I'm a new boy to the forum have been a gooner since I was 5 and you can add 60 years to that now ! I've seen it all come and go since I watched my first Arsenal game in the fifties and what a game it was ! Arsenal 4 Wolves 4 and I remember Bill Dodgin at centre half and also goalkeeper Jack Kelsey, who played up to the crowd despite letting in 4. I now live in Sussex so it's a bit awkward to get to any games.
Right. Now for more up to date issues. This may be elsewhere on the forum but Arsenal transfers - or the distinct lack of them - are obviously a huge and frustrating issue to us all at the moment. If you go back just a few years we had the likes of Henry, Bergkamp, Adams, Pires and more. We had no real problems - financial or political - with the clubs that were selling these players, unlike today. Just ask yourself who do we really have now that goes anywhere near that collective class of player? Well, apart from trying to squeeze the last drop out of massive transfer fees for their players, today's big boys seem to have entered into a political arena as well as a financial one. For example, Higuain, with half an airline ticket to the Emirates in his pocket, just melts away after what was very likely further political and financial discussions with his advisors - and was Gustavo ever that keen? Then we had the Liverpool CEO and his board re-iterating very, very clearly that there is no way they will sell Suarez - to Arsenal that is ! Far be it fro me to be vindictive but we should issue a statement to Liverpool stating that we will NEVER sell any of our players to them !
We are where we are now in the transfer market mainly because of the above factors. Oh, forgot Rooney is also on the radar now ! Apparently Walcott and Wilshere tried to talk him up at the England match. To me anyway, they could have saved their breath for the game ! Cheers all.
Little bit about me if anyone interested. Played Middlesex Premier league, retired at 36. Now angling, horse riding, oil painting.
