I do not buy into this crap that we can't compete for the title. Yes, the undesirables over @ Stamford Bridge and Etihad have been splurging shit loads of cash, but it's not like they are miles ahead, well at least not on point standings. Our faltering is our own doing as we drop too many points against pub teams, latest being Norwich who probably would have had a winless season hadn't we felt so charitable on the day.
The way we handle players contracts, off loading of our better players while insufficiently replacing them, our manager's inability to make a game winning substitution (in fact, changes are predetermined long before kick off and not based on the situation we find ourselves in during a game), failure to address weak areas in the squad, insistence on one formation and game plan regardless of opponent, persisting with dross players who sometimes are no way at fault as they are being played out of position....the list goes on.... All these point to a common problem, a manager so set in his arrogant and deluded way of doing things, so much so that the game seems to have evolved beyond his scope.
I know some folks on here and elsewhere still have some kind of sentimental attachment to AW. After all, Arsene 'knew' best, but there comes a time when he'll have to leave (should have happened already tbh) and.... yes you guessed correctly, be replaced by another manager. Are we to believe that his replacement won't be able to use the same resources now available to him to win the league? Or at the very least be competitive? Is there no other manager out there - a Mourinho perhaps - who can put together a decent enough squad, capable of derailing the cash trains of City and Chavs even for a season whilst not breaking the bank?