An Achilles heel in the making of Arsene Wenger is his trust in his players. His actions often showed that his players will be as loyal to him as he is to them. He (and the team) have been wounded a few times because of this circa – Mathieu Flamini, Marc Overmars, Lassana Diarra and potentially Samir Nasri are prime examples. His sense of loyalty and decency in dealing with his players is demonstrated in the way he handles players who do not make the grade or no longer fit for purpose. He tends to give them more time than usual before cutting them adrift. This policy tends to cause the team to carry passengers and water carriers.
A good few have said that his intent is to bring down the club. Some point to playing the likes of Squillaci, Almunia and Denilson as a deliberate act of sabotaging Arsenal. This sense of loyalty is also born out by the number of ex-players who are attracted back to the club to train and keep their fitness level up, and feel compelled to talk positively about the club – Sol Campbell, Robert Pires, Jeremie Aladiere & Thierry Henry are to name just a few.
Wenger is said to have moved from the necessity for project youth, instigated by the credit squeeze of the Emirates project, to the obsession of winning only with the most youthful team possible.
With each passing year without a trophy, this viewpoint is gathering momentum. There is no doubt that in everyone there is the spirit of the innovator, which may be either real or imagined. We all want to be associated with something unique that came from us. I do believe that Wenger wants to win, but the win would be much special if it is achieved with the players and playing system he has developed over the past 5 years – truly, there is some credence in this accusation.
Wenger loves Arsenal; he wants to win for the club and for himself – his increasingly frequent pitch-side histrionics attests to this. However, I believe truly he needs to take a step back and really decide whether he wants to win now, even if this means modifying or abandoning his project youth.
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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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