Quote Originally Posted by Nasri Scoreng View Post
Yes. And what's more which other of his project players have really, really justified not just the investment in them, but the fact that we haven't signed players at crucial times so as not to hamper their development? Honestly - I'm struggling to think.

Even the king of them all, Cesc, has 'repaid' us lately with tepid, disinterested performances. He is following a well-trodden path of captains who leave us as shadows of their former selves. Nasri seems intent on following the Adebayor/Flamini/Hleb model - break through and then believe the hype and believe that the club is beneath you.

Is there not some point at which a rational manager would realise that its not working...
It's because the players can see first hand that what they are drilled on week in week out doesn't work on a football pitch.

I mean, Cesc may say "we want to play the way the game should be played", but when you see players like Bendy playing out of position, when you see Theo looking bewildered on the wing when he's a striker, when you see players forced to play that one specific game....there'll come a point where they don't believe in it anymore.

The more I think about it. The more I think Wenger DOES shout and drill his team hard. But he only drills them in one thing. Passing. Everything else is left to chance.

When it doesn't work, and we don't win games, and we don't win silverware, BECAUSE we fail to do anything else...that philosophy of "Beautiful" football that attracted the players in the first place, has only served to make the team devoid of belief.

Only RVP and Cesc could probably make something happen themselves. The rest rely on each other. And when it doesn't work, it must be soul destroying if you work so hard at it each week.