But that is neither here nor there, Kroenke ISN'T taking money out of the club. The club has plenty of money, we spend that money, our wages absolutely dwarf Spurs, Dortmund and Atletico yet look what they are achieving. Money isn't the ONLY part of success, and 'buying' success in a very short period of time costs vastly more than achieving it over time with good planning and buying well. Monaco bought Martial for £6-8mil and was it a year later, maybe two, sold him for potentially 8 or so times that amount.
'New money' gets spent poorly in a desperate attempt to buy success in a short period, comparing City or Chelsea 'building' spending is worthless, 70-80% of the money they wasted was on players who left after 1-2 seasons, who weren't good enough and it wouldn't have made much difference if the clubs bought them or not. Some of City and Chelsea's best buys were great value, Cech and Robben were great deals, as was Lampard iirc, while Kezman or coke head whose name I forget, Crespo, Bogarde, a dozen central midfielders who came and went and another dozen strikers who barely ever saw more than a handful of games before leaving were just wasted money. This was money they spent.... because they had it, but had not a huge amount to do with how the clubs got better.
Arsenal have money that Wenger is reluctant to spend, and we have money that Wenger hasn't been reluctant to spend, that is, he's been happy to drastically increase the wage bill by offering higher and higher wages to worse and worse players, he just doesn't like to take big risks in the transfer market.... any more, because when he was successful he DID take bigger risks, not 40mil for a single player risks, but selling Overmars and Petit for two far far cheaper players was a risk. Back then he saw two top players and believed we could do better and got insane value for it, now he hangs on to players who we both can easily do better than and we could get cheap players who are far better than many of the players we have.
We don't have a billionaire owner willing to spend 100mil extra a year putting us into long term debt to that owner... big whoop, most clubs don't have monumentally rich owners, and many of the clubs that have had insanely rich owners have failed and gone back to spending within their means. Chelsea, City both spend within their means now, a couple Russian clubs with big money flopped hard and took a massive hit. Monaco tried to go uber big then had to cut way way back. Monaco have been focusing on cheaper youth players, making a pretty hefty profit from player sales and improving the team. The idea that you have to spend 100mil or something more than we do now to improve is simply absurd. Many teams have become better than us while spending much less.
such a good impression
