Didnt take you long did it DM??
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Yeh yeh we all get it, you want Wenger gone. How about this??, why not get rid of the Board too and Kroneke our majority shareholder too??. They must be part of the problem as well...personally i think a lot of Wengers inability to sign players is due to the constraints the Board has put on him....just my suspicion that is. If we want to compete with the big boys, then we also need to start paying players £100k+ a week otherwise they will all end up at City, Chelsea and Utd to an extent.
Wenger has been the reason behind wages, it is not the problem, the board are not the problem. Wenger instituted the wage structure donkeys years ago. £150mil wages it will be this year, at least, while Spurs are spending £85-90mil, Utd are spending probably close to £190-200mil THIS year after a 25mil increase in wages this year(its been said the increase is do to with huge sponsorship increases because naming rights mean players get a bump in wage when sponsorship deals increase), I've forgotten what they spent last year, it was something like £165mil vs our £143mil vs Spurs spending £85mil or so......... which team were we competing with, we are FAR closer to Utd in wage spending than Spurs, yet weren't remotely close to Utd and Spurs were ahead of us most of last and this season despite spending over 50% more in wages than Spurs.....
The support, the wages, the transfer spending is there, the player choices aren't, the tactics aren't, the defensive organisation isn't, each and every defensively player we have bought in the past 5 years has gotten worse after joining us, Sagna, Vermaelen, night and day first season vs current season. That is Wenger, his tactics, and his training, nothing to do with the board. He's turned a 10mil Vermaelen who was one of the best CB's in the league that year, into a bumbling mess... tell me how the board is to blame for that?
Wenger wants relative pay parity throughout the team. Utd were giving Rooney £150k a week while other guys were making 20-30k a week. Arsenal is essentially the majority of the squad between 50-80k a week now with only a couple outliers and thats the odd guy on 100k a week.
Wenger CHOOSES to give Diaby 60k a week and say Fabregas 80-90k a week rather than Diaby 20k a week and Fabregas 130k a week.
Arsenal spend HUGE on wages, Arsenal also AREN'T massively profitable, so why people keep talking about the board taking money out of the club, we have 100mil cash in the CLUBS bank account, if the owners want to take money out of the club they could take that money whenever they want, every penny of it. But the interest on that account counts towards FFP and generates income and gives Arsenal a buffer should anything bad happen, terrible season, half the team injured, need to buy 4 players and lose european money, thats what that money is for. All sensible teams have a pretty huge amount in a bank account. Any teams where the owners are draining the club completely, don't, they just take that money.
The board have done entirely nothing wrong, Wenger has spent significant amounts of cash in the past 3 years, over 100mil, of which probalby 80mil has been on the wrong players.
Are the board to blame for giving Wenger 14mil and he buys Gervinho, or 12mil to buy Giroud, 6mil to buy Santos, 10mil + just for Walcott's pay increase over the length of his contract, another 10mil for Ramsey, Djourou, Gibbs wage increases, did the board choose to stop using our 10 goal 18 assist Arshavin while paying him 90k a week to do nothing?
Sorry but blaming the board when they've spent the money the team has generated, are running the club sensibly, have a HUGE wage bill, and can't win a cup final against Birmingham?