Originally Posted by
LDG
I know it's embarrassing, but I don't think I can be too critical in terms of the personel he's brought in.
Yes, squillacci wasn't a resounding success. Silvestre was an awful purchase etc. And this was down to penny-pinching, and a risk.
I think Wenger knows what the best players are. Who is world class etc, but is either too frugal, or too restricted to do much about that in competition with your City's and your Chelsea's.
If you look at it properly, we all know that the team we had out last year was capable of winning the league, and most certainly the joke cup. So, to have got to that position, on the edge of winning something, they can't be that fucking awful. And these are players bought from nowhere...lest we forget Cesc was unknown. So we can't criticise him for buying "nobodys" because in a lot of cases they have worked. And were cheap.
What we can criticise him for is:
i) Not coaching a defence properly (sorry by Kos is better than many prem CB's who are all able to defend, we're just not schooled by coaches to position oursleves correctly)
ii) Letting a, sometimes arrogant, sometimes lazy, sometimes fightened, sometimes noncelent attitude manifest itself in the squad
iii) Not taking the extra step to ensure we have the quality when it comes to crunch time. Namely in the Jan transfer window.
iv) Not paying respect to inferior teams and the tactics they will use, and adapting to combat that
v) Not being ruthless enough when it comes to an underperforming player (Almunia, Denilson, Eboue, Diaby etc)
None of this takes money, aside from strengthening in January.
All it is, is being able to stomach, that PART philosophy isn't working. And that, that PART of his philosophy needs to change. And THAT is where we're failing. Not in the transfer market, imho.
