Random Arsenal Shit (When it's not worth starting a thread)

[Munchies]

Ivan Gazidis points to AFC strategy (pic)
Says Afc driven by desire to be more successful

Invest in the team? da fuq??

Increase fan base and engagement?? You mean not making ticket prices more affordable?

[Letters]

Invest in the team? da fuq??

We spent shitloads on Ozil and Sanchez - for those 2 years we were outspending pretty much everyone and it's made a clear difference.
Not to mention our wage-bill being one of the highest around.

[Kano]

Invest in the team? da fuq??

Increase fan base and engagement?? You mean not making ticket prices more affordable?

Interesting to understand what their definition of on field success is determined as.

Although this probably reveals that, when responding to the 3 million question:

Sir Chips: “The best advice you can get is the advice from experts in their field.

“If you want proof of what that’s worth then look at this (FA Cup and Comm Shield) and our accounts.

[Kano]

Sir Chips is on form today

Furious fan takes to the stage and says: “How can the squad be so strong if we have such embarrassing Champs League results?”

Sir Chips Keswick: “It’s just a noise. I’m not answering that.”

[Kano]

Wenger's response

“I agree with you, the performances were not good enough. But you have picked three performances out of 150 games in Europe. I accept you have to be critical when performances are not good.

“Look at the performance of Arsenal in the Champions League before me and after - then come back to me.”

Cop out of an answer.

[Letters]

What's he supposed to say?

[Power n Glory]

Wenger's response



Cop out of an answer.

That's pretty arrogant.

[fakeyank]

We spent shitloads on Ozil and Sanchez - for those 2 years we were outspending pretty much everyone and it's made a clear difference.
Not to mention our wage-bill being one of the highest around.

Our wage bill was the highest around even when we hadnt signed these two players. And we didnt outspend anyone in 2 seasons.. may be the season we got Sanchez. However you can take 2 seasons and say "Voila" or I can take 10 years and say "Where is the investment in the team?"

I would like to think 10 years of data paints a better picture than a few cherry picked years.

[fakeyank]

Wenger's response



Cop out of an answer.

What an arse. From what I gather, the fan was asking the club why we are bad in Europe and papa Wenger had to take it personally and show his below average record. I am not surprised by this behavior.. he is treated as if he IS Arsenal FC by the board and many fans, so he thinks he owns the club.

Frankly, after 20 odd years with us, his 150 game record is pretty dismal. One CL final and getting beaten at pretty much the first sight of a good team... what a brilliant record!

[Letters]

And we didnt outspend anyone in 2 seasons.. may be the season we got Sanchez.

I looked into this before. Over those 2 seasons when we signed Ozil and Sanchez I think City spent a lot more than us but no-one else did.
From memory I think it was Chelsea (or possibly Utd, one of the two) who also outspent us but only marginally. No-one else in England did.

However you can take 2 seasons and say "Voila" or I can take 10 years and say "Where is the investment in the team?"
I would like to think 10 years of data paints a better picture than a few cherry picked years.

Those years would be cherry picked only if I picked 2 random years in the last 10 years. But our financial position changed radically 2 years ago when the new financial deals were in place. And then our spending changed. Comparing our spending before then and after is ridiculous and simplistic. A lot of the last 10 years we've had the stadium debt and (relatively) poor commercial deals, and we had the billionaires running amock inflating the market.
Could we have spent more in that period? Probably we could, yes. Wenger erred on the side of caution and in the short term maybe that hurt us. In the long term it's left us in a very healthy place to compete and when Wenger felt the money was there he started spending it. The lack of a striker in the summer was a disappointment and on Wenger's head be it if that hurts us, we seem to be doing ok so far, after a shaky start. The CL games have been a balls up but we're 2nd in the league, we just beat the team who were top comfortably - a team we regularly messed up against. I'll reserve judgement till May but I don't things are going so bad right now, we're looking like a side that can challenge which is what we all want, isn't it?