Bit like Lame saying they can win the title..Granit Xhaka: "The results against Bayern were very bad but we are not that far off them & in my view they are on the same level as Arsenal"
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Superb! Comedy gold.
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Arsenal's Switzerland midfielder Granit Xhaka, 24, says critics have unfairly painted him as a "brainless idiot" because of his disciplinary problems this season. (24heures - in French)
Even without the disgraceful disciplinary record... surely?
Even without the disgraceful disciplinary record... surely?
Ffs another case of Wengers stupidity. Alonso was great in his Liverpool days
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That was Wenger's tactic - get good players at a knock-down price and bribe them with stupid wages to sign for Arsenal.
Everyone fetes him as a genius, but it isn't exactly rocket-science.
Unfortunately for Wenger, times have moved on and with the amount of money in the Prem and other major leagues, this tactic has been somewhat blunted. Having no other tactic to employ, and not knowing how to grow his own talent, he and his club have been in steady decline.
Everyone fetes him as a genius, but it isn't exactly rocket-science.
Unfortunately for Wenger, times have moved on and with the amount of money in the Prem and other major leagues, this tactic has been somewhat blunted. Having no other tactic to employ, and not knowing how to grow his own talent, he and his club have been in steady decline.
He was a genius for a while and became Uniteds only real rival he put together a great team who became invincible. Spurs haven't had that for 56 years nor likely to in the foreseeable future. Arsenal lost pace with the other teams due to financial constraints of the new stadium which put them back years but still ahead of their poorer north London neighbours. Spuds are about to make the same mistakes like Arsenal they are too tight fisted to attract world class players.
Wenger did well, no doubt. But he had a lot of the basics there already.
He was smart enough to keep the old back four, which was a very tight unit that gave very little away. He stuck Vieira and Petit in front to reinforce further, and that was the start. Why he later gave up on those principles of building from the back when it had been so successful for him, only he knows.
I think Wenger's knowledge of the French market for players was a great advantage to him back then. Very few other clubs went looking to France for players back then. It's not so easy to pick up real talent at a reasonable price anywhere in the world anymore. Top club's scouting systems are global nowadays.
The game has changed significantly in those 20 yrs
I was about to say virtually the same thing, but I don't think that he ever built from the back.
He inherited a side that already had the back built. Maintained it a little over time and hasn't been able to recreate it.
My question would be more about why he seems to have abandoned holding midfielders, while everyone else has embraced them.
Who's supposed to be doing the donkey work in Arsenal's midfield at the moment?
Where's their Kante, Wanyama or Fernandinho?
They've conceded 13 more goals than Spurs or Chelsea and four more than City, who've had ****ing Bravo in goal.
That's quite a lot of points.
Possibly, mate.
However, none of the old back four could be considered what I'd call Wenger type players. But, whatever his reason, he kept them in situ.
Those four with Vieira and Petit covering them gave him the platform to be more adventurous with the likes of Overmars further forward.
Indeed we are on the cusp of our fifth title since Arsene chalked up his last.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is confident of signing Tottenham left-back Danny Rose, 26, for £50m this summer, with Manchester United's Luke Shaw, 21, likely to replace him. (Daily Mirror)
Galatasaray are keen to sign Tottenham's 22-year-old forward Vincent Janssen, who has scored just one goal from open play since joining Spurs last summer. (Daily Mail)
Cant believe they havent sorted out Carl Jenkinson's contract
and Sanogo.
Stupid pricks.