Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
Why are we talking about money anyway? We're struggling to compete with Spurs.
There was a time when money was a factor in why we weren't competing, it's not a factor now.
That's right. There's a lot more to it than just the money. There needs to be a long term plan how money is used and it needs to dovetail into building a squad that can compete. Some of the money doesn't go on transfers at all, it goes into spotting, signing and developing the next Harry Kane or Deli Alli. The spuds still haven't won anything, but you can see there's a plan in place for them, following on from a period where they splurged with the Bale money. But the have clearly learned their lessons. Square pegs in square holes, you use what you have to buy or otherwise obtain what you need. Then you get a smart manager to organise the squad and send them out to execute a clearly defined plan.

Our summer window was panic, not planning. And because so many windows before that were similar it has resulted in a giant mess. A lot of money has been spent and we still have the wrong players in the wrong positions looking totally disorganised and without a plan. The defence is a shambles. All this time later is seems we have one guy, Kos, who can actually defend.

What we have needed for many seasons is a quality striker. We've used Alexis to plug that hole short term but now he's off in the summer and a whole bunch of transfer windows later look where we'll be. Back where we started with Bif up front. Even if we had more money I doubt Wenger could use it effectively. He's the problem, not the lack of money.