by Salibatelli » Mon Dec 09, 2019 1:27 pm
We've not qualified for the CL for a number of years (the rot started under Wenger), on top of that Wenger and co wasted money on players that have no resale value, Xhaka, Mustafi etc and put them on high wages, something that happened far far too much under Wenger, overpaying average players, then on top of that we let our best players run down their contracts and leave for nothing or next to nothing (again it started under Wenger), this is why we're in the negative now.
Would have happened under Wenger too because he wouldn't have had CL either, Wenger got sacked in time for him, despite his poor performance some people still praise him, for some reason he always comes out as the good guy despite being complicit in the direction of the club after the stadium move.
Some people willl say he did well after the stadium move, I dont necessarily agree, Leicester won the title and are challenging again despite selling and buying little, IMO Wenger changed all that was good about Arsenal on the pitch after we moved, he undid all the good work he had done.
He always had a bit of an obsession with building a youth team, I remember his 10 year plan to develop our youth team when he arrived, that really fell on it's face when his team of youngsters failed time and time again, despite everything we invested in it it yield a very poor return, clubs like West Ham, Southampton etc have shown us up over the years spending a fraction of what we did.