That's a good point actually. I also want #welbz to get a haircut though too :-\
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[QUOTE=redgunamo;4108839]I think more and more people have realised that the whole "Money"-thing was simply a way for you AKB types to divert the conversation away from any criticism of Wenger, His signings, His style of play and so on. You can blame Leicester City for that particular revelation.
As you say though, One way or another, Wenger *will* be gone soon so it's probably wrong to get too worked up about forcing Him out at this late stage.[/QUO
Yep. That's about the size of it. Ghostly and his cohorts may aswell accept he'll be around next season and get behind the club. I think there's a fair chance that he'll make a couple of decent signings and we'll have a better season than this one. My only fear is that the old guard running the place may interpret this as a corner being turned and try to persuade the old ******* to sign for another three years. :-\
Leicester's success doesn't suddenly make money irrelevant. It is most likely that they are a one-off, an outlier. In fact despite making a couple of great value signings I gather that the club has been sugar-daddied for a while now to help propel it up the charts.
Ironically, why some like to say that their success proves Wenger wrong, it also shows that shrood signings can make a difference, which has always been one of AW's things.
Sugar daddied?
Do you mean an owner injecting money into the business???
I know, I just don’t see why such an action always has to be seen as wrong, or evil.
There was recently a suggestion of them falling foul of some ‘FFP’ based rulings from when they were in Division 1.
You’re aware I have no real massive issues with owners splashing cash / clubs spending money “they don’t have” as such.
I don't think Wenger has any more excuses to be honest.
For years he was able to use the rationale of having comparatively no money while others had free will to spend as they pleased, and indeed most - even the most ardent Wenger Outist - could accept this.
Now however he has money, lots of it, but chooses (we have to believe) from his own free will not to spend it - last summer for example. In essence a huge misjudgement of his own players / squad and the great intangible qualities he loves to continually harp on about.
Wenger out!
That's why I said 'historic excuses' rather than contemporary ones. I actually wrote another sentance about being a top striker (eg Henry Kane) short of winning the league this season but deleted it for brevity. As usual, when I delete for brevity, the response is directed the area which would have been covered by the thing I deleted.
I agree that there are no excuses this year. I don't agree that this proves that there were no excuses for previous years.
Agree.
This year is a one-off, an aberration, a freak and must be viewed as such.
Ranieiri winning the championship on a relative tiny budget (most expensive player = £10m) does not automatically equate to this having been a realistic achievement in previous years.
The traditional big clubs imploded this year, not just us. The next tier, or some of, stepped up. I have no idea what happens next year, the pre-2016 status quo or a more even and harder PL. The big clubs with new managers will spend heavily to try and avoid what has happened this year, others will also spend as there is so much money flowing around the PL now.
I am quite sure Wenger will not have a better (or perhaps ‘easier’) chance of winning it.