Hill-Wood: No crisis at Arsenal
Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood insists there is no crisis at the club and is confident they can challenge for the Champions League and Premier League next season. Arsene Wenger has faced a summer of discontent following the uncertainty surrounding the futures of Emmanuel Adebayor and Alexander Hleb.
With Mathieu Flamini having already left the club at the start of the summer, Arsenal fans are concerned more big names could leave before the start of the new season.
But Hill-Wood is happy with the two new signings of Samir Nasri and Aaron Ramsey and has every faith that Wenger can bring major silverware back to the club.
Hill-Wood said: "I think that everything is very stable. I ridiculed the idea of crisis last summer because I did not feel we were in one.
"The subject has not been raised recently and quite rightly because we don't have the sort of problems that people could construe as a crisis. We are in good shape and I am looking forward to the new season.
"I am a patient man and so are my colleagues. As long as we are doing what we think is the right thing on the playing field then I feel we are relaxed about it.
"But at the same time we are not complacent. We would like to win trophies as much as the players and the fans. There can be only one winner of the Premier League and the Champions League and it was not us this year. But hopefully it will be next season."
Hill-Wood is fully behind Arsene Wenger's transfer policy of not spending big money and is refusing to follow the path of Chelsea who splashed the cash to achieve success.
The Arsenal chairman is disgusted by the figures which some players are demanding and will never sacrifice the long-term future of the club to bring in a major star.
Hill-Wood added: "It disappoints me because a lot of people don't seem to realise that in the long run you must run a football club on a sensible commercial basis.
"A lot of the figures bandied around at the moment don't make commercial sense to us. That is what disappoints me, that people are prepared to do what can be construed as very silly things.
"Maybe people need to be waking up to the realities of the world and that the days of easy money have come to a pretty sudden end.
"There is an awful lot of talk about big transfers and major demands of players but you will find throughout the UK and Europe that money is not quite as easy to obtain as it used to be.
"So I think a lot of these stories emanating from agents may not actually come to fruition. There is a lot of talk and not a lot of action."
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