Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
How do you know this?

I’ll repeat the point about Ian Wright and Anelka again. Do you think the Board told Wenger to bench our all-time top goal scorer and replace him with some unknown teen that cost us £500k? Buying young and unknown is part of Wenger’s philosophy and it makes no sense for the Board to tell him to sell off our star players and replace them with unknown players when we’re trying to grow our international fanbase.
Wright and Anelka goes way back to a different landscape. But I agree Wenger's philosophy seems to be a constant. During his tenure we've had the greatest success we've ever had on the pitch, plus the worst nightmares. When money wasn't the defining element we could compete, when money took over we were trampled. This has been a wild swing exacerbated by the board pulling money out of the club at the very time we needed just that little bit more investment. If you look at the variables rather than the constant you can see our fortunes declined when the transfer funds dried up and property became our primary concern rather than football. I suppose it could be a coincidence but I wouldn't like to repeat the experiment for verification. You keep focusing on Wenger but can't you even detect a hint of a shift in the board's philosophy leading up to and following the stadium move? We were the great English club who didn't allow "his sort" within a mile, and then suddenly we were the opposite. Wenger again? Surely not.