You can't make players sign for clubs they don't want to play at![]()
You can't make players sign for clubs they don't want to play at![]()
Then we tell them to STFU and stay. Its simple. If Barca didnt want to pay the asking price then we go to said players and point out to them that Barca are not willing to pay x amount of money for you but other clubs will be so it makes sense to sell to them or they can stay and be committed to us
What we dont do is go to the board and tell them to lower the asking price
The ultimate conclusion of that is you have a player who doesn't really want to be here (Cesc has been criticised on here for his performances in his last season, I didn't particularly agree but his mind was clearly elsewhere) and if you keep going down that road he ends up walking out on a free a couple of years later anyway. How does that help us?
That wouldnt have happened. If Cesc had stayed, he'd have got his head right or his career would be destroyed cos who'd want him after 2 years of doing nothing?
Or if he was desperate to leave, you think he couldnt have got hold of one of his Barca mates and tell them to get their owners whoever to pay what was asked? They didnt have any trouble of talking shit about him all year, some of which i had no doubt came from convos they had with Cesc and they saw how he felt.
Barca had the money yet they got their man for less than half of what he was worth
That's not him "bending over" for Barca, that's him allowing Cesc to return to his home. If Cesc's home was Real, Wenger would do the same thing in the very same situation, would that be Wenger "bending over" for Real?
When players come out and say that Wenger is/was a father figure to them, they mean it, sounds like something a father would do for his son to allow him to be happy.