Maybe
You're wrong, no?
1. We have the freedom to take young players from UK and from abroad, and it's something we've been doing for many years.1st of all, we don't have the same freedom to pick young players like Ajax, our scouting pool is more limited. Their competition to get young talents in Dutch league is only a few.
Ajax's freedom is similar to Juventus, Bayern Munchen or Manchester United. They are incredibly famous in Netherland, we aren't as famous as them in England.
Hard to swallow pill, but our brand today aren't as interesting to young talents compared to the 2000's
2nd. British young talents cost more than other leagues' young talents. Making them having low resell value.
furthermore, they can just walk away by refusing a new contract for a better pay.
3rd. We have been in a position where you suggested, our squad was one of the youngest averaged squad during Wenger era, I think it was during Cesc era, ended with players wanting to leave as soon as a good offer came in. We were never settle as a team cause we constantly need to replace a talent
4th. - Low resale value of experienced, average and overpaid players is hurting us more than anything else. -
Are we an economic trading company? or are we a football club aiming for champion? If we are an economic trading company, emphasizing on low resale value is correct but if we are aiming to be champions, then we cut our loses and move them away even without getting even.
5th. What's hurting us is the lack of desire to be a champion, to measure everything in profit, to forget tactical approach worth more than value of a player, to forget clubs with less capital capable to perform cause they have desire to win.
We are one of the TOP 10 RICHEST club in the world ffs.
That's BULSHIT, Kroenke is a part of the management, his son(s) are the head of management team. He doesn't get a free pass cause he doesn't know how football works.
2. England is not the only country in the world that has talented players, and even if you buy more expensive talents from UK, they usually easily sellable
3. Everything is a straight line for you. Yes, at the time we were not in a position to offer good money to out best players. Now, we are in a position to offer huge money to our best players. If you read my post carefully, you will see that I've said combination of talented youth and top quality experience. I didn't say we need to have 15 youngsters in our team, but having 7-8 of them and 7-8 more experienced players is a good balance. It would put us in a position where we can pay and keep top quality and sell young players that didn't show enough.
4. How exactly do you think we can be a top team if we don't have quality financial management? One way is Man City way, the other way is being smart and efficient with what we have
5. We are, by saying that you are just confirming my theory. We have budget of 450m and we spend all of it. Kroenke didn't take 200m from our budget and let us play with 250. Whole budge is available and it's down to the management how we use it. We have huge wage bill, we've spent 100m on garbage players that we can't sell and we don't want to keep and all that is to get 5th place. I can assure you that Kroenke didn't waste money on Xhaka, Mustafi, Perez and Elneny, Kroenke didn't give new contracts to players that don't add anything to our game. It's down to the management and the only reasonable thing he did is to fire all of them and bring new management in.
Kroenke is a business owner, and as you say, he doesn't know anything about football. So why would he have any influence on dealing with football related things? If warren Buffet buys a chemical factory in Europe, do you think he should know everything about chemistry? I would say no, he should hire people who know a thing or two about that field, exactly what Kroenke did with hiring Raul.