Saturdays bench will be the perfect example as to Wengers mismanagement and neglect.

[East Upper for Supper]

No defender no forward and possibly the only walking first team squadie, if he's not dead, Rosicky.
Arsene the genius :hehe:

[wagoaw (out only, no in)]

[Peter]

I think it is beyond saving now. We will struggle in the first few games and any new signings will take a while to make an impact.

Even a good bit of shopping will leave the question of why we waited so f**king long and ran the squad down so far before acting.

If it costs us a cl place, and you have to accept that is very possible, they are going to look like utter, utter c**ts.

I think this is the summer where we have all finally run out of excuses.

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

And if you have, all it's evidence of is that we've cleared out a lot of deadwood and haven't replaced in time. As disappointing as that may be, it's hardly indicative of 'neglect'.

[wagoaw (out only, no in)]

:shrug:

[East Upper for Supper]

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

[East Upper for Supper]

[Peter]

Through our own decisions and failures.

Spin it how you like, it remains beyond disappointing

[Peter]

Hey, you would have somewhere to live at least :-)

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

issue as us uninformed fans think.

(Playing devil's advocate here, if you couldn't tell)

[East Upper for Supper]

[Peter]

Too late to help with the first few games and the cl. Whatever happens from now, sorry but he has f**ked up here.

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

It's baffling as the club has done *so* well at clearing the deadwood - a major failing of previous seasons - that one would have thought that impetus would extend to bringing in new players... Sadly, so far, it hasn't.

[wagoaw (out only, no in)]

some were long overdue.

[East Upper for Supper]

Its the straw we clutch.

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[East Upper for Supper]

Sure the new one is bought and installed well before winter starts.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

i.e. the board. If it is Wenger, it is perhaps feasible to suggest that he shouldn't really be offered a new contract. If it is members of the board/shareholders, we are really and truly f**ked.

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

[East Upper for Supper]

[East Upper for Supper]

To sign any type of player let alone the Suarez class.

[bostonbrian]

What if the pipes on the new one don't line up?....not so easy then is it......as opposedto going to pool and saying 'hhere's 50 mill for your striker'......:rolleyes:

[East Upper for Supper]

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

[wagoaw (out only, no in)]

Arsene has the final say on transfers. "Too expensive." There went Higuain and Gustavo.

[East Upper for Supper]

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

When I saw 'installing a new boiler' I mean 'calling someone up to install a new boiler for me'. It really is quite simple :-)

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

The board have made these same statements every year for the past 5 years

[wagoaw (out only, no in)]

but we have relatively trustworthy journos who reached consensus on these stories. What else would explain away these failures?

[Bergkamp's Brain]

I needed a larf

[Nicosia Gooner]

[East Upper for Supper]

The board didn't clog up the squad with 10 or more players on massive salaries whom in the end had to be let go at a loss.
Everyone elses fault but dont blame Teflon Wenger.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

The fact is there is a lot of blame to go round. It isn't just Wenger who is at fault.

[Peter]

How much you have to spend if you have no intention of spending any of it.

:homer:

[redgunamo]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

in which case getting rid of Wenger would solve no problems at all but would create many new ones.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

or do you keep your maximum budget under wraps?

[redgunamo]

I'm proud to be able to afford to pay full price for the things I want.

Anyway, stating that you want to buy certain things itself reveals that you believe you can afford them. Pretending otherwise fools nobody.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

Being able to pay full price doesn't mean you have to if there is an opportunity to pay less.

[redgunamo]

[wagoaw (out only, no in)]

Not many but a solid few. It'd be too thick to demand them to be correct 100% don't you think?

[Alexism - Atheoist]

You can't really given his actual. What other manager could have kept Arsenal in the Champions League with that net spend? None. And that net spend wasn't Arsene, it was very clearly due to stadium repayments.

So go on with your future hypotheticals. Boo hoo! We don't outspend Barcelona!