WE don't need billions invested, City can buy 6-7 30mil players, and then, the players they aren't interested in aren't worth anything like that. Its pretty simple, go around all the clubs in every top league, theres HUNDREDS of top quality players, honestly, thousands that are better than a LOT of the players we have, and very few are on more than 50k a week.
Sorry but, we can afford to get players, the difference between your average 3mil player and your average 15mil player is pretty huge, the difference between a 15mil and an average 35mil player is very very small, and theres only a couple 80mil + players out there, and they are unmatchable, yet they aren't required to win things.
You have to look at WHAT WE HAVE, Denilson on 40k a week, sorry but there are actually and without exageration thousands of players who are twice as good as him who would be happy with half the wages.
Theres 10's of mil's being wasted on guys who don't play, or aren't remotely good enough to be in the EPL. Every year you keep them its wages we can't spend on other players, and well over the past 4 seasons Denilson has probably taken home 15mil, so thats 15mil less we could now be spending on a new player, and the wages wouldn't be an issue. This is so common throughout our squad its a joke. Theres only 4-5 players in the squad who could actually move on and get more money, the vast majority of our youth, reserve and senior players are being overpaid and aren't even close to good enough.
How much was Adam, how much was Young, how much was Kompany, how much would Parker be, how much was Meireles, how much for Wes Brown, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Sorry but not a single one of those players wouldn't have been quite easily bought in to Arsenal, for very good prices, for not bad wages at all........ yet we spent up to 15mil on AOC, when Young, at 16mil, is proven and able to go right now. Had we bought him for 15mil 3 seasons ago, maybe 20mil, he would have joined from Villa and we'd have a fantastic player.
Look at the team, look at the mistakes, look at the quality of players we are bringing in. As said, Tony Adams says Wenger isn't a good coach, our defence is a shambles, they can't get SIMPLE things right, and they haven't been fixed for years. Everything points to a coach who can't identify mistakes, can't fix them, and lately can't judge the potential of a player at all accurately.
We've spent more than 20mil on three defenders, but we froze out one CB and got rid of another after offering a slap in the face contract to stay despite being probably our best player behind Cesc in the previous few years. Lose two great players, overspend on 3 cb's. Kompany was 5mil, and we ignored a player we'd been tracking for years, and then spent MORE than that on Squillaci a couple seasons later. Its laughable the amount he gets wrong.
I went with a theory a long time ago that one of the key things most people agree Wenger brought to the league when he joined was nutrition and fitness. Arsenal had a squad of highly athletic, fast footballers who ate and trained(fitness wise) better than any other team in the league, that gave us a HUGE advantage and our OLD defence trained by other managers continued to be VERY solid for years.
When all the other teams in the league, top to bottom, all adopted the athletic/fitness/nutrition side of football the huge advantage Wenger had in that part of his management completely evapourated. Arsenal were no longer the fittest, strongest, fastest team and one of our biggest advantages was gone.
Our senior back 4, and their backup, and people who played with them all left, and our new defence was a shambles, because Wenger relied on the defence we had BEFORE he joined to maintain the defence.
So now we have, no fitness advantage, and a coach who quite plainly can't organise, coach or teach a defence in charge and completely unwilling to change.
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