₦airaland Forum

FBS:
Don't be silly. I know it's late but try to use some of your senses.
Would you have said this if we won?
You no even watch the match sef and you are already looking for scape goats.
Get on CTV and watch it and tell me DD was sh$t?

I dont need to see the game. . . Ive seen DD play a million times. . . the commentary tells me Everton were controlling the game. . . I know Everton will not control the game if Joe Cole is on the right and Anelka is uptop.

DD does not need to be shite to merit the bench. . . if Anelka makes us play a more fluid style of football against the small teams (who we can pass to death, and dont need to be playing gra-gra football with), then Anelka is of more merit.

FBS:
Strange but why weren't you saying all these on Sunday eh?
That you prefer one player to the other is ok. . .but abeg be objective.

Nic sometimes waste a lot of time on the ball. . .when he could have simply taken a one-time shot.
That element certainly is missing from his game.

Dont be an idiot bruv. . . if you had any tactical knowledge, you should know that Chelsea can never outpass Arsenal, and that DD's physical power is too much for Arsenals midgets. . . .I believe in playing every game according to its merits. . . when Gaynners were laughing at our draw with Hull, I told them that the VERY SAME GAME WE PLAYED AGAINST HULL WILL BURY ARSENAL!

For example, DD should always play against Barca, Arsenal, Liverpool (Carragher) etc.

DD should be benched in games against Stoke, Villa etc. . . games where the defenders are a physical match for DD. In these games, we have to pass them to death.

Im back in the Fantasy Cup. . . its now 60-40 in my favour. . . . as for Mykali, Ive finished him!

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=395364.msg5491005#msg5491005 date=1265840123]This is what irks me to the bone.
Anelka was the EPL's highest goal scorer last season.
If Carlotti plays him as a centre-forward, he will score goals. He can score goals.

Movement is the KEY.  Players like Anelka don't give possession away like twunts (Drogba)
When your opponents don't have the ball, they can't do much.
How many goals did you score while Drogba was eating corn in Africa?[/quote]Not only that. . . but Anelka makes the teams score goals. . . . you can check how many goals we were scoring fluently in January. . . now everything is just laborious all of a sudden.

nateevs:
This dude is a flipping bad loser. . .
All sorts of comments becos we dropped 3 pts. . .
Na wa oooo. .

Nah bruv. . . my views on JT have never changed. . . check my record. . .  I have no time for mercenaries. . . greedy c&nts like JT will always get stick from me unless they play 120% every game. . . I will continue to judge him as a £160,000 a week player, not as a £70,000 a week player!!!

How many chances does Ancelotti need to pull away in this title race?

If he hasnt noticed, Manure are the form team in this league. Didnt we go 8 points clear after we beat them at Stamford Bridge.

I done pull my ear warn una o. Its looking ominous for Manure again.

Infact, from this point on, if Chelsea go on to win this league, it will be against the odds!

FBS:
If I may say JT cost us this match. Repeatedly committed the same mistake twice.

@ All those idiots hailing JT as some sort of great leader after his recent indiscretions, I hope they will reciprocate in kind for his catastrophic performance today. F&cking leader indeed! A leader who blew his teams glory moment in Moscow, f&cks his teammates babymothers and continually harangues Chelsea for new improved contracts every summer so he can blow it on his gambling habit.

FBS:
DD has been everywhere in this match.

Its not about being everywhere. . . its about controlling the ball instantly and releasing a teammate. . . DD takes 3 seconds to control a ball that would take Anelka 1 sec. . . by the time he controls the ball, the defender has closed the space where he could have released the pass. . . .

Of course Anelka is not the same on the right. . . his intelligence of movement is what creates space when he is upfront. . . . if we're gonna be playing DD upfront, then we have to play direct-football, not the way we always try to pass the ball under Ancelotti.

FFS Ancelotti, sort it out!

Whilst I am not watching the game, I can bet if Anelka was upfront and Joe Cole on the right, this would be a different story.

Drogba is good for bullying Arsenal and such, but he cannot link our play effectively in these kinda games.

Mind you Fellaini and Pienaar arent even playing.

