Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
It's not all about money, the Bayern team apparently costs less than us and are far superior. Building a solid defensive team is more about tactics, making the right signings and drilling players to be organised and play as one unit.

As for the midfield, again tactics and having the right blend of players is important.

Besides is 200 million that much, we spent 90 odd million on 3 players in the summer, on that basis if we average the same spend over other positions our net spend would be 330 million.
We didn't look all that bad on defence when Merts and Sagna were in the team. It was more solid than our attack and now it looks like it's the reverse. No slight on their replacements, but this is the problem we'll always get under Wenger. Because he takes too long to address weak areas like our attack, by the time he's managed to work out our best attacking combo, we've lose key players in defence because of old age or having to sell. It keeps happening.

Good striker - Piss poor defence
Good Midfield -Piss poor strikers
Good Defence - Piss poor midfield and attack.

And around it goes.