of you saying he put Arsenal in such a poor position, you do realise that the man has had his hands tied for years.. ever since the new stadium? he's operated Arsenal on a shoe-string budget for ages as the board try pay off the debt from the stadium.. maybe he hasn't won much.. but he's kept Arsenal right up there.. without him Arsenal have been bottom half of the table at best.. all that talk about having loads to spend but not feeling its necessary is a front t save face.. the image is worth far more than you can imagine.. same reason united couldn't afford to lose shrek after ronaldo so paid him a fortune n spent loads on new recruits despite being in loads of debt.. the loss of status would cripple them far more than a further 60/70/80 million of debt ever could

    I really wish there weren't so many morons speaking on issues they can't understand

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  12. More proof that all Goons are just thick, stupid tw@ts.

    The public funding is to regenerate the surrounding area. We already have the cash in place for the stadium itself.

    Goon pricks.

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  13. 'we already have the cash in place for the stadium'

    good one. total tosh, of course, but you almost had us.

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  14. Arsenal did in fact get public funding so learn your facts. I don't care less about Arsenal I want a big stadium so first of all i can get a season tocket that I have been on a waiting list for many years for and because it will give us more money to compete at the top of the table.

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  15. Yes Alex your joke of a team are total tosh and they'll be even worse now your 3 best players are being sold to bigger clubs.

    Goon pricks.

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  16. Shame about Nasri, Fabregas, Clichy and Van Persie all wanting to leave Arsenal to play for bigger clubs eh lads?

    Oh how the not so mighty have fallen. No longer one of the top clubs in the country, let alone Europe, Spurs and Birmingham have won more trophies in the past 6 years than you have yet your fans are as arrogant as ever. That all makes for a rather delicious recipe for furthur Gooner humilation this coming season. I look forward to April '12 when your season falls to pieces again and you all start trying to sack manager again. It's becoming somewhat of a tradition.

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  17. SilverTongue.
    That's really what I'm referring to. Although they didn't get money paid into their bank account a lot of compulsory purchase orders were issued against longstanding businesses in the immediate area, arsenal subsequently paid well under Market value for these premises. They also had millions in C16 public transport and road developments costs waived by islington. The cost of all of that was as good as public monies in their accounts. Call it what you will they had help and the author of this article is naive to suggest anything else.

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  18. has these crap spud fans not enough to think of, you porks are lookin at havin a team without luca shitface n who know gareth mamothface next season. Then a crap hole owner s shit talkin arsenal, u porks are arse waste. At arsenal,we v always done it better than spuds,when our best leave,we v always been on top of d shite hardlane team..you know,i av this feelin that if we finish 17th,spluds wil finish 18th as we v always been a motivator n model for you idiots

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  19. Nashawn please go back to school (if you actually went in the first place) & get some English lessons.

    Yet another example of a stupid goon bastard.

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  20. LOL, yeah I'm with you Paul Yid, Nashawn, you have just embarrassed yourself and your Arsenal friends. Brilliant

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  21. History of the premier league is all you spuds need to look at. Despite being skint and with ' poor' players we've finished every season above you and also qualified for the champions league year in year out. One run in the champions league and back in the europa league for you guys. That speaks far more than anything I've read here.

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