29 Aug 2013 09:00:04
All Arsenal fans, I have one question to ask you. When we spend money on the costliest tickets, merchandise and all the love we have for the club. do you expect to see the best for the club in return for the money(good players, competitive squad, ambition to win and create a legacy) or do you like a Mr Kroenke, Gazidis and Wenger making huge salaries and profits from OUR hard earned money. Answer is simple for me. We fans make the club. We make it POPULAR. If we don't, Emirates, Puma Nike etc won't be signing mega deals with the club. Stop everything because this window has proved what Arsenal's ambitions are. Van persie, Nasri, Song's exit proved it earlier but this window is a mirror.
Arsenal is not winning every season with 100 points so I do not understand a Blind Wenger saying we will sign only special players. Certainly our team is not good enough to win anything, it wasnt last year so I don't understand how that same team with 17 players less in the squad is a title challenger.

To all The EDs who say support the club and cut the flak, we respect you but we have supported the club for 8 years now and want to see dividends or else what reason do we have to support the club? That the BOARD makes 154m cash reserves from our money. WOW. is that a reason?
Tottenham Chelsea keep finding special players though they already have a bunch and we dont? when one player gets injured and we don't have a squad player to put in that position.
You say we will talk on 3rd September,,, but why so late when opposite teams d not have time to replace players and desperation leads to panic buys at increased costs. Is that how an AMBITIOUS club operates?

As an Arsenal fan I fear, Ramsey and Cazorla have good seasons and RM, Barcelona, City will come calling on them, Mr Kroenke will sell them off with a smile saying. "Let them go, I want an island in Nantucket. Santi's sale will give me that."
The fans should stop and fight this facade. Player agents never allow transfers to be discreet in today's world and since there are no solid links we have to realize it's too late for us to strengthen also the realization that many players now do not want to play for Arsenal.
No disrespect to any of the Eds, but this is a blatant and hugely visible truth.

1.) 29 Aug 2013
I think that is a fair post Gunner_vin. I fear there are many of us gooners old & young alike that feel the same way.
Just why are we failing to convince players to come & join us?
There is surely a bigger reason that we do not know about. It needs some Journo to really investigate & find out just what is happening with the soul of our club.

2.) 29 Aug 2013
I support the club because I always have and always will. Benn through worse "slumps" than this, and no doubt will do again.
Been through numerous managers from Terry Neil, different Chairman, different chief execs. Makes no difference, i'll support them all.

To address a couple of your points - Spurs have not bought any special talents - in fact i'd struggle to get any of there purchases into our first team (Paulinho being the only one that I defer judgement on). that's approx 90mm on players tha don't immediately strengthen OUR team. Chelsea/Man City and others are different, they have bottomless pits of finances, we don't - it's simple.

Still days left to go in transfer window - let's wait and see what comes off before writing us off. Remember Anfield '89? its not over till the fat lady sings.

keep the faith!

3.) 29 Aug 2013
Good post well said an awful lots of us think as you do.
hope we win on sunday or the villa game will be nothing to what will happen then!

4.) 29 Aug 2013
Also think the malaise this window is down to wenger, but think lots going on behind the scenes. ie ownership

5.) 29 Aug 2013
@ Green Dream. I respect your support for the club. To make things clear, I am not supporting tottenham's signings or comparing them to Arsenal. But they are trying to build a squad with depth. Come January and february where the business end of the season starts, it's the depth in squad that will see us through. Our current set of 16 are not mechanical Robots who will not be affected by fatigue or injuries. Surely Wenger can see that when people like us can. Even we will continue to support our club but it's not going in th right direction and that's sad.
Obviously we do not have the money like Chelsea/City do. but those people make 3-5 high profile signings every year. We can surely manage 1-2 after 8 years right? Players who will put a little fear in the opposition and help us challenge for honors. And we are only saying this because Gazidis came out talked about 70m warchests and signing Rooney and more than that. We haven't had dreams about all this. Not a single million has been spent.
It's layman knowledge you first sign players and then let players leave. tottenham, Madrid everyone knows how it works. Why the hell did he sell 17 players and now we are stuck and dependent if other teams will sell to us.

2 reasons that I could think of Players not wanting Arsenal anymore :
1) the stupid wage structure. Good players are padi double and triple the wages at other clubs.
2) Arsenal have clearly not shown ambition to win trophies - something which professional footballers dream of since they are kids. (Most recent proof - celebrating the fourth place and Wenger saying - Fourth place is a trophy for us)

Sad and distraught state our club is in.

6.) 29 Aug 2013
Very good post mate says it all I'm afraid . After that post there is no need to comment anymore very well summarised.