So...it could get worse then?
So...it could get worse then?
On the slide? Hardly. Finding it harder to compete on and off the field whilst still maintaining a sustainable business model and trying to play an attractive game. Probably. Is sacking Wenger, breaking the bank to hire mercenary footballers and selling our heritage to the highest bidder guaranteed to bring success. Nope.
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
Behave!
So it's either the current model or we spend like Man City? There is no middle ground?
And there's the rub. Who would you suggest we realistically get? Lots of people say to get rid of Wenger but rarely suggest who should replace him and why.
no there isn't.
which is why wenger is a genius and no other manager could have done any better working within artificially constructed financial boundaries and going into seasons with inadequate squad only to moan about injuries,pitches,referees,number of games that have to be played etc. Then claim we have done well considering said imposed artificial restrictions.
come on, dude.
‘Arsene was very cautious and David was very ambitious for the club,’ said former director Keith Edelman, managing director at the time. ‘He was very good at getting Arsene into a position where he was comfortable spending money.’
The board have said if wenger identifies a player he really wants and he needs the money it's there. Wenger doesn't think it's worth it!
I think the middle ground is where we are at the moment. Buying big or a change of management would be risky. Doing nothing is not an option. So reviewing the squad and making changes that would hopefully make us more competitive for the whole season would seem to be the sensible approach.
Sounds about right. Certainly things are not so bad that we should make drastic changes which might give us a possibility of improving but are much more likely to send us downwards, if the experience of other clubs who have taken that line are anything to go by. We might get someone who improves the defence and tightens a few things up but we might lose our attacking strengths and end up as a mid-table team. Imagine that - a team which neither contends for the title nor fights to avoid relegation. Where would the excitement be in that? At least with the Arsenal we have three quarters of a season where we can have the illusion that we are going to win something.
No it's not.
The middle ground isn't about mismanaging the Defensive side of our game for nigh on 4 seasons. No amount of money will rectify a Defence that appears to not be trained on certain aspects of the game. Set Pieces?
Middle ground isn't about handsomely rewarding squad members who have achieved next to nothing.
Middle ground isn't about avoiding purchasing players from your own domestic league.
Doing what we're doing at the moment is in no way the middle ground, it's the extreme.
The middle ground would be making the necessary changes by spending some money (i.e 10-15 million if necessary on quality signings).
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