theHotHead wrote:Swipey, we are not Spurs, we are the third most successful team in English football history. We won't do a Spurs, we win stuff, always have. in the last 10 years, as shit as we have been, we have won 4 major trophies !!
We are not that far off challenging, I don't agree with the decade that was mentioned by Ang or 5 years by Jay, we could in all honesty challenge next season if we pick up 2 to 3 players we need and a decent manager.
And, who is going to hire that "decent" manager? Roman Abramovich?
As I've said before, if we hired a world class manager, and backed him as much as we've backed Arteta, we could have a go.
This club shoved Wenger out, hired an inferior manager in Emery, whilst promising a new, European model, dismantled that, and has reverted back to a pseudo-prototype of Wenger-Gazidis years. Nobody has a clue what they're going here.
I don't see us challenging for the league title for a decade at the very least for reasons I've already mentioned in my initial post here.
Sure, if Mohammed bin Salman bought Arsenal and hired a top-notch management team, we'd be challenging for the league within two seasons. That's not the case.
Those fantasies don't work. Again, as I mentioned previously, Kroenkes have no desire to challenge for the league. If they did, they wouldn't be going about business in the manner they have been since Wenger. They didn't care as long as Wenger was qualifying for the UCL.
They didn't have an ounce of nuance when Gazidis started that "cold war" with Wenger after Leicester won the title. They backed Gazidis over Wenger. They forced Wenger out. What then happened? Gazidis weaseled out as soon as he could.
Today, Arteta has the safest job in the world. If he finishes 8th again, he's not getting sacked. Instead, he'd get a new contract.
So, who is supposed to hire that "decent" manager? Certainly not Florentino Perez.
To challenge for the league, you need owners who drive that ambition. At Arsenal, we haven't seen any evidence of that since the Kroenkes became majority shareholders at the club.
Dare I say, if there would be no backlash and no implications, Arsenal (and Spurs) would abandon English football and become permanent parts of the super league. Because these two clubs, as of now, don't care about winning titles. That can't be said about City, Chelsea, Liverpool, or ManU.
You're imagining a fantastic world where Kroenkes would hire a quality manager, a visionary DoF, and allow them to achieve for Arsenal. Evidence shows, that's not the case.