Originally Posted by Jam Persie
Yep, that's what I'd go with. Theo, Jack and now Ox, hyped to hell. Not their fault, not Arsenal's fault. England have been so shit for so long every player that comes along who can kick a ball is a new saviour. Natural talent is rare in the British game and it fascinates people and gets them over excited.
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Simple answer, Wenger is a muppet who shows bias towards certain players, he's always done this regardless of what they've actually done. It's a major flaw in his management.
Blind faith comes to mind with some of the players he stuck with.
For a simple answer, it is amazing how wrong you've got it.
I think he's a muppet and his blind faith has been shown many times over the years, if you can't see that then you must have selective vision.
Last edited by Özim; 09-03-2012 at 10:44 PM.
Remember when Ach and Zimm where always at loggerheads over who was better out of Denilson and Diaby. Just thinking abt it makes me want to gouge my eyes out farking hell
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Denilson and by some distance
Surprised anyone is surprised- it's classic "I'm the only one who knows it all" Wenger.
Remember when we got Theo- the whole world salivated but he kept him on the bench for six months, though smugly still urging Sven to take him to the biggest stage in the world. Once that debacle was over and Theo was top on the casualty list made by the press, he starts talking him up and playing him. Theo has one night in Croatia 2 years later, becomes the press darlling again and Wumger starts talking him down and turning him into a 10 min supersub again(fatigue the new watch word). Then his unfortunate injury cycle starts, he recovers and is pre-dominantly shit and instead of being a supersub he's now always a guaranteed starter that no one really rates.
Did the same for Wilshere- all was going well in his career and he was a Wenger darling until the press got wind of him. Once that happened, Wenger ceased praising him gave him some oddball cameos and then punishment time at Bolton. Luckily Bolton worked out and he still was willing to come back and humble himself to be the understudy to the extra-ordinary talent that was Denilson. I stress how lucky we are that he didn't have ****y DNA like Bentley nor threaten us like Bendtner or rightly Szczesny did. Anyway Ramsey gets injured long term, the Denilson heat gets unbearable and finally the most natural and talented youngster EVER in the Wenger era, gets a proper chance.
Don't think I really need to do another paragraph on Oxo do I? In fact I would have said it was an English thing but his handling of the best keeper we've had since Seaman kind of negates that theory.
IMO he's just pretty crap in the intial stage when it comes to handling truly exceptional young talent and maybe young talent as a whole. I've always said he actuallly hurt our team at that time (and maybe even Cesc himself) by giving him so much undeserved and disproportionate time/responsibility on the pitch so early on. Then, unlike now, we had far better players and Cesc would have been a far better player with longer tutelege from those player- but in his wisdom he shipped them off, removing all obstacles to making sure Barca got a back an unbelievably great deal- a world class bar****er with top team experience of over 200 caps (60 in the CL) with practically all as a starter- tell me where you'd find another 24 year old cm in a top team europe with that sort of cv?
Anyway I should mention IMO he's handled one youngster properly since inception, Song, but the could have beens and the waste of spaces/caps are getting far too many.
Those were the days tbh.
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