This!Originally Posted by IBK
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..and that sums it up for me - something has to 'present itself'. You can say that this is just a soundbite, but it seems closer to the truth given the years of evidence that we have. There seems to be an element of players falling into the manager's lap, or otherwise being ignored. Whether its principles or something else, if a club happens to want to release a player whom Wenger has long admired (Ozil; Sanchez; Cech), he will go for them. Otherwise, the manager seems to be hamstrung bu his obsession with not paying over the odds for proven talent - and even where we have a pressing need for a player getting 'value' seems to trump the manager's desire for success.
And frankly - based on the evidence at Arsenal and the increseing quality of signings elsewhere in the league, I don't the manager is 'trying' in the way he should to find players who will kick on from what we have. I hope that I am not one of those on here who is so blinkered that they can't see any merit in our manager at all, and in Bellerin; Monreal; Coquelin; Koscielny - even Campbell, he signed players with promise who have become first team regulars. But he has been fortunate wth a number of our 'developed' players - who have often not been on the track to the first team, but been given their chance via circumstances outside the manager's control.
Whether it is that the omnipotent Wenger is spread too thin, or because our scouting/administrative network has become complacent...or perhaps that the manager has too much faith in existing squad players, our performances in the transfer windows are not strong, and even seem to be getting worse. It seems astonishing that such a well paid and regarded manager seems every season to be content with getting by on a wing and a prayer rather than being more pragmatic and doing what it takes to give his team the best opportunity to win. This, rather than the minutiae of his tactics are what I think pisses so many of us off.
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