Okay thanks for that.
Just flawed logic on our side that for me because it’s 2021 and time is a commodity you don’t get or have.
I really don’t think there’s too many wrong ways to win for football fans.
I just see classic Arsenal trying too cheat the system levels of planning here.
Academies will always have good and bad crops of players but no top team can be relying on them.
Defensive football (George Graham) is just as much of Arsenal’s culture as attacking football (Arsene Wenger) is. There is no ‘right’ way. Just whatever is successful. Fans will get on the back of anyone who keeps losing.
We don’t need to promote players from the academy. We just invested in shit or handled our business as shit. If we offload Ozil in the summer we can buy or loan a midfielder in the summer. If Mustafi would have been a proper player we don’t need to go out and buy Saliba and Gabriel. If either one of Xhaka, Guendouzi or Torreira became good for us, our centre midfielder problem was settled. The list is endless at this point.
Thing is if you go back and watch them old school compilation videos of the season you always see Arsenal playing some pretty attacking football especially under the early graham years. It was a different kind of attacking though and may not be as glamorous as the Dutch/Barcelona that we tried to emulate later on but it was entertaining nonetheless.
Agree though that defensive football is a part of this club as much as attacking is.
Conte has always complained about spending. When he was at Juventus and Chelsea too. It has always been like that when he was you’re manager. Now I assume Inter, like a lot of European clubs, have serious financial problems. Obviously it has been reported that their Chinese owners have problems and their spending after the takeover is probably not in line with their income anyway. That is why the whole change of brand - increase revenue etc. They’ve probably told him that they will not be able to spend hence he wants to leave / thinks about leaving. But in stead of pressuring the club in the media, like happened at Juventus/Chelsea, they’ve come to a mutual agreement / payoff.