HOW NOT TO STAY ON TOP
Its amazing how times have changed in Highbury. From a team which no one knew how to beat to one that everyone now knows how to beat. Lets look on the bright side, we are stilling winning in Highbury right? We have a bunch of greatly talented boys in the youth team right? Oh, and the first team is full of them young boys too!
Listen carefully, I shall say this only once .... SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG HERE!
I'm not one of those still whinging about Viera leaving, he's gone! I said last season he was our most important player, so I guess letting him go was not wise, but he is gone! Now we have a team playing top flight, claiming to be contenders for EPL( start of season), Carling cup (before Tuesday) FA cup (before Bolton.. God please prove me wrong, please please pleass) and Champions League ( do I have too.....), and incapable of winning away from home. Very interesting.
To top it all, not only the manager but the fans as well keep going on about the youth coming through and how many young players we have playing every week. We are a different club from the average, Juventus spends 13 million to buy Paddy, we spend 12 million to buy Theo- we are different alright! Then the Chairman goes public with how great the offer to our present hope is, months after the guy has clearly stated that money is not the issue.
The Chairman talks about aging players - same players we are still relying on (imagine if you were Pires or Sol or Freddie reading the Chairman's' comments). He tops it all by saying the best midfielder in England for at least five of the last seven years was sold because the manager was fed up of the speculations, not irresponsible behavior, not lack of commitment, not an attitude problem or a team acceptance thing, simply the annual summer speculations. The last three years at Arsenal should be used as a case study in football management courses.
I have been through worse times with my Club - see how long it took us to get our first Premiership title and even the second. I never complained and you know why, it simply could not be avoided. That we were the first to take it off Manu should even be commended considering the conditions. So why the complaints now you ask?
Well, simply put "THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED"!
How many times do you hear the managers of Juve, Inter, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Barca, Lyon, Bayern, Liverpool, Chelsea, Valencia and Manchester United talk about the youth coming through when first teams are being discussed? Even teams like Dortmund, Lazio and Deportivo La Coruna don't focus on the youth coming through. Someone tell me if I have left out a top team in Europe. Ok so we are different- please remember that different is not always good. Add to that the fact that not one of them has a seventeen year old in its first three choices for central midfield
Do not get me wrong, I think its wonderful that we have so much talent coming through, but should that be the focal point of how we plan our season?
Everyone knows that with youth you gamble, nothing states it more than the amount of youngsters we have produced that have not made the cut, even with initial rave reviews. It is time for us to face up to our status in the big leagues, or go back to being a London club with ambitions of winning the EPL once every four years and no hope of winning the Champions league.
When I said I would say it only once I lied, SOMETHING IS DEFINITELY WRONG HERE! At some point in time I will express myself as to what I think we should be doing if we want to roll in the big leagues.
ps:dont you think i could write something like that.ccp
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