Lets deal with these things, as if it will make much difference:
1. Wenger and the club was getting stick after qualifying for the Champions league knockout stages for 18 years in a row. And being in the top 4 of the league for 19 years in a row. I'm not really sure how that isn't "Challenging".
I tell you what. Find a single other person on this forum of any affiliation who thinks that simply reaching the CL KO stages means you're challenging for it, or that finishing in the top4 means you're challenging for the league.
If you genuinely only consider 3 or 4 clubs as actually "Challenging" for the CL then start supporting clubs abroad, because I doubt we are going to have an English club challenging for the CL for the foreseeable future.
So in your opinion, outside of the usual 3 or 4 clubs, Arsenal are next in line??
2. Squad deficiencies are in the minds of the fans. If you can look at Ozil and decide that he is lazy and needs to be replaced, then you are simply inventing squad deficiencies. You can't expect the club to act on delusional fantasies. Xhaka and Ozil are 2 of the 3 hardest working players on the team. So you have fans saying, "They just want the players to show some desire". and then they slate the two players with the most desire and want them replaced. So clearly most fans don't even have a consistent rational opinion on where the deficiencies are. It is impossible for any manager to fulfill diametrically opposed wishes from fans.
You can't make a story up and then say WE'RE the ones making something up. I think Ozil is actually quite good. Completely mismanaged, but still quite a good player and would thrive elsewhere, as he did for most of his time in Madrid. Choosing Ozil as an example of our squad deficiency to argue we DON'T have a squad deficiency is nonsense. We don't have any quality central midfielders. Say what you want about Xhaka, but he is bang average. Plus we don't have good enough centre backs to play 3 CBs. Plus it's taken us years to sign a striker to replace RVP (assuming Laca becomes that man).
3. The contract situation is far less black and white than fans assume.
NO it isn't.
Say you agree a 4 year contract with Sanchez at 300K/week. You still get nothing for him when that contract ends
Eh? What are you talking about? If you want a fee for a player, the whole point is you do it well before the contract ends. If they get anywhere near two years to the end of the contract, you either get them to sign a new one or you sell them. Almost every other club manages it fine.
Sand if you pay him 300 a week that means you can sign no new players for 4 years
Why on earth not? We have a huge squad and could cull almost a dozen players to offset wages for worldies like Sanchez.
"We will pay whatever you ask for," to the players. Do you really think that will end well?
Again, that;s not the point. If they don't sign, then you sell before they get within 2 years of contract end. If they want to play for you they'll sign a contract. Our problem is that we are managed by a moron who the very best players (ie Sanchez) clearly
don't want to play for and thererfore they should be sold well before contract end. Heck even mediocre tat like Oxlade didn't want to play for him.
4. I don't think anyone can say Arsenal football has not be aesthetically pleasing over Wenger's reign. In fact a lot of fans say that it hasn't been practical enough.
Have you even watched Arsenal in recent years? Our football has been getting more and more turgid. Posession heavy most of the time with little of the swift attacking we saw 10+ years ago. Last season, a lot of the time we were dour as ****e. It used to be very aesthetically pleasing. Now, for the most part, we're outshone by quite a few teams in the prem.
I just want to point out to you the 2 paradoxes in your post.
1. You want to make sure they concentrate the club's funds on signing players to fill deficiencies. You want the club to concentrate their funds on existing players salaries to ensure they don't leave.
So in your opinion it's impossible to sign good players and keep the good players you have? Why do most other clubs manage it then? Not a paradox.
2. You want the team to concentrate on challenging for titles and Championships and make sure that the team is winning. You want the team to concentrate on playing aesthetically pleasing football.
Also not a paradox. Big trophy winners in recent years: PSG, Sevilla, Monaco, Barca, Real, Bayern, Atletico, City, Chelsea, United, Leicester. Most of those play aesthetically pleasing football. Not a paradox.
The fact that you can write that post without realizing that you are asking for things that are diametrically opposed, and impossible to deliver just demonstrates your lack of understanding.
The fact you think those things
are diametrically opposed (you seem to like that phrase as if it you think it makes your comments slightly less ludicrous) shows how low your expectations of Arsenal FC are. Lots of other big clubs manage both, but you don't perfectly happy with Arsenal not being able to.
I'm not saying that fan's contribute to the problems at the club
Well you did actually. You said "
the fans were the real problem at Arsenal".
The fans of other clubs don't want to admit that the only reason they win is because a Russian or a Saudi billionaire buys them the league, so the press and the pundits, who earn money by being popular with those teams, like to minimize that.
Again, I'm not sure you even read these fora that much. Chelsea fans frequently say they couldn't care less. Why would they care? If Usmanov took over and went on a £500m transfer spending spree and got us in a decent manager and we won the league and CL double... would you care if a United fan said "ha, you only bought that success?" Any fan who says yes is just jealous because their club isn't one of the rich playthings. You don't run this club. You make no money from them. You're not invested in them as a business so why would you give two stuffs about how their finances are managed? More evidence of you being an Arsene book balancing fan than an Arsenal fan, proud of how we're a sustainable 'business' even though you have absolutely nothing to do with the business.
Come on guys, this is just common sense. I'm not claiming the moon is made of cheese or something really stupid, so stop pretending that I am.
On the contrary, you constantly make stupid claims and absurd comments with no logic
In 2012 you predicted we'd finish first and that
"I don't think I have any fear that the Arsenal forwards are going to score goals. Giroud and Podolski have a good pedigree and I am sure that if Manchester United had signed either, they would be already crowned champions by most of the press"
in 2014 you once again predicted we'd finish first but also this time by a wide margin and that "S
anchez, Walcott, Ozil, Ramsey, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Szczesny, could all easily be considered the best player in the entire PL at their position. Cazorla, Campbell, Gibbs, Ox, and Debuchy are all candidates for the top 5 at their position"
Once again this season you predict we'll finish first and that
"Chambers is top class as a CB in a back 3... For the first time Arsenal have at least 2 solid players in every position, most of whom would be first team for any other club. "
