Quote Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn View Post
It’s easy to be wise with hindsight. But ultimately I’d argue even more than not signing a striker was selling off players to make our squad as thin as it was. Smith Rowe, Vieira, Nelson and dare I say it even Nketiah would have been some considerable use to us.

It feels like the only justification for selling them (I assumed that it was more about FSR compliance) was to create space in the squad for the likes of Nwaneri and Lewis-Skelly. Well frankly with the injuries we’ve had, actually likely those two would have come through anyway.

Nketiah I was as keen as anyone to get rid of him, but what can’t be denied is that he has an excellent cup record with goals and it would have avoided playing Havertz into the ground.
Yeah, it's been great news to see the youngsters come through - so far. But if that was the strategy then I wonder why we've also been dumping young talent on Utd? I know we didn't want to get rid of them, but we didn't do what was necessary to keep them either. It's a shame because chances are those players go nowhere with Utd.

Even so, if Arteta told us in the summer we were relying on youth and chucking them in to go up against a city team we'd closed the gap to 2 points on? I don't think that would have gone down so well. So many young players have come through and had their chance and they are all elsewhere now, doing not so much bar the odd exception. It's the nature of the game, you can never really know until you try over a protracted period.

If that's the policy then it still feeds into the idea we're not prepared to spend or are incapable of it.

Has anyone else seen these rumours we're thinking of dumping 300mill into a stadium expansion? If there's any truth in that we've probably just seen the end of our "Almost Won Something" era under Arteta.