Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
My heart wants an Arsenal win every single time. I love this club but that does not mean I believe this club is in the right direction. It looks like a business more than a football club and that needs to change ASAP!
Of course it huts like most gooners. I know its hurt Zim seeing that tonight because he loves the club and wants to see much better. The club is in a bad place and the next 2 weeks are going to define where it goes one way or the other.
My heart wants an Arsenal win every single time. I love this club but that does not mean I believe this club is in the right direction. It looks like a business more than a football club and that needs to change ASAP!
Losing today would have been such a big blow tbh. But it was a poor perfomace, Like Zim says we should have had our targets in and everything in place.
EVERY club is a business now. It's sad but that's how football has gone.
Why i've kind of gone off the sport. Not enjoyable. When the likes of Robben and eto want to go and play in Russia for some rich club that no one knew, its time to think about diffrent sports thank feck the rugby wcis coming up.
They are.. but they put football first rather than football second and business first! Look at Utd for example.. their owners are in the shit but SAF gets all the support footballistically! Initially everyone thought Ronaldo's fee would not be reinvested coz they only got Valencia but look at what they did this season. Made some high profile signings way ahead of time.. this is right after they won the PL.
We have been making profits from our transfers since 04. I dont remember who posted it yesterday but it said that we are +30 million since 04 when compared to the others where they were 200-300 million quid in the negative. I am not asking us to be that far off but surely if that number was -100 million over 7 seasons, it wouldnt be that big of a deal. We are a top 4 club and at the very least we should have 20 million quid to spend on reinforcements every season! Our board and manager seems to say the same but no investment is made but the same BS about 'super quality' players. AW must be retarded if the thought that there are no players out there to replace Squid, Chakma, Vela, Gibbs!
Last edited by fakeyank; 16-08-2011 at 10:31 PM.
If they do that and they don't have a billionaire sugar daddy (which is NOT showing ambition btw, City aren't 'ambitious', it takes no talent or ambtion to spend a bottomless pit of money) then they're going to go bust. Utd have just about the best manager around but they're up to their eyeballs in debt and I know Utd fans who have given up their season tickets in protest at the way the club as being run - and this is a club who are the Champions, even their fans aren't all doing cartwheels at how the club is run in a business sense.
There needs to be a balance between business and football these days. IMO we get the balance wrong. I don't believe that's all Wenger's fault, I do think there are other things going wrong behind the scenes. But a lot of the problems at Arsenal are, IMO, a reflection of the problems in the sport as a whole. It's nowhere near as much fun as it was when I was a kid (when we were a far worse side than we are now, even with all our troubles at the moment)
Don't think City, Chelsea, RM or Barca would confirm to that assertion.
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