Henry

[MACCSPURS]

I for one am over the moon he is staying.

I'd rather beat an Arsenal team with him in it than hear all the excuses that we only are doing better than them because he left.

[Welsh Spur]

I can't deny that the PL would have lost one of it's outstanding performers...and agree with MACCSPURS, you got to beat the best to be the best!

[shoot_ffs]

that's quite true, but it's damned hard to bet them with him in the team.

[SurreySpur]

Who gives a toss if he stays or goes. He'd rather be the big fish in his little pond than trying to improve himself and moving to a more succesful club.It smacks of being a bottler, he's already proven that in the big matches when he's choked. We'll do them next season home and away, lets all forget about the french foreign legion down the road and focus on whats important.............COYS!!!!!!!

[Chinaman]

Our British lads will beat thr French Foreign Legion so badly next year that Waterloo and Agincourt will be forgotten.

[highlander]

dont mind about henry but id love to see one of our lads batter that ***** poof flabygoose

[Welsh Spur]

I for one am over the moon he is staying.

I'd rather beat an Arsenal team with him in it than hear all the excuses that we only are doing better than them because he left.

Also, what does the fact that Arsenal fans will excuse their loss with a swift "If we still had Henry..." say about them? ONE MAN TEAM. It's clear to see anyway, the way Henry has been portrayed in the last six months, as an immortal, they've done it themselves really.

[highlander]

he wont have a great season next year and arsenal will be poor as a result. i also think the loss of pires will be huge and Gilberto will lose a yard of pace and wengers irrational fear of buying big name players will cost them big next season

[Spur]

I think its good, plainly because they don't have the money to pay for his £130,000 a week wages. They can't hold onto all these players so expect them to sell Cole or Fabregas for alot. They'll be selling that ground soon enough.

[Welsh Spur]

Are you saying that Arsenal are about to bomb, a la Leeds United?

[Spur]

I like to think so. They are just getting themselves in more trouble keeping Henry. They could have sold him for 50mil apparently, with that they could have bought 5 great players won everything next season to pay for everything and been sitting pretty at the top of the world.

Instead they have another hole in their pocket, with Henry robbing £10million a year.

[Welsh Spur]

I'm sorry but no player is worth £50million, and Arsenal have made a massive mistake in not selling. The guy has 3 years tops left in him, I think £50 mill would go a long way over those three years. If they don't win a trophy a season till Henry leaves, his new contract will be unjustified.

[spurs61]

Are you saying that Arsenal are about to bomb, a la Leeds United?

Yup, there have been rumours circulating around my industry for years that the Goons are seriously ****ed financially. Had they not qualified for the Champions League they would have been in major trouble, as I understand it, they have kept the wolves from the door for another season but their backers are not happy about Henry's massive contract. Watch this space.....

[JuicE]

Well that would be a crying shame! :D

[Welsh Spur]

Henry should have left, to continue Barca's progress over last 2 years. I think his signing would have prolonged their current status, a complete team if you will.

Henry has made a mistake in staying, he'd win more if he left.

Arsenal have made a mistake in givin him the contract, they can't afford it and would be MUCH better off if they sold, somehting like 50mill in transfer revenue, and the 25mill over 4 years he is getting, thats £75million in total. Dickheads.

[spurs61]

Henry should have left, to continue Barca's progress over last 2 years. I think his signing would have prolonged their current status, a complete team if you will.

Henry has made a mistake in staying, he'd win more if he left.

Henry wouldn't join Barca 'cos he needs to be the focal point of the team. As we well know the Goons are set up to provide Henry with the ball and to support his runs. At Barca he's just be another player, that's not to say he's not top class but any team with Ronaldinho and Eto'o does not need to change it's game plan to accomodate Henry. Still a shame though, would have been interesting to see how the scum would have altered their entire side with the loss of Henry, by my reckoning they would have had to have changed at least 6 members of their first choice eleven, starting with Lyungberg and Pires and both full backs.

[Welsh Spur]

Imagine Ronaldinho, Henry, and Eto'o in a three-pronged attack, with the supporting players Deco, Xabi, Giuly, V.Bommel....class

[spurs61]

Imagine Ronaldinho, Henry, and Eto'o in a three-pronged attack, with the supporting players Deco, Xabi, Giuly, V.Bommel....class

Drool, dribble;) I'd still fancy our chances against them!

[mlburnsesq@yaho]

How can Henry's so called loyalty be championed? What totally ridiculous sentiments written from relief rather than common sense.

Arsenal fans have been absolutely mugged off by Henry, there really isn't a more succinct way of expressing it. He refused for MONTHS to commit. He was 'making his mind up', he was 'waiting for his nails to dry' he was doing anything other than pledge his damn signature to a contract which would have more clout in the boardrooms of the financiers of the company he is employed by almost so than on the pitch and he wouldn't sign.

In fact he got his knickers in a twist when he was asked!
'Oh, deary hark at her!'
Ought to have been the cry from the press, but they too indulged him.

What did he do after the Wigan game? On the Day of Days at Highbury, when everything gooner shaped and orientated was celebrated? He kissed the bloody pitch. Well thankyou baby Jesus and the orphans for a sign! Hallelujah! We're saved! 'He IS the Messiah - I should know, - I've followed a few'...

No. Not a word. 'Anything for the teary eyed kids at home clutching their scarves, Thierry?'
' Theees ess a wundarfool day fuur Eyesnol, arrnd Aam gluurd eet dadurn't ruern'

What a ****.

However - it came as zero surprise to me that this naive, child at heart, can't we all just kick a ball together and make the world a better place guy was DEVASTATED by the way Barca dealt with him personally on the field. They pushed and kicked and barely looked him in the eye as they bullied him off the ball - again and again.

Whoa! Are you not my friends too? Are we not shooting a Nike advert here? Is the world not just one great big onion? No, this is war, not a glee club.

He stayed because he heard your cheers and he felt your pride.

To quote Catherine Tate's granny, ' Whaad a loadda of old SHIT!'

He's staying because he discovered the hard way that that not everyone is a honourable as he try's to be, and that Arsenal are more honourable than Barca. He feels he's had a narrow escape. But don't kid yourself you were first choice. That is all.

[mjbmedia]

why the **** dont all teams kick the french f*ckhead round the park . Dump him on the floor in the first ten minutes then see his enthusiasm wain dramatically .
O no i know lets run alongside him ,wont tackle him, o shit hes scored and im Paul Stalteiri (or any other defender you can think of other than the Barca ones who did go thru him )

[Chinaman]

Dein is suffering from a disease of some sort and is in an illusion. Who will bid 50 million for a 29 year old who may be at the top for at most another 3 years?

He may be naive enough to quote Barca that price and Barca wouldn't bite.

[JuicE]

Famous tantrum!;)

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[Chinaman]

Nice one JuicE.