Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
I'm fairly sure that most AW loyalists were, during the austerity years, saying that we were doing about as well as we could have been under the circumstances and with the richer clubs. I'm sure I was.

This year is a different matter. In the past the boss could be excused for not winning the league, but there aren't really any excuses this time. If he really is blaming the fans the shortcomings of himself and his playing staff then that is pretty rum stuff imo.
The denials were not made within the context of billionaire owners though. I don't think there *were* any when we began the Emirates Project, were there?

As I recall it, we had never really spent much money and the board assured as that this would continue to be the case, regardless of the new stadium's cost. We certainly weren't going to spend more, but we weren't going to spend noticeably less either.

The money was always Wenger's McGuffin anyway; nobody was demanding Ronaldos and Bales. We would've been perfectly happy with more Henrys and Vieiras. This is where He (wilfully, I think) misses the point. Like a new wife saying she doesn't want a new MX5 as she already has one and she will therefore only accept a new 911.