Anzac wrote:
jones wrote:
He's been supported a lot more than Wenger has been in most of his time here. He got Partey Ödegaard Gabriel Willian (who he wanted) and got rid of a bunch of trouble makers, almost every manager in world football would be ecstatic with that kind of transfer window let alone during covid.
Wenger played by his own rules. 2 Chairman of the BoD both said he would be provided additional funding if he asked, but I suspect AW's hubris had control of his decision making.
Partey was only half the desired solution and was initially wanted by Emery according to an article I read recently.
The trouble makers should have gone last summer and not had half a season to stink up the club and team performance.
IMO it's not just a case of actions taken or not, but also the timing of those actions. For example the trouble makers may have departed but in terms of numbers and quality they have not been replaced as yet, and we have 2 players in midfield who are on loan in the crucial engine room of the team. The squad is still not 'fit for purpose' as it still remains unbalanced and flawed, with the likes of Luiz and Willian as compromise selections based more upon expediency rather than being primary targets.
They are Arteta's picks is the very point I'm making. You're claiming he wasn't supported by the club when it's not true, his higher ups gave him both money for great signings and the opportunity to make the braindead signings and extensions of his choice.
Of course the board would say Wenger would have had additional funding if he wanted it, they're the stingy cunts who denied it to him. Not saying he always exhausted his options, in 2010 when we badly needed another defender and 2015 when we needed a striker he could've gotten someone I'm sure. I still thought it was proven beyond doubt by now that he was operating on a shoestring budget for most of the second half of his time here and needed to sell to break even, especially compared to what Arteta has had to spend.
The players we needed to sell were kept here by Arteta's own volition. He's the one who kept playing Mustafi at first, then talked him up before eventually agreeing to terminate his contract. I'm one of Arteta's harsher critics to be fair and I can see how some see promise in how we're playing while others don't but I don't think his squad management can be judged as anything but absolutely shocking. Edu shares some of the blame because he should've gone upside Arteta's head with all his demands but I'm not going to excuse the manager for asking for a full second string of past it veterans while ruining the value and morale of our prospects. Claiming he wasn't backed isn't just living in a fantasy world when you look at what 95% of other clubs have to work with it's straight wrong, just look at the reactions here after the transfer windows closed most of us were ecstatic.
