The Fellani situation was crazy and gave a glimpse of the chaos at the club with the squad, the manager and the new Chairman all seemingly on a separate tangent. Man Utd made mistakes letting the squad get rusty and then changing the manager and chairman at the same time. This situation would not be repeated at Arsenal
You're beginning to sound like HIAG with your Chelsea flag waving. Perhaps you forgot that they invested nearly £1bn in the squad prior to that ? As for youth, Gibbs, Wilshere, Sczeseny all first team players.
I compared you're title to challenge and finances to the club that won the title. Why would I compare it to another club? If you want to compare it to the clubs below you, then it gets even worse. You've vastly outspent virtually all of them recently. Szczęsny joined Arsenal at 16, the age when you seem to tap u... I mean "acquire" a lot of your successful youngsters. I forgot about Wilshere, though. I'll give you that one. So, two players. You can't be happy with that, can you? All we used to hear about was Arsenal's kids, so what happened?
Clearly, compared to the indiscriminate spending of Chelsea and City, our youth policy was never going to be enough. But it got us Champions League football for the last decade and got us to a place now where we have several first teamers who've come through the youth ranks who sit alongside world class players that we can now afford to buy.
Your youth policy has had virtually nothing to do with it. Your spending, which was far in excess of virtually every team which finished below you, got you into the top 4. Southampton's youth policy had more to do with it.
We chose to tie down lots of young players on good wages for long contracts, that was the policy at the time, rather than develop them and then lose them to other clubs. In part this worked and some of those players never made the grade, so we ended up with a big wage bill and lots of deadwood, which we've now shifted. We pay our players the going rate for a champions league team. The assertion that we've bought our way into the top 4 bollocks of course.
Come off it! For years, I've been calling Gooners out on this, and pointing out how Arsenal bought good players young and cheaply, but then bribed them into staying at an under-achieving club by paying silly wages.
And you think this is how Arsenal 'bought their way' into the Top 4 right ? I just want to be clear that this is what you're saying, as we all know how you like to try and wriggle out of your claims once they've been exposed as being bullshit
They may not be "sacked" but both Rodgers and Mourinho are done at the end of next season. Pellegrini will be sacked.
How are you defining buying your way into the top 4? I assume it's in some bizarre way that leaves Arsenal out.
Rodgers will leave by mutual consent after another mediocre season. Mourinho will leave regardless of how Chelsea get on as he will have done his three years. When you stay at a club longer than that chairmen start talking about continuity, evolution, bringing players through the ranks etc. Jose has no interest in that.
Maybe with Rodgers but I disagree with Jose I think he wants to stay and build a legacy there, he's been around and now understands that he's accepted at Chelsea. I think he'll stay and eventually leave for the Portugal job.
There's nowhere else for Mourinho to go except the Portugal job and I guess at 52 he thinks himself a bit young for that so I think he'll look to take that job for the next World Cup
