was everyone else as happy to see Walcott, after a goal and a new contract suddenly in the press acting like the captain, questioning everyones elses confidence/belief, banging on about his tough life with having contract issues weighing on his shoulders. Yeah, life must be so hard when your agent pretends there is interest in other club to get a gullible manager to offer a wage 5 times more than you're worth... oh the agony that is Walcott's life, I feel soooo bad for him.
Its his attitude that makes me sick, every time we win a game, suddenly we have Walcott, used to be Song, Sagna, certain players who act like they've won a title if they win 2 games in a row, its so clear which players think they are hugely better than everyone else, have an inflated sense of self importance and make very little effort to improve. Its that kind of attitude which is really really hurting Arsenal as a team, Walcott got a goal therefore he was great against Chelsea and he has to question everyone else. He did one useful thing in 90 mins and if he'd done more maybe we'd have been less **** in the first half.
Wenger saying players don't have an attitude problem, just one of the MANY reasons Arsenal fans should wake up to the fact he's lost his marbles.
AS for running the club financially well, we aren't, I wish people would stop propagating false information. Profit != brilliant and loss != terrible, with no other possibilities.
For a 143mil squad, how much better we've done than Everton or Spurs on 60-80mil squads is, embarrassingly poorly. If we'd gotten 4th ahead of those two every year spending the same, or maybe 10mil more that would be good, spending 50-60mil more to achieve very very little extra is infact nothing short of woeful. If we do lose 4th this year, Wenger will have spent 50mil more than Spurs... to do worse. If we'd spend 50mil less on wages, we'd have 50mil more profit, Wenger had little to nothing to do with the stadium, its just nice to pretend he did.
DId he ask the board to invest in a new stadium maybe, would EVERY manager alive have suggested the same thing, YES, without question. Would any manager who was in charge while the design was being discussed be consulted on design of changing rooms and the like, without question. The Arsenal board decided to build a new stadium, because it would mean more profits, more revenue, more income, Wenger didn't build it himself, pay for it, or have any say in the decision, Arsenal have a vastly higher turnover, and not much higher profits, because Wenger is spending most of the extra income, and spending it badly.
I can't remember the last player we bought that wasn't a bad deal, Vermaelen maybe, Jenks(though he won't play him). He's thrown away quite literally 100's of millions in the past 5-6 years, on player transfer and wages that basically haven't helped the club at all.
To sum that up, the board made a shrewd financial decision to get a bigger stadium, that stadium, the fans paying for tickets, the guys working the concession stands, are all mean Arsenal are making vastly more than they used to... then comes the team, Wenger is peeing that money down the drain every year.
The financial strength of the club is fans paying tickets, marketing, tv money, things that essentially have nothing to do with Wenger at all, the things Wenger controls, transfer spending, wage spending, make the club look embarrassingly poor. There isn't a club in Europe who spends as much as us while winning nothing in almost 8 years, we are the single most wasteful, least successful club spending over 100mil in wages around, even Liverpool won a cup that we couldn't, while spending less on wages.
