A decade for sale 995

A major league side trying to buy their way to success? Don't be silly! We all know that this is a recent trend started by just a couple of clubs. We can tell that this is so by the ng threads. The cynics might say it is just envy and the only way the idiot fans can get at sides who are, at the time, better than their own team.

I don't believe this for a second. Given a spending windfall I am confident that all those who accuse others of trying to buy success would object if their own side started to spend more on improving the team than they had been able to afford in the past.

These fans have an in built knowledge of what the ethical spending total should be ( even though none of them can state what it is) and they would be up-in-arms if their management overstepped it. This has to be a fact, unless they are mostly all hot air and preach one rule for others and a different one for themselves?

Sarcastic comments aside, these stats do show what a shrewd manager Wenger is, like him or not. But that should not hide the fact that he, like all the others, has bought success for Arsenal. The point most often overlooked is not that sides try to by better league positions, they have been doing it for decades, but that the amount spent or not spent has far less to do with the outcome than most people think. Recent Prem history is full of terrible and very expensive purchases. Spending alone will never guarantee success.

AF purchased success for his club. So did Chelsea. So did every Prem winner of recent memory. Wenger did the same at Arsenal. He just paid less for it. Seems the man knows his job?

LC