theHotHead wrote:Reiss wrote:Highbury Hillbilly wrote:Reiss wrote:£180m warchest rumours lol
We've done a full circle back to the Wenger years!
Absolute chequebook manager.
Newcastle could make Top 6 if they spent the £225m Arteta already has. And here we are, sinking another fortune to support Mr. Non-negotiables.
Let's be honest most if not all managers need money to rebuild and shape the squad into their own.
Pep needs it, Jose needs it and even Klopp needed it although the latter does it via self generated funds.
We were an absolute sh*t show when Mikel walked into this club. You can't expect him to work wonders with the likes of Mustafi and Sokratis.
We've cleared a decade worth of clogged crap and chronic inefficiencies over the past 24 months. We've got a good foundation built now and when we improve the attack in the summer he won't have any excuses left.
No we weren't, we were not the 6th best team in the league we were better than that, Wenger was a stubborn dufus who paid no attention to defending. We finished 5th with Emery who it turns out was even worse defensivley. Just think how much closer to 4th we would've got with even a slight defensive improvement. You talk about us being a shit show, explain how we got to the Europa League final the season before ? Explain how the only teams that scored more goals than us were Man City and Liverpool who finished first and second respectively, if we were such a shit show.
You cannot put Klopp in the same bracket as Pep and Mourinho, the latter have been chequebook managers, at least Mourinho did something special with Porto when he didn't have money to spend, Pep has never proved that he can do the same. Klopp has spent money earned by selling his best players, he is not a chequebook manager in the slightest ! Klopp is what Wenger was at first and should have maintained being instead of going off trying to prove the world that his way was the right way when we could all see that his way was doomed to fail.
So this narrative that the squad was washed up and shot and blah blah blah is nonsense.
The squad was totally washed up and had dropped to 11th place in the league with no improvement in sight.
It required an entire rebuild which is what we are doing.