Arsenal's Decline: Are there any easy answers?

[Flavs]

if I may try to de-stupid it a bit,

Many have tried, all have failed.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Why shouldnt we be able to compete every season though?

Why couldnt we become like Man U and win back to back titles or win 19 league titles?

We can afford to buy quality players, but instead we buy cheap youngsters and shower them with high wages.

What is it with this inferiority complex that some gooners have? With the right manager and 3 or 4 quality signings, we could be up there competing every season and winning titles/trophies.

Its the current rut that we are stuck in that makes it seem impossible, its not the actual fact or impossibility of it.

I can go along with this....as Letters I have seen woeful Arsenals and I have seen us reach the heights too! and I don't see why we can't go back to those heights....I mean we have Arsenal up there, in with a chance at some point in all the seasons that have made up our barren run. The problem has been a massive implosion at the wrong time.

There is something about the mechanics of the club that does not allow us to maintain a challenge and that has been the case even during our heady years, as the lack of back to back league titles shows.

(Wasnt able to finish. . .) I do think a change is in order and it seems that Wenger is tarnishing his legacy by sticking to the current path whether it be at the boards direction or not!
Any manager worth his salt would have demand a freer reign or walked, he has done neither and by such actions is losing the love of the masses. . .Marie Antoinette after famously saying 'Let them eat cake' deservedly got her head lobbed off. . .go work it out!

[Letters]

I can go along with this....as Letters I have seen woeful Arsenals and I have seen us reach the heights too! and I don't see why we can't go back to those heights.....

It's a different world now, it's harder to compete. Sides used to finish mid-table one year and win the title the next. It's far harder to move between 'strata' in football, even within the PL (although Arsenal seem to be doing a good job, albeit in the wrong direction) unless you have a billionaire backer. City and Chelsea wouldn't be top 4 right now had they not spent big - spent money they by themselves couldn't afford. Wenger has made a lot of mistakes but it has to be remembered that 2 of the sides above us are in false positions and it's hard to compete with them.

[LDG]

All it comes down to is maximising the resources we have, and using every effort we have to TRY and be up there challenging. If we don't make it, fair enough....but the point of the WHOLE FUCKING THING, is that we are not doing everything possible to achieve our best.

That's in the board room, and on the pitch.

/thread.

[Letters]

That. Yes, it's unrealistic to think we can be as dominant as we once were but it's realistic and perfectly reasonable to think we should be doing our best to try to be, and we're not. There's your problem.

[GP]

If we don't win the FA cup I'll scream and scream and scream until I'm sick

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Why don't we just wave handkerchiefs like they do in Spain? I'm sure all the toffs will have them on their person.

[LDG]

Why don't we just wave handkerchiefs like they do in Spain? I'm sure all the toffs will have them on their person.

I would put my house on the blatent FACT that Letters has a hanky. A proper material one.

Nailed on.

[Letters]

You can keep your house. I have 2, one in each pocket. I was brung up proper, you know.

If we don't win tomorrow I fear I may break another monocle.

[LDG]

My take a pack of handy andy's with me tomorrow...I do tend to get the sniffles when it's cold out.

Hard core Asrenal support