Lagos wrote:
Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan! People gravitate towards success, no one with self worth wants to associate himself with failure. Whether it's for money or for glory it doesn't matter we offer neither! No one scans a gathering of women/men and looks to pull the ugly one, you only settle for the ugly one if you have no confidence in yourself or you know you aren't that attractive to the other sex and just thankfull you managed to pull something with a pulse. The only players that never want to go are the players nobody wants, even some of our losers who begin to believe their own hype and want to leave find out nobody of substance wants them. If you go to an ivy league university, work hard and graduate with a 1st class you don't want to waste your talents in a mediocre employer, you want the best where your talents can bring the professional and financial recognition it deserves. . This is a recurring theme, it's a systemic problem so it can't be about the individual players! It will continue next it will be Kos or Jack or Sagna! You don't see top players wanting to quit the top teams the way there always seem to be an exodus from Arsenal, that alone speaks volumes.
The writing has been on the wall and it's about time we stopped deflecting our anger towards players and focus it on the root cause of the problem. It sickens me that we are now starting threads about 2nd best player, who had a better season Liverpool or arsenal, that in a bid to keep players we are now talking about legacy, what fucking legacy, the great leader of losers? how about bloody trophies, how about comparing ourselves to the winners? A jockey in a horse race doesn't look at the horses behind him but those in front, you only look back when you are leading to ensure you don't get caught! We are burying our heads in the sand, as a club , as fans we are thinking and acting like losers! As far as the Liverpool comparison it doesn't matter who had a better season, we both had crap and we shouldn't be talking about who is less crap and deriving satisfaction from that. We are both big teams fallen from grace what's more important is what Asa said, they've sacked the man responsible for the rot... their manager, if anything it's a statement that despite winning the CC and getting to the FA final, their season was unacceptable, we on the other hand carry on as usual and expect different results!
I don't want RVP to leave but I won't blame him in fact quite honestly I'd question him if he stayed, just like Nasri, Fabregas and others worth their salt, they all know this is a sinking ship that won't win anything, I'm a fan I don't have a choice I'm stuck but if I were a player, I would have left ages ago! We can mock all the good players who left call them names, Cashley, Cashri, Moneybayor etc but the truth is Cole, Henry, hleb, Adebayor, Nasri, Clichy, Toure, have all won trophies after leaving and earned more money while we have won the grand total of Zilch! You can console yourselves and say they are bench warmers not regular starters, but that's just a round about way of saying while they were at arsenal they were big fish in a small pond, emphasis on small pond. You don't improve by being surrounded with the mediocre and having your place guaranteed! We need to stop being a small pond, someone somewhere (I think the malcontents thread) posted a list of about 13 players that should leave, I urge people to have a look at that list, 13 useless players, what team carries 13 useless players? this is on top on another 4 or 5 1st team regulars that have no business being 1st team regulars. You expect and elite player to look at these roughly 18 players and say yeah this is where I'm gonna win trophies and create a legacy?
Lastly when Theo Walcott is holding you to ransome, you know you've lost the plot!
