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Arsenal will always be comfortable thinking top 4 is a trophy. i struggle to see how any fan is fine with that. they tread water (replacing a dynamic player like RVP with two 29 year old above average ones) and almost refuse to take the necessary steps to try and win a major trophy. its your club, but that mentality seems to have leaked into every arsenal fan i know.
I've said this countless times already, myself and other Gooners are not and never will be fine with finishing with only Top 4, the players know that and Wenger knows it(he will never admit it though). And do I need to repeat myself? I said I'd rather be Top 4 every year than struggling over the season and finishing midtable.
I've said it before, sometimes a single signing isn't enough. Arsenal lost 37 goals by selling RvP. The 3 guys they signed, Giroud, Cazorla, and Podolski, scored a combined 45 goals they got a good return from, as you put it, two 29 year old above average ones and another one.
What happened after the Newcastle match has literally fooled everyone into thinking Arsenal and it's fans are actually treating Top 4 like a trophy, we sure as hell are not content with Top 4 only. Does this sound like the celebrations of people content with Top 4:
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I'm not sure about you but that sounds like fans who are overjoyed at finishing above Spurs and not at finishing 4th. Hell one person actually said that they aren't happy with being competitive for only 4th place.
I've also said this multiple times, that you'd celebrate finishing Top 4 with the season Arsenal had, counted out of Top 4 after selling RvP, counted out of Top 4 heading into March, and then on the final day not only did they clinch 4th place, they did it at the expense of their closest rivals. People are fooled into thinking that Arsenal were celebrating Top 4, which they weren't. Stop assuming Arsenal are content with Top 4 because there is no team that actually thinks that way.
And have you not seen the comments from some of the Arsenal players? They want to push to a trophy next season and barring unforeseen circumstances they certainly can. Just stop spewing the same crap about me actually wanting Top 4 only, because you don't even know what your talking about then.