Ozil is one of the top midfielders in the world. He is worth every penny of £42m. The fact you say his signing was a shocker demonstrates how little you know. The majority of players take a season to adapt before they start to hit form, with very few exceptions. Ozil will pay off and next year you'll have conveniently forgotten your current opinion.
Ozil is playing EXACTLY the same way the entirety of this season that he has played for the entire past 5 seasons. There is exactly no difference between his performances last year in his third or fourth year in La Liga than his first year in the EPL. He has ALWAYS been a complete girl, he always backs out of challenges, he's always disappeared in say 9 out of 10 tougher games. This is precisely the player we bought.
Where were you making excuses for Ozil when he was helping put 5 past Norwich. It's convenient that when we played crap teams people were talking about how well he adapted, and how quickly and how brilliant he was yet the second it goes bad suddenly it's all because it's his first year. I've watched a huge number of Real Madrid games in the past 4 years, Ozil is NOT one of the best midfielders in the world. He won't improve because this is the player he is, 42mil is the price you pay precisely for the guys who step UP in the toughest games, not the guys that disappear, that is almost what you would call the fundamental difference between 30Mil + players and those who aren't worth that much.
The way La Liga is, and how good the German team is, that other players create space for him, and crap teams provide plenty of simple goals. I won't forget my opinion, if something actually scares him into trying harder and completely changing his attitude, something 4-5 managers(club and country) in the past 4 years haven't been able to do and thus I don't think it's going to happen, I'll happily admit that. It won't change the player he is today, which is the exact same one anyone who watched all of his performances last year would recognise instantly. The one subbed off in a few games at half time for being utterly anonymous, the one increasingly left out of the biggest games and the one the club felt happiest to cash in on to bring in other players don't forget.
Of course they do, you're just very stubborn. It's alright to move on a position on know. I've said every time since i started posted in this forum, Wenger IS NOT the bane of all the problems, there are huge number of factors. Yeah, granted he could have won an FA Cup here and there, maybe a league title, but he hasn't. I asked you this question several times before as well, have you ever worked with the FA, coaching or what not. we start to talk more about finance and stuff, we go through a lot about money, agent fees, structures of wage bills and what not, Wenger is always up there when we talk about it, he's been very good to do what he's done. Keep Arsenal in the top 4 whilst spend 750 mil on a new stadium and facilities. I don't agree with the season tickets though, they are burning people that way to pay off the debt quicker. I think you've said it before in some of your posts, the stadium debt will be paid off by 2022 or something if i can remember correctly, could be 2026 maybe.. Which is awesome really..they'll have a cracking set up for which ever manager comes in next if Wenger decides to leave.
Also, don't just look at the last 5 years table, have a look at the last 10 year one if you want...
2003 to date..
http://www.transferleague.co.uk/league-tables/transfer-league-table-2003-to-date.html
I'm not stubborn, you posted the stats but didn't actually make a point, so your stat doesn't say anything. Arsenal spent less than other teams... and.... next requires a point. "this proves Arsenal are spending less than they were", nope it proves they spent less than other teams in transfer spending alone, not total spend and doesn't indicate how much they could spend. "this proves Arsenal are doing brilliantly for the money spent" nope, doesn't prove that either. Arsenal still have a wage spend nearly 60mil higher than Spurs, yet almost the same net spend. We've massively outspent the majority of those teams listed with transfer + wage spending.
When you keep Diaby around sucking 3mil a year doing nothing, it adds up. Now have 10 players like that and you're peeing away 30mil a year that could otherwise be spent on a single big transfer every year. With Arsenal the issue isn't that we'd have a weaker squad, we had a bloated squad of players who Wenger was basically ignoring.
We've had plenty of cheap players that Wenger has given huge wages, wasting 100's of mils on over the years who never contributed. We got Chamakh, had disaster written all over it. Rather than pay 8mil for him and give him 40k a year a player of his frankly lack of quality deserved, we gave him 80k/4mil a year for 4 years AND we all but refused to use him.
Your stats don't say anything because you literally didn't link it to an actual point.
Transfer spending doesn't mean much of anything. If we bought someone on the cheap and kept them around not playing for 5-8 years costing 20mil... that is bad business, nothing more or less. We finally ditched something like 17 players in the summer, who were sucking down a HUGE amount of cash every year, and the massive majority of them were basically not used at all. Wenger has been keeping players around 5 years beyond he should have and that has cost the club a HUGE amount of money that could have been spent elsewhere.
