Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
In that time, they've grown as clubs, become more marketable and have developed a bigger fan base Internationally, yes they've had one bad season but overall they've got some major success under their belt.
Sure. All by spending shitloads of money in an era when we couldn't.
Now we're more able to compete with them financially we've started winning trophies again and this year it looks like we'll finish above all of those sides.
Still below Leicester though and it seems Wenger isn't able to push us on any further but the last 10 years have not been the unmitigated failure you make out. There was a period of belt tightening during which IMO Wenger did pretty well to keep us in the top 4. The money is there now so we need to push on, we have to an extent in terms of the trophies and the level of players we've signed but this season was the one when we really needed to push on and we haven't. So Wenger should step aside. That doesn't make everything he's done over the last 10 years wrong.