clockendal wrote: Personally I really don't beleive he would go to work and accept he has one hand tied behind his back.
I would like to think that but I am not as sure. Many point out he could manager anywhere he wanted to the moment he left Arsenal. But could he? The top top clubs in Serie A and La Liga will sack managers when they WIN THE LEAGUE, so maybe its not that simple after all. Right now Arsene Wenger has one of the highest profile, best paying, and most secure managerial positions in all of club football, and he is still highly beloved for me by a majority of supporters though clearly that majority is diminishing constantly. Why would he leave now? Sad to say I think that’s the case. Not that he doesn’t care what’s happening but there’s not much he can do here now(like some Gooners seem to think maybe) and that better job he could pursue to get their attention isn’t there after all.
clockendal wrote: Yes our net spending has changed, but is that not market wide ? Look at the other clubs and how much has been spent ? I am fairly certain I have read SAF saying that Man U will not be spending much money.Yes, we obviously had the stadium finance to contend with, but it may have been also been in line with being ahead of the market and not paying out transfer fees for the sake of it. Everyone assumes "oh just pay the extra million or two to get a player" but why should you ? If you went to buy a new telly and you knew roughly what it was worth would you pay over the odds for it ? Might not be the best analogy but that's how I see it to an extent.
Let’s start at the end – you’re right …that is not the best analogy. The problem is this is a billion-pound business not a family trip to the appliance store. We don’t need to be that ridiculously conservative about everything in any event.
Second, this is more than a simple business this is a football club which represents the communities of Highbury and Islington and the hopes, dream,s and pride of its supporters locally in those boroughs, throughout England and Europe, and around the World. It isn’t simply the plaything of any multi-millionaires or billionaires – including those on the Board at the club NOW. Not every decision should be made with our Club’s share price its first and/or last or only concern. Sometimes paying more is an unpleasant necessity to achieve more and if you achieve enough then it will more than pay for additional two million you refer to.
This is especially true of player wages where the Board clearly has decided it will not compete for top players at all, which also makes transfer spending much less as those higher wage-earning players also command higher transfer fees for their clubs
As to everybody’s spending going down, yes, but given how much less we were spending than those clubs in the best of times we are spending as little or even less than they are now in the worst of times relatively speaking.
And we have more money to spend in theory if the Board want to have the manager spend it yet spend less still than these other clubs. Which makes the fact that we are still spending even less relative to these clubs inexcusable at this point.no matter what.
clockendal wrote: I think that Arsene's issue is that his become very stubborn and his beleif in these players and the effort he has put in with them makes him detemined to sucseed with them. Ultimatley that may be his undoing, but I don't think the whole board issue plays as much a part as you like to make out.
I think that if that were true I cannot see any other Board whose ambitions are the team’s success on the pitch ahead of enriching themselves retaining Mr. Wenger after 2007 let alone to now and beyond. They retain Mr. Wenger because he distracts supporters from whether the Board is doing what is best for Arsenal Football Club at this point. That’s his real value as I see, and while I don’t want to come off disrespectful in anyway as you have made a fairly good case for your view, your view only strengthens my own am I see it considering the facts we know.
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). I bet all their players will be in asking for improved contracts due to the fact they are now playing in the champions league. 
