Claudius you’re missing a massive point here. We got ourselves consistently out of the champions league.
PSR is measured over a three year period, so no, I'm not. As was widely reported last season, we had about nett £100m to play with during that window.
Despite this limit we demonstrated fair intent, offering €70m for Sesko, a developing player who I don't see anyone claiming we should've spent €90m on.
I am curious to know what went down with Edu, but does anyone know enough about it to pin the blame on Arteta or KSE? I'd say it's more likely it lies with the man who is no longer with us.
The coming summer is a different kettle of fish due to both CL revenue beginning to impact these limits and the reduced nett spend of last summer. That's good, because there isn't anyone who supports us who doesn't want us on the hook for both closing out a deal for Zubimendi and forward signings valued over £100m—if we can get them.
Perhaos some might claim we shouldn't have signed one or more of the players we variably deem inadequate, such as Havertz, Jesus or Zinchenko. But frankly that's bogus 20/20 hindsight stuff.
Claudius In the end, we need to stay in the top 4.
Yes, we do. (And we will by the way—we are unbackable at 1/50 to maintain top four status.)
We're living through the most rational and spending-intensive period of player recruitment in Arsenal's history.
We've never spent this much on players and we've never done the legwork assembling an impressive squad from back to front as we are now. There is always more to do, and no one says the process was flawless, but which club is doing it better currently?
The circumstances we've landed in now are a bleak joke, but I also see people saying we would've protected three forwards from incurring long term injury by signing just one, which is pure fantasy.
