Quote Originally Posted by LDG View Post
Harsh.

The team last year was pretty much the team he built post-invincibles.

Now I'm not stupid enough to think that they in anyway compare....we're talking about the best team we've ever had, or are ever likely to see at our club.

But what he did replace them with (under some financial pressure, of our own making or not....was it policy or prudence??) a new team, that SHOULD have won the league last year.

We all know it didn't work out that way, but to say "The Replacements" were inadequate is, to me, a throw-away statement without much substance. They are good players. But we cocked up in other areas.....it wasn't the players themselves. EDIT: I should say, it wasn't the calibre of player....it was the way in which those players were sent out to do their job.
I actually edited the post afterwards to include the word immediately.

I'll stand by my statement that a lot of the replacements post invincible are inferior, now I accept they are younger and have time to develop, but some of them...Clichy being a prime example haven't developed in the way I would of like, Ashley Cole is far superior to Clichy.

I'm just so frustrated with Arsene & Arsenal at the moment, I'm sick to death of the perpetual rebuilding.

In 07/08 Arsene built one of the best squads he's ever had at Arsenal with financial restrictions or whatever we want to call it. That summer he went about dismantling that squad and we've not looked the same since.

I realise that constantly moaning won't change things but how folks can say that we'll be OK when the heart of our team is being ripped out beggars belief.

Yes the players who are leaving haven't contributed anything in terms of trophies, but these are the players we should be adding quality to not removing.

At Arsenal it's always...1 step forward, 2 steps back.