@ Marex....We've only played two premier league games and the transfer window is still open...we still have players coming back from injuries and suspesion. The transfer window is still open so we'll get the players we need.

Both Chelsea and Liverpool were far from impressive over the weekend but kama kawaida its Arsenal who everyone wants a piece of...Chelsea were booed off the pitch at half time. If (big IF)only Arsenal sign Hazard, a midfielder and atleast one Centre back ..... I never thought i'd say this but for once we have a keeper we can rely on and Vermaelen looks good as well. Frimpong wasn't that bad, with time he'll get used to playing.


In other news, if you think it couldn't get any worse for Wenger then you were wrong...UEFA have just handed him a two match ban effective Wednesday.

http://www.uefa.com/uefa...ded+for+next+two+matches

...did I read somewhere that RVP and Wilshere only have a about 2 years left in their contracts???

I have to admit am impressed by your optimism @Taz but it's true - in a few days Wenger might just be vindicated. However, you need to win tomorrow to attract CL players otherwise that'll be a massive spanner in the works. Good luck with that!

@Taz - There is a difference margin of a cool 10 million usd between him and Ronaldo!!!
1. Samuel Etoo - 29.6 million USD per year
2. Christian Ronaldo - 19 million usd per year
3. Messi - 16 million USD per year

5 things you could buy with Samuel Eto’o's new salary

Ryan Bailey, August 23, 2011

Samuel Eto’o and greed go together like peas and carrots, so the news that he will be earning $29m a year when he joins fellow mercenaries Roberto Carlos and Yuri Zhirkov at Russian club FC Anzhi Makhachkala is unsurprising.

Here’s five ways the best paid player in the world could spend his rather generous remuneration package…

1. He could buy his own personal Chinook helicopter – with a vast chunk of change to spare. He’s going to need some sort of air transportation, as most of his new teammates live in Moscow “for security reasons” and fly just under 1,000 miles into Makhachkala for home games. Sounds like a nice place.

2. Eto’o could afford approximately 128,888 Blackburn Rovers season tickets (currently the cheapest season pass in the Premier League). That’s enough to sell out Ewood Park four times over. Having visited Blackburn on several occasions, however, I’d say he’s probably better off in the conflict-scarred surrounds of Makhachkala.

3. The former Inter and Barca star could afford to have 209 MLS players in his personal employ (based on last season’s average salary of $138,169). Perhaps they could clean the next vast empty prefab mansion he’s destined to buy, or they could offer post-training footrubs.

4. The striker could buy 690 ridiculous designer watches for teammates, much like he did in a hugely grotesque gesture during the World Cup.

5. He could personally sponsor Arsenal’s shirts for three-and-a-half years, based on the £5m a season Emirates currently shell out. Eto’o's vacant grin plastered on the chest of every Gooner in North London? That’s something I’d like to see.

http://www.kckrs.com/5-t...amuel-etoos-new-salary/

Yeah this is a great deal, but when you consider endorments and sponsorships then some basketballers, golfers will still be ahead in yearly incomes!!!

Not to downplay E'too's latest conquest but I'm not the substantial sponsor and endorsements he would get playing for that club in Russia, his wages will be backborn of his annual pay, his wages will about USD 28M (impressive I must)but last year alone more than 15 athletes made more than this amount!!!

Nowadays Kaka is too injury prone plus hiyo pesa ni mob....maybe if he agrees to take a pay cut.

On the England Captain issue, already so many English players and Capello have identified Wilshere as England Future Captain. Phil Jones is yet to perform/feature for the senior team and we haven't really been able to see him in action. Mambo ya Captaincy in England is usually very hot, its only given to someone who everyone thinks has been exceptional si mambo na body physique. Anyway they are both young, alot can change between now and then.

And that's in addition to the money that had been availed to him before he/Arsenal went on a selling spree! He probably has £100m at his disposal!

Buying big might finally prove his policy has been wrong all along and he doesn't want that. Ego over logic. He wants to win a major trophy with babies to prove everyone else wrong. Good luck to him!

They should have struck a deal with Pampers. Iamjusthating...

@TAZ - At Man United, the youth get a chance because they are talented. At Arsenal, they get a chance because, well, they are young, they are cheap, there is no one else available and they have no where to go! Big difference.

@Jus Blazin - Most Arsenal players have sponsorship deals with pampers. True story. Some punch lines include "I train the whole day and don't need to change my diapers."; "The game just went to extra time. Good thing I'm wearing my pampers diapers"; "They don't pay me that well. Thank goodness pampers are so affordable!" etc.