Exactly, people seem to keep assuming Kroenke has some level of sporting ambition?, he sees ambition as risk, he can allow Arsenal to coast along on a limited budget and sure he'll take success if it somehow falls into his lap, but he isn't going to sanction spending which is likely required to get us back to our previous top 4 level, let alone competing with the likes of P$G, City, United, RM, Barca or Bayern.DB10GOONER wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:34 pmThe CL money is not worth what it used to be to us as a club. The TV deals far far outweigh the CL income. Also Wenger has unloaded players (particularly players like Walcott and Giroud who were on huge wages) so our spend on new players is next to nothing in the bigger scheme of things. Wenger is the perfect manager for Kroenke because he doesn't ask for the millions and millions that are required to build a league winning side.
At the moment we are struggling to compete with Spurs, Liverpool or Chelsea (they kinda fall somewhere in the middle of the two groups). Honestly some of our fans are so naive - see DT from AFTV, getting all excited because we spent £60M on Aubameyang, forgetting that we sold Ox for £40M, Walcott for £20M, Coquelin for £12M and Giroud for £18M, so basically after Ozil's new contract, Mickey mouse's wages and Aubameyang's fee and wages we are probably still about static in cost terms.
As you say Wenger is the perfect manager in this respect, yes he has wasted a 'bit' of money but over the longer term he has been very cost effective and that is why he is still manager, along with deflecting the blame away from wiggy himself of course.