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I guess the key point is that I'm neither an Arsenal fan nor was I particularly interested in what was happening in the PL whilst we weren't in it, aside from the odd cup interaction where largely speaking we got hammered by the PL side.
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The media spin on it is unreal.
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So I think the key point with Wenger's last season is them losing 4-2 in the cup at home to us, it was also one of the few occasions Wenger lost in R3. I think you guys were holders at the time too and we had Gary Brazil in charge as caretaker. But it showed his time was on the wane.
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I'll be honest I tuned out around 2016 for a few seasons. Something tragic had to happen for change because of the now clear direction the ownership was going.
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Checking wikipedia that close season Emery brought in 4 players for fees, nothing extravagant, and 2 of them being Guendouzi and Leno. You did bring in a fair amount the season after, but they didn't look like bad buys really and it wasn't extravagant spending given the year before.
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Pepe was signed as a marquee signing, all 80 odd million. The powers that be turned out to be frauds. Guendouzi was a really good signing, he was showing great promise at u21 level but it was attitude issues which cost him a place to remain at Arsenal. I don't buy into his attitude being a problem. I reckon he was a winner which clashed with losers. Leno was ok, a second rate Neuer. There was no real planning under Emery. He didn't have what he wanted but carried on and done well. Europa League finalists with a club that was coming up short soo many times in Europe. His short coming was not getting a top 4 finish, I genuinely felt bad for him.
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You came 5th that season and improved on 6th the year before though the season after where you finished 8th and won the FA Cup wasn't really progress but more of the same.
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Emery laid the foundations for the FA cup win. Aubameyang, the bad apple, won him the cup who he and the board got rid of for free which Barcelona then got 12 million for. Unreal behaviour.
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But it had been 15-16 the last time you finished in a CL place.
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I soon tuned out after that.
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Given Arteta a couple of seasons and then you get 2 2nd place finishes. Would another have done it quicker or even more than that? Who knows
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Emery would have won a cup at the very least with 700 million. I have no doubt he would have done something.
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Edu sticking to what he knows is not too bad a thing really. But he would work on getting knowledge on other markets if he was decent at his job
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He brought in Martinelli. An actual winger. He was bound to get something right with the spending power.
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here we seem to have various targets in various areas such that you can perhaps tell who might have signed them. Syrianos, who has a similar group role with us, Oly and Rio Ave, tends to target cheaper/young players from the Bundesliga. Marinakis' lad likes the marquee signings like when we got Lingard and probably also Keylor Navas
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I can't comment on your club. I don't have the knowledge.