head explodes, there have been no money restrictions, by FINALLY getting rid of was it 17 players, there was money for other people. Football is about wages, not transfers, wage budget dictates what you can spend, Wenger has massively overspent on wages for under performing players. A combination of Wilshere being fit this season and very good, Flamini(free and lower wage) our full backs being fit, no CB injury crisis, Ramsey hitting some form finally(largely due to not being used deeper but much further forward) is mostly why we are doing well. People forget outside of a crap performance at Villa, Wilshere, Ramsey, Giroud, half the team were hitting form before we even bought Ozil and we were winning before he joined.
People have repeatedly said this season that our stadium debt is paid off and as such we have more money... rubbish, we still have 150mil or so stadium debt, it is NO WHERE NEAR being paid off, it's still 10+ years from being paid off. Precisely nothing financially has changed except Wenger decided to get rid of a massively bloated squad and focus those wages on a couple players..... something he's needed to do for 8 years(and isn't entirely finished with, till Diaby goes the job is not finish
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Other teams with hugely worse finances have competed for more cups and won cups that we haven't been able to. Brum, Wigan, Cardiff, Everton off the top of my head have gotten to finals or won them... the highest spending of those we outspent by basically over double in wages, the lowest we spent about 3.5-4times as much on wages as last year.
Should we compete for the league most years, yes, should we win it, no, is there a reason we shouldn't be in with a shout or 20 points off the title at the end, no.
I have a feeling we'll throw this season away like we threw away a final Brum final and most good positions we get in to.
We've had a very lucky year, in terms of injuries, who left, who came in and we have two teams with new managers within 2 points at this stage who started off a little shakey and are improving.
IF, and it's a god damned enormous IF, we don't fall apart in Feb like we do almost every year, out of FA cup, out of champs league, out of the league... maybe I'd be happy to see him have another year. If we do fall out of the running for all competitions this month, then no, nothing fundamentally has changed.
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