That was terrible on Sunday, but now we must turn out attention to keeping Bale. We better be ready to bring in some help or I fear he is gone. If not next year, the following.
I rather enjoyed it. And I agree it will be tough to keep Bale if he decides he want CL, trophies or a bigger payday. Believe me, from experience (Van Persie, Fabregas, Clichy, Nasri, Toure, Song - though I'm ok with that one, Flamini).
Meyers, honest question for you. What do Arsenal fans thinks of Arsene? Although he somehow manages to always keep you in the Champions League, he hasn't managed to win anything in like seven years - do you think he is safe?
I think he is very safe. I mean if they haven't got rid of him after 7 years...... probably as safe as Ferguson was. He'll go when he wants. Although there are a lot of fans who would like to see him go. I've felt that way, usually at the end of the transfer window, a couple times myself.
I would like to believe they like the fact that Arsenal has had to skrimp and save in order to build the stadium and Arsene has been able to do that while still maintaining CL. With the debt getting paid down now, I believe quite a bit in money in the bank, the new Puma deal coming, there's hope we will not only be able to hang onto our players (although there is talk we could be losing yet another captain - Vermaelen), and add to our club. That's what I hope, not that they are satisfied with the status quo as long as there is CL and they are making money.
There has been a lot of talk over the past few years whether it is the Board or Wenger who are not spending or who was allowing us to sell our top players. Or if there is money to actually spend??? But it certainly looks like we should have some now. We'll have to see how ambitious we actually are.
We need another striker, there's talk of Jovetic or Higuain. Another midfielder, probably a RB for Sagna, possibly a backup CB. Depending on what the GK's do, possibly an older backup GK. Lot's to do this summer. Along with getting rid of the deadwood (Denilson, Chamakh, Bendtner, Park, Arshavin, Djourou, Squillaci) which will help our wage bill.
