Personnally most millionares seem to leave the clubs they bought in tatters, palace and leeds spring to mind.
I would not want roman to take over dartford, though I would admire his principle if he got a non-league team to premier status, more worthwhile?
As for the english debate, why does everybody feel it is only arsenal that have a foriegn team, cause chelsea field 11 english players ,don't they. You know great english internationals like Drogba ,Shevchenko, Robben Cech, essien, Mikel, Carvalho etc. If you look at the squad lists chelsea have the grand total of 7 english players and arsenal 3, liverpool have 10 and spurs could field 11 if they played 2 keepers.
There isn't many clubs in the premiership that are far behind doing what arsenal do, especially those struggling to survive.
I don't like the fact that arsenal have too many foriegn imports, especially from france but despite what you think Arsenal DO NOT have the financial backing to be able to afford the type of english player to win things. Wenger has made some of the best finds in modern football, and has proved to several average palyers into world class players, who then proceeded to return to average when they left.
When people like wright-phillips and lampard are being rated at 20-25 Million who can blame him for buying fabregas for just over a Million instead.
Walcott was vastly over-priced but somehow wenger bought him, and lets be fair he has a long way to go before he ever (if) reaches the standard that Fabregas or Henry have acheived, without costing anywhere near.
You have to remember that to most teams it is either survival or a business, but only with clubs like real Madrid, Chelsea, and Barca it's a hobby.
Before yo say Arsenal have that kind of spending power just work out how much we really spend on players each year, our biggest spree (32m) was a few years back (2000) and that was financed by the sale of overmars and petit (30m)
It's not the team that's at fault but the pricing of these players, and their wage demands ( anyone really think Ashley Cole is worth more than 65K a week).
Before you start moaning about the lack of english players in the premiership remember one thing, Most of the great English sides were full of scots and irish, Especially the early european winners , and most of the greatest top teams ( especially arsenal) and I never heard of anyone moaning about the amount of non-english players then
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