What really happened in the summer of Cech?

[Macho]

It’s hard to understand because it isn’t true. A year later we spent close to 100m on Xhaka, Mustafi and Perez. Why couldn’t we have done that in 2015?

Arsenal stadium debt had significantly reduced around then and the purse strings loosened to roughly 100m a summer.

Tracking The Impact Of Arsenal's Move To Emirates Stadium Ten Years On: Was It Worth It?

Too often a straight line has been drawn between Arsenal’s cash reserves and the erroneous conclusion that it equals a transfer kitty. It is far too simplistic – a bit like checking your bank statement and assuming that the balance is available to spend while forgetting that the mortgage payment...

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Explained in detail here which explains a lot of you guys “why did they not spend until 2015” barbs.

Furthermore, who said that 100m was the budget of that transfer summer alone? How do you know Arsenal didn’t keep their powder dry and wait until the following season like we saw this regime do last Jan?

All desperate attempts to discredit Wenger and bizarrely lay some of the blame of the present day on him.

 

[Blankety Blank]

Liverpool was chasing the quad last season and City are chasing the treble this season. Between them they have made 4 of the last 5 CL finals.

BuT tHE leAgUE dEFinITelY isNT tOugHer.

Exactly Klopps a great manager & done amazing things there but his team goes of the boil a bit this season & they likely won't even get Champions League now.

Sp**s fans are in meltdown coz they will finish 8th but Conte was OVERACHIEVING & 6th or 7th is probably their natural position right now.

7 really big clubs now in the league who's fans/owners expect & demand success.

It's never been harder to win the league or finish top 4 with a Champs league place.

Next season 5 champs league places means a little more wiggle room but 2 big clubs are still gonna be out every year.

As for winning the prem title 6 of the biggest/wealthiest clubs in European football will be disappointed every single season!!

 

[Tnegs]

Arsenal stadium debt had significantly reduced around then and the purse strings loosened to roughly 100m a summer.

Tracking The Impact Of Arsenal's Move To Emirates Stadium Ten Years On: Was It Worth It?

Too often a straight line has been drawn between Arsenal’s cash reserves and the erroneous conclusion that it equals a transfer kitty. It is far too simplistic – a bit like checking your bank statement and assuming that the balance is available to spend while forgetting that the mortgage payment...

www.forbes.com

Explained in detail here which explains a lot of you guys “why did they not spend until 2015” barbs.

Furthermore, who said that 100m was the budget of that transfer summer alone? How do you know Arsenal didn’t keep their powder dry and wait until the following season like we saw this regime do last Jan?

All desperate attempts to discredit Wenger and bizarrely lay some of the blame of the present day on him.

I’m a professional accountant with a keen interest in football finances who has been tracking Arsenals financials since 2008 and I know for a fact that it made next to 0 difference from a financial viewpoint whether we spent in 2015 or 2016. It was a poor decision that cost us the title that season.

We should have pushed the boat out in 13/14 to sign Suarez, Higuain and Özil and we could have afforded it but we didn’t because we lacked ambition not finances. Same goes for 15/16.

 

[Macho]

I’m a professional accountant with a keen interest in football finances who has been tracking Arsenals financials since 2008 and I know for a fact that it made next to 0 difference from a financial viewpoint whether we spent in 2015 or 2016. We should have pushed the boat out in 13/14 to sign Suarez, Higuain and Özil and we could have afforded it but we didn’t because we lacked ambition not finances. Same goes for 15/16.

 

[albakos]

You know, the summer of Cech doesn't happen if Bendtner finishes that one-on-one with Valdes in 2011 or if Adebayor passes to Bendtner on our away match to Birmingham in 2008.

 

[Rex Stone]

You know, the summer of Cech doesn't happen if Bendtner finishes that one-on-one with Valdes in 2011 or if Adebayor passes to Bendtner on our away match to Birmingham in 2008.

What about Bentdner blocking Cesc’s goal against Liverpool in 2008?

 

[albakos]

What about Bentdner blocking Cesc’s goal against Liverpool in 2008?

It seems like Lord Bendtner is at fault for more than we thought

 

[Rex Stone]

It seems like Lord Bendtner is at fault for more than we thought

I remember he came back looking like a Samurai in 2013/14 and scored some huge goals for us tbf

 

[albakos]

I remember he came back looking like a Samurai in 2013/14 and scored some huge goals for us tbf

He brought back that winning mentality with him, tbf
Got himself a Serie A Scudetto winners (participation) medal alongside another former Gunner.

 

[outlawz]

It just goes to how daft people are that the season we only bought Cech and went from 3rd to 2nd was seen as a monumental failure, but the season we spent 100m and went from 2nd to 5th isn't.

 

[Blankety Blank]

It just goes to how daft people are that the season we only bought Cech and went from 3rd to 2nd was seen as a monumental failure, but the season we spent 100m and went from 2nd to 5th isn't.

Not really.
It was seen as the perfect opportunity ALL the big clubs except us were in transition.
Leicester ended up winning the league.

It was easily the best chance we had to win the title in the Emirates era.

We spent 100m & went from 2nd to 5th because the other big teams got their act together.