Are Arsenal Fading in the Spending Battle?

This has been an amazing year for Arsenal.

The Arsenal Ladies won the Treble, and the Arsenal Youth Team won the Double. If only that success could carry over to the first team, who won absolutely nothing this season.

Why am I so pissed now instead of a month ago?

Well, maybe it's because the likes of Manchester City and Tottenham are starting to spend crazy money (Gareth Barry is already a citizen), while an AAA team like Arsenal is being linked with selling all our main players.

Barcelona has been a pain in the side of Arsenal, as they are said to be offering 50 million for the buying of Cesc Fabregas (apparently Xavi and Iniesta need someone to stop Alexander Hleb from crying), while Adebayours truly is being linked with Milan and even Chelsea since Carlo Ancelotti is in charge.

(Why would you join Chelsea? They'll sack you before Christmas and blame you instead of themselves.)

Yes, I know, Arsenal is not a spending team. Instead, we grow are players into the first team (after all, our youth system is the best on the planet hands down). But then future stars like Jack Wilshere will probably leave us (I hope not) for a mega-wealthy team—like Disneyland FC, or KFC Barcelona, or even Man City.

Then what will we have? Nothing, absolutely nothing.

Man City is not a team made out of talent, not by a long shot (they used to be though). In fact, they're selling Daniel Sturridge, the best talent they had since Stephen Ireland. They're also planning to pay crazy money on players who are already established.

But why City? I mean, Real Madrid at least earned the money they have, but City? It's like playing a game on easy with infinite ammo and money. This is all because of a bunch of wealthy Arab wannabes who want to be admired.

I'm Arab too, so I can insult them all I want (besides, you don't see me buying a club just because I feel like it).

What will happen when the team fails? Are they going to dump it like it's an old product waiting to be ditched? Football is a business, but not like this.

Next year is the most challenging for the big four, because every mediocre team will pay big for players. No one can predict what will happen.

Please FIFA or UEFA, for the love of God, you guys have been creating useless rules, using crappy referees (Henning and Webb, say cheese), and making terrible decisions. Do something useful with your lives and make a salary cap, or a spending cap (call it what you will). Just make a rule where every team should buy players with their own earnings (from the tickets and shirts and the like).

Chelsea didn't exactly win the league because of their major awesomeness, and now Man City and Tottenham are spending crazy, while Real Madrid in Spain are going ballistic (Kaka is said to be announced as their newest signing on Monday).

We are going to witness a new monopoly, not where players go to Manchester Utd because they love it, but to Man City because of the money.

What worries me is this: Is Arsenal fading in this battle of spending millions?

Either let one of my fellow Arabs buy Arsenal (or even let a Russian buy the team), or put a salary cap and make football a fair sport.

Final note: I have no hatred for Man City whatsoever. If it were Sunderland that was bought by my fellow Arabs, then I would've been talking about Sunderland.