I just don’t agree with this top 4 accolade you keep repeating. We were a Championship winning club with great players like Henry, Pires, Vieria, Sol, Bergkamp, Cole…etc. Going a few seasons without spending on major players wouldn’t mean we automatically drop out of the top four. It has been a slow and steady decline. If Man U or Chelsea decided to stop spending major money, they wouldn’t automatically drop out of the top four. You need lower to teams to actually overtake them and unless teams like Villa, Spurs, Everton get Man City type investors, that won’t happen.Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
I said those things were mostly Wenger's fault
I know. Again, Wenger's fault. But you're again dismissing how hard it is to keep a club in the top 4, especially in the era of billionaire owners.
Wenger's made mistakes, some of which he should have been sacked for. But to dismiss the last 5 years as a COMPLETE failure and say that any idiot could have kept us top 4 is idiotic. And, again, if you think it's just Wenger being stubborn and refusing to spend money then the board should have been harder with him and insisted he invest more. They're his boss, you can't completely absolve them from responsibility.
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