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foxinthebox2001 wrote:Wenger - "The transfer market starts for me now". So are we to assume everything thats gone on since July 1st, Higuain, Rooney, Gustavo, Suarez and the rest was just a bit of a giggle? or just a pr stunt to help the sales of season tickets?Whatever happens now he has made himself look a total tool.
He can sign who he likes, but the fact is he has dithered too much, for too long.Any club with serious ambitions of winning major cups would have the squad ready before the season starts, the result was 3 points thown away, and lets see if any more are frirttered away at Fulham.
The question would still remain, is Wenger actually committed to spending on new players? or is it just a consequence of the pressure being piled on him by supporters, and probably the Arsenal board.
Well spotted mate!
The thing is I soooo want(ed) him to be able to turn things around and for us (with him at the helm) to become
a major force in English & European football again, but realise that with Kroenke in charge of the purse strings, we are NEVER going to invest in the way that needs to be done in order to compete with chavsi/$hitty/manure - FFS! we're even being out spent/transferred by the scum
So with two penny pinching misers in the most important roles in the club we are (until they both are removed)effectively up the proverbial shyte creek without a paddle.
I remember being horrified at the thought of Usmanov coming into the club, but it now seems like a far more preferable solution than what we are now landed with.
I just don't understand our 4-5-1 formula and Wenger not seeing our most successful teams
Have had a balance we have an over balance of tippy-tap players in midfield this originally was to build the team around Cesc
Our midfield use to comprise of a left sided attack with speed or skill ie Overmars and then the Cole,Pires Henry you have Viera ,Petit
or Pat and Gilberto.
Right side industrious midlfielder Parlour, Freddie
Bergkamp Wrighty, Henry
The formula is there just replace like for like but arrogance prevails.
Arteta, Rosicky, Caz,Wilshere, Ramsay we lack width so Di Maria on left would be Amazing with Gibbs overlapping.
New Dm, with Caz or Wilshire and an industrious
right sided midfielder
Two up front Giroud and Theo
Or if Jack plays Caz as no 10 with world class striker
From all of the pictures I have seen of training sessions on arsenal.com, I have never seen snaps of them practicing set-pieces. In fact, all we ever see is them running from one side of the training ground to the other .
Swifty wrote:So can anyone tell me - how much time does Wenger actually spend on the training pitch doing drills and set pieces et al?
none.
neither do we spend time watching tapes of the opposition so we can adjust our game - wanger believes we should just play our game....
Thierry Henry biography 'Lonely At The Top', written by French journalist Philippe Auclair. From page 157 I extract the following quote:
"By contrast [to his love for statistical data], he [Wenger] will devote surprisingly little time to the analysis of future opponents. I remember how, a couple of days before the 2006 Champions League final, Wenger casually let drop in conversation that he and his staff would have a good look at Barcelona's shape on the eve of the game. I was astonished. Hadn't they done that already?. A Mourinho would have had his scouts filing report after report on his team's adversaries for weeks, if not months. Perceived weaknesses would have been identified, specific training drills would have been designed to exploit them. For Wenger, however, attention to such details would have been an admission of inferiority, a denial of his footballing credo."
Swifty wrote:So can anyone tell me - how much time does Wenger actually spend on the training pitch doing drills and set pieces et al?
none.
neither do we spend time watching tapes of the opposition so we can adjust our game - wanger believes we should just play our game....
Thierry Henry biography 'Lonely At The Top', written by French journalist Philippe Auclair. From page 157 I extract the following quote:
"By contrast [to his love for statistical data], he [Wenger] will devote surprisingly little time to the analysis of future opponents. I remember how, a couple of days before the 2006 Champions League final, Wenger casually let drop in conversation that he and his staff would have a good look at Barcelona's shape on the eve of the game. I was astonished. Hadn't they done that already?. A Mourinho would have had his scouts filing report after report on his team's adversaries for weeks, if not months. Perceived weaknesses would have been identified, specific training drills would have been designed to exploit them. For Wenger, however, attention to such details would have been an admission of inferiority, a denial of his footballing credo."
do you see ?
this is why he is not fit to manage a pub team.
As you know, that quote above was referring to our Champions League final appearance in 2006, so if you stand by your thinking that back then he wasn't fit to run a pub team, then how do you explain his huge success between 1998-2006?? luck?
in the original posting 
! Aaah so you noticed!? 
