I know it does send the wrong message but that was what his superiors wanted and he knew then that they were not giving him the funds to compete.It sent out the wrong message. The mentality within the club hasn’t been what it should be ever since.
The arsenal model has always been to spend what you earn, never mind that others are not doing so. It left him with the inability to invest in the squad adequately. I know some will say we started spending in 2013 and that is true. But when we finally spend 35 Mil. Good midfielders were going for 70-80M. When we finally spent 50M on an attacker who we should not have bought, top grade attackers were going for 80m and up.
We upped it and got Auba and that was his last real quality signing but gazidis wanted to get rid of him a long time ago and in his last season Gazidis jumped at the opportunity to sack him after a few bad results in Feb/March. I put more blame on the upper management than I do on Wenger.
The man had been given a basket to carry water for years and never complained. Now people see that it wasn't Arsène that was the root of the problem they want to blame everyone except the present coach but were quick to blame Wenger. People just need to admit it, they wanted change for change sake, the man was there for too long in their eyes and they wanted to experience something new. Well they got it and we are ****.