Morning all
The disappointment of our loss at Wembley may take some time to wear off, and our next game is fast approaching, one competition down and the next is on top of us in an eye blink, will we progress to the final or will our season nosedive, a good question, i predict nosedive. Many of you will condemn me for making that statement but, i'm sorry this team and this manager are not a winning combination. The tactics we use may be pleasing on the eye but is proving to be a losing strategy. We have good business people in charge, people that can earn the club money and year after year produce profit, unlike the football team and the footballing squad that have won absolutely nothing bar The Emirates cup, which we put on for ourselves. These business people make their profits by strangling the managers options to buy quality players, they give him enough to buy players from God knows where that will do a job but not good enough to win trophies. we will have to wait a very long time to even think about challenging the United's of this world and why, because football is a business every home game earns us in the region of 3 million pounds, our sponsors give us money because they know that sixty thousand people will see their logos week in and week out, success is not really a problem, the Emirates stadium will be filled every time we have a home game, i would call that taking money by false pretences, fans turn up hoping that we will go on to be successful, but our businessmen, know that were successful without winning major prises by our profits.
Teams like Chelsea went forty years without silverware, until a money man came in and invested, we all bemoaned this ploy as buying success but it worked and within a very short time they had the silverware Abramovich wanted, Manchester City's investors have also seen how it can be done and are following the same route, i predict many trophies over the next few years for these teams, while their investors keep spending success will keep coming for them. These teams are doing no different to the great Manchester Utd, they built their stadium many many years ago and have over the years added to it to the highest capacity club stadium in the country, they have probably the most supporters in the world so their stadium has earned them money for years and that money and the money of various benefactors have enabled them to buy the best players around and keep them at the top level for years, but now that multi billionaires are not afraid to throw million after million and can afford to lose that money, has started to slow Utd progress and will stifle them as well.
Arsene Wenger, i still believe him to be a manager before his time, and had the billionaires invested their money in our club instead of the ones they did, with Wengers ideas and his philosophies he could have been the the most successful manager of all time and our club up there at the top. Wenger whether you love him or loathe him has done extremely well with the resources he has had, forget the crap that directors have said about money being there if he feels he needs it, that statement made me laugh out loud, how many managers do you remember have said i don't need money, right, none. so in my book Wenger has done fantastic to even have us challenging for the top honors let alone winning them. Now if you are honest with yourselves ,have we got a fantastic squad that should win major trophies, go through the team and look at every individual in that team and tell me how many of them would you put into a team to beat the world, an honest answer now, none of them, so Wenger has actually over achieved sounds daft but he has, and he has done all that on a shoe string, he has enabled players to demand high wages do they deserve it, in my eyes no, for the simple reason all of the players that have moved on have not bettered themselves because they were only good at Arsenal and that has to be put down to the manager.
So my prediction back up the page, i stand by i honestly hope i am wrong but i don't believe i am, we'll carry on playing and being the nearly men, and we may just win the odd thing but our profits will always be good and the stadium will always be full and the supporters will still carry belief, but we may at this stage think six years is a long time to go without a trophy, but i believe it could go on for considerably longer, i wonder whether i will ever see one again that's how long i'm talking, but what do i know i could be wrong. I hope and pray i am.
Written by Steve Palmer
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