Wenger to sign a new deal

[Power n Glory]

Gazidis has set it all up now. He has defended Wenger by saying some of his dud signings were because 'he was operating under what the club could afford'. But Gazidis is also sick of the criticism that he is getting so he's distancing himself from the firing line.

There is a lot of talk - much, much more than usual - about how he is able to give Wenger more money now. He says we can afford elite players like Rooney. There is the puma sponsorship deals. The massive TV revenues from BT. We are getting rid of our overpaid garbage like the bendtners and Arshavin. There's not much ambiguity any more. We're set up for the big summer where we push on and strengthen in a big way.

I don't think Wenger will bring in 3 £25m players or anything, but I do think he'll smash the club record on an elite player and then get 2 or so other good £10-15m players. And that's good enough to kick on IMO.

The attention is firmly on Wenger this summer. There is no ambiguity about our finances and Gazidis is aware of the criticism of him and Stan. I never quite got why they get so much attention becaus they're new to this set up. That Arseblog article you posted has made a good point about the way fans avoid openly criticising Wenger by directing everything towards Ivan and Stan. Wenger has always maintained that this club is held back because of our resources and done so without criticising the clubs policy. That's put the Board under pressure from the fans and now they've delivered a clear message about our state and the focus now swings back to good coaching and good football.

[Letters]

Yeah. There's no hiding place for Wenger now. I think most of us recognise that he's got ability, we'd have been in mid-table long ago if he didn't, but this constant asset stripping and perennial targeting of scraping into the top 4 at the expense of everything else as tested the patience of his most loyal apologist. It's clear there's money now which can make us challenge. I don't expect us to sweep all aside next year but I expect us to be doing what we need to in order to push on and start seriously challenging.

[fakeyank]

Yeah. There's no hiding place for Wenger now. I think most of us recognise that he's got ability, we'd have been in mid-table long ago if he didn't, but this constant asset stripping and perennial targeting of scraping into the top 4 at the expense of everything else as tested the patience of his most loyal apologist. It's clear there's money now which can make us challenge. I don't expect us to sweep all aside next year but I expect us to be doing what we need to in order to push on and start seriously challenging.

His hiding place was gone 2 seasons back!

He should just resign in February if we are out of all competitions this season as well.

[Letters]

There is a difference though, FY. New commercial deals are in place, we're getting rid of some dead wood. There is a far clearer message that we've got serious money to spend. There'a always been mutterings about 'war chests' but not like this.

You seem to massively underestimate how hard it is to keep a team in the top 4, if Wenger was as incompetent as you make out there's no way he'd have done it again. But it shouldn't be all we're aiming to achieve - I don't think it is actually but Wenger and the board seem to make it our top priority. We need to be far more serious about challenging.

[Penguin]

Look at whats happened to Liverpool. There are far worse scenarios than finishing in the top four every year, even if we haven't challenged the top teams. It has been massively important to stay in the champions league ever since we switched over to the Emirates stadium.

Now that we've got a bit more revenue coming in I hope we can push on. We've weathered the storm and achieved our first priority these last few years (in terms of achieving the minimum of a top four finish), now lets bring some silverware back to the club.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Of course, so long as you get yourself sorted off the pitch as far as commercially (and the revenue from a big stadium... provided the attendances don't plummet... further) doesn't mean you can't rebuild.

We are slowly rebuilding, with lower revenue [thanks to our much smaller stadium, I think we're still ahead commercially for now at least] that you would have at first. Though I do believe an announcement on our stadium is due shortly, but we still have to go through it. And pay for it.

It might take something drastic for Wenger to leave, but it would obviously depend on not appointing a fucking Hodgson in his place.

[-Xs-]

Haven't they all been saying that we have had money for years?

Each season they come out spouting the normal rubbish about having a 70mil war chest, the media go crazy linking us with everyone, Wenger does the usual only super super quality nonsense, the summer ends, we sign no one really of note, the season starts and we are where we were. SSDS.
The only difference this year is that we don't really have anyone left to sell. Ergo we probably won't buy anyone

Don't mean to be overly negative but talk is cheap. And that is all we are currently getting. Still.

[GP]

Haven't they all been saying that we have had money for years?

Not exactly. They've said they'd back the manager, but the accounts don't really support it. We've HAD to sell players just to turn a profit. There's a LOT more money coming in now, so there's every reason to believe things could be different.

You'd have to be some sort of Sun reader not to see it.

[Cripps_orig]

Haven't they all been saying that we have had money for years?

Each season they come out spouting the normal rubbish about having a 70mil war chest, the media go crazy linking us with everyone, Wenger does the usual only super super quality nonsense, the summer ends, we sign no one really of note, the season starts and we are where we were. SSDS.
The only difference this year is that we don't really have anyone left to sell. Ergo we probably won't buy anyone

Don't mean to be overly negative but talk is cheap. And that is all we are currently getting. Still.

Pretty much. We've had money plus the money we got from selling the ****s, nasri, ade etc and Wenger failed to spend it.

See nothing different this summer

[Joker]

If this summer goes the way of the others I still think you'll get people coming up with some sort of excuse for Wenger and/or the board.