UNTOLD ARSENAL » Blog Archive » Transfer day brilliant for Arsenal

It is hard to know where to begin – but certainly 1 September 2008 will go down as a brilliant day for Arsenal.

The arrival on the scene of Manchester Arab means that CSKA Fulham no longer have it all their own way in terms of buying anything they want.  If there’s a top player going, then the fight will be on – and that can only reduce the effectiveness of CSKA.

This is really good news because while the club ownership changes, the players are the same.  There is only a set number of really good players who are nurtured and then come up for sale as supposedly finished goods – and now they will be spread over an extra club.

Already we’ve seen WC Milan, Real Mad and the Barbars all trying to compete with CSKA, and now there’s another player in the ring.

And what this also means is that each transfer window when Real Mad and the rest try to upset players and entice them away they will now have another club to fight with – and that can only mean less pressure on Arsenal players of the type we saw on Ade this year.

Second, it must mean more doom and gloom for clubs such as Manchester Bankrupt, Liverpool Liquidated and the Tiny Totts.  True, the Totts and the Bankrupts managed to do a spot of business yesterday, but overall what they will find is that the price of the players they want to buy goes up and up and up – while their own income stays the same.  The Bankrupts nearly lost Berbatov, and ended up having to pay far more than they ever intended – and that can only hasten their financial demise.

By the next transfer window prices will have all risen another £10m per player (as Manchester Arab will be buying a new team) and that will just about price the Bankrupts and Liquidators out of the market.

Meanwhile, what sort of a threat with the Arabs be?   It is difficult to take them too seriously at the moment.  The team looks very unbalanced, and it was noticeable that the “Hughes” character who is supposedly the manager spent the day on the golf course.  Someone is choosing the squad at the Arabs but it is not the “Hughes”.

As for the Tiny Totts, they must know that they are never going to compete, and the annual whinge of “we’re gonna break into the top 4 this year” will continue to look like the inept and insane ramblings of journalists that it has always been.  Lacking in Arsenal’s youth base, and unable to attract any Arab money because of their Jewish background they are now consigned to being also-rans until the oil runs out.

So – the Arsenal.   Arsenal is the only club to use a totally different model – the model of buy the kids young, nurture the talent.    Players queue up to come to Arsenal because of Wenger and the Arsenal way.   Players aged as young as 9 are found and brought through the Arsenal system because of the unique World Wide Scouting model.

If you want one simple example of this, try Jack Wilshere.  He will be worth £20m within 3 years – and we’ll have him for nothing.

While every other club is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of Manchester Arabs, Arsenal’s methodology remains in tact and unaffected.

Of course I know that many Arsenal fans wanted a new midfielder, and we did not buy one, but I truly believe that come November we will be trying to work out how to hold on to all our midfielders.   We have had a terrible run of injuries – in 50 years of watching the Arsenal I cannot recall worse – but it will come to an end, and we will have a unified squad.

But if for Arsenal it is life as usual, for the Bankrupts and the Liquidators a sale of the shares is now desparately needed.   The owners of both clubs will be out touting their operations to every diminutive Arab state with a pot of oil just hoping that something comes along soon.   Neither club can pay the interest on its debts, and both are now traumatised by the arrival of a newcomer.  And every such upheavel always brings utter disruption.  Arsenal is the only stable club left.

Life just got better.