Arsenal, for the first time in over a decade, drop out of the top four.
Players start to leave the club because it can’t offer Champions League football, even though we’re paying close to top dollar on transfers and wages, it just isn’t enough. The club is losing cash; other teams are investing as much or more.
Wenger moves on to newly rich PSG.
Arsenal are in debt, they’re slipping down the table into mediocrity. They’ve got a new manager now, but he’s not very good (comparatively) and invests the last of the reserves on some average players with the hope of kicking us back up the league. It doesn’t work, and now Arsenal are languishing back in mid-table. They’re in debt, we’ve lost our big players and our world class coach. The future, given the current climate, is looking very bleak. Let’s just hope the Gunners don’t do a Leeds…
Why have I made up this fictional reality? Well, it seems to me that there are fans and pundits out there screaming for us to spend more money than we actually have. We’re already fighting against three of the richest clubs in the world and doing so on a relatively meagre budget. We’re doing all this and remaining competitive.
It has taken a true visionary in Arsene Wenger to move us to a new stadium, to build us a state of the art training complex, to invest in youth and the future. We’re still in a strong position and it would be unwise to write us off just yet. I want everyone to imagine what would happen if we were still in the old stadium, with the old facilities. Sure we’d have had a little more money to throw around, but it would have been a short-term solution, and eventually, our money would’ve have run out and where would we have been then?
There are some seriously big fish in our pond and we needed to grow to keep up. Sure, it might mean a lull in trophies right now, but our future looks reasonably assured.
Before we scream at Arsene and the board to change their ways RIGHT NOW, take a moment to consider what life would be like for us Gooners if the management had done all their business in the here and now without keeping one eye on the future.
Yes, we might have a couple more trophies, but at what cost?
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Wenger didn’t win the double in his first season
He did it in his first full season!
Thomas Munson: I think you’ll find I wrote that he won it in his first full season. He started in 96/97, 97/98 was his first full season and that’s when he won the double.
Good read Mike!
Too many spoilt fans. Must have started supporting Arsenal during the Wenger years they forgot the club was mid-table for a couple of years before Wenger brought success back.
Wenger is a victim of his own success.
His transfers questioned. Sigh, while he makes mistakes in the market. He is pretty consistent in his transfer dealings. He rarely buy established stars. Those that are used to watching Vieira, Henry, Pires etc. Remember they were relatively unknown when he bought them and bought them cheap he did. He then polished them into stars. So don’t start questioning why he don’t buy stars cause through the successful years he achieved, he never did buy established stars.