FA Cup semi-final draw, 13/03/17 21:30 GMT.

Success does pay, but it's also a vicious circle immediate success has to be paid for unless you're a club already with the reputation of a Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Barcleona

Or is it just my imagination that no clubs over than those with rich benefactors are breaking into the European elite?

Atletico and Dortmund are the outliers that prove the rule and even then they are not really eating at the same trough

Bayern attract the best because they are the historically biggest club in Germany,

We did massively overpay for Xhaka because we are in a market where because of tv money, clubs outside of england are going to hold english clubs to ransom over their players.

You can correctly decry Wenger for his terrible approach in the transfer market and to football at Arsenal in general, but essentially we were lied to by Gazidis more than just because of Wenger but because that elite we were promised is not possible without one of the billionaires putting the money in (even if just as an investment)

Arsenal would lose heavily to any of the clubs left in this so the draw does not matter.

If Wenger stays, Arsenal should and would be a laughing stock in world football, a small club with a losers mentality and a very tight and deluded manager.

He has got to go, it would the biggest 'trophy' Arsenal has won since 2004 if he left.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

Success does pay, but it's also a vicious circle immediate success has to be paid for unless you're a club already with the reputation of a Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Barcleona

Or is it just my imagination that no clubs over than those with rich benefactors are breaking into the European elite?

Atletico and Dortmund are the outliers that prove the rule and even then they are not really eating at the same trough

Bayern attract the best because they are the historically biggest club in Germany,

We did massively overpay for Xhaka because we are in a market where because of tv money, clubs outside of england are going to hold english clubs to ransom over their players.

You can correctly decry Wenger for his terrible approach in the transfer market and to football at Arsenal in general, but essentially we were lied to by Gazidis more than just because of Wenger but because that elite we were promised is not possible without one of the billionaires putting the money in (even if just as an investment)

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;) really?

So the major domestic and European trophies haven't by and large been won by the either the historically biggest or the richest clubs?

Also why is it that the Premier League are still to reschedule our match with Southampton, let alone the one against Leicester

We weren't playing in Europe this weekend, neither are Southampton....what would have been wrong with putting it on tonight or tomorrow rather than late April

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

Also why is it that the Premier League are still to reschedule our match with Southampton, let alone the one against Leicester

We weren't playing in Europe this weekend, neither are Southampton....what would have been wrong with putting it on tonight or tomorrow rather than late April

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Maybe they're hoping van Dijk will be back by then.