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http://www.football365.com/news/21554/8330651/Stan-Has-No-Passion-
To be fair, Arsenal are going through a pretty poor run of results at the moment and a lot of fans and people associated with the club are getting frustrated. After being one of the dominant forces in English football form the mid 90's to the mid 00's including going a full season unbeaten (a spell that lasted for 49 games carried over 2 seasons), they have not won any silverware for 7 years. Their manager keeps selling their best players; Henry, Fabregas, Van Persie have all left recently. The quality of the team has diminished from "title challenger" to "upper mid-table finisher" and they rarely beat the "big" teams any more.
I am guessing that some of the decline is to do with the £470m ($757m)to build their new stadium leaving less for wages, transfers and the like. I would also think that the manager Arsene Wenger has too much confidence in his own ability (read: ego) to admit that selling their best players will work out fine as it is he that coaches the team.
There is however another factor that concerns me slightly and that is that it may be Stanley's fault. He obviously controls the team expenditure and while they have been relatively active in the transfer market, they have recouped more money than they've spent (this is not a recipe for success in the EPL).
How does the new Arsenal stadium and the issues that it may have caused relate to the potential Edward Jones Dome upgrade and will the factors that have been instrumental in the decline of Arsenal FC also be an issue for the Rams in the medium term? Notice that I haven't mentioned the "r" word either, which is also a possibility.
I for one would hate to think that just as we seem to have turned a corner, Stan blows all his money on a new stadium/upgrade/relocation and it puts this franchise back to where it began at the end of the past decade.
To be fair, Arsenal are going through a pretty poor run of results at the moment and a lot of fans and people associated with the club are getting frustrated. After being one of the dominant forces in English football form the mid 90's to the mid 00's including going a full season unbeaten (a spell that lasted for 49 games carried over 2 seasons), they have not won any silverware for 7 years. Their manager keeps selling their best players; Henry, Fabregas, Van Persie have all left recently. The quality of the team has diminished from "title challenger" to "upper mid-table finisher" and they rarely beat the "big" teams any more.
I am guessing that some of the decline is to do with the £470m ($757m)to build their new stadium leaving less for wages, transfers and the like. I would also think that the manager Arsene Wenger has too much confidence in his own ability (read: ego) to admit that selling their best players will work out fine as it is he that coaches the team.
There is however another factor that concerns me slightly and that is that it may be Stanley's fault. He obviously controls the team expenditure and while they have been relatively active in the transfer market, they have recouped more money than they've spent (this is not a recipe for success in the EPL).
How does the new Arsenal stadium and the issues that it may have caused relate to the potential Edward Jones Dome upgrade and will the factors that have been instrumental in the decline of Arsenal FC also be an issue for the Rams in the medium term? Notice that I haven't mentioned the "r" word either, which is also a possibility.
I for one would hate to think that just as we seem to have turned a corner, Stan blows all his money on a new stadium/upgrade/relocation and it puts this franchise back to where it began at the end of the past decade.