FFS. . . why did I put Malouda on the bench. . . I hope Martin Petrov doesnt play next week so he can be automatically substituted.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=394279.msg5487380#msg5487380 date=1265809837]What does it take to know the players available in football? Guus won't be working alone.
There will be back room staff whose main task is to discover unearthed gems far and near. . . . .What do you this is?[/quote]Please. . . what backroom staff?. . . the likes of Dominic Iorfa?. . . dont make me laugh!

All you gonna see is NFF choosing players for GH. . . knowing how incompetent and corrupt NFF is, you can expect some discredited names to be recommended.

I can still remember how Bora Milutinovic took over just before France 1998. . . we were struggling for a right-back, and with his limited knowledge of Nigerian football, he picked the worst right-back ever to play for Nigeria. . . . Mobi Oparaku!!!

Hiring a foreign manager involves sitting him down and washing your dirty laundry in public by telling him that we have 40 year olds parading as 25 year-olds. How do the Presidential taskforce hope to achieve their aim of "clearing the team of old legs" without risking political fall out? This is an in-house issue which SiaSia and other local coaches know about, and we dont need to go through any "testing" phase again. By the end of Nations Cup, at least Amodu had realised what all Nigerians had been telling him, namely that Yobo, Yakubu, Olofinjana etc were tired legs. . . .and that Kaita is the best DM in Nigeria by a long shot. . . . this is a process we would have to go through all over again with a foreign manager.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=394279.msg5485285#msg5485285 date=1265791390]Ibime, you must be talking outta ya grimey backside.
Are we talking about the same Siasia that was tactically exposed in the last youth tournament?
The same Siasia that it took 10 mins to replace an injured defender when his team was under attack?
Thanx but no thanx. . . . .Siasia is tactically inept at this level. . . . . .Nigeria needs a foreign handler in the World Cup.

Now to the list. . . . . . . .Personally, i think either Bruno Metsu or Guus Hiddink will do.
These managers have a history of doing a quick action service for national teams in the 3rd world countries with a decent performance.
If the NFF get their act together in time and appoint either one of these guys, Nigeria stand a better chance @ the World Cup.

We have the tools(talents), all we need is technical hands to tweak the team in a way to bring out the best out of the players.
Sacking Amodu is the best decision the NFF have made this millennium.
Without a coach at the ACN, the SE were good enough to have clinched the 3rd position by default. . .Amodu is a wastepipe!!![/quote]Stop yarning trash. . . SiaSia is proven at 2 tournaments and that takes precedence over his hastily and ill-contrived appointment to the under-20's which we all recognised was a set-up from day one.

If your foreign coach is appointed (with only one game to the world cup) you can be guaranteed that he is just gonna look at a list of Super Eagles players and pick the ones that play for the biggest clubs. Hence you can expect a return to the automatic selection of old wastepipes like Yakubu and Yobo. Does a foreign coach know the players we have available?

I am being seriously challenged on the Fantasy Cup front. I would rate my chances of surviving this GW as 40%.


I blame my ill-advised decision to gamble on Martin Petrov. . . starting with -8 points is always risky, but there is still a chance of redemption.


@ lalaboi and Bandely, it looks like y'all gonna lose in the H2H league. . . . MIND THE GAP!!!

Only if they respect the rights of the minority.

There are many nations where you have conflict between the principle ethnic group and the minorities, such as the Turks and Kurds in Turkey, the Han and Ughurs in China, the Sinhalese and Tamils in Sri Lanka etc etc etc.

If we are gonna sack Amodu, we better hire SIASIA, otherwise ITS BEST WE KEEP AMODU.

Those useless thieves at the glass house dont want SIASIA because he doesnt brook no nonsense when it comes to godfatherism and picking old and tired legs.

What can a foreign coach do with so little time to a tournament? Does a foreign coach know our database of available players, and which players have 10 years VAT on their passport?

If a footie federation want to appoint a coach, they dont draw up shortlist and all this megedefegede, they simply identify the right man and make the approach.

Imagine idiots like Lulu and Ogunjobi inviting the likes of Hiddink and Trappatoni for interview? Can an illiterate interview a professor? What kind of questions do they want to ask Hiddink and Trappa?

It is a shame that Super Eagles fans should know more about football administration than the administrators themselves.

A look at Arsenal accounts show that some of you are right - Wenger not spending due to Emirates stadium debt is a ruse.

Every season, Highbury brought in £44m less operating costs

Now Emirates brings in £90m less operating costs

Emirates is serviced by £20m repayments per year so Emirates brings in £70m less operating costs.


