Liverpool sign Jordan Henderson for £20 million, Man Utd sign Phil Jones for £16 milliion and we sign a Finnish Under 19's defender from Charlton for a packet of Cheese & Onion crisps and a acan of Red Bull after 50 appearances, WTF!!!
To be fair both Handerson and Jones MASSIVELY overpriced. However - I wanna see some frigging signings Arsene!!
20 mill and 16 mill for those 2 is ludicrous. I'm glad we've only lost a packet of crisps and a can of red bull.
Yes and Jenkinson is very talented. I only would have liked Vrsaljko more than him for two reasons: his name would be so hard to pronounce that it would make Rooney's head explode every time he played against him and he's rated higher. Still, Jenkinson is a big Arsenal fan and he's able to play on the left also. Great signing considering our academy wasn't producing a natural successor to Sagna.
Both Vidic & Rio are ageing and have only a few years left at the top. Smalling & Jones are the natural successors to them. Arsenal have 3 CB's all in their early to mid 20's, he'd have no guarantee of being 1st choice for the next 8 years. CB's will look at Arsenal and think it's not a good move right now. The CB balance is wrong.
Gutted about Jones, i really though he was ours for the taking - could have offered potential in defensive mid as well.
Gutted that Jones is going to Man Utd but do not give a **** about Henderson. We have Rasmey and Wilshere who are so much better its unreal.
C'mon guys. Be smarter. At any other time of the year the Arsenal signing would have gone completely unreported, but the press did it to try and make a bigger deal out of it than it is. Last night Wenger was meeting Jones, do you think he met this kid from Charlton? It's a deal for the reserves, nothing more. Making it seem like it was our answer to over £30m worth of signings from the opposition is a cheap press tactic that I thought Gooners would be smart enough to see through.
That is now 17m spent on Jones, De Gea will be signed July 1st for 18.5m after he changes agents to Mendes and Young will be signed for 15m and that will leave us with JUST 120M Left to spend.
Young will cost over 15m. Its a great opportunity for the Press to say "Liverpool spending big, Man Utd spending big, Arsenal same old bargain basement purchasing." Jenkins is the same age as Jones, a year or two less experienced but that'll come quick. At 1/16th the price, 1m, he will be resold for 5x that after a year or 2 at Arsenal. Its a great deal for the club, and they still have lots left to spend.
