Quote Originally Posted by GB. View Post
I don't think we are building a side. I don't think we can under the current model. If we were building a side we would not be either selling our best players or shipping out the failures on loan to the extent we have almost completely different sides every three years. The same mistakes are perennially repeated because we always have a side that is building with the fate of never actually being built.
No, we're feeding off what was already here. That was probably the main attraction fro Kroenke along with the slack in the merchandising and sponsorship deals. The Cavani rumour makes me laugh. Why would you spend £30mill and pay big wages to get a player who is already under a long term contract when we could have just paid the best in the business RvC? There are no big name strikers coming here in the next couple of years at least. Second tier strikers who can be shop-windowed into transfer pay days - maybe. That's likely what Giroud is and what Vhamakh and Park were beforehand. Financial gambles that didn't expose the club too badly and, should they have worked out, profit generators. In a sad way, the better Giroud does the less of an Arsenal player he becomes. That's one of the reasons it;s so hard to get behind this team now - many of them are passing through.