Is it Wenger's ego rather than his ability that has cost us?

[IBK]

sorry, but you are trying to suggest that a guy who reached the top of the english game, created the best premiership ever seen, won countless trophies would rather massage his ego by creating players then getting back to a level where he took us before?


really?

You're living in the past. People change. Wenger has. If you and others think Wenger, with his policies/decisions in the last 8 years has had realistic ambitions to win silverware then you are on something. Personally, I find it difficult to believe that he is a shit manager. IMO he is either arrogant enough to believe that he can win things while at the same time allowing his best players to leave, or he is making the club subservient to his own principles/beliefs. Either way, his ego has hurt us.

There is a reason why he is no longer a winning manager - an obsession with producing players seems as good a theory to me as anything else.

[Ollie the Optimist]

You're living in the past. People change. Wenger has. If you and others think Wenger, with his policies/decisions in the last 8 years has had realistic ambitions to win silverware then you are on something. Personally, I find it difficult to believe that he is a shit manager. IMO he is either arrogant enough to believe that he can win things while at the same time allowing his best players to leave, or he is making the club subservient to his own principles/beliefs. Either way, his ego has hurt us.

There is a reason why he is no longer a winning manager - an obsession with producing players seems as good a theory to me as anything else.

that theory would work, if he hadnt spent the last two seasons buying seasoned professionals instead of youngsters

[IBK]

that theory would work, if he hadnt spent the last two seasons buying seasoned professionals instead of youngsters

2 points. First - the 'seasoned professionals' are still inferior to the players he's let go - not like for like by any streach of the imagination. Second, they are good - not outstanding - players from foreign leagues - and therefore IMO still punts for the EPL. Yet they replace tried and tested top players in our league.