Is this the well balanced side that this season lost at home to Athletico, and to Juventus, lost at home and away to Monaco, lost at home to Leverkusen, failed to get out their Champions league group to even reach the last 16. Then got knocked out of the Europa league by losing to AAGent. The same well balanced side that as of this moment haven't won a single trophy in any competition.
Cut Wenger some slack surely. Chelsea didn't manage to keep Spurs in their place last year when Wenger did, even though his side was no where near as balanced apparently. Doesn't that count?
And what about the previous 19 years that Wenger kept Spurs in their place, some of which with a lot less money, and with a poorly balanced side for the last 12 of it. Doesn't that count for anything either?
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It's people like you that have helped the club become what it is today, a soulless, corporate mess with an endless excuse culture and victim mentality with its focus being profit first sporting achievements second.
Sure mate, everything's great. You keep buying the absolute crap this club continues to feed. Let's have no standards, just accept everything and blame it all on external factors.
You keep telling yourself that there wasn't a massive slice of fortune about our second place finish last year too.
Using the Spurs in Europe example is useless. Even the best United sides took two or three years to adapt to Europe and eventually win the thing. That Spurs side is young and still wet behind the ears but they're learning fast - if you can't see what that manager has done to progress that club then you're a fool with your head continually stuck in the sand. They look fitter, stronger, better balanced and coached and hungrier than any of the sides I've seen since we've moved to the Emirates. They obviously work intensely hard in training and they're reaping the benefits.
It all comes from the leadership at the top - the way club is being run absolutely stinks to the high heaven. At this level, if your ambition isn't to be winning the highest honours in the game then prepare to get forgotten because it's quite obvious that the clubs around us do and are moving heaven and earth to get there - leaving us bumbling around. We're an absolute mess in every area, and you're still there creating excuse after excuse.
Lol Woolwich Mania. They are shitting bricks!