This thread should have been moved to the recycle bin the moment a mod read Joker saying he agrees with Arseblog.
Anyway, RvC is a Judas ****, but he did say the same things about the club that us fans have been saying for years, so I really don't get the griping over what he said. The fans rage and fury would be better suited being directed at the man who sold us short.
Wenger used to go head to head with SAF, why has that stopped? Since Wenger's been here, SAF has won 10 titles compared him winning 3. 5 of those have come since we last won the league, or won anything for that matter. Why the fuck is he still here?
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Because he's meeting the board's (his bosses) objectives.
Top 4 finishes, plenty of money rolling in from the fans and the good people at Sky and UEFA.
Everyone's happy.
Well, everyone but the fans but hey, we're still filling the stadium, buying the shirts and and paying for Sky Sports so who cares about that?
The stadium it seems was one of the biggest cons in history..."to compete with the biggest clubs in the world", "No point having a world class stadium and not having a world class team" etc etc.
Fortunately some ready made excuses then turned up in the likes of Chelsea and Man City.
You see I get that RVP left us for a club where he was more likely to win things. I get that the board and the manager have crapped on us fans by selling the crown jewels every year, and put the boot in by gifting Manure the league into the bargain. But the club letting RVP down? Really? By supporting him though year after year of injury, making him club captain? Turning him into the complete striker and building the team around him?
There is no way in hell Arsenal owed RVP anything, and the day any team starts deferring to any player on matters of transfer policy is the day things start going wrong. We fans may agree with the opinion that RVP expressed when he left but that is not the point. If anyone let anyone else down, RVP let Arsenal down. His motives for doing so do not, IMO, come into this particular argument.
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Ok then. But the stadium isn't exactly being filled these, huh? It's obvious we're on a crash course should we continue down this path. Let's see how much longer we'll be finishing top four, and let's so how many more players of worth we're going to have to sell for profit.
Also, it would be interesting to see some credible figures on how our shirt sales have been trending over a few years now.
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The injuries weren't his fault to be fair and it was our choice to offer him new contract, I personally the motive was to stop us needing to buy anyone else (just as we do with the likes of Diaby, Rosicky etc).
In the end he got to 28/29 and was looking at his final contract, we basically told him we're 2% away from domination and have the best group of players and that transfers are always the answer and he realised there's no hope of anything changing and then decided to leave.
By staying he would basically be sacrificing his career to a club who have no ambition, that might be OK to some players but very few top players will want to settle for that only to look back at their career and think what could have been.
Its a complete fiasco. I'd be surprised if we even register in terms of gaining new worldwide fans these days. I mean if you were born after 1998, why would you support Arsenal. Manure; Citeh; Chelsea are not only cleaning up the trophies, they are establishing new fan-bases and new marketing opportunities. Its astonishing that a board so money-fixated can't see that long term, their current policy is killing, not strengthening the club.
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