Middle East consortium 'to bid for Arsenal'

[Cripps_orig]

What if this was us using the maximum use of our resources? Someone posted that they think Wenger is giving 110% but he's just not good enough anymore. Same for the team yesterday. I can't really fault the effort of the lads. They gave it their all but quality wise we are lacking in all areas and unfortunately it will take big money to get that quality in.

I agree with you in that I don't want us to be taken over by whoever and become a penis extension (which btw is an awesome phrase) nor do I want what we are currently doing. If I had to choose one, it'd be the latter though.

We don't need to spend £30m+ on 5 players this summer but why can't we spend that much on one player? If we can't do that then our finances aren't as good as its made out to be and the fans as usual are sold a crock of shit.

[Kano]

it doesn't take millions to talk to each other in defence and not concede the goals we do in such a piss poor fashion. changing that would change a lot of things. wenger obviously can't do it so we need someone who can.

[Niall_Quinn]

I dont want us operating along the same lines as City or Chelsea. Nor do I want us to operate as we currently do.

All I want, and I suggest others do as well, is for us to make the maximum use of the resources the Club generates.

If that were to happen along with being well managed, we could compete and feel genuine pride in what we achieved, just as we did in the past.

Exactly. We were slugging it out toe to toe with Utd on half their resources in the past. Our decline in fortunes stems from mismanagement at all levels shielded behind the myth of us being the best run club in the world. Of course ****ish accountants and pen-pushers will love the way we are run. Those ****s love anything from which life is drained. We love football so it's time to kick the fucking accountants out and get any sod in from the street to run things. A mother with three kids on a tight budget could do a better job than the flash ****s we have congratulating themselves upstairs. They are fucking losers with a lot of cash, that's all. They know the price of everything and the value of fuck all.

[Niall_Quinn]

it doesn't take millions to talk to each other in defence and not concede the goals we do in such a piss poor fashion. changing that would change a lot of things. wenger obviously can't do it so we need someone who can.

No, but it might take millions in therapy to convince Wenger we are not Barcelona, seeing as he's not leaving.

[Letters]

Friend just recommended this book to me:

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[PGFC]

Wobbly table?

[LDG]

[Letters]

Wobbly table?

Your face is a wobbly table

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I actually believe in the self-sustaining model the club has in place, i just don't like how
a) the wage bill has been so disastrously handled
b) Ivan Gazidis has done sod all to bring us the kind of commercial revenue we need in order to operate this way, and the money the club brings in is all through gate receipts and player sales


But neither of these things is responsible for what happened yesterday, yesterday was caused by a manager whose fault lies in his being too stubborn to learn from his mistakes....why on earth did mertesacker and ramsey play yesterday, why did we hold such a high line, why was cazorla played out of position, why did we take carl jenkinson off, why didn't podolski and rosicky start?. Why are we so slow at making runs into the box when the ball is crossed in low.

I'd hate to imagine what Steve Bould's blood pressure is like at this moment, probably passes out at the end of each match in frustration at his Boss' ineptitude.

I don't enjoy criticising Wenger, and frankly the vitriol aimed at him on this board saddens me, but it's not entirerly undeserved. Personally I think it would take a lot for me to dislike him as a person, and i think listening to him speak is a lot more interesting than hearing the self-regarding tripe that comes out of most managers mouths. I think the media especially treat him with a disgraceful amount of disrespect.
However he is a frustrating individual who is making a rod for his own back but i don't believe for a moment he doesn't care. If he didn't care he would have signed a new contract, and i think he's dreadfully unhappy with not having won anything for so long.
I think he is firmly entrenched in this idea that it's only the financial doping in the other clubs that's responsible for him not winning things, when the truth is we rarely make it above 70 points in a season these days and there is a lack of leadership, ideas and fight in his team.
I'd love nothing more than for him to vindicate himself and throw it back at the people who scream "you don't know what your doing" at him, but in my head i don't see it happening.

[Grebbo]

I hope they buy us ASAP.