And yet we were on top at that point in the game where we lost a player against Liverpool's big signings (Liverpool better in first half).
I don't see the point in Arsenal now spending £50-60mil. We have to realise that we cannot compete with Man City, who can effectively field two great teams, ManU and Chelsea. Fans need to realise that winning a trophy for the 17 other clubs in the PL is going to come down to luck. That's just how it is. We are one of those 17 clubs.
What we should have done though is ensure that we finish 4th next season and qualify for this years CL. We haven't done enough to achieve that so far though which really is a ridiculous situation.
Well done for making excuses, that are complete bull. Firstly, City haven't had money since 2006 when we hit our decline, and they weren't in the top 4 till last year, so what about our decline in the past 5 years that had nothing at all to do with City?
What about Utd spending 30-40mil less on wages a season than Chelsea, and beating them to the title more often than not. What about when we beat Utd to the title, with a similar gap in our wages spending to them, to what there is now?
Yes we can compete, so what if City have two great teams, firstly, they don't, they have one great team and a team of people Arsenal used to look down on as not good enough, they can still only play one team every game. They've also massively massively overspent on most of their players, that doesn't make those players massively better than what can be bought cheaper, it just makes them suckers.
Up till 2 years ago the only thing stopping us winning titles was Wenger, the squad was good enough, now Wenger has completely demolished the squad, and it was over 6 years, not one transfer window, this has just been the biggest and worst, even then we've only sold THREE first team players, the team is a shambles, it isn't because 3 players are left and the other 8 are all brilliant.....
I don't expect us to win titles, but to pretend we can't because City overspend on everything they do is retarded. You said they have two great teams, lets assume thats correct, is there only 22 great footballers in the world? No, horsecrap, we've had a bunch of their players, and we bought most of them for very very little....... theres a new Toure out there, and a new Clichy, who are cheap and not well known yet, thats how football has always worked. City got Kompany for 5mil, how much did Utd pay for Smalling, Fabio, Rafael, Hernandez, Vidic, Jones even wasn't insane money, Young is cheap at 16mil.
Sorry but Arsenal CAN afford to have bought all those players, and we'd be a better team if we had, to say we can't afford to compete, when Utd has beaten both Chelsea and City while spending VASTLY less in the same time, proves how utterly ridiculous that is.
We've never outspent Utd, yet we have beaten them, nothing has changed there AT ALL. Beyond a certain level of spending, and beyond a certain level of sustainable income, theres very little difference in the quality of players. We've been paying Denilson, what Young has been on for most of the last 5 years.......
Money isn't the issue, Arsenal have been holding on to crap players, while losing our best players, its got smeg all to do with money, and everything to do with a manager who couldn't see Denilson was never the right option.
