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Where do you get this long term policy from. There was never a suggestion from Fitzman or Wenger ( during the Emirates announcements ) that we would face " 10 years of non-competing" whilst we paid off the stadium debt. We had just been in a Champions league final & the Emirates was supposed to cement us being one of Europe's top clubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Read the articles I posted. :good:Quote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
Indeed, quite the opposite, they clearly stated there was no point having a world class stadium without a world class team playing in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dein-machine
The truth is the stadium project suited Wener, he clearly loves bringing young players through (as he's recently stated in his criticism of Man U's current policy of apparently trying to buy success), that his preference and he will always choose that over signing top players which is a problem as generally the young players are never as good.
:lol: I wish I knew the man personally like you so clearly do.
You don't need to know him personally to spot the obvious, he's criticised Man U about the players they are signing and how they use to rely on young players, has stated that's what he likes to do and has been focussing a lot on kinds for the best part of 10 years now (have you forgotten that failed kids team he said were 2% away from dominating and going to win everything under the sun).Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
He loves bringing in young players, it's the reason we have so many and have spent so much on them over the years. Yes most of us are rather bored with the youngsters now, but he never seems to get bored of signing them.
I guess not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
I knowQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
stfu, Letters! :lol: Like you haven't said something similar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
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Wenger probably does prefer to develop players than buy them off the shelf. I would have thought any manager would. Surely it's more satisfying to develop a Fabregas rather than buy one off the shelf. I never understand why spending £100m of a multi-billionaire's spare change is regarded as 'ambitious'. It's pretty much the exact opposite of ambitious, it's taking the short-cut and the easy option.
For someone who doesnt know Arsene you sure as hell are fixated with devotion to him. Yes the stadium may have hindered our finances but only in relation to Chelsea and the 2 Manc clubs. In rrelation to everyone else we still had greater spending power. In fact from the minute we opened the stadium in 2006 we were better of in overall revenue compared to the prior year at Highbury. So yes the stadium move was desirable and few would belittle the decision. The only part most take exception to is your exaggerating the effect that it stopped us buying the quality we need. Wenger chose to keep buying kids, no one forced him to. He does this because it keeps buying him time. Kids will wait 4-5 years before lamenting about a lack of silverware, especially when they make the grade quality wise. Buying proven players at prime age 25-27 puts the manager under pressure because they will start looking elsewhere after only 2 seasons. It is no coincidence that Cesc and RVP gave up on the Wenger project when they did. Like i said earlier, Wengers projects have no term date. When it goes belly up. He simply presses the reset buttton and starts all over again. The quality players however will keep jumping ship with each failed cycle. Just watch end of this season what comes from the Ozil and Sanchez camps when we lift the 3rd or 4th place trophy and possibly the Letters cup for a 3rd time running.