Former Players Views

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Tony Adams has slammed Arsenal’s recent dealings in the transfer market – insisting the Gunners must start to keep hold of their top stars.
Arsene Wenger’s side have seen Robin van Persie, Alex Song, Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas all leave the club in recent years.
And Adams, who won the league championship four times with the north London side, claims Arsenal must stop selling their top names.
“This game is all about players,” he told Keys and Gray. “If you keep selling your best ones then you’re not going to win anything. Most of the teams that win things at the end of the season will have the best players, that sums it up.”
Contract rebel Theo Walcott could become the latest name to leave the club after failing to agree a new deal at the Emirates.
Van Persie was in a similar position before his shock move to Manchester United, and Adams claims this lack of forethought has cost the Gunners dear.

“I never got into the last year of my contract when I was at the club. David Dein, and the people who were running the club, always made sure I had two or three years to run [on my deal].
“They shouldn’t have sold Robin van Persie because you need to keep hold of your best players. They made a mistake there, they should have wrapped Robin's contract up earlier.
"It’s not about finance, they are going to miss Robin’s goals. If you then drop out of the top four then the money [they would have spent on van Persie] would have paid for itself.
“I can see the fans are frustrated, however I do agree with Arsenal’s principles. No one player is bigger than the club.
"They need a structure and a formation but they need to do a little bit of work towards it. If Jack Wilshere plays well are they going to lose him? Arsenal need to start winning things.”


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Spot on from Mr Arsenal. Time he came home and saved us once more

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Tottenham defender William Gallas has hit out at his former manager Arsene Wenger's idea that qualifying for the Champions League is worth more than winning either the FA or Capital One Cups.
Wenger made his claim last week at Arsenal's AGM as he attempted to justify the club's seventh successive trophyless season.
Gallas was at Arsenal for four of those years but now plays for their north London rivals - and he rejected Wenger's claims completely.
"A trophy is something you lift at the end of the season," he told London 24. "I know which feeling you can have if you lift a trophy - it's fantastic and it doesn't happen many times in your career.
"For me, to finish second or fourth, it's the same - but if you finish on top and if you're the champion it's completely different. For a few months you think you are the best team, the best players, you are so happy.
"To lift a trophy, that is the real thing to do. It's a long time since Tottenham won a trophy. I don't know which one we're going to lift but we want to lift one. Any one will be good."


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Yup, trophy over 4th all the time for me and i guess most sane fans

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Any properly run club and Wenger would have been shown the highway for uttering such a ludicrous and odious statement.

And by properly run I mean a club not being run by blood sucking leeches, whose only care is to stuff their fat hog faces with profits, but people who actually understood that the primary aim is to actually be the best and win leagues trophies.

[Özil's Panoramic View]

It's really a shame to see low the club has sunken to under these vampires. And the shameless fucks don't even attempt to mask their real motives. Brazen, bare faced cash gougers, Kroenke, PHW, Gazidis and rest of cronies.

And Wenger, just how did this winner become such a pathetic loser? I became a Gooner in my high school years, round about the same time he took the reigns. I did this among a throng of then Liverpool supporters (was the club that everyone in Jamaica was inclined to support back then because of the John Barnes connection and we were force fed liverpool matches on the 1 tv station late 80's through early to mid 90's), and I shared in the magical transformation of the club from "boring, boring arsenal" to playing the most breath taking club footie in the world. So just how the fuck did Wenger lose the plot?

Was he just lucky enough to find the right mix of players who had character, skill, technical ability, a winning mentality, and then piggy back on their success, accepting the accolades, while all the time being a weak, clueless manager? Were all the talks of his talent spotting abilities and honing of young talent, transforming them into superstars just a farce?

I've never heard CL footie being an issue for SAF and Man United, as they know that they simply need to win the EPL, or at least be a fierce contender for the it, and they are automically in the CL. And it's not all about the prestige and money for them, they are actually in the CL to win that trophy as well.

[fakeyank]

It's really a shame to see low the club has sunken to under these vampires. And the shameless fucks don't even attempt to mask their real motives. Brazen, bare faced cash gougers, Kroenke, PHW, Gazidis and rest of cronies.

And Wenger, just how did this winner become such a pathetic loser? I became a Gooner in my high school years, round about the same time he took the reigns. I did this among a throng of then Liverpool supporters (was the club that everyone in Jamaica was inclined to support back then because of the John Barnes connection and we were force fed liverpool matches on the 1 tv station late 80's through early to mid 90's), and I shared in the magical transformation of the club from "boring, boring arsenal" to playing the most breath taking club footie in the world. So just how the fuck did Wenger lose the plot?

Was he just lucky enough to find the right mix of players who had character, skill, technical ability, a winning mentality, and then piggy back on their success, accepting the accolades, while all the time being a weak, clueless manager? Were all the talks of his talent spotting abilities and honing of young talent, transforming them into superstars just a farce?

I've never heard CL footie being an issue for SAF and Man United, as they know that they simply need to win the EPL, or at least be a fierce contender for the it, and they are automically in the CL. And it's not all about the prestige and money for them, they are actually in the CL to win that trophy as well.

I believe he was good and his training/tactics were new at that time.. however the difference between AW and a great manager like SAF is that they evolve. SAF hit the rut between 2005-2007 and he realized that football has changed and he needs to change as well. Look where he is now. AW sat on his shit and thought (still thinks) the world revolves around his outdated philosophy. Its two thousand fucking twelve you twerp.. wake the fuck up!

He just covers his failure as a football manager with imaginary trophies of 4th place, CL qualification etc. And he has a bunch of c*nts like Gazidis, PHW backing it up as well. I hope they all just fucking die..

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Well argued

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I've come to the conclusion that Wenger is like a Middle Ages Alchemist - he is stubborn and utterly convinced that with a little tinkering here and there he will get the formula right, yet he has lost the ability to do so, and he is working with increasingly inferior materials. I honestly think that this season will be the first to see us finish outside the top four, and that the issues that many have seen coming for years will finally result in the 'mirage' of a CL capable team will be exposed for what it is.

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I've come to the conclusion that Wenger is like a Middle Ages Alchemist - he is stubborn and utterly convinced that with a little tinkering here and there he will get the formula right, yet he has lost the ability to do so, and he is working with increasingly inferior materials. I honestly think that this season will be the first to see us finish outside the top four, and that the issues that many have seen coming for years will finally result in the 'mirage' of a CL capable team will be exposed for what it is.

I honestly don't believe that a man of that intellegence, knowledge of the club and it's fanbase / history and sore loser mentality, believes that top four is a trophy.

[dazthegooner]

Yeah I would go with that he's hardly going to slag off his bosses in public its not his way. But as you said he csnt be happy winning nothing.