Arguement: HENRY

[beaney]

Im at work right now, having an arguement with a Manure fan and a Toon Army fan about Henry and how much it would cost to get him away from Highbury.

Im basically saying no way unless its like £150 million.

P-H-Wood has already stated that even at £100mill its a no go, but is that the truth....?

surely they would sell if a big enuf bid came in AND they knew they could replace him, with someone like Ronaldo for example.

IMO they would be STUPID to sell, unless they could get ronaldo or Vandiver.

Thier arguement is you could rebuild a whole team wiht £100mill, my arguement is why destroy a perfectly capable team and make it worse?
A hundered mill would get some **** hot players, admitadely, but if you cant score the goals what good would that be???

just wondering what everyones views on this topic are.

sorry if its been posted recently but i havent been on in a while, first time back for about a month!

 

[reggiepaul]

Van Penalty or Rabbitaldo? No way

Rabbit man maybe but not the Penalty horse.

At present my view is we underestimate those people around Henry as well so the team is more so important but Henry is irreplacable as is a slight change in such a great team differential to the games that will later come.

I don't think you can build a team with any money. That stupidity about Chelsea and they were third last season and they will be third this season as well. You can't build teams with money. It takes a good manager and it takes time for the team to work off each other and become a great outfit.

I'm glad the team work well with Ali at the moment but it was basically down to experience and practice when it mattered - during actual competition.

So Henry will not be sold at all for a long while yet - if the right price came along we will STILL have to coax another player for a club and how can you replace Henry? Two players you can't because we play 4-5-1 (even with Ali its a swap and change with the man who is the 1). One player? Who... Henry is in a class of his own and you can't replace that.

 

[Andrew]

I wouldn't sell Henry. The pure entertainment of the way he plays is one of those reasons.

And anyway, 100 million doesn't mean you can buy you're way to the title, just as Chelski have shown.

 

[beaney]

yeah thats what i thought, wed rather have him, his goals, his passing, and his assists!

 

[Natnat]

No way should we sell him.
We need Henry, he is pure fantastic. he reading of the game is out of this world

 

[jc8gooner]

Henry is irreplaceable. Name one player in the world who can score as frequently as he does, set up goals as frequently as he does, is as strong as he is, is as quick as he is, is as skilful as he is. He is the complete package, and is therefore irreplaceable.

 

[Sammer]

Chelski is the perfect example, that selling Henry would be a desaster, no matter what we would get for him.

It´s not like you put fattyboy in there and things work fine. Henry is Arsenal. Arsenal is Henry.

 

[Double_H]

Do Arsenal need money now ??? no they are doin ok Finanically

i wont sell Henry,Pires,Freddie,Vierra,Edu,Cample,Toure,And Ashly

The are Top Class Players

IMO henry Is the Best FWD in the world
our wings are the best in the world 2 name 3 or 4 players better than them and ill shut up

ash is second 2 Carlos


I wont sell anyone of those even for 100 mil Pound

 

[IW8]

Well he would cost a lot more than Vandiverboy and Shearer combined. If anyone COULD afford him, and if we wanted to sell him AND if he wanted to go you gotta be looking at an extortionate amount of money. It would most definitely start at 100million+. Therefore you would be looking at swapping him and a cash deal, and as far as I can see there's noone out there who I would want to swap him with.

 

[A.Hussain]

u guys ave to understand that within football not all players are commodities. titi has shown loyalty, strength and ability. this is very rare in players. as much as he earns, when his contract has to be renewed he doesnt let the money issue bother him from playing for arsenal.

there comes a time when u draw the line for selling for certain players who have the desire to become legends and the capacity to become legends. if we let the fact of commercialism within football convolute our ideals of pure magic in the game, we will be left with a far poorer respect of the sport.

no matter what the money, and no matter if people say we have to be realistic, money talks etc........ as supporters and football idealists, titi is family and that should not change. i personally want to have memories of telling my grandchildren about a footballer named thierry henry who dedicated his career to arsenal, its fans and its footballing history.........

 

[jc8gooner]

Chelski is the perfect example

I think I know what you mean by that. Chelsea have four good or very good strikers- Mutu, Gudjohnsen, Crespo, Hasselbaink. None of them are real world class although Crespo could be as good as Van Diver but hasn't had time to prove it). Arsenal have Henry, Man United have Ruud. That is what sets us apart from Chelski. They do not have that something special. In fact, the same applies to midfield. Scholes and Keane are their men, Vieira and Pires are ours. Who do Chelsea have Duff and Lampard. At the moment, these are not in the same league.

 

[JazzG]

If someone offered us £100mill I seriously doubt we would say no tbh.

 

[Sammer]

Thats exactly what I meant. The spend way over 100 mil pounds - but none of them are world class.

Having an (almost) unlimited amount of money, doesn´t mean that you get all the players you want.

A player like Titi is not replacable. Full stop.

 

[reggiepaul]

If someone offered us £100mill I seriously doubt we would say no tbh.

...and if we turned it down?

I can't see anyone paying that much for a player anymore. No player makes a team and no one will come forward and say they will pay that much because it is based on how much a player could do for a club and since only the bigger club can pay that much, with certain fine tuning they could push for a title in other ways.

We've developed a player of this capability and I think we'll be developing others like Ali, Pennant, Cesc and Clichy too amongst others. This way they players develop amongst champions, train amongst champions so are ready to fight for competition to become champions.

 

[JazzG]

I can't see anyone paying that much for one player. I simply don't think it would be worth it.

If however they did I don't think we could say no to that much. One could argue if we sold him and with that much we could make our better team better. Could buy 2 top quality forwards and a top quality midfielder and defender.

However if we sold him and Wenger gets upset about it we could be in abit of trouble. He would leave and I think a few would follow him out.

 

[reggiepaul]

I can't see how two attackers would solve the problem since we can only play one player at a time and that player needs to make the difference Henry does.

Ultimately, we will have to change our game to the point we are at now. He is blatantly irreplacable and the difference we need is some way of playing without him there. I am sure we have an amazing squad without Henry as well but we have to get this team to adjust to playing without Henry in the squad.

I can't see the comparisons with Ruud either. Without Scholes Ruud was blatantly the traffic cone that he is and a crap traffic cone as well. A real cone would have been better.

 

[beaney]

ultimately, money cant replace quality, not at that level anyway.

because there is no other footballer out there who has even NEAR the same skills as Henry does, he is irreplacable.

if there were another striker who came close it might be worth it.

 

[Jinn]

If we got 100 million, what would we do? There's nobody better who we could spend the money on!

 

[JazzG]

If we bought 1 top quality striker for £30mill(he doesn't have to be as good as Henry)

Reyes or someone who can play behind a striker for £25mill

Quality CB for £20mill

Quality CM for £20mill


That is £95mill spent with £5mill to spare. If we did that I can't say we wouldn't be a stronger team than we are now.

 

[jackycreegs]

we could probably buy ronaldo, raul, nesta plus a midfielder of our choice (camoranesi? parker?). which, although i guess team spirit could suffer for a while, would surely make us a better team. not that henry isn't a legend. but 100 million is silly money for one player. which is why it won't happen.