From £44m to £70m, means Arsenal are actually making more money from their stadium than before, whilst still covering the costs of building the stadium.


So what is Wenger acting all miserly for?

The presence of regional parties only indicates that the country is a federation of regions and should be treated as such.

Parliament does not have the right to name Jonathan as President without first sending a medical team to assess Yaraduas condition.

The constitution makes this very clear.

Parliament is thus in violation of the constitution.

This is an illegal resolution to a constitutional problem, but prolly the best solution for all parties involved. . . however, our institutions need to start following rule of law in this country.

FBS:
I don't know how you guys find it funny or interesting posting such rubbish.

Are you not a moderator round here. . . either clear that rubbish or contact the appropriate person to do so.

@ the political class who have no economic agenda but to bleed us dry, the message should be loud and clear: the days of rent-seeking in the Niger-Delta are over.

Tasma:
Simple question, what does the constitution say about when the president does not hand in a letter prior to going on holiday or sick leave?

It gives no punishment for not handing in the letter. . . however it assumes that the President will hand in a letter as a matter of protocol. . .failure to do so means he has left the country without a head, and the constitution says the country must never be without a head even for a temporary period. . . hence it is an impeachable offence.

This is not the first impeachable offence by Yara. . . last time he went on Hajj abi lesser Hajj and left Kingibe in charge, he violated the consitution because the constitution does not recognise Kingibe as the country's head. . .

Michael Ballack aims broadside at Arsene Wenger


Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack has hit out at Arsene Wenger's criticism of the league leaders, labelling his Arsenal side as one-dimensional.

Ballack was unhappy that the Arsenal boss claimed "we didn't get a demonstration of football" from Chelsea in Sunday's 2-0 win over the Gunners.

"Wenger always says things like this when he loses to find an excuse," said the Germany captain.

"We knew the way Arsenal play. It is always the same style."

The 33-year-old Ballack added: "Football is not possession of the ball and playing a nice pass - football is about winning games.

"That is what Manchester United showed when they played them and what we did.

"We derived the win because we were very effective, and that was our strategy."

REAL TRUTH:
,,,,it further implies that if the President fails to make the letter before(whenever) proceeding or after(whenever) proceeding,,,, the Vice President automatically MUST "ACT" as the President,,,,

This conclusion is ambiguous. . . in law, implication is open to interpretation. . . .the law does not explicitly state what happens if the Prez fails to submit the letter, it rather assumes that the Prez has submitted the first letter. . .  hence I say the President is in contravention of the spirit of the law. . . this is an impeachable offence, rather than a simple case of handing over temporary powers to his vice.

REAL TRUTH:
This was how GCE/WAEC of early 70's and late 70's were crafted,,,U must be able to understand comprehension to pass WAEC/GCE in the 70's,

hehehehe. . . old soldier!

lawyer:
Naturally, i dont comment in this section and just glance through but i think i will attempt to answer some of your questions:

There are so many Youngsters earning less than £30k a week that are already in the first 25 aka, Gibbs, Trarore, Jay Emmanuel Thomas, Jack Wilshere, Eastmond, Merida etc. Remember that since they were blooded through the youth team, they have a restricted salary structure until they are 18 to sign professional contracts and because Wenger ties them in for long term contracts, most of them end up having the opportunity to review and re negotiate their contracts when they are above 21 instead of 18. Fabregas is still on £60k pw despite being the best player in the squad and even Van persie was on £40k before he recently renegoiated it to £80k. The truth is that having a structured wage bill that is affordable is what Wenger craves and dies for that is why he can have a barn yard of young players at his finger tips.

Recently Jay Emmanuel Thomas was reported to have had an accident crashing his SLK McLauren worth £100k plus! Hello, It was reported that he earns £10k per week and the media was questioning how a young lad with no experience financially and with a low wage of £10k still be able to afford that car until it was discovered that it was a car finacing that will take him years to clear off.

Summary here is that almost half of Wenger Young boys are paid less than 30k pw because wenger catches them young and ties them down with low end salaries in exchange for instant fame, exposure and stardom which their agents are ready to trade their clients for.

