Wenger needed to go for his own failing you won’t get any complaints from me there. My issue is with the ownership and if they’re doing what’s needed to provide what’s best for Arsenal. It doesn’t have to be an extra 100 mil to buy players but a similar gesture wouldn’t go unnoticed. A simple change to outdated policies would have been nice. Prioritizing the club over other assets would be appreciated. A modicum of ambition would be welcomed. I do not get the feeling with the ownership that they’re serious about the club achieving the highest honors.
@Crimson
That’s simply not true. How long was Wiltord our record signing for under the old regime? Under Wenger we’d spend peanuts on players well into the Emirates years. Since Kroenke has taken over we’ve broken our transfer record on three occasions in recent years with Ozil, Lacazette and Auba. Also, we’ve invested in better rated players and not just unpolished gems from the French league.
We moved a away from the youth policy and we went from having an experienced team to having plenty of experience and title winner to point now where we have an aging team passed their peak because they missed their window under Wenger.
We have broken our wage barrier and moved away from that ‘socialist wage structure’ Wenger would champion which would often be the cause of losing star players because we’re overpaying overhyped kids. It’s still far from perfect but at least we’ve shown we’re willing to reward key players and it will take some years to correct the inflated wage bill.
We invested in Stat DNA and tried to bring in players using a data driven system instead of depending on Wenger’s outdated knowledge of the game.
We employed new fitness gurus and invested in fitness tech to help curb the constant injury problems we suffered under Wenger. We weren’t measuring fatigue levels in training before but when you heard Wenger talk of players being in the ‘red zone’ that’s because of the new fitness vests we invested in for training which could measure fatigue levels.
We have just fired Wenger, hired a new coach and staff to support a new system where the manager doesn’t have absolute authority over everything. We now have Raul, Vinai, Edu is about to join, we’ve brought back ex Arsenal players to coach the youth. A major critisim I had with the club and Wenger was how former players weren’t given coaching roles or allowed a major say in our future. We only ever had that glorified cone collector, Bould, who looks to be on his way out of the club.
There has been so many changes around the club and I just hope it continues.