talkSPORT’s Tony Cascarino has launched a huge attack on Arsenal’s top brass, claiming “there’s a lot going wrong upstairs” at the club.<\/p>\n
Gunners boss Unai Emery revealed earlier this month he is only able to bring players on loan to the Emirates Stadium in the January transfer window, a revelation that has outraged some Arsenal fans.<\/p>\n
There is also the underlying issue of the wage structure at the club which saw Mesut Ozil awarded a contract worth \u00a3350,000-a-week.<\/p>\n
And not only has it looked like a short-sighted decision because Emery has barely played the German since arriving in north London but it has arguably led to the imminent departure of Aaron Ramsey, who has reportedly signed a pre-contract agreement with Juventus.<\/p>\n
And speaking to Georgie Bingham on Weekend Sports Breakfast, Cascarino tore into the way Arsenal operated as a football club off the pitch and expressed sympathy for how Emery is paying the price for it.<\/p>\n
Cascarino said:\u00a0\u201cHe [Emery] was given the worst elite club to take on because the funding isn\u2019t there for him to change it very quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has to be given the time. I think it\u2019s far too easy to judge him but he\u2019s been given a pair of deuces whereas the other managers have been given some kings, queens and aces. He\u2019s been given the club with the worst budget.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could say Tottenham are in a similar vein where they don\u2019t spend anywhere near as much as Arsenal which they haven\u2019t in recent years but they have a much more talented squad. They\u2019re full of players that could sell for \u00a3100million or \u00a3150million.<\/p>\n
\u201cArsenal\u2019s negotiations around selling and buying has been dreadful. They\u2019ve sold hardly anybody.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook at Oxlade-Chamberlain and Walcott \u2013 they\u2019re probably the two names that have gone out of the club for \u00a340m and \u00a320m but then they go and buy Aubameyang for \u00a360m who’s 29-years-old.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just don\u2019t get it. They don\u2019t sell players for lots and lots of money or for free. They\u2019ve got the structure of their club completely wrong, they buy high and sell cheap.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a strange dynamic there. Kroenke is not a billionaire who spends big on his football club. They\u2019re not like the Glazers or Abramovich.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s quite clear there\u2019s a lot wrong upstairs at Arsenal. They\u2019ve moved to the stadium and they\u2019ve become a smaller club since leaving Highbury.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Emirates is a fantastic stadium that\u2019s meant to be brushing shoulders with some of the biggest clubs in Europe. They\u2019ve now become a lesser club, they can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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