As painful as it is, the way they’re going about things is as solid as you’re going to see in terms of building a team to compete and win things.
They realised they have an excellent manager in Arteta, they let him trim and mould the squad the way he wants, and they have consistently backed him with quality players in the 30/40/50/60 million price range every window. And to add to that, if they believe there’s a player out there to really make a difference, they’ve shown they are willing to go balls to the wall to bring in a 100 million player.
And here’s the thing, whisper is quietly for some around here, there is absolutely no reason why we shouldn’t be able to act like them. Absolutely zero.
We were in an almost identical position to them 5 years ago with Pochettino and our owners made and absolutely cock and balls of it, showing without absolutely any doubt that they have no ambition to really make us a top side to genuinely compete.
