Recently I posted the list, but I don’t remwmber the topic. Tomorrow I will repost everything.
I jokingly asked you about this a while back lol. Though now that it’s actually materialized, I feel torn, almost hypocritical. I lol’d at the likes of United pulling this and don’t get me wrong it’s still incredibly tactless. In the same breath I do want fans to make their voices known, as cringeworthy as it may be. I guess like most fans I just want others to do the dirty work for me so I can enjoy a life free from Arsenal consistently pulling the same old capitulation act in Feb/March every season under Wenger’s never-ending reign.
It’s truly a shame that it has come to this but this is what Arsenal is right now. The guise of a solid foundation of a business that has no footballing structure, contracts being run down, competitive players being allowed to leave, the unknown masked paradoxically by same old shit every season.
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This is such a good post that it needs to be posted again!
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Yeh, I gotta say @Maxi_Gooner, the blame the board angle is the worst one. The only thing the board is clearly, clearly guilty of is retaining Arsène for so long.
Also, for what it’s worth, this spanish person started following Arsenal in Wenger’s first year, when I was young enough to barely have a clue who the guy was, because of Bergkamp, that is–nothing to do with Wenger certainly. And I started following them cause of Bergkamp because of a Dutch family member who was following them cause of Bergkamp. So yeah, at least in this anecdotal case it doesn’t support your case at all.
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The question for me is regarding ‘our’ massive cash balances and how they’re used to secure borrowing against Kroenke Sports Empire to fund Kroenke’s other investments, ie farming.
While it isn’t directly funneling money out of Arsenal but indirectly it maybe
@Maxi_Gooner, we were already the third best club in England before Wenger. For example, we were the first team to use the so-called “system”. Wenger has just helped us becoming very famous abroad.
No we are laughing stock because our board has a contract on the table for Arsene
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People around the World know us thanks to Wenger era.
Why we haven’t won a CL? Why Arsenal waited 18 years to won again the league (1953:1971) and generally won two league titles in 40 years (more or less)??
[/quote]George Graham has a far better record of winning trophies than Wenger in relation to the time he was here.
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FFS lads 33 new posts in here got me excited.
Also lol at us having no history before Wenger when the 1989 title decider is the most famous match in our history!!
Embarrassing the lengths you go to defend Wenger maxi 
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I am all for Wenger to leave, but that flying banner would be embarassing.
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Its not against the rules. How much more than Leciester have we spent ffs.
You go on about the 18 years without a league title, while Wengers 5 year of emulating that.
Graham never worked for 8 years under financial control.
He also didnt have the chance to afford buying world class talent from all over the world did he.
Jensen and Limpar are miles away from Ozil, Sanchez, Overmars, Bergkamp etc.
Or financial doping. Abromovic/Sheihk money has changed the footballing landscape and made it far harder to compete for anyone else. As has United’s commerical success. If City/Chelsea had their old owners we’d have not got outbid for top players, just look at the players we’ve been outbid by Chelsea over the years and now City too. We’d have kept our better players, ie no one would of been giving silly money to Nasri, Cashley, Clichy ,Sagna or Ade.
And we’d have had less competition in the league. We’d have had at least 2 other titles since the invinsibles.
Graham comparatively was one of the bigger spenders, he didn’t have 3 massively richer clubs. It’s incomparable.
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And then Leciester come through and blow that out the water.
Leicester didnt exactly plan for their success. they are probably standing around scratching their heads still trying to figure out how it all happened.
That doesnt change the history books though. Also got a shot of reaching the last 8 of the champions League this week.
Know your not a detractor of there success by the way.
That was pre-globalisation of football though and the league was far weaker as a whole. I remember Gullit coming over and stating only 5 PL players would cut it in Serie A. Graham still broke the English record in signing Wright if I remember rightly (pun intended). He also took us from champions down to 10th and played pretty dire football scoring the least goals in the league.