How Good Are We?

[Niall_Quinn]

I don't think we're a million miles away. This team + RvP would probably be challenging.
We do need some investment but we don't need 10 new players, 2 or 3 in key areas would do it.

That's the whole problem. We don't have RvP because we have a policy of selling our best players. If another RvP emerges, we'll sell him. We've spent season after season saying that just a couple of key signings would make all the difference. Those key signings are not coming, if the existing team improves then the key players will be sold. Unless the whole philosophy of the club suddenly changes. I give you the January transfer window as an example of where this club is going under the current mob. Nowhere. We'll always be short because we have a bare minimum approach to everything except ticket prices. Just the way it is and it's also the way they want it.

How good are we? We aren't. We're second tier now and 2% away from a further drop in quality which will mean we may not even be leading the second tier.

Yes, we have seen worse in previous decades but it was only £3 to watch a match back then and the players gave a fuck about the club. So there was more to football than just the results, there was a tribe. Now it's a commercial operation first, foremost. Judging by the pure money standard that dominates the game Arsenal does not deliver. This is a poor team given the size of the commercial operation and the cost to the fans.