Let’s look on the bright side: if Chelsea don’t strengthen i can see us finishing in the top 4 again. Clearly, with some more players, we could aim higher.
We’ll finish top4. Liverpool will go back to being Liverpool and Coutinho may leave. Chelsea will have hangover, miss Matic/Costa and struggle with their squad size playing twice a week. Spurs seem to be weakened too.
United/City should be stronger and so should we unless Alexis leaves and even then there’s a bit of a silver lining that he won’t be giving the ball to the opposition 20 times a game
Just like to add.
It must be considered that even though there will be clubs with less resources than us but if they only have one or comparitively lesser(“Fewer” - Ser Davos)competitions to concentrate on, their inferior resource would then be equivalent to ours.
Last season we had Chelsea & Liverpool with no European football. One with 2014-15 title winning squad, another with enough players to compete for Top 4.
Not saying we didn’t fuck up.
Don’t know where else to post this so I’ll put it here.
Arsenal as a Football Club means so much to so many people.
Throughout this feature I spoke to lifelong Gooner Giles (@InvertdWhinger) looking back at his past supporting the club he has followed for many years.
It is a good way to live your life to be fair… unless it means you constantly settle… lowering expectations and being happy with what you get is a nice idea.
For those of us who adopt the more “Fever Pitch” type fandom, being an Arsenal supporter is more about pain and suffering :giroud3:
Yeah and if the excuse is “we need to ship some out first” then it is beyond a joke. The priority is being competitive… secondarily figure out what to do with the excess, if it works out that way. Players like Le Coq can play in the reserves or be loaned late if we get a top CM - likewise for others. It is frankly unbelievable. Imagine me telling my CEO, ummm, yeah I am not going to hit this year’s milestones because I can’t hire the talent I need until I figure out how to get rid of the dross I have even when he is saying I have budget.
@JakeyBoy also the post you quoted was in response to this, someone pointing out other past times will bring you more joy and satisfaction not someone voicing dissatisfaction
People know we have it better than most other clubs, you keeping on pointing it out achieves absolutely nothing. By all means keep saying it if you want to, but don’t fool yourself that it is a point that will convince anyone.
People who do complain do so because they are aware of how great a club we are, what we have achieved in the past informs what fans expect of the club now. It’s why Pochettino will get an easier ride for just finishing in the top four than Wenger would, because he manages a club with a pretty shit history who never win a fucking thing. Nobody expects anything more of them.