Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
Not that simple either. When you bring these players in it needs to be part of a bigger plan. You can't bring them in and say right, it's up to you to move us up a level. You don't sign Ozil and just get better. Instead, you get Lewandowski too. This ridiculous manager has Flamini and Ozil on the same pitch. His over reliance on individuals has always been a huge issue. Alexis carried him for a while. RvC before that. These types of players have stepped up, they have done their part but got fuck all in return except more weight for their troubles. Wenger and motivation go together like cunnilingus and herpes. When somebody gives, he takes and gives fuck all back. In every aspect of the team he leaves something incomplete, undone. He's lost his advantage in terms of spotting young talent and he hasn't got the balls to play in the transfer market with the big boys. So we are stuck in this frustrating in-between state. One step away from being mid-table, another step away from being able to compete. It doesn't help that our sugar daddy is a tight-fisted, miserly cunt of a bloke.
Don't disagree with that - but at the same time it does frustrate me that players' first instincts these days are to want away when things aren't going right for the team. Sure, Ozil has turned up this season. Sure - we all know that Wenger gambled with Giroud and Walcott, and this hasn't come off. But it's not a one-way street, and Ozil has gone missing in some key games...