This keeps getting lost so for Shaun and any other doubters heres some interesting facts (that are well worth reading!) During the last 5 years these are some of the net spends of PL clubs: City: £479mil Chelsea: £282m United: £138m Stoke: £91m Liverpool: £89m Arsenal: -£4m Just let that sit for moment... Arsenal have the history and prestige of a top four club but when it comes to the most important aspect of investing money into recent player acquisitions Arsenal are a bottom four club who has had to sell some of its most important players yet continuously manages to stay among the top 4. The Emirates went up in 03 and Wenger lost all monetary support from the board in order to allow us to stabilize the interest and principal of the debt from the construction and he managed to keep us in the CL every year throughout. People love to mock him for having not won during but this period but this is such an incredible feat to have kept us competitive year in year out. Every year the squad had been severely lacking in at least one major area and had zero depth but hes managed to find bargain players and teenagers who can play in his system well enough to eek out another fourth place finish. This year, the first after the financial lockdown, they cooly snap up one of finest creative talents in the world and, despite losing two of their two best attacking players in Ramsey for over 4 months and Walcott for 6 still stayed in first up until about a month ago. If they can go a season without losing key players and bringing in new talent like Ozil theyll surely be competing for 1st place more convincingly and wont have to worry about finances ever again because of what Wenger and the board accomplished over the past 10 years. As an Arsenal fan I am far more optimistic about the next 10 years than sad about the past 10.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:12:05 +0000
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