Chamakh The Pony. So Why Pay Him So Much?

Chamakh is more of a donkey, but I couldn’t make a pun out of that, not even a crap one. But he’s pony as in ‘pony and trap’, good old Cockney rhyming slang that we Gooners indulge in, in our squalid city hovels. Or is that just me? Anyway, yesterday’s blog (was it only yesterday? Seems like ages. This off-season lasts forever) was about how there may not be any more money for Wenger to spend this summer – or at least definitely none that has to be spent under the terms of the Transfer Proceeds Account. There may be a few million kicking around elsewhere.
Then ‘Dave The Gooner’ commented that Wenger hasn’t got money left because he’s squandered it on sub-standard players like Squillaci, Chamakh, Santos and Gervinho. I would argue that Santos isn’t sub-standard, and Gervinho m...