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Did they say when? Maybe they meant longer term. Or maybe they did think it would immediately push us on and didn't account for or foresee the way the billionaires coming in would inflate the transfer market and salaries.
Our ability to spend probably did go up after the stadium move but we still couldn't compete with what Chelsea and City were doing. Without those two I reckon we'd have won a title or two in the last 10 years.

Long term the stadium move was obviously a good and necessary thing to do. Maybe the board didn't foresee how it would affect us in an exponentially increasing transfer market, but that doesn't mean it was the wrong thing to do or a big con trick.

We tied ourselves into long term financial deals - it's easy to look back with 20:20 hindsight and see that as a mistake as subsequent deals at other clubs dwarfed it, but it was a way of mitigating the risk that comes with a long term loan. Now the new financial deals are in place we have started spending folding money and it's had an immediate impact in terms of trophies. Whether we'll push on and compete with teams like Bayern...well, City and Chelsea have struggled to despite the money they've been throwing around so it's easier said than done, but the stadium move gives us a much better chance than had we stayed at Highbury, why do you think so many other clubs have also either moved stadium or are looking to?
we cant use the Chelsea & City money as a reason we haven't done what was promised. To be Europe's elite ( as per the stadium promise ) we would have had to take on Barca & Madrid who have always have an endless pot of money. We were doing it at Highbury, he had a system in place that worked but he failed to maintain that system when he decided that players like Fabregas could replace Viera or Adebayor could replace Henry. We had the money to buy Ya-Ya as Viera replacement. We had the money to buy a young Suarez or a Lewandowski as an Henry replacement but we chose the cheaper routes & our football philosophy changed. He thought he could could imitate Barca but with far inferior players. A poor mans Barca was good enough to get us top 4 but that was it.
In my opinion - taking money from people offering a service or product that you have no intention of supplying is a con.
We wont know if the stadium move will ever be that good for us because we cannot reach our full potential under Wenger. If he stays for another 5 years & we go back to winning nothing & he continues to not strengthen in obvious areas of need - we may start to miss out on top 4, slide down the league & not fill the stadium. This could happen - we have been OK in recent times mainly due to poor competition for 4th place but other teams are investing far better in their squads - teams like Leicester, Palace & even Stoke could start to knock on top 6 positions along with the Spuds & Liverpool. All the teams I have just mentioned are far closer to us footballing wise than they were in 2006 - the stadium move has done nothing for our success as a football team so far - you say we have money to spend but so do & so will quite a few other teams in the coming years & they have managers that know how to spend it.