Its on a fixed 25 years loan repayment at $20million a year. Not a penny more not a penny less, so that argument is fallacious. Whether Wenger or Amodu, it changes nothing. That is the beauty of the debt restructuring without adding extra ballon interest payment like the liver pool or Manutd crisis


Keown is no longer the defensive coach!

Nice one!

@ Debo, are you watching?

This is how to provide informative and concise analysis, not those long epilogues and prologues you be writing.

lawyer:
Summary here is that almost half of Wenger Young boys are paid less than 30k pw because wenger catches them young and ties them down with low end salaries in exchange for instant fame, exposure and stardom which their agents are ready to trade their clients for.

My point exactly!

Arsenals youth team costs no more than Chelseas.

Chelsea paid £5m for Michael Woods and Tom Taiwo alone.

REAL TRUTH:
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This is so amazing!!!,,,,Is this how bad Nigeria system of education has degenerated? I will advice U read that statement One Hundred times until U understand the message in the statement,,,
It says UNTIL,,,that is to say,,,until the President makes the letter avaiulable to the senate president/otherwise,,,the Vice President MUST be ACTING as the president,,,,This is not FURTHER MATHEMATICS or APPLIED MATHEMATICS

hehehehe. . . the word UNTIL is predicated on a prior event. . . that prior event being that the Prez has already transmitted a first letter telling em he's going on holiday.

UNTIL cannot survive in that statement without the WHENEVER that precedes it.

REAL TRUTH:
How dare U come to a public forum to display your poor grasp of English Language? The word "UNTIL" as stated above implies that : If the President fails to make a written representation,,,,the Vice President is automatically meant to "ACT" as the president.

Nah. . . paddy lo is right. . . . but still, there could be cause to impeach Yara from the law. . .

WHENEVER the President transmits a letter to go on holiday, he cannot resume his duties UNTIL he transmits another letter to supercede the first letter.


This means that the constitution assumes that the President will send a letter EACH AND EVERY time he goes on holiday.

This is the[i] spirit[/i] of the law because it doesnt stipulate that Yara should send the letter, but it assumes that Yara would already have sent the letter. . . hence, Yara has contravened the spirit of the law.

The Tea Party is like watching the French Revolution in reverse. Millions of poor folks pouring into the streets to defend the interests of the obscenely wealthy.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/08/avlon.tea.party.future/index.html


Analysis: Where does the Tea Party go from here?




(CNN) -- As the National Tea Party Convention concluded this weekend, it's clear that the Tea Partiers are propelled by two competing claims -- a principled commitment to fiscal conservatism and a serious case of Obama Derangement Syndrome.

The first group remains true to the roots of the movement as it emerged almost one year ago amid bailout backlash. They feel like modern Paul Reveres, warning their fellow citizens about the unsustainable nature of our government's deficit spending and unprecedented debt.

They still have an important civic role to play in our national debate.

The second group reflects the overheated, hyperpartisanship that emerged over the August town halls and the 9/12 march on Washington.

Oddly enough, this group embraced the tactics of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and applied them to the conservative cause, with angry confrontation and street theater protests. They ascribe to Obama every sinister characteristic imaginable -- often a secret plot to undermine our constitutional republic and put in a socialist, one-world government in its place.

This is the crowd that carries the signs comparing Obama to Hitler and communists, while proclaiming themselves patriots. Their extremism will ultimately lead the movement to self-destruct unless it is clearly repudiated.

The weekend's controversial and much-covered Tea Party ended up being more of a conference than a convention. It offered speeches and seminars to a relatively small group of attendees. While Tax Day 2009 Tea Parties attracted some 300,000 people nationwide, this convention accommodated just 600 people, who paid nearly $500 each for the privilege of attending the populist conference.

While the crowds at 2009's protests were generally angrier than the speakers who climbed up onto platforms at last weekend's conference, the dynamic was reversed. The crowd was generally more civil than the selected speakers.

Former congressman Tom Tancredo accused the president of being a "committed socialist ideologue" and proposed a civic literacy test for voting.

WorldNet Daily founder Joseph Farah used his post-dinner speech, covered by C-Span, to repeat inane "Birther" claims.

Alabama gubernatorial candidate and former state Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore said Obama had "ignored our history and our heritage, arrogantly declaring to the world that we are no longer a Christian nation." He also compared Obama to King George III by quoting the Declaration of Independence: "A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Sarah Palin was the most cautious by far, saying simply "America is ready for another revolution."

