Any c*nt that tells me I "would have taken that before the game"

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

We had no 'owner' until last year when Usmanov sold up last year, ffs! We have never been 'bankrolled' and have always had to operate using only what's on our balance sheet. Given which, the only way for us to access more funds would have been by running on debt.

All of which, of course, supports my point. Wenger never had the money to spend that his rivals did.

...and yet, over the last 7 or 8 seasons what have we produced from the youth or from great scouting?

[Burney]

...and yet, over the last 7 or 8 seasons what have we produced from the youth or from great scouting?

A fair point, but the youth team wasn't Wenger's domain. Equally, scouting is all very well, but as other clubs wised up to what AW had achieved, competition for the good young players across Europe hotted up and money (ie Chelsea) tended to talk.

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

A fair point, but the youth team wasn't Wenger's domain. Equally, scouting is all very well, but as other clubs wised up to what AW had achieved, competition for the good young players across Europe hotted up and money (ie Chelsea) tended to talk.

Wenger was a master of implementing a good scouting network. A blue print for others to follow and they did with more money. He was not a master of spending big and not one for developing youth.

So what next?

He kept us ticking along but with a combination of transfer restrictions and his own limitations, what were we really capable of achieving?