also no i’m not done. you make a great point about Chambo being our largest ever sum for a player sold. that’s how it was before arteta. we not only lost our best players in their prime (cesc, nasri, rvp, song, vermaelen, that’s literally three consecutive club captains leaving arsenal in their prime), the good players we did sign (santi, alexis, ozil, auba, laca, etc) were all losing value by the minute from the time that we signed them. it was the stupidest model for winning you could imagine. i still don’t know how wenger was so unrelentingly successful under those circumstances.
but look at us now. saliba, gabriel, saka, rice, odegaard, raya, martinelli, MLS, nwaneri, dowman, et al. all of them will either stay here through their entire primes, and/or be sold for 5x, 10x, 50x what we paid for them. i would never in a million billion years trade what arteta has done for this club and its future for an alphabet soup cup trophy. you guys have completely lost the plot, but you’ve given me every reason to talk about how amazingly better everything is at arsenal since arteta took over, and for that, i thank you.