Bendtner - End of loan
Anelka - End of Contract
Iaquinta - End of Contract
Matri - ~12M
Quagliarella ~15M
Giovinco ~12M
Vucinic 15M-20M
A bit crazy I know
Juve have been just buying and loaning ridiculous numbers of strikers lately, been baffling me all season.
Will FFP affect Monaco's ability to start throwing all of this money around? They can have Park back as well if they want, no charge.
Nope, Monaco just got promoted, they aren't in europe, they shouldn't expect to be in the champions league for 2-3 years anyway. If they spent 500mil this season, got into a champs league spot next year but couldn't take it, they'd still be second and they'd be 2 years away from a "blank sheet" for FFP. If they don't spend 500mil and infact spend say sub £50mil and stay in the FFP good books, they've got zero chance of being in the champs league in 3 years anyway.
Ultimately FFP doesn't matter, same for Arsenal if we did the same, we aren't going to win the champs league in 3 years, spend craploads one year, get a great squad, 3 years later we'll be in the champs league back in the FFP numbers we need and competitive in Europe.
FFP, even if you got banned, has no meaning, because for most teams without overspending they won't be competitive in europe to start with, so what the hell does it matter if you aren't in europe either way?
AS for the young striker Arsenal are looking at.... meh, I said the same previously and in January, I don't care if a player is good first and foremost, I care if Wenger will actually play the person he's buying. I said I feared due to Gibbs's "protected" status, that spending money on a new left back might long term prove to be a waste.......
A good buy is only a good buy if Wenger would actually play him, the game of having top notch players and not using them is now doing my head in completely. Arshavin was and still is an exceptional player, who Wenger decided he doesn't like, so doesn't play. Walcott can do nothing for 6 months and still get picked, Sagna has been terrible for 4 years yet still gets started ahead of anyone else. Young players, Jenks, Vela, Bendtner, Merida, Coquelin, Eisfeld, Yennaris, all being completely ignored except when there have been massive injury problems happening, and utterly disregarded when someone gets fit again(not matter how poor they are playing).
I have no faith in Wenger, no faith he'll play the people he buys and absolutely no faith he'll buy great youngsters with huge potential and actually give them real playing time to prove themselves.
