Financial fair play my arse.

[AKBapologist]

Would rather billionaires payed for success than fans paying for... Not an awful lot really. Just saying.

[Niall_Quinn]

Would rather billionaires payed for success than fans paying for... Not an awful lot really. Just saying.

Exactly right. Otherwise why are they involved in the game at all? Just to make a profit? In which case, how can their presence be good for the club? In football terms? Also there are many degrees between buying success and what we currently do, avoid investment in the playing side at all costs. Some people are asking for the rich guy to dig in his pocket and make a few key signings that will fill the gaping holes in the team. For example, it's high time we had a defence, every other team has one and I don't think it's unreasonable for the fans of Arsenal to want one too. But when it's suggested we match our spending to our ambitions, run a smart transfer policy, play to the realities of the league we are in rather than wander off on some idealistic Spanish fantasy, the rehearsed response from the ostriches is to roll out Abramovich and proclaim we don't want his sort here.

[Letters]

Exactly right. Otherwise why are they involved in the game at all? Just to make a profit? In which case, how can their presence be good for the club? In football terms? Also there are many degrees between buying success and what we currently do, avoid investment in the playing side at all costs. Some people are asking for the rich guy to dig in his pocket and make a few key signings that will fill the gaping holes in the team. For example, it's high time we had a defence, every other team has one and I don't think it's unreasonable for the fans of Arsenal to want one too. But when it's suggested we match our spending to our ambitions, run a smart transfer policy, play to the realities of the league we are in rather than wander off on some idealistic Spanish fantasy, the rehearsed response from the ostriches is to roll out Abramovich and proclaim we don't want his sort here.

You were doing well till the last bit which is rubbish.
EVERYONE on here thinks Wenger could and should have spent more. I've not seen a single person argue differently.
As for the defence, IMO the problem there is coaching, not the players. The way we concede goals (long straight balls, set pieces) shows poor defensive organisation, I don't think signing big would improve that.
And the assertion that we "avoid investment in the playing side at all costs", don't we have one of the highest wage bills in the country? Isn't that investing in the playing side? But as I said, pretty much everyone thinks we should have spent more in the transfer market too.