Ex-Gunner Frank McLintock is unimpressed with Arsene Wenger’s signings this summer.
Arsenal managed to acquire 8 new players (one on loan) this summer, with Gervinho, Per Mertesacker, Andre Santos, Yossi Benayoun and Mikel Arteta being the stand out signings of the lot.
However, McLintock reckons that the north London club’s transfer policy is ridiculous, and although he wants Arsenal, as well as the players, to be successful, he still believes that they are in for a tough season.
He told talkSPORT’s ‘Kick Off’ show:
‘I’m not impressed with the names, I hope they do very well. I’m not going to be out there looking to criticise, I want to give them all the support I can.’
‘I think we got about £70 million in transfers from players leaving the club and yet again we seem to be after the second best [players] nearly all of the time. It’s a reaction rather than being already prepared.’
‘I can’t understand why, if we’ve got two billionaires on the board, they couldn’t just put in some money, buy three players in preparation so we’re not scrambling around at the last minute. I’m really disappointed.’
McLintock, who made over 300 appearances for Arsenal, then singled out some of the club’s new signings:
‘I’m not wishing them any bad at all and I’m hoping they have a great, successful time at Arsenal but if you look at Santos for instance, we know very little about him, he is a Brazilian, evidently he’s just come to the fore in the last three years.’
‘Can [Park Chu-Young] jump from France to our division because the two Frenchmen who came last season, only one of them did reasonably well the other one just couldn’t cope with it at all.’
I think guys we need to be appreciative. We cried for signings. We got them. We thought we would get ‘Two, three’, we got nine. Why don’t we appreciate? Big money does not always mean big performances, otherwise, Torres [at Chelsea], Veron, Shevchenko, Crespo, Reyes, Berbatov, Arshavin, etc, have not been the best performers at their clubs, despite having arrived for significant fees! For me, Mertesacker, Gervinho, Arteta, Santos, Park, Benayoun are great signings and clearly a massive improvement from the likes of Bendtner, Eboue, Clichy and Denilson. Stop being cry-babies and get behind the team, we are much more equipped than last season, AND GOOD ENOUGH TO WIN THE LEAGUE.
Kiku, change your name to coockoo, this team will win nothing. The best you can hope for is that our better players stay because they don’t mind never winning anything with Arsenal.
Frank Spot On, as usual. The manu catastrophe finally got wenger/board off their arses, but it was panic buys all the way. Why do you think wenger wants goetze or hazard, he finally realizes that a top four place is very long odds.
AKBs and accountability, never shall the two meet.
Sorry arsenal1again &mic, but henry was well known b4 arsenal, he was voted best young player @d france 98 world cup (¬ by AKB’s),a regular in a world cup winning squad scoring 3goals from the wings.yes he endured a torrid season @juve but we know ‘form is temporary but class permanent’.
Db10 was voted 3rd best player in the fifa footballer of the year award in 1994 so he had 2be well known b4 arsenal. i agree on sagna,vermaelen(though d capt of ajax fc shouldn’t be unknown) but that’s nothing special,fergie has delivered tons of talent, i’d say 2 to every of wengers 1,ronaldo dwarfs all. Moyes had rooney etc
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Read this now, it’s a joke! Frank is clueless and this proves it, wishful thinking by another disloyal so called gooner, add Ian Wright and Alan Smith to the ranks of arsenal haters.
EGG ON YOUR FACE FRANK!
9 out of ten wins does not suggest this is the worst arsenal team ever, Frank you were never in a team half as good as this one, GET REAL BUDDY!!
I agree with the team not being entirely stueid to the rigours of the Prem. In recent years his policy of having smaller, more technical players hasn’t quite worked out. And why should it? The Premiership is not La Liga, and I doubt Barcalona would be so consistently brilliant in our league as they are in theirs week in, week out. For every small technical player we have in the side, we should perhaps have a stronger, more physical player to compliment them. I just think Wenger never quite got the balance right. Our squad ended up too small’, or lacking in physical presence in recent seasons.