re: Arsenal 2023/24 Season Thread - Rice, Rice, Baby

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but you can't even own the fact that City wouldn't be in this position if it weren't for their spending in the last 15 years a

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Soccer has institutional advantages for teams who happened to be good during expansion, like Arsenal, Man U, and Liverpool.

Investing money to catch up isn't a bad thing, unless you think those institutional advantages should always exist.

Now that Man City has "caught up", they're the best run club in England by far.

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with the ability to field quite literally 2 damn near World Class players at every position.

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They spend wisely. They sell for value.

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To act as if the City project is some organic light spending bullshite is extraordinarily facetious.

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I never said they were light spending, but they haven't been outlier spenders for a long time. No top EPL team is "light spending", and even mid EPL teams are huge spenders on the world stage.

And, pretending that Arsenal (or the other clubs with major institutional advantages as "big clubs" in the EPL) have "organic" status is just as comical. Man U is the worst and Liverpool is probably worse than y'all, but you can't act like you're Brentford or Swansea, here.