Caporegime
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My word this post is full of the ridiculous, firstly I named two players who Arsenal should buy, the two players I named LAST summer. So rather than ignore them if you want names, there they are for the third time. Also yes, I can say, Arsenal should have bought Falcao, and Ronaldo, and Kompany, and De Jong, and, etc, etc. So what you're asking for is a list of players in all the top leagues, please explain what that would prove beyond... errm.... nothing. A list of players we can afford, would want to sign for us, are realistic targets, who fit the wage structure, who would fit in the team is VERY different from an arbitrary list of all the best players names I know which is what you appear to want. I also pointed this out to you, I also pointed out when the team started to go wrong, and had it been fixed then, the people I would buy this year would be very different, AND it would depend ENTIRELY on who I could get rid of who needed it AND I would send quality scouts to the right places to find the right good value great players that would make good business sense, I wouldn't buy every expensive name I could find.
As for Bendtner not making it in the EPL, I suggest you look up his scoring record which suggests anything but, what you will notice is his goals to minutes is plenty good enough, he simply hasn't been given time and he was scoring and assist at a decent rate while mostly being played out of position.
As for gambles, errm, I really hope that you aren't suggesting the gambles Wenger was taking was hoping to get **** players because I took you to mean, Wenger taking gambles on POTENTIALLY GOOD PLAYERS, who turned out badly. Try and reread what I said, he hasn't done this, he's "taken a gamble" on players who simply aren't good, and the gamble (implied gamble that they MIGHT ACTUALLY BE WORTHWHILE BUYING, or the gamble would be, how **** they will turn out.... and odd gamble to be happy with Wenger taking) was never "could they be good or great" because they weren't great players.
You could buy Veron, who was great in other leagues and suggest its a gamble because he might not work out in England.
Gervinho, Chamakh, Santos, Mertesacker, at their best in their respective leagues, weren't good, certainly not great, but AVERAGE.
I don't want a manager spending 13mil on a winger where the gamble is, terrible, or barely average. Anyone, literally anyone any season can get a bunch of goals, its been done by poor players time and time again, rarely if ever has a truly **** player scored 15+ goals several seasons in a row, football is about luck and those around you, people get lucky. Gervinho is useless.
AS for hindsight, find me where I haven't said the same BEFORE buying said player, or very very early on.
I think you'll find I was laughed at because my view on Gervinho's first preseason game where he got two goals in 45 minutes, was he was terrible. "he got two goals" I was told, therefore is fantastic, the fact that the two goals were a joke and the 44 minutes 50 seconds aside from the two tap ins were truly absymal and my early view, backed up by each and every subsequent appearance was, he sucks.
I said Chamakh would be a terrible buy 6 months before we bought him, I said Dos Santos at late 20's playing in a poor league that loves buying not very good south american players which can't make it in the top euro leagues was.... stupid. Most people questioned if the slow and not strong Mertesacker would do well, quite rightly, in the prem league.
Likewise, everyone already knew Arteta could be good.
Buying a inconsistent player who is sometimes great and HOPING they turn out consistent and great is a gamble, buying someone who is barely average.... and hoping they turn out consistent and great is stupid, its not a gamble it doesn't happen. These players weren't ever good enough, they weren't carefully calculated gambles, they were bad buys, nothing else.
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