Arsenal struggles began after buying young prospects & selling in for huge transfer fees whilst investing into the new Stadia build...
Wenger for all his critics had Arsenal punching obove their weight to be honest... Going to take them a while to recover and get back into a top 4 team.
Sorry can't agree with you Shabs... Arsenal had to sell players like Nicolas Anelka to Real Madrid, and Marc Overmars and Emmanuel Petit to Barcelona... The transfer of Anelka partly funded the club's new training ground, in London Colney, which opened in October 1999... These player were vitally to Arsenal, and once they had moved into the Stadium paid of the loan to build it in record time... But because they had to reduce their wage build to do so, and by then you had Roman splashing Millions to sign players many of which Wenger wanted to sign, and a player like Ashley Cole defecting to Chelsea Arsenal then struggle, especial as the owners wanted to keep the new lower wage bill going...You then had City splashing their new found wealth, and the owners of Arsenal taking to long to respond to increasing the wages of their squad making it even more difficult to attract let alone keep key players
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