… we had a first team of:
Fabianski
(Mannone)
Sagna – Djorou – Gallas – Silvestre
(Hoyte) – (Harvard) – (Traore) – (Gibbs)
Walcott – Cesc – Ramsey – Nasri
(Merida)-(Randall)-(Song)-(Wilshere)
Simpson – Vela
(Bendtner)-(Sunu)
Reserves: Coquelin, Bischoff and Landsbury
With: Almunia, Clichy, Eboue, Toure, Denilson, Diaby, Rosicky, Adebayor, RvP, Eduardo … all sold, let go … or abandoned in a forest.
What if the wage bill for this aforementioned team was say 30 million per year (similar to that of relegation candidates) rather than our present 100 million per year (second highest in England and possibly Europe).
If this above scenario where actually to happen we would be surely better off.
1) We wont expect to win anything.
2) Nobody is going to take us too seriously … no packing the bus against us. Nobody is going to take Vela – Simpson too seriously. Yet they have the quality to beat non-top four teams.
3) There will be a lot of desire and fight in that team.
4) We would be saving 70 million per year and still getting the same results.
So all in all we would be saving loads of money and still be in approximately the same position!
And thinking about it this mentioned team actually has a better midfield, defense and goalkeeper! Seriously!!
BUT the biggest advantage with the above team for me personally will be OPTIMISM every week, with little or no expectation … that is a team that can actually grow. Winning a game with such a team will make me really happy and losing wont bring dejection.
What Wenger is currently doing is utter BS. He is neither bringing in the required experience nor putting proper faith in youth. Just a terrible lose, lose mixture and we are not really saving up any money either.
I really wish I could look forward to a weekend of watching the likes of Wilshere, Merida, Ramsey and even Simpson … they will get thoroughly beaten from time to time but at least they will work very hard, they will obey the basic laws of control, pass, move and forward thinking throughballs. They will play in intelligent patterns and they will run for 90 minutes. I honestly dont ask for more than that.
As it is right now, for the very first time in my 12 years of watching Arsenal I just do NOT look forward to Arsenal matches … nothing makes me more frustrated and bitter than seeing Almunia or Denilson’s face on the field on a Saturday morning. The two greatest chancers in history. Or the likes of Clichy, Eboue, Toure, and increasingly RvP and Adebayor … they have that tainted loser, bad-luck stench about them.
This January or next summer, Wenger must decide to go out for proper experienced players or if he decides he is too cheap to do that then he must purge the team properly and give the youth a proper chance.
As it is right now we are in limbo. We cant even celebrate a victory, because we ALL know what will happen the next week.
