Match Reaction - Arsenal vs Scrote City

[Syn]

I hate you all.

[Syn]

Also, why is Wenger slapping him on the arse?

[LDG]

And a lot of people would assume we'd be happy with CL football for 16 seasons...

[Boss]

Wilshere

Podolski

Stoke

Didn't watch the game, good to see us get a win, heard Monreal played well which is another bonus.

On to the next one.

[Letters]

And a lot of people would assume we'd be happy with CL football for 16 seasons...

:awlsomepost:

[Injury Time]

Is Arsene saying "****"?
Hope so.

[Alpha]

Jack finally decided to pick on someone his own size.

This could be the funniest post . Now , what about Metersacker picking on Peter Crouch ? LOL .

[Alpha]

That's why the handshake tradition in football is stupid. What's the point of that? They clearly hate eachother.

They only shook hands because we won the game . Had we lost it , I wouldn't think Wenger could have shook Pulis's hand .

[Alpha]

Also, why is Wenger slapping him on the arse?

Any gay suspicion ?

[Power n Glory]

The new stadium (which did initially restrict spending, even if Wenger now chooses not to spend money he has)
The billionaire owners fuelling the ridiculous spiralling transfer fees and wages.
Other clubs catching up with Wenger's training methods and diet.
Other clubs having global scouting networks which means Wenger can't pick up players as cheap as he once could before they were on other clubs' radars.

Plenty has changed in football since Wenger started with us. Wenger hasn't. Fergie IS the best manager of all time IMO, I don't believe their current squad under any other manager would be where they are.

We've never been a club that has been able to compete with the big elite clubs when it came to spending and have always steered clear of a bidding war. If a player starts to make a name for himself with a smaller club and manages to get on the elite clubs radar, we've never thrown our hat into the ring. That's how it's always been under Wenger. During the Highbury years under Wenger, we were never battling it out with United to sign players and competing for the marque players. We weren't involved when they were making bids for internationals like Rio, Veron and Ronaldinho. We were never involved in the big money moves back then so it's wrong to suggest we would have been had not Chelsea arrived. World record bids were being made way back then when guys like Crespo, Veri, Figo and Zidane were on the scene and Real Madrid were spending silly money. We supposedly built the stadium to be able to compete with those clubs.

Prices have been inflated but even if they weren't I doubt we'd get involved in a bidding war for players because that's never been our style. This bring me to the second part of the argument and the bit highlighted in bold. There are plenty of cheap players out there that aren't on the top clubs radars and are within our price range but we don't make a move for them. We've seen what Pardrew is doing with Newcastle and it's like he's pulling a Wenger with some of his buys. How has he got the inside lane on Wenger's on territory and where he should be the expert? There have been plenty of cheap players that we could have moved for but we haven't over the years. Now it looks like we're slowly getting back to our old ways with the signing of Podolski, Cazorla, Merts, Moreal, Giroud but we're still way to cautious in the transfer window and have missed out on players that could have helped us years ago and maybe wrapped up some silverware or at least convince some of our wantaway stars to commit to the club. There are some real gems playing for some of the mid level teams and they'd have done a much better job than some the players we have currently so we can't keep blaming our transfer inactivity on Chelsea and co. Look how quickly we snapped up Moreal because of the Gibbs injury. It was the same for our deadline day deals last summer. We know players are out there but Wenger is too indecisive and what call time on a players career quick enough or adapt when we're in bad shape.