"Thierry Henry Dreamland", the magical place us Gunners spent the last few days, has disappeared, and a huge realty snap woken us all up to witness yet another devastating performance from the team. Deja vu. Another week in a row where we take the lead, get our hopes up, and then bottle it all. Even the most patient Gunners, counting me, were probably fuming when Danny Graham ,returned the lead for Swans seconds after Theo Walcott's equaliser. Will we ask again, for God knows what time, how much longer?
How much longer will we have to look at the same deadwood that is hampering our club for months/years now? How much longer will we see teams from the bottom half of the table being overconfident and attacking us from all directions? How much longer before we maintain some real tactic and formation? How much longer before we see signs of ambition, signs of hunger? We have came to the point where Tottenham are more realistic title condenters than we are, and more than a half season has passed. That isn't purple patch anymore, that is something called ambiton.
Has Arsene Wenger's stubborness become so hard that he won't give up on them even when the club is facing it's worst season since he took charge? In the 08/09 campaign, when the 5th place was under threat by high-flying Martin O'Neill's Aston Villa, at least he surprised us all with the aquisition of Andrei Arshavin. The Russian, who's now, to be honest, just a shadow of the player he was when he came, has kept us in the CL almost alone that season. I'm afraid that the Frenchman won't pull a simillar move this winter. I hope that I'm wrong, but I think he has complete belief that the injured players like Jack Wilshere, Bacary Sagna, Kieran Gibbs, Tomas Vermaelen and co. will give imidiate boost to squad when they return, and eventually stay in the top flight. I believe it won't be enough. What is needed is a massive, state of intent signing who would help us not to become a laughing stock of Premier League, and most of all, to bring back faith to us - fans and of course, the players. The most frustrating thing I've heard is that we're actually keeping our cash reserves in case we don't get into ECL. Is that called ambition? It's like you get a good job in another country, and you don't want to buy a good house and settle in the area cause you're afraid you're soon be getting fired, so instead you live on the street. Instead of spending that money for quality players who would surely fit into the system and return us to the top, we're saving it cause we think we won't get into Champions League. That, my fellow Gunners, is the major sign of not having an ambition.
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| Henry watching his team crumbling against Swansea |
You say Wenger is afraid to buy big signings cause he's afraid of failure? He doesn't buy stars, he makes them? For every Fabregas and Wilshere you have 10 Denilsons, Diabys and Bendtners. With the transfer money and wages he spent on Diaby ( who for 7 years in Arsenal has maybe 2 seasons of actually playing), Denilson, Bendtner, Squillaci, Chamakh, Walcott, etc., he could've got 2-3 players of absolute quality. He's afraid of spending money on a quality player, but he's not afraid to award Denilson a nice, hefty contract for doing literarlly nothing? You see, that's a bit absurd. That is unexplainable and I can't really get along with that. I'm losing patience faster every passing game and a strange decision by Wenger and Arsenal, and sooner rather than later I think many of us will burst. This is reality. We are nowhere near a top, ambitious, hungry club anymore. Robin Van Persie, our joint top scorer, will be the first to leave the club in the summer if nothing is done soon, and he won't be alone.
I know the post today is a little bit pell-mell, but after today's game, my head is full of thoughts and I'm just writing everything that comes to mind. Soon I will post something more useful, but anyway, I know most of you agree with me.
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