Arsène Wenger: Same Old Class

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Yesterday way before the window closed I said if Wenger had been told not to spend, then surely he would resign. Why would he stay or even sign a new contract if he knew he couldn't spend. I don't see the attraction in that and Wenger hasn't resigned, so for me that indicates Arsenal not spending more this window is very much down to him alone.

 

[progman07]

If the owner freezes that money... We can't really use it can we?

Did we spend 100 million pounds well on Lucas, Xhaka, Mustafi, Takuma Asano and Holding? If not, whose fault is that?

Whose fault is that our squad is full of average players who take their wages home without any effort? Who signed those players? Who decided to give them money other teams cannot offer these players? We overpay too many average players, then complain we cannot sell them, and our squad is too large.

Don't get me wrong, Kroneke is a terrible majority owner, but his biggest fault lies in trusting Wenger to do this job after the last 5 years.

 

[isop]

Can you repost this article? Can't find it

Here it is:

http://le-grove.co.uk/2017/08/29/disingenuous-myths-of-wenger-cash-woes-exposed-point-by-point/

 

[Penn_]

Turned down twice by two young French talents doesn't do much for Wengers past it image.

 

[isop]

Common sense tells you, of all the people at the club, the one who stands to gain the most from spending, is Wenger.

Why would he shoot himself in the foot by not going all out for the best players the bank balance would allow. It makes no sense.

My point was that it's not Kroenke stopping him from spending, there's plenty of money, Gazidis has said so in the past, that we can do great things in the transfer window, but it depends on wenger. Sometimes wenger's own valuation gets in the way when paying a little bit extra may get a deal over line.

There is also no need to unnecessarily waste money and spend for spendings sake. If you can make smart signings without overspending then thats cool. Monaco, Juventus, Sevilla, Dortmund, Roma are usually quite good at that.

 

[OSBK]

Turned down twice by two young French talents doesn't do much for Wengers past it image.

Cant blame them, 10 years ago we were still every young french players first choice prem club. We had a solid french core of younger french players and they were influential characters. Roll on to now and we abandoned the french core and went british. We lost the french youth so we have giroud,kos,laca trying to entice french kids to join us. Whatever way you read that its right, why would lemar join? Is he gonna hang with giroud or try and fit in with ramsey.

Massive mistake by wenger, his strength was bringing in that young french talent that was our core. The british project has screwed us completely to the point where 92mill cannot fix it.

Get rid of wenger and bring monaco's manager in.

 

[boyinneedofhumor]

Anyone knows anyone who's in the betting game?
This might sound absurd but I'm wondering if there might be odds eventually on Benitez vs Wenger, as to whom will walk out first...

 

[Makingtrax]

Agreed but decisions like playing Ox and Sanchez against Liverpool, dropping off Kola and Laca, playing 2 LB's at CB, players out of position do not help. Problem is much bigger then lack of transfers.

Wenger would still screw up if he had the City budget.

They were shocking decisions, no doubt. As was allowing Ramsey to play so far up. Should have been on the touch line bollocking him after 5 minutes.

Any manager should be spending every last penny he can beg steal or borrow from the board. Because that's your first step towards finishing as high as you can. All else follows that.

 

[Makingtrax]

Wenger is a championship level manager now. Any mug with a half decent setup can get a result against us.

Conte's lost twice to us this summer and once in the league last season.

Must be a real mug . . . wait . . . he won the league.

 

[Flying Okapis]

Zilch. Above Wenger anyway.

Some lawyer was brought on to help handle player contracts but that's it from the non-playing side part of the football operations.

Yes its early but that lawyer might as well just **** off now, still no contracts done and if it was his idea to offer Ox over £150k just do one and save us money on his contract instead..

 

[Beksl]

I'm not a Wenger in by any strech but some of the posts here are really over the top.

Championship manager, ffs get a grip @Özil'sCloakOfInvisibility. We've won 3 FA cups in the past 4 years. I remember when we had our trophy draught and were ridiculed because it was "all about the trophies". Now it's about what?

 

[Sniper Mik]

Conte's lost twice to us this summer and once in the league last season.

Must be a real mug . . . wait . . . he won the league.

You should get a bumper sticker that says "Wenger beat Conte twice" cause that's all you got to say whenever anyone points out Wenger's failings.

 

[Sniper Mik]

I'm not a Wenger in by any strech but some of the posts here are really over the top.

Championship manager, ffs get a grip @Özil'sCloakOfInvisibility. We've won 3 FA cups in the past 4 years. I remember when we had our trophy draught and were ridiculed because it was "all about the trophies". Now it's about what?

Oh I've got a great grip alright. I've got a pretty good idea of what's to come for us this season thanks to Wenger.

 

[Beksl]

Oh I've got a great grip alright. I've got a pretty good idea of what's to come for us this season thanks to Wenger.

Are we getting relegated? I'd expect nothing less from a championship manager.

 

[Bergkamp a Dutch Master]

I'm not a Wenger in by any strech but some of the posts here are really over the top.

Championship manager, ffs get a grip @Özil'sCloakOfInvisibility. We've won 3 FA cups in the past 4 years. I remember when we had our trophy draught and were ridiculed because it was "all about the trophies". Now it's about what?

Its about playing decent football. Also being able to have self-respect. Knowing when asked who you support, that you say so proudly, not expecting a grin and a snigger.

 

[Sniper Mik]

Are we getting relegated? I'd expect nothing less from a championship manager.

Figures cause anything else from him is acceptable to some people.

 

[Tywin]

Wenger doesnt own the club, he works for Kroenke, if Kroenke is not happy with Wenger, why did he give him a new contract.
Clubs everywhere buy players regardless of what the manager wants, if he doesnt want to spend, someone else does the spending for him.
Even if you are right and Wenger is refusing to spend, then why is he still in a job, because of Kroenke, unambitious parasite animal hunting ****.
And by the way, the reason we ended up with one gear Xhaka instead of express Kante is because Wenger was told we dont pay players 160k a week. Thats on Kroenke.
Both need to go, one of them leaving wont change a thing.

Wenger is the most powerful manager in world football. Everyone on the board who matters has said so before. I think the idea that the board turning down Wenger for a transfer or refusing to pay kante 160k a week is a joke. Nonsense. Wenger calls the shots.

 

[Ceballinhos]

Oxlade-Chamberlain: "We're in good form going into the Man City game after beating Arsenal 4-0 last week."

Can't believe Wenger has played him against Liverpool.

 

[Bergkamp a Dutch Master]

bet he enjoyed making that remark.

 

[Tywin]

Same rubbish story about Wenger not being allowed to spend money for the last 10 years and amazingly people still believe it. As if the board couple deny Wenger if he asked for it.