Source - http://www.london24.com/sport/arsen..._proof_that_money_isn_t_everything_1_1193079? I'm sure we can all dissect what he's said above and will leave it to you friends. All I will say is that it's the same old, same old tiresome drivel from our equally tiresome CEO, the timing of which is presumably set to coincide with announcements of the possibility of small transfers into the club today. Indeed we are still in three competitions. This time last year we were still in four. Come March, the picture could well be different but I guess in January as in September, one could make a host of claims. The word Bull and something else come to mind.
Gazidis is a chump, I clocked that a while ago, a yes man sent to do the bidding of the other chumps. Better off without him.
It must be some sort of a record to be able to take apart every statement that chief chump has made in the above report. Again I leave that with you my friends except to say that of course money is all important and while I'm speculating here my reading into why we are leaving all that cash relatively untouched in our reserves is because our majority shareholder needs it Kroenke in the running to buy Dodgers No he can't take it out of Arsenal's bank account or wherever the cash may be but I expect being able to show the balance sheet of the third most valuable football club in the word and the world's seventh biggest sporting team would count for a lot when one is making a large bid.
He makes a good point to be honest. Despite their obscene spending, we are still in more competitions than City.
If you count 18 points behind the leaders in the league "in" it then Arsenal fans expectations have went down quite a lot. Champions league sure but it is our first season in it and your 14th? consecutive. Not a huge surprise you have done well.
Low expectations are only the province of a handful of Arsenal fans Devlin. It's safe to say that for most of us, our glass isn't even half full( no disrespect intended to Mr HF )
lol, you sound exactly like a Spurs fan now, as this was the type of arguments they would sometimes make against us, such as last season when we were out of Europe, and they were not, so they would say we are in more competitions than you.
Look, I know many of you think that the money is there to raise our wage bill to 270M from 110M and spend 500M on players to compete with city. I know there are others that think that spending 1/10th of that and competing with them to win trophies would be easy. To my mind Man City are focusing on the league and we never had any hope of winning it. I know a lot of you think we should have spent a lot of money, and bought players this transfer window, even though in the last 5 years there are very, very few players that have joined teams at the top of the table in January and helped them. You think this even though there have been very very few players of note moving this transfer window. Our CEO points out that, for all their money, That Man City are now only in the League and the Europa Cup, wheras we are still in the CL and the FA cup and they are not. Instead of taking pride in that, and the significant achievement that entails, given our luck with injuries and the fact that they poached one of our players this summer, you call him a chump and say it is drivel. Honestly, you really need to take a long hard look at yourselves, attitude and outlook. You keep using deluded to describe supporters of the club, but I ask you who is the most deluded.
I cannot believe Piskie is reeling out that old chesnut...... We are still in more competitions than you blah blah...... I guess as the old adage says it's not about the winning it, it's about the taking part! Let's see how far we get in the champions league eh? I am well aware, the timing of our CEO's comments, it is undoubtedly meant to placate the frustrated fans at the lack of any movements in the January window......
Why would fans be frustrated at the lack of transfer movement when we signed 9 new players last August ? Surely no-one expected new faces ? How much change can a club cope with in one season ?
@ToldedoTrumpton I think the issue is that City have been progressing each season. Whereas it feels to alot of Arsenal supporters and myself that Arsenal are regressing. When if there is money available to AW then he should be using it to halt said regression.
Toledo - and City have an infinitely better chance of winning the Europa League and Premier League than we do of winning the FA Cup, Champion's League or Premier League. In fact, do you think we have a better chance of winning any of those trophies than City winning the couple they are in ?
It is drivel to say oh we are in more competitions than you, because what are the chances of us even winning those competitions? Whereas City have a very high chance of winning the only competition they are in, which is the main and prime competition, the league. We are 18 points behind City, and the best you can say is we are in more competitions than them? Also why do you ignore the fact that Mancity reached the semi's of a cup, so Mancity stand top of the league, 18 pts above us, and also reached the semi's of a cup competition, so at least be consistent, and if we look at it from that angle then yes Mancity have done very well with their money, being top, and reaching the semis of a cup. Secondly, nobody has argued we should go and spend 500 million, stop attacking straw mans to hide the legitimate points of others to try and hide the real problems. We have money to spend, and we don't spend that money wisely and top quality players, we have the money to go out and spend 20-30 million on a single player as our board often tells us, so why don't we ever do it if we really want to inject some top quality into the side? Why do we instead spend money on wages for useless players who do nothing for us, like Arshavin, Diaby, Squilachi, Chamakh, Park, and so on? You can take pride from being in more competitions, I on the other hand will stick to reality, we lie 5th in the table, high chance of ending outside the top 4, 18 points behind the leader with no chance of catching up, leaving us 8 seasons without a league trophy, yes, we are in more competitions, but when we actually do something of significance in them come and talk to me. Indeed how silly will you look if Mancity win the league, what will your argument be then, oh we were in more competitions than them at one point in the season? Lol, give me a break please.
I think if we had made a better job of last summer's transfers in terms of personnel and timing we might have more points in the EPL than we do now.
I guess we got all we needed in the trolley dash aka the summer transfer window! I forgot we also have TH14 to assist RVP! It's amazing how fans suddenly develop amnesia, we were all clamouring for quality additions before the January window opened, now we are saying actually we do need new faces in, because we got NINE players in the summer. Whao, nine players in, nine quality players in...... dear oh dear!
Toledo you certainly echo that misappropriated line from our tiresome CEO and manager that we remain in these competitions. While we may do, like Arsenal87, I too put it to you that the chances of us coming away with souvenirs from any of them are more remote than you have elected to believe. A cup competition is the luck of the draw and no one knows who we will meet in the CL or FA Cup. City came up with stiff opposition in their quest for domestic cups. We are fortunate to still be in the FA Cup so I wouldn't recommend you count your chickens before they are hatched and quite honestly, with the side that we have, do you think it is realistic to expect much? The board of this club has steadily eroded our ability and opportunity to hope for much these days. I do however applaud your continuing to remain optimistic. The rest of us though have been hit by the R word - reality.
