I want to response to Stag’s comment “whatever we get from the sale of Henry, will go into the clubs coffers. There is no evidence whatsoever to suggest we’d buy a proven striker if TH14 were sold. NONE” with a new post here.

First, if all Arsenal board cares about is to make a profit out of the players they sold, or to make money out of this football business… then WHY would you think the board decided to go for a new stadium and put the club from a debt-free situation to become a 300 million pounds debt-carrying club? The club were making plently of money during the Highbury era under Wenger afterall.

Naturally, those board members are businessmen as well, they do want to make profit from the money they invested, but I believe most of them are football fans at heart. ‘Cos sure hell there are better way, easier way to make money than this football business. Over the years, I have seen many richer men ended up poor after trying their hands into this football BUSINESS.

Sir Jack Haywood of Wolverhampton Wanderers, threw away half of his fortune in Wolves, basically got nothing in return, and eventually sold the club for 1 pound. He was there because one simple reason – his LOVE towards the club, not trying to make a profit out of it.

Like Wolves to Haywood, Arsenal is almost David Dein’s life. And the Hill-Wood family has been running the club for generations.

The decsion to undertake such a enormous risk to go for the new stadium just showed how AMBITIOUS the club really is.

Just because we have not been spending big in recent time does not mean the club is not competitive. HAD the new stadium never built, and the club still refuse to spend, then you would have a right to argue. It’s just like you have just bought a new house, and mortgage for it, even though it does not affect your cash-flow, it’d be only natural that you would be watching your daily spending more carefully wouldn’t you?

There are plently teams in the world who can’t wait to spend big in order to get instant success. There are also clubs who tend to plan their strategy more carefully, to invest in the youth, and to invest in new training facilities, to invest in the new stadium, in order to make sure the club WILL ALWAYS BE COMPEITITVE, NOW and in the FUTURE.

With clubs like Chelsea, West Ham, Portsmouth, you know they are going to spend big in the near future. But what happens 5 years or 10 years later? Nobody knows.

At Arsenal, under Wenger, one of the first things he did was to upgrade our training facilities with a brand new state of art training center.

Then he has turned our youth team as one of the best in England (under George Graham, we had not seen any youngsters came through the rank since Ray Parlour).

Now we have got our new stadium. If you are talking about a club moving towards the RIGHT direction, I can’t think of any other club in England which had done a better job than Arsenal.

Take over or not, Thierry Henry will leave or not, or even Arsene Wenger will be here or not after 2008, the club WILL never stop progressing. As ALL the foundamental elements are already in place. And this is the most important thing to me. Surely it is more important to me than how many medals Thierry Henry will win for the rest of his career. This is ALL ABOUT ARSENAL. Otherwise this site would have be called ThierryHenryAmerica.com.

Finally, apart from the 30s when none of us even exist in this planet, Arsenal had NEVER been a big spending club. It’s not something just started under Arsene Wenger. We still won our shares of trophies under this tight-budget policy. And most Gunner’ fans when they started to support the club, they were awared of this. If they wanted to see a superstar signing for the club each year, they would not have chosen Arsenal as their club at the first place. Real Madrid, Man U, Chelsea, Juventus the likes surely seem like a better fit.

We don’t buy stars. THE STARS BECAME STARS AT ARSENAL.

So get on with it.

So they were digging up the old stadium and they found 2 horseshoes and a bit of an old wooden cart. I think we should get those horseshoes over to the Emirates stadium, we need all the luck we can get!