Where Is The Winning Mentality at Arsenal F.C?

It has been approximately 6 years 11 months and 2 days since Arsenal has last won a trophy. The very famous 04-05 season has left us visualizing the past instead of the present and future. There are certain areas where we have to look to truly see why we are lacking in the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea and not so recently but arguably Liverpool. Arsenal adopted the policy of buying low and sell big since 2000 when they had plans to build their new stadium which opened in 2006. Since then they have sold mostly all of our experienced, big impact, leading players such as Henry, Kolo Toure, Ashley Cole and the list goes on. This had to happen in order to pay off the 400mill that eventually came out costing for the new Emirates Stadium. The problem I see is that we are in 2012, we had a financial turnover in which cash reserves rose to £ 115 million. Which means WE HAVE NO MORE DEBT!

Arsene Wenger has put his legacy in Arsenal for eternity but his support is quickly diminishing from a current fan point of view. With the selling of our top players almost every year we have gained a mediocre style of play, very predictable with poor defending. I love what Wenger is trying to do on the drawing board but it can only be transferred on the pitch with quality players. Even though we are complying with the financial fair play regulations we have become a feeder club to other top ranking clubs. They reassured me of that during the 2011 summer transfer when they sold Samir Nasri to Manchester City and Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona.

Have I lost hope in this club? No, but they need to stop deceiving fans when they sign 5 players in the last 48 hours from money desperate teams. I'll admit I liked the signing of Andre Santos, Mikel Arteta and Per Mertesacker, it brought experience and leadership, but do you really think Arsene would of bought them if not pressured from fans or the fact that Santos and Mertesacker only cost 11 million while Arteta was bought for 10? Bottom line is if we want to compete against the top clubs in Europe then we need to stop making selling our priority in every transfer window.