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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    £70-80m+

    Pressing needs:

    1. Veteran centre back (linked: Mertesacker, Cahill, Samba, Jagielka, Dann)
    2. Creative midfielder (linked: Hazard, Arteta, Jadson)
    3. Scoring support (linked: Zarate, Mata, Willan, Doyle, Elia)
    4. Two-way midfielder (linked: M'Vila, Schweinsteiger)

    Do it.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Didn't mention Joey Barton because Joey Barton is a **** and I never believed the rumours we'd be interested in a **** of his magnitude, evidenced by his ****y behaviour the other week.
     
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    I'd say we have closer to £95m in the war chest if you include the sales of the Queensland Road flats. Anyway, two or three players would be good. My vote is for Samba, M'Vila, and Hazard.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Tomorrow's game is more important than we might've anticipated. Making the CL will lure the players we want to sign. Come on lads.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Well we've heard all along that the team has only allowed Wenger to make moves with money he's earned from sales, but at this point spending £40m before the end of the month would be shocking.
     
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    Yep, very unlikely that we'll spend that much. Then again, we'll be hitting close to 30 for Hazard already!
     
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    Lille will ask for what we got for Nasri, no doubt. As they should. We're in a position now where everyone knows we have cash to burn so negotiations will basically be us offering them what they want or them telling us to GTFO.

    At this point overspending by 10-25% is not our biggest concern. Time is.
     
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    I'm not very confident Lille well let go of Hazard, to be fair. If I was in their shoes, I definitely wouldn't. They'll expect nothing less than £28m.
     
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    Apparently it's wages, not transfer fees that have been the problem all summer.

    http://www.thefootballnetwork.net/main/s378/st170548.htm

     
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