I love this line
"People feel I'm stubborn … I'm not," Wenger added. "I just want to do the best for the team and to buy the right players. If I have shown one thing in the last 15 years, it's that I have bought good players here.
He has bought loads of extremely poor players too ad wasted so much money.
David Grondin
Kaba Diawara
Jeremie Aliadiere
Oleg Luzhny
Stefan Malz
Igors Stepanovs
Junichi Inamoto
Francis Jeffers
Richard Wright
Pascal Cygan
Julio Baptista
to name just a few
He's also brought in a few decent players.
Fergie's list of failures is as long as that, if not longer.
Also, don't diss the Horse or he'll track you down and scythe you from behind.
Nothing wrong with Cygan as a 4th choice CB, Lezhny did well and Baptista was on loan. I love this list, like it compares or detracts in anyway from the Bergkamps and henry'sOriginally Posted by Fats
He might have bought a few good players in the last 6 years but he's also bought a lot of bad ones.
Moreover at no point have these "good players" as he calls them managed to win anything in those 6 years. If the players he signs are so good.
I'd say in recent times looking at the players he's brought in, there's a lot more players he signed which aren't good enough than that are.
You can't really argue with Fergie's record, he's continued to win countless trophies, whereas Wenger hasn't and that's partly to do with the quality of his signings for sure.
All managers sign garbage, Fergie's managed to get more out of them or get rid of them quicker than Wenger has.
Fergie's streets ahead of Wenger in that department but tbf he's ahead of most others too and hopefully De Gea will be a big money flop (haven't had one of those in a while from him, they're quite entertaining)
The King Is Back.
So, he's won more? Whoopdee doo, doesn't change the basic fact that every manager signs crap and if you emphasise that then you can make things look very negative.
Maybe so but Wenger holds onto them for much longer than other managers. That's part of the problem.
But he also pays less to get them.
That whole Wenger flop list probably cost less than Veron.
I think if you want to rubbish Wenger, overall value for money in the transfer market is probably not the best way to do it. When you look at it objectively, having spent an average of around £1-2m per year (sales/buys), he's managed to field very competitive teams. Most relegation battlers have spent more than us and for what return?
Could he/should he have spent more? Would spending more have meant more trophies? Are there other weaknesses to Wenger's managerial qualities?
Those are all probably very strong yesses. But getting value for money in terms of transfers, that's also very much a yes.
Last edited by Unai Tea; 22-08-2011 at 10:48 AM.
Yeah, that can be a problem, not a big one but it can happen. Not sure how that has anything to do with my post but
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