Oh I've been petrified about them winning the league for both of the seasons under discussion, until they mathematically couldn't.
I was also petrified about not winning on Saturday until we entered the last minute of injury time.
We can now look back with clear eyes and what I am contesting is whether there was such a great disparity between our efforts (in particular two years ago) to justify yours and WES's broader conclusions.
Seeing as this thread has degenerated into autistic tedium I might as well join in.
It was logically implied by you saying that "City's ability to sign players that we cannot ... does not excuse our inability to challenge for the league or the CL on a reasonably consistent basis."
To consistently challenge for the league we should be at least very close to the best teams most years, and that means Man City who are, as I said a club who have unlimited power to recruit better players than us in every position.
Again, in your mind the only difference between the two clubs is that they have a great manager and we have a bad one.Although you could make an argument that had we ditched Wenger when we should have that we had a very good chance at Guardiola and we might very well be just as good as City or anyone else right now. Sadly, we'll never know as the one thing Arsenal haven't had for many years and won't have until Wenger leaves is hope.
If you'd just said that Veng should have done a bit better in the league at some point or two in recent years then probably no-one would disagree with you.
You guys have completely missed the point...If we couldnt get the Hackman6 deal sorted then we had ZERO chance getting the likes of Leroy Sane.
Laughable that we supposedly bid £92m for Lamar.
Wenger should’ve got Trabelsi, Mexes, Hackman and Eto’o years ago.