Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
The board should take credit some credit for getting such a huge fee for the Nasri deal. Wenger was prepared to let him walk on a free. Plus he's the one that convinced the Board to sell Cesc for cheap.

Wenger doesn't like to spend big on players and it was the same at Monaco. We spent a lot on deadline day but it was probably impossible to spend it all on deadline day because we left ourselves with little time. Plus, you have to question for the sort of players Wenger wants. Gervinho is decent buy he's not the best winger we could have bought. He's bought 3 CB's over the past 2 seasons and look how it's turned out. He goes for value all the time. He's a bargain bin shopper. The type of guy that would walk into Primark over some luxury designer clothes store to spend £200. That' always been his mentality.
Agreed, agreed, agreed. Everything you're saying makes sense. But you are also effectively saying the board is one giant Wenger whipped lapdog. This alone is enough to warrant them walking. We need tough winners in every position, on the pitch, in the dugout, in the board room. Of course if they aren't Wenger whipped lapdogs that throws up another batch of compelling reasons for them to walk. They've failed, Wenger has failed. Let them make all their excuses but the game now becomes how to get them out and a proper team in who can restore the club to it's rightful place. Somebody on here was complaining about our arrogance, the belief we are entitled to be top dog. I'm guilty of that no doubt, and I wouldn't change it. I won't hand these guys the ridiculous amounts of money they demand for their sub-standard product, not any more. But it would scare the shit out of me to sit down and calculate the amount of money I've forked over to Arsenal Football Club over decades. If they wanted £3 to stand in a field then my feeling of entitlement suddenly vanishes. This is not disrespect to the other teams in the league, it is a demand for respect from the people taking my money. That's how it should work surely? I think the bargain shopping is probably Wenger's pet but who's going to say the board hasn't done rather well out of it themselves?