Gazidis: Top-four spot not crucial for Arsenal

I cant believe that the CEO of Arsenal can come out an make a statement like this. This is the height of mediocrity. Why is arsenal a house hold name today, its because the club challenges for trophies and is in the top for. When a CEO begins to even contemplate that the club can survive without Champs leag, then medocrity has set in. He is settling for less and he is not a real champion any more. This attitude is begin to set the demise of the club.

What a ridiculous comment to make in that position at a Football Club, the Club may not need to be in the top 4 slot to compete financially, but what about the ambition of players who want to be in the top 4 ? for them to be recognised as a top class footballer they have to be playing in the champ league.
We at the Lane are walking a tight rope with this top 4 in mind, our entire squad balances on top 4 success, if we fail this term then Bale, Modric, VDV, are certainties to go, I don’t know what the hell Arsenal are playing at but it is almost like the are willingly winding things down, seems funny to me that if /when they fail to make the top 4 you look around and only RVP from the current team will be wanting out, is this a reflection of how low they have sunk as a club or is it a perfectly executed plan from the board with no real obvious reason behind it ?

No doubt the our defeatist balless CEO is psychologically preparing the fans to lower their expectation this season but no mention of lower season ticket prices if we don’t make top four!  Top players want to play in CL and  the idiot does not understand that it will be near impossible to attract quality players, especially with our mingy wage structure!!!

Bigsy is right, this will be make or break season for us if don’t qualify for CL!

RVP is most probably leaving in January or  IN summer…he has put his
Hertfordshire home for sale despite renovating the kitchen and bathroom
to high spec, 3 months ago!

Got a feeling apart from Wenger & some players nobody is hurting in the club with our dismal start….they see this as a part and parcel of running a business and hence the idiot’s above comments!

Do you know, I’m at a loss as to what it is Silent Stan, the board and Wenger are trying to acheive at Arsenal.  They can’t be serious when they say that they want the club to be successful, not when Gazidis comes out with crap like this.  Why has Kranke Stan bought this club, what exactly does he want to do with it?  I’d love an answer.  And this is my real gripe with Wenger: if he wasn’t truely compliant with all this mess surely to god he would have spoken out against it by now?  To me, everyone at this club, from the manager and the playing staff all the way up to Silent Stan himself,  look completely clueless.  I was never a footballer, I loved the game, especially AFC, but I was never particularly good at it.  I was a fighter.  That was what I was good at, Kick boxing, K1 and even a little unlicenesd boxing, I did pretty well, too.  And the most important thing I learnt in the ring was learning to read my opponent, how to tell when he had run out of ideas – when he was beaten and ready to be taken out.  And that is what Wenger and his team look like now.  They look broken, beyond help and flailing against the ropes, waiting lifelessly for their opponents to move in for the kill.  I really cannot see a way out of this mess.  Nobody at the club seem to want to stand up and be counted.  I feel absolutely gutted.