Didn't people say you needed to shift the dross to free up wages for better players. They can't have it both ways, paying for better players and keeping squad numbers draining the wage bill.
We've sold/are selling around 6 players ALREADY, of which 3 have been very much at the high end of the bracket wages wise. Cesc, Clichy, Nasri, Bendtner, Eboue range from 50-110k a week, we've got rid of a bunch of people and now are removing Traore who I can't imagine is on more than 20k a week(and likely less).
The problem being, sell Traore and buy a better backup, young player, sub 21 with potential, thats fine. But its 2 days till the transfer window ends, and selling a player when the squad is as ridiculously thin as it is now before you've bought that replacement is god damned suicide. I don't rate him but, look what happened, Coquelin played his first league game because we were so short AND Traore played, sell Traore and who do we play next time? When we rest Jenks and Sagna for a cup game to give them a rest and Gibbs is injured....... who plays there?
We needed to sell our 6-7 WORST players to make room for more better players, we've already sold 6-7 of our best players, we now simply don't have the numbers to also sell the 6-7 worst. Selling the worst guys SHOULD have been the plan at the start of the window, that plan is well and truly unachievable now, completely.
I think DM said that. But he considers Eboue first team material. Eboue would walk into any team in the world in his eyes. He is his agent though so he has to big him up
No, I've never once claimed anything close to that. Eboue is better than Denilson, by a mile, and Diaby, and Song, the problem is when I started saying that most of the forum were hailing Denilson as the best emerging DM in the league, for a year before they changed their minds, then the same was being said about Song. So when I said Eboue is miles better you all seem to have assumed I've said he's the single best player in existance and you've stuck with that.
Problem is most people now think Denilson is a joke, and Song is a joke, and Diaby is a joke, my opinion of them never changed. When I said Eboue was miles better than them, that doesn't make Eboue epic, it makes the other three woeful. Eboue is indeed a FAR better option than any of those three, and yes he has and does play DM or even as a slightly more attacking midfielder for his country and he's played their for us.
As Wenger was refusing to play Eboue, at 50-60k a week, sell him, I've also been saying that for two years, 6mil later Wenger finally sells him, 6mil wasted. The problem is, he sold Clichy aswell, and now Traore, and let Denilson go, and Bendtner, which basically would have moved Eboue WAY up the pecking order in several positions, positions we haven't filled yet.
