Cheers for the input, my favourite niggahs, pokeman fans and frank spencer impersonators...! but lets get back on track eh?...
Lets look at the major movers of the Summer so far.
Nasri...left a solid premiership team (yesterday aside!), for a team who paid him much more than Arsenal, offered definite CL football, much greater chance of winning the domestic title, and also a much stronger team to play within.
Sticking with Arsenal, Clichy also had the same incentives.
Had Fabregas not been a Barca boy, still...by this summer I feel he would have moved on, for similar reasons to the above. the other thing with fabgregas is that he wants to be winning, not simply playing pretty, entertaining football.
Aguero- those very factors mentioned hugely influenced his decision. I do not criticize him at all for choosing City, for he has no special connection to us.
Ashley Young- Similar reasons. more $, CL, Title fight, better team.
Mata- more $, better team, better chance of winning titles.
Eto'o- more $
Lukaku, De Gea, Alexis Sanchez,Coentrao, Sahin...all headed to better clubs with better prospects, and better squads, and all in the CL.
Pastore's move falls into the same category of that of Eto.
All of the above players have gone to more attractive clubs than Juventus. I mean more attractive financially, competitively and technically.
Perhaps we could have afforded Mata's or Young's or Lukaku's wages..but why the hell would they have chosen us over the teams they chose? It would make no sense whatsoever.
Also, I cannot believe for a second that we had/have as a club, NOT as the prime shareholder EXOR, the financial muscle to seriously compete with chelsea, man united, Madrid, Barca, PSG, fucking Anzi! Do you know the wages of those mentioned in this post? Perhaps Ashley Young, Lukaku and De Gea will seem on not crazy wages, but they moved to the respective clubs for other factors, not just Money, other factors than again, are more attractive there than presently in turin.