Dynamite wrote:PairyGrows wrote:LMAO wrote:theHotHead wrote:Interest: waning wrote:jayramfootball wrote:4th isn't a thing and never will be a thing - other than it is better than 5th and not as good as 3rd.
Just because it's good for business - i.e. CL money - adds absolutely zero to it as a sporting achievement which is all any fan should care about.
Never understood why anyone would cheer 4th place - all it means is we get to pad the bank account with some group games in the CL before getting knocked out by better teams and going into the Europa League anyway.
1st is all that counts. It's all that ever counts.
I agree but when you're in the CL you're seen as a CL club and then more attractive.
Are we attractive whilst we've been playing football in swamps these past two seasons?
Were we attractive during the 19 consecutive years in the CL under Wenger? Name all of those wonderful players we bought that would only come to us because we were in the CL
Its a point I made in another thread, that argument that we had to be in the CL to attract the top players was bollox because we never spent money on the top players anyway, we always spent less money on players a tier/2 tiers down.
Name the top players we bought who were top players when we bought them. Ozil and Sanchez, thats your lot, for 19 years.
Petr Cech

I'd add in Santi Cazorla.
Arshavin, Mertesacker, Podolski, Rosicky, Hleb, Lehmann, Nasri?
Im sorry but none of them were top tier when we bought them. Cazorla, Merts and Rosicky were not seen as top tier when we got them. Lots of people laughed when we bought Merts saying he moved at the pace of evolution. Cazorla was a good looking player but no major club went in for him - we only got him because Malaga were desperate for a quick sale to get some money. Rosicky was unfortunately very injury prone so nobody knew if he would get a lot of game time.
Arshavin was never world class, neither was Hleb, Podolski or Lehmann. Nasri became world class at Arsenal, he wasn't when we bought him though.
Even when you look at Bergkamp (pre Wenger anyway) and Henry, Bergkamp was one of the best players in the world when he went to Inter but had a disappointing season or so there. Henry flopped at Juve before he came to us.
The only players that we bought at the top of their game who regarded as world class were Ozil and Sanchez.