Saturday 27 October 2012

Ups can hurt more than downs if you're Arsenal

Ups and downs are part and parcels of any cycle. True we have been experiencing quite some downs for the last six to seven years. The most difficult thing about those downs are really the ups. I know I know but let me explain.

Down down ... Up and away!

Take last season 2011-2012. We started so badly lost to 2-0 to Pool at home got a spanking at Manchester and conceeded 4 goals to Blackburn. We were trailing Spurs by over 10 points at sometimes. We were suposedly dead and burried. All downs. Then we got our acts together fought hard and got ourselves into a great position beating the Chavs 5-3 at their home and beating the Spurds 5-2 and leapfrogging them nicely to get ourselves the third place. Arsène's right it was a truly termendous achievement! But what you don't want is to have to turn things around every single season! You want to build from your ups to make sure you are a lot better than previously and spare everybody the stress of more downs. And that's where this Arsenal are coming short!
It was good finishing third under the circumstances but we ought to have kept the best things that helped us get to that position and reinforce accordingly to show we mean business. I still don't think we did all we could have to keep Robin as vilain as he is. The worst case being we needn't have to sell him at all. But even if you accept to sell for the amount of money we got from him we should have got a player better or on par with his abilities I know you don't meet those at every street corner. Don't get me wrong we could have kept Robin add Cazorla and other top players and still just finish third or lower as the competition is getting greater and greater but we would feel a lot more ease towards the actual board and management team as far as efforts to get us to the very top of European and world football is concerned.
You just don't want to be in the same circumstances year after year! Personaly I have nothing but love and trust to the manager. But unlike those that think he doesn't want to spend I believe he just can't spend. They say we have 70 millions pounds to pend but the reality is without the profits we've been making through player sales we are making losses every year which is clear to me that he just can't spend. Even accepting we have 70 millions pounds to spend does that include new contracts for currents players?
So reality is money available to the manager is very very limitee. What is less tolerable though is thennumber of players deemed not good enough that are so much on good wages that we cannot move them away. Our fringe players are having a treatment that's just not available anywhere else and that needs to change.
We have had some worrying results in the last couple of weeks.
If Chelsea at home felt freekish and undeservely the defeats to Norwich and Chalke were really bad. No penetration, no fire and not much chances are things you just don't relate Arsenal to. We are developing this knack of playing anywhere but through the middle. I don't know if it's to give more chances to Giroud through crossing but it's not working. 

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