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I think Wenger thinks - and I agree with him, actually - that our long term ability to compete shouldn't rely on a sugar-daddy. So while people sneer at the morally superior cup, longer term I'd argue he's mostly taking the right approach.
Which isn't to say he has got everything right and there have been times when I agree he should have spent more.
An owner who stands to make hundreds of million in growth is not a "sugar daddy" if he kicks some of that back as additional investment. A sugar daddy is somebody who comes to a club that has no fans and then starts pumping in whatever it takes to catapult that club up the table. However, Abramovich and the Arabs are looking less and less like a sugar daddies as the seasons go by. Both clubs have now taken their seat in the top tier and are expanding across the board. They will both reach the stage where if their sugar daddies pulled out they'd sail on under their own steam. Meanwhile we are fucking around with a single lump of coal.