Some of you are proper jokers on here ! I'm sure a few of you are managers, tell me, do you go round making decisions that are not company policy ? Do you not follow the company strategy ? If you don't wouldn't you expect to get sacked ? If you didn't know company policy or strategy wouldn't you ask ? So, lets assume the board have one intention and Wenger has another, wouldn't it make sense for Wenger to make sure that his views were aligned with the board's ? Why would you assume something like this ? Surely the easiest thing to do would've been to ask the board. That said, if the board see Wenger claiming he will keep the players and they intend to sell them, surely they should have a word with Wenger and let him know so he has time to plan. Poor show all round but neither side are without blame.
We had our supporters club's annual dinner last Friday and our guest of honour was Nigel Winterburn.According to him AW was hamstrung on buying new players in the summer transfer window as he had no money to spend until the Fabregas & Na$ri transfers had been sorted
...I find that hard to believe. We must have had some money available from previous sales, not to mention our lack of activity in the transfer market for so long - we're a top 4 club for fook sake! If NW means hamstrung because of our mahoosive wage budget then that I can almost understand but, like others, I think we've a good 4/5 players that need shipping out to help with this and in my opinion they should have been got rid of long since.
Did everybody know he was going or could the board have kept him? I don't see how both could be true. Looks to me like you aren't everybody either! Seems to me the story changes depending who everybody is trying to beat up on.
I see it this way. Wenger repeatedly stated that he wanted to keep both players and that he had no intention of selling. Yet we sold them. Does'nt take a genius to work out whats happening.
I have to say this is the only thing that makes sense. Wenger was adamant that the players would not be sold, so much so that he said we couldn't be classed as a big club if we sold them. It couldn't have been his decision, therefore, to sell the players. so pretty much the board fugged up this entire season by being dickwads
I agree that it was a board-level decision. I think once Fabregas left, the board thought Nasri wouldn't make enough of a difference to the team, to improve our chances of winning, to be worth spending the money keeping him. Can everyone honestly say that if we had Nasri instead of Benayoun in the squad, we would be significantly more likely to have won something this year?
Like I said, it's too easy to criticise with the benefit of hindsight. Do you think Wenger was right to fight to keep them both ?
of course - but at some stage you have to say - SIGN WITHIN NEXT 3 DAYS or GOODBYE. With no decision like that the Board had to say ' we can't throw transfer value away by insisting they stay for their last year - SELL.'
No, it isn't the real question, that is neither here nor there, as far as running a football club is concerned. If nasri offers an upgrade, but it makes no significant difference to the result on the year, Arsenal have wasted millions of dollars for nothing. I certainly get the impression that you think we are a very long way from winning trophies, with a lot of players "not good enough", I doubt you can say honestly that Nasri would make that much of a difference. You may feel throwing 25M away for a cosmetic change is worth it, but then it isn't your 25M.
