Quote Originally Posted by Fist of Lehmann View Post
from the SwissRamble
...Arsenal splashed out £53 million on new players. Of course, they still ended up with net sales proceeds of £18 million, as players leaving brought in £71 million. If decent offers had come in for the likes of Nicklas Bendtner, Manuel Almunia, Sébastien Squillaci and Denilson, this sum may well have been even higher.




Substantiation?




So Wenger has too much power, not enough pressure, the board allow him autonomy in football matters...but they decide to buy some random players while his back is turned?
After the Man Utd debacle, Gazidis must have had a word with him and told him the score. He had to concede because he could see for himself that the team were in no fit state to play. I don’t think they did it behind his back, but I don’t think after the result he went running to the board room and banged on Gazidis’ door demanding we sign these players.

It doesn’t matter that we made a profit as usual because that has always been the case even when we were at Highbury. That rep of earning money for the club is a rep that Wenger has proudly built and boasted about over the years.