I haven't been taken in by anything at all. I just know the difference between running a business and talking about running a business. Sure, at a top down level the owners and executives of the club will consider the fans in terms of the overall goal. But then they sit down at a table and start working out the practical realities of achieving that goal. What can be done, what can't, how a thing can be achieved or partially achieved given the resources at hand and the environment being operated in. How long it will take to hit each milestone. What the contingencies are. The finer details.

Quite obviously securing CL football and partially funding the stadium move using a net positive transfer balance were critical to the plan. Our main competitors have pumped cash into players while we took cash out of that pot. So things have been tough on the pitch. Now you can say, fuck, we want trophies, we want signings, we want it today. And we could have gone that way instead and won a title or a few cups. But those would be the last we'd ever win as the consequences of not reacting to the changing face of football would have been to become second tier on a permanent basis.

Now we have the means of cementing ourselves at the top of the game for the long term. According to the plan what is supposed to follow is the investment on the pitch that will produce the team that was the whole reason for the stadium move and up-scaled business plan. So we were told. We saw the first piece of this with the signing of Ozil in a Barcelona, Madrid, Man City sized deal. Some have laughably suggested Wenger blew that money to appease fans. That's the stupidest argument it's possible to make in light of the facts. Facts many complain about, no investment, second tier signings, transfer profits, etc. Of course it wasn't appeasement. It was delivery on what was promised all along. The first parcel anyway.

This is such a crucial time for the club. Exactly the wrong time for certain elements to be pissing about calling for the manager to be sacked, trying to oust Wilshere, calling Ozil whatever name the Daily Hannibal Lecter has pushed out for the day. Crying because we didn't nail the title well ahead of schedule. That's what the mention of the injured players is about. In a couple of years maybe we WILL have 3xRamsey on the bench. Then it's a whole new ball game.

I haven't been taken in at all. I'm just reading the evidence and seeing that it tallies with the assurances given by the board and the manager. Ozil was the key evidence that I find it amazing some can dismiss so easily. It's almost like some fans are getting frightened we might pull this off and are having one last stabbing frenzy to see if they can blow it up. With 3 tough games coming up our job is to be supporting the club, not trying to fuck the manager out the door. And whichever way those games go we still have the business of finishing what we started to attend to. So it won't be time to sack the manager or hound Wilshere out in April either.