Not sure Declan Rice will sell that many shirts tbh lol.
Would be funny seeing loads of Asian fans walking around with Rice printed shirts though.
by alexafc12 » Sun Jun 05, 2022 10:30 am
by Power n Glory » Sun Jun 05, 2022 10:42 am
alexafc12 wrote:Not sure Declan Rice will sell that many shirts tbh lol.
Would be funny seeing loads of Asian fans walking around with Rice printed shirts though.
by swipe right » Sun Jun 05, 2022 11:04 am
Hypergooner wrote:swipe right wrote:Hypergooner wrote:theHotHead wrote:£130m for Rice is pure stupidity, not even KDB is worth that.
Remember, he is a CM, not attacker. Pogba in his pomp sold for £89m 3 seasons ago and he could walk into ANY team in the world.
Value is about what they can bring to the club!
It's easy when it's not my money and the benefit of hindsight, but we have been a financial mess for years now. We have been selling for pennies, falling out of CL, loosing our global appeal and loosing branding revenue due to our frugality and "sustainable" model. It's been getting worse since Henry left in 2007, or maybe vieira in 2005. More kids buy PSG shirts than Arsenal shirts these days. Not because they are good, or in a good league. Just because of the poster boy players.
If we had gone out and bought a poster boy striker to replace Henry, a poster CM to replace Vieira, we would be in a different position now. We can blame the stadium, but we could have paid it off alot quicker had we been winning things and making money from superstar shirt sales etc.
Cesc, van Persie, Ozil, all sold lots of shirts. Our problem was never one off marque players. Out problem has been a quality squad that can mount a 38 game campaign.
Take your point on one off players, but Henry and RVP left because we weren't bringing in players to match their ability. If we had stopped going on about the cost of a world class CM etc. at the time, we would have been competing to their level and winning things.
My point is, price shouldn't stop us getting the players we need. We would make the money back in the success or shirt sales etc, they bring with them.
Ie. We buy Declan Rice and a quality striker this summer for silly money, lots of the transfer fee would be repaid in media, shirts and global appeal. The other player would raise their level and in theory, we would make up the few points difference that saw us miss out on 3rd this season. CL and additional TV revenues mean they have paid off the additional transfer fee in half their contract term
The alternative is what we have done for the last 15 years. Struggling through but slowly declining
by firfi » Sun Jun 05, 2022 12:21 pm
by Hypergooner » Sun Jun 05, 2022 1:15 pm
Power n Glory wrote:alexafc12 wrote:Not sure Declan Rice will sell that many shirts tbh lol.
Would be funny seeing loads of Asian fans walking around with Rice printed shirts though.
Why would that be funny?
by Santi » Sun Jun 05, 2022 1:21 pm
alexafc12 wrote:Not sure Declan Rice will sell that many shirts tbh lol.
Would be funny seeing loads of Asian fans walking around with Rice printed shirts though.
by swipe right » Sun Jun 05, 2022 3:45 pm
by Hypergooner » Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:36 pm
by Hypergooner » Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:37 pm
by theHotHead » Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:25 pm
alexafc12 wrote:Not sure Declan Rice will sell that many shirts tbh lol.
Would be funny seeing loads of Asian fans walking around with Rice printed shirts though.
by theHotHead » Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:27 pm
by 22-0 » Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:48 pm
by Hypergooner » Sun Jun 05, 2022 6:42 pm
theHotHead wrote:I don't have a problem with us buying Declan Rice, he is exactly the type of player wr need
I see no sense in paying £130m, he aint worth anywhere near that. I would rather buy 3 good players with that money, that British surcharge is not worth it.
by theHotHead » Sun Jun 05, 2022 6:46 pm
by Hypergooner » Sun Jun 05, 2022 7:29 pm
theHotHead wrote:I can't give you names, but needless to say there are enough out there. Every season clubs buy players that are a revelation in the Prem and we are left asking why we didn't buy that player.
I don't follow football close enough to give names, but I can guarantee there are more than a few options open to us that would cost comfortably less than £50m!