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I am sure people are screaming war and pillage with the recent Fabregas stories but let's face it - we've been here before haven't we. This is nothing new for us in every context of the word because when stories like this arise we go through the motions of getting angry, getting frustrated, kicking things, blaming life, the universe and the heavens and then reverting back to supporting Arsenal.

This is the age old cycle of players leaving and coming and eventually going, because they do eventually go, don't they... we can't stop that but what is important for me in all this is how, we always let them go for a lot of money and we make that money don't we. I'm not going to beat around the bush here so I'll highlight the fact, we tend to want to make a lot of money from out players a lot more so than other clubs

(unless it's the Thierry Henry anomaly where we can make a big whack of cash from shirt sales, publicity and TV rights when he hangs around for another year...)

...so, shall I ask, why do we do this?

Let me celebrate first because if I don't, people will start to wonder why I support Arsenal so...

Woo. Yeah. Fab. Amazing. We're making more money. (checks bank balance) Cor, look at that dosh - WONGA! Me so happy.

It's strange why we do this. The Arsene Wenger Brigage ( :oD ) tend to believe that one day this mountains of cash will be utilised to destroy football. Destroy all clubs. Show people you don't need Money laden Billionaires to prop up a club (anybody can tell you that...

For a moment, let's highlight that this obsession with billionaires is momentary and is not important to football. They bring in cash. That's it. What we should focus on is being better than them and failing to win competitions doesn't prove that. We can as a club do things without Billionaires and their money but if we don't win anything and just remain also rans, we prove that money works.

In fact (to get back on topic) we prove that over and over again don't we with our obsession with money. Our inability to spend and invest in football (instead of the club and company) shows that we are obsessed with cash and making money and catching up with them. In fact the Arsene Wenger Brigade argument that we are saving money to create a Babel like mountain of football power just proves we can't do anything without money.

We have, in fact never been able to do anything without money. That is us. That is what we do... we do things with money throughout. All our players, our manager etc etc - driven by a lot of cash.

So... let's just praise the Arsenal Inc. Gods for providing this opportunity to sell Fabregas for the mighty Wonga. It's what we're really good at. Making money.

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