Mo Britain
Doom Monger
When Wenger had the ideas and the team he didn't have the money to keep us winning. A successful season was (almost always) followed by a "near-miss" season. It was mostly a league of two.
The squeeze on money to build the stadium coincided with the influx of first oligarch and then TV money giving several clubs the chance to be more competitive. On top of this the ideas stagnated and/or others copied them.
He then did a great job of holding together a team which was quite competitive, even if it didn't win many trophies, with very little money.
By the time the good times were supposed to come back the financial paradigm had changed and the ideas have atrophied into "more of the same" but with less talented teams. The refusal to take into account opponents when you are stronger than 99% of them becomes mere stupid arrogance when over half the teams you play adapt to play you and have players who can do harm if they play well and are disciplined.
The entire team needs an overhaul but it will not happen whislt Kronke is there. It's going to be a long hard season which will have some icing if we win the Europa League. Which I wouldn't put past us. But it's going to be a nasty atmosphere at Ashburton Grove.
The squeeze on money to build the stadium coincided with the influx of first oligarch and then TV money giving several clubs the chance to be more competitive. On top of this the ideas stagnated and/or others copied them.
He then did a great job of holding together a team which was quite competitive, even if it didn't win many trophies, with very little money.
By the time the good times were supposed to come back the financial paradigm had changed and the ideas have atrophied into "more of the same" but with less talented teams. The refusal to take into account opponents when you are stronger than 99% of them becomes mere stupid arrogance when over half the teams you play adapt to play you and have players who can do harm if they play well and are disciplined.
The entire team needs an overhaul but it will not happen whislt Kronke is there. It's going to be a long hard season which will have some icing if we win the Europa League. Which I wouldn't put past us. But it's going to be a nasty atmosphere at Ashburton Grove.