Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
Is that how far back we have to go? Henry!?

You're not concerned by the fact that Wenger said he sees this kid as a winger type and not a striker? You've seen the effects of players being played out of position. Are we blaming the student and not the teacher for the rubbish and flawed players we've churned out over the past 10 years? Do you think this is simply a money and quality problem and it doesn't matter about the manager?
Sadly there's a truth emerging about Wenger. Henry is the player on which so much of the Wenger myth (it really is starting to look like a myth) is based. Out of sorts winger that Wenger masterfully transforms into the great striker. But keep winding forward and where is the next great triumph? I see Kolo Toure rattling around until he settles down at CB. Then I'm struggling to find another of the master's transformations.

1-0 to the Arsenal, Wenger was able to build so much on the characters of Adams, Bould, Keown, Dixon, Winterburn and Seaman, none of them his players and already a tightly knit unit that happily he didn't tinker with.

Bergkamp? No input required there, Bergkamp already knew his stuff inside out and back to front.

Vieira. Well credit for spotting him but Paddy was a winner all by himself and didn't need any external help to get on with the business of bossing the midfield.

Henry. I believe I could have coached Henry to greatness. What I would have done is sit back and listen carefully to the player and then let him get on with it. Henry credits Wenger for so much but I wonder if he is confusing Wenger's input with the overall results? Wenger had to play him, of course. Wenger had to say yes to him moving to the centre. But you watch Henry play and this stuff is kind of obvious.

i don't take all the credit away from Wenger. He did a lot in terms of fitness, scouting, taking some risk in the transfer market when money was harder to come by. But when you see his repeated failure to grasp even the basics of competing at the highest level you have to wonder is the training being handed down by a Jedi knight, as the legend goes, or is it primarily a DIY job?