Where will the Tea Party movement go from here?

The for-profit conference organizers declared that "we absolutely do not support a third party" and instead announced the creation of a new corporation and concurrent PAC to support conservative candidates, primarily in the South. This is still very much a leaderless movement with divergent tributaries. There's no shortage of anger at the GOP for starting the path of deficit spending last decade and then backing the first round of Wall Street bailouts under Bush.

There is a rejection of politics as usual, the feeling that both parties are captive of their respective special interests -- big business and big government.


For the Tea Party momentum to continue in a constructive way, it will need to take at least two further steps: First, repudiate the unhinged Obama-haters and then focus its anger at fiscal irresponsibility into policy proposals instead of bumper-sticker platitudes.

With a growing number of conspiracy entrepreneurs trying to profit off populist anger in a recession, it's also worth keeping the conservative virtue of healthy skepticism in mind.

Remember what the author Eric Hoffer warned in his book "The True Believer:" "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket."

[quote author=Tayo-D link=topic=391760.msg5477419#msg5477419 date=1265689433]However, when I find out that the person I am discussing with does not value the sacredness of parenthood, thn what is the point of having a discussion with such a person? Pur values are clearly different and there can be no compromise. You and I have both disagreed on almost everything on nairaland and have abused each other in the process. However, none of us ever crossed the line to the pint of abusing each other's parents. Even Agberos are guided by some frame of reference.[/quote]FFS bro, I thought one should be able to discern between playful and insidious comments. . . . have we ever exchanged insults on here out of spite, or hasn’t it always been in jest?. . . FYI, I have exchanged and received jokes about parents many-a-time without offence. . . .I am not tied in to the old school ways as you seem to be. . . . anyway, since e be like say my handshake don reach your elbow and you deem it as kung-fu, then all I have to say is screw you too!. . . . bite me! 

4 Play:
This man is ridiculous. All these University of Google numpties. $500bn stimulus package in 1993?

If no be internet I get am from, where I go get am? FFS, I was 10 years old in 1993, so its obvious I was not a witness to the event.  Anyway, for clarification, it was a $500bln joint tax/stimulus plan.

4 Play:
The sheer stupidity of your argument is the assumption that a bad economic policy is justified by pointing to another bad policy. Reagan did not triple US public debt nor did Bush double US public debt. It's also quite daft to prclaim that increasing debt by 30% of GDP, as Obama plans to, is the same as Reagan's 18.5% increase or Bush's 11.9% ncrease.

Presumably, a public debt which will hit 100% of GDP is just normal and is no different from the Bush and Reagan era.

What was debt as a percentage of GDP during the depression? Its quite obvious that the deeper the recession, the greater the percentage of GDP spent. Tell us something new.

You have failed to point out where exactly Obama has increased spending, apart from the stimulus.

Is this increased spending to meet mandatory obligations or is he just spending haphazardly?. . . if so, what on?. . . please enlighten us.

Dont get me wrong, I am all for fiscal conservatism, I just dont like exaggerations and political hoopla.

As I have maintained all along, your whole argument boils down to the stimulus package as the main source of all this increased spending. . . . oh, and a universal health plan which you support, which prolly wont pass congress anyway.

4 Play:
The fact is that Obama inherited a public debt of $9 trillion, accumulated from 1776 to 2009, and proposes to double it to $18 trillion. It's one thing to have a stimulus package to deal with a recession, whatever the merits maybe, it's quite another not to commit the country to coming to grips with a debt crisis.

Stop being facetious. . . . by this same token, I can say that Reagan tripled national debt (accumulated from 1776 to 1981) in only 8 years in office. . . likewise George Bush doubled the debt that was accumulated from 1776 to 2000. . . isnt it funny that the most vociferous campaigners for cutting the debt, such as the Tea Party are also the most vociferous campaigners for cutting taxes?. . . do the 2 positions tally?

In 1993, all Republicans voted against Bill Clintons Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act cos it taxed the rich. . . let history be the judge of its successfulness. . .

Hence is just nauseating to hear Republicans bleating to the high heavens given these precedents. . .


At this point, all I have to ask is, what does this budget contain? Does it contain substantial increases in Welfare, Medicare etc or are you just bleating on about a round figure inevitably going up? Have you studied the budget?

