Dein wanted Arsenal to be bigger

BBC SPORT Football My Club Arsenal Arsenal chief will fight US bid:

Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood claims that the club does not need ownership intervention:

'Why don't we want the American at our club? Call me old-fashioned, but we don't need his money and we don't want his sort. "

But it seems to me that they do. I've always thought that Arsenal could be a bigger club. While they have achieved a fair bit under Wenger and while I love Wenger as a manager who brilliant a building talent, I have always thought Arsenal to be a seller of talent. For instance, while the deals were well done, the sales of Ashley Cole and Patrick Vierra were premature. The players went to "bigger" clubs who could handle their wages and whose financial plannings did not depend on the timed selling of their stars.