It makes my head spin trying to think about what the hell is going on at the club, who is responsible for what, why we haven't spent this summer. I don't believe Wenger is blameless but neither do I believe you can blame him solely. What percentage of blame would you assign to who?
I'll keep this simple by splitting it between 'the board' and Wenger.
Wenger 70%
The Board 30%.
I just don't understand why Wenger would choose not to strengthen his squad. There's literally zero logical reason.
I considered corruption, I just can't bring myself to believe he's that stupid.
I think he genuinely wanted to this year so who is responsible for our transfer dealings and negotiations? How involved does Wenger get? I thought after Graham the manager didn't get too involved but Wenger seems involved in everything we do. Whoever is responsible for our transfer dealings needs sacking, it's been a shambles from start to finish.Originally Posted by GayPete
Dick Law does the negotiations.
I don't think Wenger is any more involved in the process than any other manager.
It has to be a mixture of both. The board don't give a fuck as long as the money rolls in and Wenger has no clue how to operate in this modern transfer market. I also think there's a shit load of misplaced faith in this squad, he probably thinks twice about signing a quality player because of how it may affect a player he's worked for a few seasons on.
There's clearly no strategy in place and the entire club has shown itself up this summer.
Last edited by Marc Overmars; 19-08-2013 at 01:35 PM.
Wenger, allowing a squad to become to its barebones like now is unacceptable.
the thing is does he give Dick a list of signing to make in a specific order. it seems like we go after 1 person at a time. when 1 fails we have to have a rethink and then decide on another. no quick selection process or speed of thought.
Wenger has a lot of control over transfers he's said as much, in addition he's very frugal with money, he likes value for money and won't pay over what he deems to be the market value for a player. Problem is his market value is often way off and he won't shift from that.
If he can't get what he wants at the price he wants he'll move on, but on top of that his super super quality signings he promises are rarely ever so, so I'd say he's seems to have lost some of his ability at picking up top talents.
The thing is, we dont actually know how involved Wenger is.... He cant be as involved as everyone in here seems to believe, because then we could save millions in wages on all the different directors/leaders/whatever in the club.
If a manager could get whoever he wanted, of course he would he get those players. We've seen this year that we went for a 40m bid on Suarez, do you guys really believe its Wenger saying "lets not go over 40mil" or the people who runs the business part of our club (board/director/whatever)?
I believe our Manager just have enough class to not whine about the utter incompetence of some of his colleagues.
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