
Originally Posted by
Syn
It's not contradictory to say the board only care about money and not trophies. There is a cost of spending money. For a start, even if we had spent another £50m in this transfer window, there would still be only a small chance we could win the title. So it depends on how willing the board are to take the risk. They appear to be very cautious and don't want to go big.
Option 1: £30 with certainty
Option 2: £0 with 50% or £100 with 50%.
The board are going for Option 1.
That's one theory anyway, and it's what I think. For all this talk of the board backing Wenger - if they were really backing him, they'd fund some big money transfers.