Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
this is what interests me too =- as i said on the match thread i hope Arteta just treats this as a kind of pre-seeason, and looks to the future in the sides he picks and who he focusses on - but as i also said, i am a bit pessimistic about that, i think'll be short term and conservative - hope he proves me wrong
I suppose I wouldn’t blame him if he went with experience, at least until any European hopes are over - if match day income is gone for the foreseeable, then there’s going to be some massive pressure on him to at least make the EL spots.

But as soon as we’ve got nothing much to play for I want to see us prepping hard for next season. If that means dropping anyone who we may need to sell to cut costs / raise funds, then that’s fine - protect those sales and focus on the future.