Tax receipts are dropping by 11%, Unemployment is running rampant, so of course receipts are lower and expenditure is higher.

Republicans been bleating on about the budget, yet when a proposal is put forth to monitor the budget, they vote against it. Who is playing politics here?

Obama was left with budget deficits in excess of $1.46trn. . . this year, he has a deficit of $1.56trn. . . he has frozen budgets on almost everything. . . meaning, all the increase you see currently is directly linked to the recession and the 2 stimuluses. . . all his spending increases are aimed at job creation, not like Republicans would have you believe he is 'dashing' money to people on Welfare.


Which brings me to Bill Clinton's stimulus package. . .

If you were a student of history, you would remember that in 1993, Clinton's $500bn stimulus package was passed without a single vote from any Republican. . . a stimulus that resulted in the greatest increase in employment in recent US history. . . and if you remember correctly, Republicans were still chatting rubbish about Clinton's stimulus increasing the debt; and increasing taxes on the rich to pay for it. . . . yet, it is on record that Clinton is the only President to leave a surplus (twice) in the last 30 years!!!


Clinton created 9 million jobs from such policies, unlike Bush who chose to increase the deficit by Sayian tax-cuts. . .yielding how many jobs again?


In this internet age of globalisation, one would be foolish to expect Sayian measures to have the same impact as Keynesian measures, especially with leakage of jobs to the far east. . . . YES, SUPPLY-SIDE ECONOMICS STILL WORKS, BUT MOST BIG AMERICAN COMPANIES CHOOSE TO SUPPLY FROM CHINA AND INDIA!!!

debosky:
Cheap but brilliant eh? For every Clichy there are 3 players who HAVEN'T made it, cost the club wages and other factors. People are not really THINKING when they estimate costs - if it takes you 4 years paying someone 30k per week (>6m) to come good and you buy three of them but only one makes it, you've WASTED the money that could've gotten one potentially good player AND an established one to learn from!

Dont be silly man. . . which youngster at Arsenal is earning £30k a week?. . . .  when even established bois like Alex Song are only earning £40k.

Your stuff about wages and cost of the youth team is unfounded. FYI, Chelsea and Manure have just as many youngsters as Arsenal and pay them exactly the same wages. The only difference is that Arsenal youngsters come through at a faster rate than Chelsea and Manure. Besides, were you not in agreement with me a few weeks ago when I showed that most of the youngsters who dont make it at Arsenal still appreciate in value? Profit from the sale of the likes of Quincy Owusu, Aliardiere, Justin Hoyte, Anthony Stokes, David Bentley etc should more than cover the cost of their purchase and development.

debosky:
Rubbish - We sacked and lived, Arsenal FC WILL outlive Arsene Wenger no doubt about it. Wenger will struggle to attract the type of talent that will win us trophies if this goes on - that will lock the club perennially in the nearly region.!

Can you sack Wenger and live with your loan repayments for the next 20 years? Face it man, Arsenal are on some Ajax sh&t till the loans are repaid.

debosky:
I've never said sack Wenger, BUT if he fails to correct the OBVIOUS errors in his ways (e.g hire a bloody defensive coach!!!!) and no one at the club has the balls to tell him to do so, then he must make an honourable exit before he ruins everything.

@ the content in bold. . . were you not the one arguing with me 2 weeks ago when I said Wenger was rubbish at defense coaching and needs to give the defensive coach more time with the team, citing that he never let George Graham's defensive coach work with the team in all his time at the club. Besides, Keown is already Arsenals defensive coach. Perhaps Wenger doesnt give him time on the training ground cos he's too busy teaching the boys to play 5-a-side football.

hehehehe. . . so Debosky is now part of the "sack Wenger" brigade? 


Lets put it this way. . .the £20m extra spend that Arsenal needs to become Champions only applies whilst Wenger is manager. Should Wenger leave, that figure jumps up to £50m. . . .

The Alex Songs, Denilsons, Diabys, Fabregas, Clichy's etc will no longer be coming through for close to nothing. . . . whilst £20m seems like a small amount now, it is only so small because the rest of the team is made up by cheap but brilliant buys by Monsieur Wenger. . . .

If you sack Wenger today, in 5 years time when you have to replace your squad with established names, your £20m will only be enough to compete with likes of Stoke City.