Former Arsenal centre-back Martin Keown reckons Arsene Wenger should’ve prepared better for the inevitable loss of Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri in the summer, and I for one am inclined to agree.
Arsenal saw both creative midfielders leave the Emirates during August and it was only after being trounced 8-2 by United did Wenger seriously enter into the market, acquiring no little than five players in the space of 48 hours.
But Keown believes that the Frenchman did not act swiftly enough when he lost Cesc and Samir, and should have had a better contingency plan in place prior to their departures.
The ex-Gunner told talkSPORT.com:
‘This is a period of recovery, he’s having to start things all over again. It appears he’s been caught short with Fabregas and Nasri leaving.’
‘We all seemed to know that was going to happen but he appeared reluctant to let them go and the building process seemed to start very late on transfer deadline day.’
‘Behind the scenes they are building younger players for the future, but there’s a naivety there with some of their defending.’
I couldn’t agree more with MK.
We all knew Cesc and Samir were going to leave and several of us called for Wenger to act quickly to replace them. However, as always, the boss decided to do his business on the last day of the window, which left us short of ideal solutions to our midfield problems.
January is going to be a big month for Arsenal!!!
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Martin Keown,i respect your judgement coz u were one of the best defenders of arsenal during your time,but one thing i want you to look at is the general weakness of the team n not only the creative aspect of the game. Remember even when cess fabrigas n nasri were present,the team had a defence problem. Infact,am sure even if they were around ,we wouldnt perform any better without fixing the defence problem. I agree with u that the transfer business was done much late but for sure,once the new signings gell well,things will definately be good.Even now,our biggest problem is the defence and not the creative part. Actually with the way they play,they can still improve a great deal if they do it with more dedication and commitment. One thing that i feel strongly needs to be worked on is collective defending,especially now that we have new players at the back coupled by the never ending injuries.
wenger is dillusional and so is gazidis and the rest of the arsenal board, frank mcklintok, george graham, the list goes on and on, have all said this is the worse arsenal squad they have seen in a long time, how right they are, when you sell fab and nasri and clichy you have to replace them with the same quality, and lest be honest what he bought was bargain basement buys, what the idiot wenger can not see what everyone else can is there are major proplems with this squad there is no depth or quality, and lets be honest a club that hikes prices by 6% want us to watch this? wenger has destroyed this team with a philosophy that has not worked, in any job you are accountable for your actions and he needs to go, how many drk clouds does he have to keep trying to peek through looking for excuses, we all knew by the squad we had we would not be winning any trophies, and a majority of arsenal fans have been cosistent that we will be fighting relegation, and by the performances to date that shows to be the case to only get 7 points from 7 games, yesterdays game showed the defensive frailities, it also showed with nasri and fab gone we can not finish a game, yer it is fine having 60% of the ball but the game is won on scoring goals, wengers comments irritate me, because he comes out with the worst verbal diarohea i have ever heard, and wenger should go before he causes more damage to this already weak and fragile team, and kroenke needs to stay in america and follow the sports out there he has no clue about football, and gazidis comments, last week i want to build a bigger fan base and build succes on the pitch, well another idiot if he calls this success then woolworths should have never gone bust, you have bought players that are just average, and there is a saying what you pay for is what you get, and that has been shown in the results, wenger needs to stop the rubbish talk and the promises and become realistic, and come off planet zorg, and get back to reality, and start by doing that by leaving and take gazidis and kroenke with you, you have taken this club backwards, and in a perilous situation, all just to line the pockets of the shareholders, here is a question for the idiots at arsenal, how will you fill your stadium if we get relegated? you will find it will be a struggle to survive, you destroyed this team and it is about time you all walked.
I have little good to say about Wenger coaching and his attack only game plan but he DID try to sign top class players. However it is no good having £30-40m to spend if the wage structure does not allow us to match top wages elsewhere. And that is not Wenger’s fault. He may agree with the wage structure .. I don’t know … but it was and is set by the Board.
first of all wenger mustttttttttt of known
that fabrigas was going and nasri was mostly likey to leave in the fisrt week of the transfer window.
i dont understand why he didnt sign
players before
he was busy trying to sell fabrigas and nasri for the right price
butt….i dont think its just wenger that dose alll the work there most of been staff to help aswel so he could focus more on trying to bring in players in not get them out.
we made a biggg offer for goetz on the last day ..why didnt we make and offer months before so we could of had time to talk and sign him.
i just think wenger needs more help or he relly is delued the board need to wake up
if we fall from the top 4
we can forget the likes of goerz or hazard.