City now have two more Sky TV games, Newcastle (A) and Arsenal (H) both matches have been moved to the following day and will be the Super Sunday broadcasts.
Arsenal will be a good barometre of how good we are, I can see them challenging Chelsea next season with big Pete in goal.
I doubt they'll do much better than they did this season to be honest. Thought Wengers statement about united buying players who are fully developed was a bit rich after his big money signings of ozil and Samchez in recent seasons. He loves a mind game but it could come back to make him look a bit stupid.
I think he is referring to the fact that this is the only transfer strategy MU have. They are not investing in the next generation.
And all top clubs will recruit ready made players. Arsenal probably do this less than the other top English clubs.
Arsenal ususally start well and then fade as the strain of the European campaign kicks in. Not sure if our Sunday game follows such an adventure but would do us no harm if it did.
I always thought it was the other way round, they usually have a poor start then get better in the second half of the season to grab 4th spot.
I believe they are the only Prem side to qualify for the Champions league every season since its invention.
Tyler Blackett, Paddy McNair and James Wilson all got good run outs last year, arguably Depay isn't a fully fledge top player yet and they will have to work with him to develop. Obviously they buy top players but that's partly because their squad got old together and needed a lot of work. I'm not really trying to defend them more just saying I see the top 4 as being as bad as each other.
In fairness I think we both have a point there. It is the middle of the season that kills them, but you are spot on NCFC84, they do end well for sure.
This shows they do have a strong finish http://www.squawka.com/teams/arsena...#season-2012/2013#2#all-matches#1-38#by-match
Sorry I should have quoted the above post about the top 4 all being as bad as each other concerning spending huge sums on players. If you go back 10 years it's even clearer that Arsenal are not a sugar daddy toy club and only recently started blowing fortunes on players like Sanchez and Ozil. They do indeed finish very strongly most seasons.
