Not really, I am a 4th year astrophysics student, numbers don’t scare or bore me much, in fact I’d say I’m surprisingly good at them. I am not of the opinon that the club was financially hamstrung to the extent some argue, I am saying Wenger was (Kroenke being the missing variable) -when you take responsibility in account- meaning you can’t load your last save in FM if you accidentally piss away £100m. Which our competitors could, and did, and still do. Man U do. Chelsea last season. Tottenham after Bale. Liverpool for a good while under Benitez. City for the first few years. Or to put it straight: The worst poker player in history sit in no limit and try to hard ball opponents with near infinite resources. Especially when it is your savings and house mortgage on the stake.
See the “could” there? Ofc I can’t say you’re wrong. Would it help? Probably. Barca barely won the league year with Messi Suarez and Neymar. Do you take responsibility for what happens if we spend and the signings that don’t pay off? Do you actually know the inner workings of transfers? I don’t but it probably isn’t that easy to sign world class players with 8-10 clubs in Europe being “top spenders” and we’re just trying to be one out of many. The fact that Giroud didn’t score for 15 games in a row is probably a more relevant factor. What team wins the league with a main striker like that? “buy a better striker then” yep but If we knew for a fact he would hit that slump I’m sure we would have. Had he scored a goal 10/15 games there we would have won the league, another “if”. I can’t argue with your imagined scenario and you can’t argue with mine, but we certainly should aim higher than the shit fest that has been going on for years here now, don’t you agree? What happened to the knee jerk thread? It’s useless now that every thread is the daily knee jerk thread?
Ahhhh the old Morris routine and I stopped reading.
The idea that Wenger doesn’t “want to spend” or has “vanity projects” must be the football fan equivalent of thinking we never landed on the moon. What the shite is wrong with you. He knows as well as anybody else that success is how he’ll be remembered, he doesn’t get to pocket any money he doesn’t spend and he isn’t lauded as one of the best managers in the world by managers and players alike because “they don’t get it” and “you do”.
If you think his 70 min subs and weird weakness for midfielders is bad then that stuff is fine, I agree and I wish we could debate it without the topic being polluted by the same repetitive shite on here. But the “greedy” argument is some dumb arse tin foil crap. Not to mention that there are another 5 top of the art managers in the same league as us with more money to spend, that battle is between the Mansours and Kroenke and the likes, not Pep and Wenger and their equivalents. Do you think Pep would even come if Mansours said “no more money, you want to buy you sell now”. Fat chance.
You’re not deluded nor do you have rose tinted glasses on because you’re not taking every opportunity crying your behind out in public over the same shit concerning Arsenal day in and out for years. And to read that the players are the ones with a weak mentality? Chuckle.
Your whole money argument is poor logic mate. Ofc the difference is smaller when everyone gets more money. Do you get the relativity in what I wrote last time? That is the exact reason that when City spent £80m and we spent £20m in a window they spent four times as much as us and we correctly and responsibly didn’t try to hard ball but took what we could get, but when they can spend £150m and we can spend £90m (this window’s figures, net) they’re spending less than twice as much as us yet it’s the same £60m discrepancy, but the relative difference is shrinking, this is what we planned for and what is different since 2013 and this is how we’re closing the gap, and it is showing in what players we can buy, that we won trophies albeit not the biggest ones, and we’re finishing in our best league position in a decade, above the lot of them. But it takes more than a couple of windows to refresh your entire squad, surely everyone must understand that? And to just say everyone else is bad is pointless. We will -never- spend as much as say City as long as it’s a rich kid’s toy. Or you’d have to mail Kroenke and tell him to take the battle with the Mansours. It has NOTHING to do with Wenger.
The sixth or seventh placed team in the PL could afford a £50m world class player from Real Madrid nowadays, assuming he’d like to come. And if you apply that trend to the whole league and consider that Aston Villa and Newcastle were in the top 20 spenders in Europe last window and they both got relegated you have to conclude that r relative differences in spending shrinks, the league is more normalised and it becomes more difficult to get 90+ points, yet the winner is still the best in the bunch because the trophy is given to the relatively best team over the season.
It is the exact same reason English players are so ridiculously overpriced due to the home grown quota. Raheem Sterling wasn’t worth £50m abroad. He is here, and City atm need to ship out 2 foreign players to be able to register their whole squad as of today. It is all from the same source, the money distribution. So yes, they are all in fact edging closer.
Of course anything can happen, City can win it this year with 90 points, it is not outside a normal distribution anyway but this whole thing is a plan set in motion by us in 2006 and we’re fairly on course I think, and it is down to us being responsible about the whole thing. I was never deluded enough to think that one funny FM transfer window and we’d win everything from being a team full of over-performing shitty kids. It takes time, competition is fiercer than ever.