Arsene Wenger, as a public persona, has two contrasting characterisation.
He is seen by some as the erudite, brilliant and ethical manager of Arsenal football club. However, he is also characterised as an opinionated, stubborn and narrow-minded manager, who refuses to see the blatant failings of his team.
The reign of Wenger at Arsenal has brought the most glorious phase of the club in terms of silverware, style of play, facilities and worldwide appeal of the football club. However, due to the recent drought of silverware for the club, the once impenetrable wall of authority that once surrounded Wenger’s managerial status has developed a schism in which many journalists, bloggers and fans have used as a focus of attack.
It will be difficult to see a day without the usual lines of ‘Wenger has lost it’, ‘He only cares about profit making than the quality of the team’, and ‘He does not care about the English talent’. But are these statements true? In fact are any of them true?
I don’t claim to know the Frenchman. In fact, I have never met him before. However, because most of his work is done in public and having knowledge of the trajectory and the substance of his career, as well as activities in Arsenal, I will want to answer some of the mysteries that surround Wenger.
It has frequently been said that Wenger is frugal and parsimonious to a fault, and would rather leave money unspent rather than improve the team. Frankly, I have always found this accusation silly. Wenger was not shy at spending a bob or two prior to the commencement of the Emirates stadium. He was competing vigorously for good footballers. However, economic efficiency and maximisation of returns has always been his way – he was always looking for the best price possible to buy quality players.
This approach is practised daily by almost all of us – maximizing values in our daily expenditure – groceries, clothing, sales any one. He was obviously hamstrung by the lack of money during the Emirates stadium development and the few years afterwards.
His undoing was covering for the board and collaborating with the board (particularly PHW) in their spurious claim of outlandish amounts of money that were available for player’s transfers during this period. This allowed the seed of doubts to be sowed in the hearts of many fans that he was unwilling to spend available money to buy quality players.
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Gosh! I am tired of all these pillocks and primadonna’s touting themselves shamelessly as footballers. They claim to want to love the game and want to win trophies. But these tainted money chasing twats only ever after cold cash.
At least with Capt. Fab, It really is obvious that cash is not the main motivator. Our youth programme makes absolute sense. But getting the right blend of experience and youth is difficult especially were you have to distinguish between true players and primadonnas!!!!
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This article does not add up in the last 18 months when Wenger at last DID have money to spend and blew the chance to get it right … mainly last summer.
Moreover and most importantly you fail to appreciate that those trophies were won when Wenger inherited the old back 4 /5 … later boulstered by Keown and Campbell..
Since then he did very well indeed in keeping us in the top 4 with youngsters while the new stadium was a huge drain on cash. Most recently he has won nothing and frankly does not look likely. Why ? For the reasons that every Arsenal fan knows … or at least those who understand the game.
…the invicibles, the back five had remnants of GG at all. it was all wenger’s!
The Invincibles starting XI was: Lehmann – Lauren, Campbell, Toure, Cole – Ljungberg, Vieira, Gilberto Silva, Pires – Bergkamp, Henry. Bergkamp, Parlour and Keown were the only “inherited” players in the whole squad.
When Arsenal won the double in 01/02, the starting XI included 5 players from the pre-Wenger period: Seaman, Dixon, Adams, Parlour, Bergkamp, with Keown in reserve, which gives a total of 6 for over 20 names. In 97/98 season, only 3 players in the starting XI were brought in by Wenger. But what does that prove? You think every manager should begin by throwing out all the players left by his predecessors? Strange idea. And why would that prove Wenger’s success doesn’t boil down to his abilities as a manager?
AW is very useless,he choose not to buy,but by the time the season at MID then he will be talking about experience players,Given can be easily pick up from Man city in exchange for Geal and they we still top it with 5m for Arsenal imagine losing him to Villa,but pls remember our keeper is still very small without much experience telling you dt.Samba/Cahill nothing on them again.
Everything in life is about balance and although Wenger has work wonders with his small budgets in the years of moving to the Emirates this obsession with young has not produced results in terms of silverware.
A first team should be a combination of young and experience we havent had that in years. We also seem to be completely naive in our style of play? Yes he play good football but many of a attacks are overplayed were we try and walk the ball into the net or score a pefect gaol that more often than not produces nothing. Add to this a complete neglect by the team to defend and especially to be organised on set pieces which can only result in not winning anything.
Newcastle though they could oustscore there way to winning the Preimership it didnt work then and never will want needed is a solid defense we effective attack i.e. Man Utd (painful to say but true)
Lastly we heard all about Wenger analysing players ability and personalities yet there is not one leader in the squad bar Wilshere a kid albeit a brillant one.
One very annoyed Gunners fan getting abit sick of how things are being done.
Just reading Tony Adams’ autobiography. Eventhough he did not work too much with Wenger, Adams states that the Frenchman impressed him because he was not desperate about making money out of football.
And yes, Adams too writes that Wenger is a workaholic. He wrote that in his days off, Wenger would not once catch a plane to France to watch a football game, or, if he didn’t, he watched football matches on TV in London.
One more interesting fact: Adams describes Wenger as an “analytic” person, and I think this can be seen by only looking at him during matches. Wenger is not the type of coach to give pump-up-speeches, to scream and shout in the dressing room. He expects his players to have vast knowledge about football, so he discusses with them on quite level grounds, but nicely, calm. And he often accepts advice from his players. He allows knowledge to be generated in the team.
Now, what happened in in the last five seasons…sad for him and Arsenal.
Arsenal is such a rubbish club, they can not even convince a 19 year old Costa Rican to sign for them. The board and manager must leave. Why are they waiting for Barcelona to emerge from their insolvency. Fabregas has stated he wants to leave, his preferred destination is his problem. Arsenal’s probelm is to make as much money as they can and use it to reinvest in the squad. Sell him to the highest bidder, if Fabregas still wants to go to Barca next season, let the other club wrestle with that problem. That is how a competent manager and board behave not this joke about an executive going to South America to sign a 19 year old and coming back empty handed. Silent Stan should either sell the club to the Russian or bring in a new board and manager. His silence is not golden.
So, buying and selling players is just more shopping, eh? And managing the club is the kind of work every imbecile could perform? Arsenal isn’t the only club at this level and although most players are decent enough to know the club and recognize the quality and history for which it stands, you can’t force someone who just wants to earn big to compromise his own dreams. It’s similar with Cesc – he has a valid contract, negotiations are conducted between clubs AND THE PLAYER. That’s why everyone’s so sure he’ll finally join Barcelona, not Real or anybody else. And that’s why Arsenal can’t just throw him away anywhere, unless they want to pay for breaking Cesc’s contract. He’s worth a load of money and it’s not like anyone thinks he should just go free. Do you?
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The picture angle is not good, but I guess you are right about there being a space between the wall and the altar.