New Manchester City defender, Kolo Toure has come out to declare the reasons why he left Arsenal. In his words, he said that he left Arsenal as a result of lack of strong players to challenge with teams that are continuosly buying players. He also blamed his decision to leave on the insistence of Arsene Wenger to allow big players to leave the club. These big players which he said includes, Patrick Viera, Thiery Henry, Kanu Nwankwor,Matheu Flamini, Alexendar Hleb, Emmanuel Adebayor, Ashley Cole et cetera.
Kolo Toure who was part of the Arsenal team that went invincible without loosing a single match in the 2003/2004 season was impressed with Manchester City's recent buys of Gareth Barry from Aston Villa, Santa Cruz from Blackburn, Carlos Tervez from Manchester United, and Emmanuel Adebayor from Arsenal. He said that these buys is an indication of a team that yearns to win something in the new season but that with the way Arsenal is going, it might be another season without a major trophy, hence he had to leave.
It will be recalled that the last major trophy Arsenal won was in 2005 and according to some commentators, Arsenal doesn't look like the team that want to win anything except when they make some key signings.
Arsenal today, is always looking at football from the business point of view forgetting to carry the fans along with winning things to the club. They seem to be surviving on past glory instead of doing new things by winning more trophies. The fact that they currently won Rangers in a friendly over the weekend, is not an indication that they are set to win the premiership or the champions league. The premiership is definitely a different ball game.
What is the way forward for Arsenal?
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