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If Schteve et Monsieur Joey are so fantastically bilingual, where on earth do us Brits get a reputation for not speaking foreign languages from? 
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Still not got a licence? I recall him getting done whilst at United
from wiki;
On 6 February 2009, Tévez was stopped by Greater Manchester Police near junction 7 of the M60 motorway. It was found that Tévez was driving without a full UK driving licence and with illegally tinted windows. His car was then impounded by the police since he could not arrange for it to be removed himself.[127]
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Football fans are so stupid.
LOL i saw him on SSN yesterday where they were comparing him to Schteve 'dutch' McLaren and it was hilarious the way he was speaking with a french accent.
What a muppet
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This is all I cared about in that image.
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Schteve's accent was the worse of the two, and the original, making it so much more hilarious. However Joey Barton's just added more ammunition to why he is Britain's Biggest Boob.
Not sure this is banter, but pretty smart by the Italians http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...er-players-net-26-percent-gain-as-bonds-surge
I've been saying for a while now that these deals deals being on the horizon are one reason why the club will remain profitable, because the old deals were so poor that it was inevitable that we'd get a boost when they came up to renewal. People have been trying to suggest that the rising wage bill and reduced property income will cause a bit problem with the finances but I still don't see it myself.
As for the accent thing I don't know if JB was having a laugh or not but what I would say is to reiterate what I said when the Mclaren video broke, it is quite natural to subtly mimic accents if you spend a lot of time with people speaking that dialect. I've done it myself, when spending a lot of time with people from NI and Yorkshire for example.
There was some girl in the paralympics, a relay sprinter I think(?), who was British (born and raised) but was basically speaking in a North American accent when being interviewed, because she'd been training there for quite a while.
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When will people wake up and smell the roses, you don't replace players you think are good enough to win with, that is the problem, he thinks the squad is great. He completely lost the ability to be objective, to see the problems with his players.
He STILL hasn't released Denilson, and Denilson begged to leave, not we tried to get rid of him. We got rid of Overmars because Wenger thought Pires was better, we won't get rid of Diaby as Wenger thinks he's truly world class.... even aside from the fact that he's simply not capable of playing more than 1/3 of the season.
As for the extra money, our wage bill has apparently gone up from 120mil to 143mil, on this squad, is completely and utterly mental, Everton are still spending somewhere around the 60-70mil mark, Spurs 10-20mil more than that, we're 50mil up on them and have no obvious quality difference anywhere in the squad... and laughably refuse to play probably our most talented player.
Don't get me wrong, Spurs quite rightly had clauses in their players contracts, qualify for champs league, get a pretty hefty bonus(I believe their wages went up what 15-20mil for the season, which for 30 odd players is sizeable but "fair" considering the income it brings).
5 years ago had we got rid of Wenger it would have been, reorganise the defence, train the defence properly, mostly a fantastic squad, it would have been a small job.
Today, half the squad needs gutting and replacing, and unless you want to spend 10mil a player at least and 60-80k wages, then that will take time, a few seasons of finding young players with potential with a few quality buys.
Diaby, Squillaci, Chamakh, Walcott, Ramsey, Gervinho, Santos, Gibbs, Mertesacker, Denilson, Park, Rosicky, Flapihanski, Djourou. Some would make okay squad players, but are on basically first team wages and are sucking money out of the club, most barely playing at all. That is conservatively, 30mil a year, more like 35mil and depends a bit on how much of Denilson's wage we're paying at the moment. Eight of those basically never play, 2 of the rest shouldn't ever play, Gervinho/Santos shouldn't ever play, Mert/Gibbs/Walcott shouldn't play much, I don't think a single one of them is good enough to be a squad player for a title winning side, certainly none are good enough to be starters in a title winning side.
Our youth squad is also embarrassingly large, while yielding next to nothing in terms of either footballers for the team to use, or sales, teams from lower leagues are producing prospects and some actually decent footballers every year or two, Arsenal have had 2-3 players come through in the past decade, we pay a lot, have a huge youth squad, and its money down the drain. Even worse is the few other players who really should have made it, the Larsson's, and Bentley's, we either let leave or turn into "problem" players. Larsson should be a squad player at Arsenal, but we refused to give him games, same way we refused to give Vela or Bendtner games. Wenger has no clue about rotation, when a player is fit, he puts them back in, often right after an injury, and runs them into the ground to get reinjured again rather than rotating and protecting players.
If Arsenal suddenly got 200mil for transfers and could afford another 100mil a year in wages, does anyone trust Wenger to buy the right players anymore? Santos, Mert, Gervinho, etc, etc...
He STILL hasn't released Denilson, and Denilson begged to leave, not we tried to get rid of him. We got rid of Overmars because Wenger thought Pires was better, we won't get rid of Diaby as Wenger thinks he's truly world class.... even aside from the fact that he's simply not capable of playing more than 1/3 of the season.
As for the extra money, our wage bill has apparently gone up from 120mil to 143mil, on this squad, is completely and utterly mental, Everton are still spending somewhere around the 60-70mil mark, Spurs 10-20mil more than that, we're 50mil up on them and have no obvious quality difference anywhere in the squad... and laughably refuse to play probably our most talented player.
Don't get me wrong, Spurs quite rightly had clauses in their players contracts, qualify for champs league, get a pretty hefty bonus(I believe their wages went up what 15-20mil for the season, which for 30 odd players is sizeable but "fair" considering the income it brings).
5 years ago had we got rid of Wenger it would have been, reorganise the defence, train the defence properly, mostly a fantastic squad, it would have been a small job.
Today, half the squad needs gutting and replacing, and unless you want to spend 10mil a player at least and 60-80k wages, then that will take time, a few seasons of finding young players with potential with a few quality buys.
Diaby, Squillaci, Chamakh, Walcott, Ramsey, Gervinho, Santos, Gibbs, Mertesacker, Denilson, Park, Rosicky, Flapihanski, Djourou. Some would make okay squad players, but are on basically first team wages and are sucking money out of the club, most barely playing at all. That is conservatively, 30mil a year, more like 35mil and depends a bit on how much of Denilson's wage we're paying at the moment. Eight of those basically never play, 2 of the rest shouldn't ever play, Gervinho/Santos shouldn't ever play, Mert/Gibbs/Walcott shouldn't play much, I don't think a single one of them is good enough to be a squad player for a title winning side, certainly none are good enough to be starters in a title winning side.
Our youth squad is also embarrassingly large, while yielding next to nothing in terms of either footballers for the team to use, or sales, teams from lower leagues are producing prospects and some actually decent footballers every year or two, Arsenal have had 2-3 players come through in the past decade, we pay a lot, have a huge youth squad, and its money down the drain. Even worse is the few other players who really should have made it, the Larsson's, and Bentley's, we either let leave or turn into "problem" players. Larsson should be a squad player at Arsenal, but we refused to give him games, same way we refused to give Vela or Bendtner games. Wenger has no clue about rotation, when a player is fit, he puts them back in, often right after an injury, and runs them into the ground to get reinjured again rather than rotating and protecting players.
If Arsenal suddenly got 200mil for transfers and could afford another 100mil a year in wages, does anyone trust Wenger to buy the right players anymore? Santos, Mert, Gervinho, etc, etc...
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