Arsene Wenger shouldn’t be handed a substantial warchest to utilize this summer as he will simply waste it. This is what former Gunner Stewart Robson believes.
As we are aware, or been told even, Wenger will be given at least £70 million to spend this summer in order to challenge for silverware next season.
While many believe the Frenchman will spend and acquire top quality players, Robson begs to differ, claiming Wenger’s previous buys have been woeful and expects more of the same this summer:
‘I’m not expecting any marquee signings at Arsenal.
‘There’s a lot of talk about it but I don’t know if I would trust Arsene Wenger with that money.
‘Over the last few years some of the players that he’s said were going to be world class haven’t ended up like that.
‘People like Olivier Giroud, Philippe Senderos, Denilson, Marouane Chamakh, Armand Traore, Sebastien Squillaci, Nicklas Bendtner, Carlos Vela, Emmanuel Eboue, Park Chu-Young, Lukasz Fabianskii, Gervinho and Andre Santos.’
He went on to say:
‘These are the sort of players who Arsene Wenger said were going to be world class players and they haven’t done it.
‘Over the last two seasons they have spent some money on Olivier Giroud, Lukas Podolski, Mikel Arteta, Nacho Monreal, Per Mertesacker and Andre Santos. They haven’t been top class players.
‘Arsene Wenger doesn’t appear to want to sign the top class players, or what other people would describe as top class players. He goes out and says, ‘I can buy you cheaper players for a better price who are going to be world class players in the future’ but that hasn’t been the case in the last few years.
‘Some of the players who he has bought have regressed under him like Andrey Arshavin and Thomas Vermaelen. Nacho Monreal hasn’t been a good signing and Andre Santos has been hopeless for them.
‘Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski are past their best and Gervinho is another player who they spent a lot of money on and hasn’t really come to the fore.’
In a way, Robson has a point – Wenger has been unable to sign top quality players over recent seasons. Just look at the list of players above. Are any of them decent enough to play for Arsenal?
Arteta, Vermaelen and Giroud have been decent signings but they aren’t exactly world-beaters.
This summer seems different however, and I think Wenger will spend big on big players (hopefully he does). If he does this then I believe we will be challenging for silverware next season. If he doesn’t, after the club made major profits and signed new sponsorship deals, then we can all firmly point the finger of blame at Wenger for not bringing in top quality footballers to our club.
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WillyG – Agreeing with a world class c**t like Robson says enough about you for all of us to rightlyvhold your opinion in the shyte regard it deserves x
Why post anything that jurkoff says, creating bad karma all he does.
Who gives a fuck what that anuscunt pussyblood fucknugget thinks. He’s a prime cut of 100% moron with a side of idiot in a sauce of foamy bitterness.
we have two groups of fans;arsene fans and arsenal fans.arsene fans think arsenal can improve under wenger but arsenal fans think it’s time for wenger to go because he is not as good as he was nine years ago n he has lost his midas touch.always selling best players to rivals he intend to beat for the title.resting his best players in a final match and hopping to play them in a champions league which he certainly cannot win.comparing his players or team to barca.what a lie!!!one is the best club in the world whilst one cannot beat bradford city or blackburn rovers or execute a simple pressing against an infurior club.telling the world that being 4th is the same as winning a trophy should tell hopeless and foolish arsene fans that wenger is no longer the kind of manager we need because to him we always win trophies.wenger out!!!!!stupid wenger fans out!!!!!!the lot out!!!!!!!
Every year the same subset of delusional and desperate mugs fall for rhe pre season hype, itself always strongest pre season ticket renewals. Meantime kroenke sitting on a cash rich business approaching 3 times the value he paid for it. You mugs carry on adding to his wealth by buying wilshere, cazorla shirts, before they are sold in next year or two.
This man is obviously a delusional twat if he thinks Giroud, Podolski and Arteta were bad signing
Wenger has not really signed many big names except Podolsky and Cazrola in the recent past.Hope he changes his buying habit and make Arsenal a title challenger.
What good comes out of Robson being so jealous, ignorant and completely disrespectful to a man who obviously loves the club. Arteta works his socks off every time he is on the pitch and Monreal has been fantastic for a player who just transported from La Liga. Robson is good at trying to point out what Wenger has done wrong and never highlights what Wenger has done GOOD. He is certainly zealous in destroying Wenger’s reputation.
All of you guys that criticize Stewart Robson are all fools, Arsene hasn’t won anything for 8yrs+ and yet u still support Wenger and run Stewart Robson down. Wenger is not going to spend any money and he is going to disgrace all of u and prove Stewart right. Ignorant people.
Robson is a fool, if Wenger went out and managed to buy Messi, Robson would be on the phone to Talksport asking why Wenger didn’t buy Ronaldo
He’s best ignored