Disappointment Knows No End

[Japan Shaking All Over]

(Not sure if this should go in another thread. . . But please feel free. ..)

Early man learnt (often the hard way) that in order to keep the family fed on mammoth steak thst he needed to surround himself with the best spear chuckers, club wielders his side of the glacier. . .
Caeser knew that only the best soldiers would guarantee new land for the empire and as with early man if one of his team were lost then a replacement needed to be found. . .

Success is founded on the ability to maintain quality and that quality needs to be produced by an able body of workers, lead by a motivational leader who has the skill to not only nurture and utilise talent but replace it when needed.

This thought process us applied by modern businesses worldwide, those that aspire to be pack leaders. It is also true for sports and activities that require a team to achieve its ultimate goal.

Arsenal (Plc) obviously falls into both the above brackets, evidence and the general consensus shows that we fall into the business category more than that of sports team.

We quite clearly put business success of thst of sports performance, how else would you explain the blarse attitude towards the loss of talent and the lack if urgency shown in replacing it.

Last year we lost Cesc and Nasri, no matter what your opinion may be of they, arguably two of our more talented players at the time. An 8:2 loss to Utd forced the club into action after it seemed Wenger snd co were willing to ride out the storm created by the departures till the end of the season. A call for Wengers head went out around the same time Arteta, Merts were brought in. Such clamour for Wenger to leave died down as an arguably more balanced Arsenal showed fight and finished third. The collective sigh of relief could be heard from all quarters as was the mutterings of 'Never again'.

And 'Never Again' it seemed, Wenger showed balls of steel by getting his hands on Pods, Giourd and later Cazorla. However RvP and Song went out the other door.
For me the losses were easy to bear as I had sumpreme confidence that replacements would be found and that overall the team had a chance to come out stronger.

Such confidence was further fuelled by the words of Wenger and his apparent appreciation that holes remained to be filled and that the first two results of the season exposed us as yet the finished article.

All of this was further supported by a certain amount of profit floating around from completed deals and posdible further cash from Bendtner's eventual departure.

Concrete rumours provided us with names to weigh up and we indeed looked to being spolit for choice.

So as the GW gang took days of work, or neglected their work in favour of remaining glued to transfer trackets we watched the day unfold. But unfold it did not, more like remain a crumpled piece of paper left at the bottom of the waste paper bin.

We have not addressed our needs for the season ahead, we do not go into the next 36 games plus cup runs with anything that resembles a strong enough squad. The modern game demands a squad that can rotate and cover without missing a heartbeat. I never imagine we can have a bench to rival the likes of Citeh, Utd and the Chavs, we dont have the resources but we do have the resources to see a purchase of Dempsey made perfect sense. A few on here dont rate him but he would gave been the kind if cover that inspired more confidence when coming on than the likes of Chamakh or Arshavin, two that are still left to stink up the bench.

We have also failed to replace those major departures, Giourd was not RvPs replacement more like he, Pods and Santi collectively are. But where is their back up, our failure to provide a decent back striker (Dempsey, even one of the younger names, Niang etc) will haunt us if we suffer a spate of injuries.
But for me, worst than that is Song. If he didnt want to stay then so be it, I dont want players that dont want to be at the club but the fact we didnt replace him, the fact that we are putting our faith in Diaby is a big mistake. Diaby, I have said can be immense but he is injury prone snd that by itself should be have been reason enough to pull in someone else. MVila could have been had for 10 mil or a little more, a steal compared to the price he was being shopped for during the Euros but no! The fact that we made no move to address this position makes the choice not to get Sahin more difficult to understand. Even the loan of Essien was dead before the newspapers ink had dried.

We did nothing. . .we go into the season at least to January with a bear minimum squad. A squad that will suffer come injury crisis time. And what is our salvation, January? Come January everything is beyond repair. Charlie said we probably will luck another 4th place.

He may be right. . .for those that know me, my optimism ranks with the like of Ollue and maybe Letters, I tend to dhy away from outing Wenger although I did at times express a lack of belief in whether he was leading us along the right path.


I will use this forum that even if we were to win all four cups, the club, board, Wenger played the back part of the summer wrong and for this my 'Disappointment Knows No End'.