Gabby at Arsenal's Christmas party

[kippaxvilla2]

Let's face it under normal service, it wouldn't particularly matter.  Only this is far from normal service and it just doesn't look very good really does it.  Similar to after the Cup Final, but, more understandable there.

[brian green]

I think they missed a trick not inviting Charlie.  At least they could have had a good laugh at his clothes.

[Bad English]

No one would care if we were 11th and Gabby had scored 9 in the league.

I would be having "Gabby Agbonlahor, he's bound to score!" tattooed onto my cock

[Des Little]

No one would care if we were 11th and Gabby had scored 9 in the league.

But we aren't. And he hasn't.

[Somniloquism]

His best days are long over and he needs to move on to a League One/Two club if he wants to kick a ball around for a living.

Hmmm, with his new contract given last season, we will be lucky to see him go for any type of fee in the next few years. Thank you Fox.

[brian green]

All I could accommodate of that tattoo would be "G ore". Interested voyeurs would be told I love Myra Breckinridge.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago but it's worth repeating. A friend of mine works with someone who is very close to Gabby. Very recently (the days leading up to our home defeat by Watford), Gabby was on holiday in Las Vegas with the club's blessing, whilst he was out injured and supposedly recovering from injury.

My mate also saw photos that Gabby had texted back of a gambling table filled with £40 Grand in chips that Gabby was gambling as he "had nothing else to do all day".

I know that technically he's done nothing wrong, but as club captain and supposedly "one of us", he really pisses me off to be honest.

[aj2k77]

Gabby did go to Vegas, apparently warm weather rehabilitation. The fat, fucking simpleton should have been sitting on the bench watching us get twatted again in the freezing cold.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

gabby has never been one of us

all we have ever been is a gravy train as no other club would have stood his for his continual shitness

club captain fuck me i cant think of a worse ambassador or role model for younger players

[Bad English]

I don't care if some pap has snapped a load of scruffy rich twats in the street. However, I do like the casino theme:-

"Flabby Aintgonnascore, les jeux sont faits, rien ne va plus !"

[Chico Hamilton III]

I think they missed a trick not inviting Charlie.  At least they could have had a good laugh at his clothes.

I've got a hunch that Charlie made an appearance at some point during the evening.

[villabear]

"prance around an expensive night club in a shit hat" That's cheered me up.

[Villa in Denmark]

Keeping players past their best at the club isn't Gabby's fault.

Oh, so there is more to it than just chucking bin bags full of £50 notes at it then?

Look if you're happy to blame our humiliating 6 season decline on a few poor decisions and a bit of bad luck then who am I to argue.

I've never said it was bad luck, but poor decisions I'll give you.  I just think your point of view is overly simplistic and one dimensional and the kind of thinking that was the reason we ended up in the shit to start with.

Yes the budget has been slashed since. No the budget is nowhere near what it would need to be to expect to compete for top 6 at the moment, but neither is it low enough to expect to be where we are.

From the day Lerner walked through the door the one constant theme has been a bewildering combination of incompetence and naivety.  Unfortunately that that also applied to the first 4 years didn't become completely apparent until year 5 when the full extent of the stupidity of some of the contracts (as you so rightly point out) came to light.

Although Harewood, Heskey and 2 complete new back 4 line ups in 2 summers should have set the alarm bells ringing.  There's the best part of £100M in transfers and probably the same in wages where for vast chunks of it you might as well have set fire to a few of your bin bags full of £50 notes.

I posted this on several threads last week that you somehow managed to miss so maybe you could do me the honour of indulging me with an answer this time?

Are we in debt to banks like Leeds were?

We could well be, should our current owner not be our owner anymore.

So you're saying that we should be thankful we still have a club irrespective of what league we're in and whatever humiliations he's inflicted onto us?

Did I say that?

But if your defence of Lerner not spending is along the lines of "we could become a Leeds" then I think I'm within my rights to reply. That excuse was churned out when Ellis was in charge, and fans thought nothing of calling for him to borrow money from banks to bankroll spending which actually could have resulted in a Leeds like shitfest. Lerner on the other hand is disgustingly rich, so what's so wrong in fans calling for him to spend some of his riches on the club in our hour of need?

There's a world of difference between spending "in our hour of need" and carrying on regardless over the last 5 years.

I've asked this now at least three times tonight and countless times over the last few months.

I've asked you this before, but I'll try again.
How much do you think Lerner should have continued to invest, bearing that the current tab is north of £250M?

Background info before answering.

Being as you assert that wages are the issue because we won't pay them, maybe take a few seconds to read this.
For 2013-14 season we had the joint (with Everton) 9th highest wage billThat year Newcastle had the 7th highest, Southampton the 11th highest and Stoke the 16th highest.

1. Abramovich, a man who's worth around 10 times Lerner's personal net worth, put the best part of £1 billion into Chelsea over a 10 year period before pretty much calling a halt.  They still spend plenty "net" but it's almost all covered by CL and associated TV income.

2. The Mansoors, who to all intents and purposes have limitless wealth,  put the best part of £1.2 billion into Man City over a 5-6 year period before reigning in the chequebook. Again they spend plenty "net"  but it's almost all covered by CL and associated TV income.

3. "Enough" or similar isn't an answer. A number be it £1 or £10 billion or anywhere in between.

[brian green]

I really hope so Chico, it would really give a boost to Charlie's fan club (me and Mr Underhill).

[Villa in Denmark]

I really hope so Chico, it would really give a boost to Charlie's fan club (me and Mr Underhill).

I know it was an Arsenal do, but I didn't see Charlie Nicolas there.