Bit of a Q&A with Wenger, talks about transfers etc interesting answer to this one about the CL:
Q: But not having won it really bothers you?
Wenger: No.
He's clearly not bothered about the CL, unlike Ferguson for whom it was the holy grail until he won it. How can you not be bothered about winning the biggest prize in club football (he's obvioulsy content with getting thrashed in the last 16 then I guess or even just qualifying for the CL)?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41145505
Interesting read.Originally Posted by Munchies
as some have been saying, the problems run much deeper than on the pitch. We are a mess and should go on Jeremy Kyle to sort it out.
From reading that it sounds like the manager's faith in his players is not reciprocated.
If we think he's bullshitting about one thing. There's no reason to suppose he isn't about another thing
Man like Wenger is never going to admit that he feels his career has been in anyway inadequate or publically acknowledge that he hasn't achieved all he wants to. But apart from the fear of retirement, there's no doubt that he believes if he retired now it would be not as successful as he wanted.
He's not in the champions league, if he accepts that the failure to win the thing is a failure. He has to doubly acknowledge that failing to qualify for it is doubly so.
Of course he's bothered.
A childish "No, didn't want to anyway!" should fool no-one.
Sounds to me like either they had a plan yet ballsed it up by relying on one man who is known for not being proactive left to his own devices to carry them out.
Or that this was a totally disorganised shit show and this whole thing has been made up to excuse the absolute up fuckery
This keeps on getting better.
The transfer window was a failure. But I have to honest, before the season kicked off, I was adamant that we shouldn’t sell Alexis. If we were able looked like we were able to compete for the title and Alexis and Ozil were playing for the manager, I’d back the club not selling. But we should have sold off the crap and brought in more quality regardless. The window has been a failure.
But I agree with this.
The club were in a no win situation. Some bullshit story about us not having money on the eve transfer deadline day starts doing the rounds on Twitter just as we’re considering selling Sanchez.But Gazidis claimed that keeping hold of Ozil and Sanchez “was a clear statement of our ambitions and should help refute suggestions we are just about the money. That is simply nonsense.”
Where did that bullshit come from? I thought that leak would have come from the club to cover for Wenger but I don’t think so. Something else is going on. Also, it sounds like we actually bid £92m for Lemar. Reading between the lines, it says we had money to spend and kept the players we needed despite Wenger hinting at the Board could overrule his decision and sell them. Wenger is a sneaky guy. It reaffirms what fans think about the Board only being interested in money and would have provided a perfect excuse at the end of the season when we fail again. Ivan, being an even bigger sneaky shit is pushing the focus back onto the pitch and results. That’s my theory. All smoke and mirrors.
Kroenke is so desperate to win the title but will not spend a penny out of his pocket!
It looks like the club will be in a mess for the foreseeable future.
I'm not actually arguing his past successes do mitigate what he's doing right now.
I'm just arguing against the assertion that he was never that good in the first place.
Zim questions how someone supposedly so good can now be so bad and his conclusion is that maybe he was never that good in the first place.
My take is that Wenger has simply stood still while all around him has changed. If the champion high jumper before the Fosby Flop was popularised refused to adopt the new technique then he would start to get beaten by younger athletes whose technique allows them to jump higher. That doesn't mean he wasn't a great jumper back in the day though. Neither does it mitigate his failure to adopt the new technique.
Why wouldn't you say your bothered, it's the logical thing surely to say yes it's it something I think about as I would like to win it once in my career (standard fair for a manager at a big club).Of course he's bothered.
A childish "No, didn't want to anyway!" should fool no-one.
Sometimes I just don't get the guy, well quite often actually.
As for his interest in Mbappe, it's as concrete as his interest in all those other worldies we "could have signed".
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