I would take one issue with Jayojay re Arsenal being like Barcelona. I think it is the other way round in that Barcleona decided to change their style of play from Sperz style mediocrity (2nd to Madrid all the time) and go for the Invincible style of play of our great club.

It should be noted that the core of their club was internally developed and supplemented with buys, some of which have been less than spectacular.

THE Arsenal are on the right track. If ou don’t want to follow go koin the Japanese tourists in West London. You’ll need a bath after every game.

I find that really really ironic because i could bet a million pounds there were lots of very smart finance graduates like you at Lehman Brothers or RBS or Northern Rock that said exactly the same thing not too long ago. I can picture them saying hey man, its no biggie! we get paid big bucks and win some awards for this at the mo and so what if we got lotsa toxic debts we might accrue?! Those will tooootaly be taken care of by the millions of bucks we’ll make in future revenue! High five while we spend our massive bonuses at a strip club Brotha!!
Shame those smart finance guys didn’t see the financial meltdown coming huh.
I aint no finance graduate but methinks Its that kinda smart finance type of attitude that got us in the terrible financial mess the country’s in at the moment.
Dont get me wrong Gooner, i think you make some valid points but dude you have no idea what the hell is gona happen in the future, so the idea of just spending loads of money on the basis of covering those debts from future revenue is crazy. I mean what would happen for example if we spent lots and lots of money and still didn’t win trophies what would you say then man. We aint the only ones with cash you know!
I see where you’re coming from Gooner but its not cool to call those other guys retards because of what they said.
Just to finish this off, i just want to say my personal opinion is that, i wish we could spend lots of money, and bring in lots of great players at the right price, or even at stupid prices, but realistically, Arsenal football club cannot operate on such a model. I can see what Wenger is trying to do and yes it might be frustrating sometimes but on the long run i think its probably better than throwing lots of money that may or may not change anything. Gooner you said dignity, style, tradition and all that stuff are just words, but my friend what do you think makes all these idiotic footballers whore themselves out the moment they hear that Barcelona or Real are after them. Why do you think these clubs seem to have billions of fans that allow them to make and spend this never ending bucket of cash they use to cover their crazy crazy debts even when they aint winning shite?! Its because they have built up and represent some of these things that you mock as just words… apart from dignity of course!! And in my opinion i think thats what Arsene is trying to do is build the exact same sort of sense of style and identity for Arsenal football club. A basis for long term success and fanbase that these European clubs seem to have even when they are loosing, and i think its working. Our youth system is already lauded as the best in England for these reasons and our style of play is spoken of in the same breadth as Barcelona. Do you know how amazing that is. Speak to anyone outside of England or Europe 10 years ago and they wouldn’t know shit about arsenal but ask now and we are synonymous with beautiful football and and a distinctive style and tradition that is Arsenal. That’s just the start of our march to greatness. building the arsenal style and identity, from the youth set up right to the seniors, and my friend i think the only way to do this is to start with a generation that live, breath and bleed arsenal and you can only do such imprinting on kids!! and I think the trophies will come but first Arsene is trying to lay the basis for arsenal to be a truly great club that can afford to throw money away like the Reals and the Barcelonas of this world, and trust me its going to take a lot more than just money and one or two bought trophies to do that, i mean just look at Chelski!! If abramo left them they would be screwed, and we would be too if we went down the same route!

The current board has it’s faults but they haven’t taken any dividends since the seventies. That means more money for Wenger in the long run

gooner: If your Manchester United model is so good, why are they not able to even service their debt now? Haven’t you noticed that they are reluctant to spend the Ronaldo money? They are choking right now, but they are doing their best to hide it from the whole world. Very soon everything will bust out.

Haven’t you noticed how the others, including Chelsea, are very cautious in the market? Liverpool has altready received a letter from their creditors, Nat West, and they are panicking. So you want the club to go burst in order to get a trophy for you? Well, we don’t want our club to go burst, thank you very much.

Armiyau salami: If you follow that guy, you are completely deluded.

My advice, go support Man U, since you seem to love their model so much.

I fucking love this club just the way it is, the dignity, tradition, history, style and loyalty to a genius vision. If you can’t see that, Gooner, I pity you. I’m not in this for glory, thats the bonus of good support, I’m in it because I AM GOONER!!!!!