When you look at whole thing about old players and should they be sold or not we always have to look at the other side of medal. If we kept Pires, who is one of my favorite players ever, would we have space for youngsters who grew up and became what they are now ?

I have never minded who we buy players from – I watched Pat Jennings for years, and saw the club managed by Terry Neil.

Silvestre, I suspect, has been brought in on a long term deal rather like Grimandi and Garde – I suspect he will either join the coaching staff or be a scout.

And as for Senderos – I have not been completely convinced by his consistency – he may be ok in the longer run, but I am not sure, so would not be surprised if he went.

Sorry for going off topic. I was away this weekend and didnt have much access to internet. So I couldnt watch the match but made sure to check the score as and when the match got over. I became sad when I saw the score. Not because we lost but because the ranters and the doom and gloom brigade would be active on the internet for days to come. I’ve stopped visiting lots of other blogs which just cares about the trophies and not the Club. So tony, I’ve a small request to you, Please block the negative comments unless it abides by the rules. I like many others on don’t want to read such negative comments. It breaks the rhythm and the mood. Sorry for the small rant against the ranters..

the crazy spending each year will most definitely have to come to an end. and both of these clubs are transfer junkies. they haven’t had the foresight that we have and soon they will be clucking like turkeys because the 70 or 80 million they wanted to spend isn’t available.

they will be left with teams of aging players with long contracts and high wages. their drought of silverware will make these last few years seem like a drop in the ocean.

Spot on about the Banks. But they cannot keep Liverpool in business forever. I think it was Marc who mentioned that over time, because Pool is generating insufficient money to cover interest, even with the Champions League, the debt grows exponentially as the unpaid interest must capitalized.

On your solution to the off-topic ranters; I rather like it when you expose them as plagiarists by showing word for word exactly similar postings on other websites under different “pen” names.

But “billi-the kid” (aka Bop), like his fabled name-sake of the American West, will soon meet somebody faster on the draw. LOL!

If you want to start a new topic and you feel this is the site to do it on, that’s fine. Send me in your article and as long as it is in keeping with the general theme of the site, and is cogently argued, then I’ll run it.

To allow a free for all destroys the overall context of the arguments – and there are thousands of other blogs that seem quite happy to have totally off topic commentaries.

Hope that’s ok with most readers – it is the feeling I get of what is wanted.

Tony

That is excatly what is is all about in my opinion.

Like in the song Gunners in arms it says:

“And if defeat hurts us so bad
on a rare and seldom day
We will not desert you
our Gunners in arms”

You can be sure that when we loose I feel very down (even in a friendly …) but I put on the music, start singing the song and the blues start to go.

Some of these so called fans (Youve got me saying it now Marc) need to understand that we can’t spend willy nilly on players (plus we dont need to really.

And their finances will be squeezed more and more as they pay ever-greater amounts in interest.

Very good post, Armin Medic – made me laugh, as well!

a) Put forward a reasoned argument rather than just a statement
b) Respond to other people’s reasoned arguments and then counter those with further reasoned logic
c) Have their own ideas.

Here’s Billy the Kid earlier today on this site…

i will tell you why I am losing faith in AW (someone whom I believe has in the past been responsible for more success at this club, then any manager in our history, on a par with Herbert Chapman).

And here is BokGunner on another site somewhat earlier.

I will tell you why I am losing faith in AW (someone whom I believe has in the past been responsible for more success at this club, then any manager in our history, on a par with Herbert Chapman).

You might notice a few similarities – in that the words are the same.

Here’s a relaying of the rules for our discussions…

1: No plagiarism (all plagiarists are banned from the site)
2: Reasoned argument only
3: Stay on topic please – or at least if going off topic explain why it is so important to do so just now.

Sorry it took me a while to see this – it is my first day back at work and I was in a meeting all morning.

Tony