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Originally Posted by colin25
Why bring city into the argument?
Oh, is it because City are expected to finish in the top 4, have won a title in recent years, as opposed to Arsenal who if lucky might get into top 4?
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City are expected to be title contenders due to the money they've invested in the squad and the considerable quality that's brought.
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Originally Posted by Russ
Seriously why are you finding this so difficult to understand? I assume you're not being deliberately awkward? Yes the modern era seeing as this part of the discussion is about Arsenal's failure to win anything in the 8 years since the FA Cup in 2005.
If you don't want to call that the modern era then fine call it what you will but I'd rather you concentrate on the point at hand rather than silly games with words.
For a team like West Ham to reach the CL final during those 8 years then yes I'm sure that would be considered an almost cosmic achievement but Arsenal at that point were on the back of being a much bigger and successful team. They went from being 'invincible' to almost a comedy team. If you can't see that then frankly you don't know football.
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But this only works if you ignore the changes that occurred since the Invincible era. The stadium, the arrival of Chelsea, and so on. Arsenal didn't simply fall away. They intentionally become less competitive in order to finance a stadium which is turn would, in theory, have allowed them to compete at the highest level later. It's more a case of struggling to get back now the money is there but it's disingenuous to claim they've become a comedy team because they're not the team there were 10 years ago.
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Originally Posted by colin25
I can't believe there isn't cash. Not aware you have high salaries, you lost a lot of deadwood, and must have cash to burn.
The issue seems to be (from my view), this slavish insistence on not paying a penny more than the value you put on a player. whilst admirable in certain instances, sometimes you need to pay a bit more, if you really want a player.
Eg if Arsenal really wanted Higuain, pay the extra few million.
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There is cash and what has happened this window is so difficult to understand. If Wenger is really refusing to buy players then his time at Arsenal is likely coming towards an end. However I live in hope that the window doesn't closed yet and that this same team actually showed quite capable towards the end of the last season so doesn't need a radical overhaul, just a sprinkling of world class talent imo...