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Do you know when you're on a forum and you say the team's crap, the team's rubbish and somebody suddenly, well often but suddenly says, well who do you expect us to buy with the money we have? Then you could say something like, but we have money but the board are greedy and the person will retort, our board are not greedy - so says my never ending mental masturbation over this romanticised propoganda I wholeheartedly buy from Arsenal (or any other club for that matter) and then you'll say well look at these never ending accounts that shows we've got Gazillions of pounds.

I realised that this is illogical.

No matter how good a player is, they need a good outfit around them to perform well. A team that believes in that player and believes that player can change events. If this doesn't exist or if this doesn't transpire (which I feel is the problem at Arsenal, it never transpired for Fabregas or Sagna) then a team will continually stutter. It's that self doubt. This is where, lesser teams will beat Arsenal.

I haven't finished yet.

So, continually fishing through the media for tit bits of information and then glossing over numerous websites passionately could be deemed counter productive. I'm not denying that this is and can be a perfect passtime for the run of the mill arsenal fan over the Summer - but I do believe that this amounts to nothing. I know being a broken record in respect to changing the way the team plays doesn't help and I guess no team changes the way they play over night.

My clear example is Manchester United. Now, as much as I believe that they did not create this developing youth scenario - they bought it from other clubs, they're success in the 90s was not based upon developing youth. Logically, they would be able to get any kid and make a great player out of them. This did not happen. What United did was notice a money making scheme in kids. Which is something Arsenal are doing now. If you buy a kid, develop them and then sell them - the return is higher and if you have kids at the club for a longer period then the affiliation between player and supporter is also higher. Regardless of this - it was all about players who played together but played together well.

It was about creating a team.

Now that statement would mean all kinds of things to all kinds of different people. Of course, the other problem is, you need money in this light but for me, personally, creating a team is an unbelievably, in-explainable difficulty in football and for which you need a very good, but importantly flexible manager. For all our talk of bringing in new players and buying the best and paying for the best, what really is difficult is bringing a player in effectively into the squad.

Now the ugly part. Obviously, for me, the romanticism of football has died. It did die when Roman Abramovich entered the premier league and then buy outs occurred over and over again. It basically amounted to the price of assets and the unbelievably ease with which credit was available while millions of chinese create this illusion of money in the west. This has killed what we saw as football and in the meantime we have been sold fake plastic love from the clubs who try and gloss over the fact that the clubs have become money obsessed since Abramovich and all the other takeovers at club have occurred.

Now this isn't a gloating moment. As much as Kreonke and Usmanov have little effect at the club - they are still there. We are seriously not unaffected by this huge turnover that the masses of credit brought to football. After all, we did take advantage of all that massive credit by getting loads of money from RBS at a ridiculously silly interest rate. RBS. RBS.

So I must state where does team building occur here when you are fighting an obscure battle against the finances being pumped into football. I'd say the biggest effect on Football in the new season comes from the Setanta incident that has removed a big TV player in the whole scheme of things. The effects of Global recession is also at play as well - which opens the field for desperate board members to bring in money.

The creativity of football remains to be the case. A new player, or two, or three won't change matters - or will it? Well if we bring in 6 or 7 new first teamers it will.

Let's not faff about all this eh? It hasn't worked, or it hasn't worked as well as we could make it work. We had a plan but players are confused and bewildered. When such memories seep in, there is little you can return from. You have to try something new. For instance the, "Fabregas has been awful for..." doesn't remove the fact he isn't a great player. It is the same for others. There is something in our coaching and management that isn't working.

This isn't to say Wenger is a bad manager - but something isn't good around here and it's about time he had a good long look at what works (almost nothing) what worked and doesn't aid completely working system (i.e., it may work when things are bad, but it may not work, when all things are good), and what works and is a great key to a real push to success.

I mean, as fans, we may see something work on the field, but what if it's only working and only effective because things are so dire elsewhere? What if something that isn't working - once working could completely change everything, making what is good now - utterly redundant?

The focus on problems when so much is problematic, unconventional and counter productive in so many ways, doesn't aid us.

One of the great things that occurred at United, with Ronaldo was how this player came in as a player, a winger, a unit but was transformed into arguably the best player in the world today. Even I think Henry remains to be the best player in the world (but we sold him) but it's how numerous factors come into play to work for us.

What are our excuses? Money, anything?

For all the problems that a club faces in football, it's success is based upon how it tackles those problems and succeeds.

We have no success. We could look for silver linings but ultimately, we have failed to tackle our own achilles heels - ultimately, this is why we fail.

Of course, many would disagree, some would agree - but if I was the richest person on the planet and couldn't grasp or control the problems that had anchored me - what a futile existence it would be.