Wenger won't change philosophy

[Cripps_orig]

The far bigger problem is in defence.

I agree.

Wenger in the link posted in the OP disagrees.

He wants to strengthen the attack which is fine by me cos it does need strengthening but he seems to think its one or the other. Attack or defence. Well no, you can strengthen both this summer.

He seems to be going by the "we'll score one more than you" tactic which as we have seen is exciting when it works but as is the case more often than not, fucking frustrating when it doesnt

[Letters]

I agree.

Wenger in the link posted in the OP disagrees.

Does he? There's a line in the article which says "But Wenger believes an improvement up front will be enough to offset their defensive frailities." but nowhere does Wenger say anything like that.

[Cripps_orig]

"This team is getting mature, strong and we do not need to change our philosophy. We have to even be better in what we want to do.

"We are an offensive football team and want to be better in our offensive game than we have been, to continue to develop it and be stronger in what we want to do.

That bit which i guess most of us took to mean hes going to improve the offense and fuck the defence

[Sirjackofwilshere]

Just to add cheer to this happy fest...Wenger interviewd Gazidis for the CEO job.

can't delete the post on the other thread.

[Cripps_orig]

Just to add cheer to this happy fest...Wenger interviewd Gazidis for the CEO job.

can't delete the post on the other thread.

Click on go advanced and then delete it

[Power n Glory]

We only failed to score twice in the run in?

Even in the disasterous run in we scored 2 vs West Brom, 3 at Spurs and 2 at Fulham and didn't win any of those games. The far bigger problem is in defence. We do need to be more clinical but it's hardly an irrelevant stat to look at goals scored when talking about offence.

He has too much power.

Just to add cheer to this happy fest...Wenger interviewd Gazidis for the CEO job.

can't delete the post on the other thread.

[Letters]

That bit which i guess most of us took to mean hes going to improve the offense and fuck the defence

Well, we'll see. He did cite the defence as the problem last season so let's see if he does anything about it.
I've heard him admit defensive problems previously though and he's not fixed them so I'm skeptical

[Xhaka Can’t]

We only failed to score twice in the run in?

Even in the disasterous run in we scored 2 vs West Brom, 3 at Spurs and 2 at Fulham and didn't win any of those games. The far bigger problem is in defence. We do need to be more clinical but it's hardly an irrelevant stat to look at goals scored when talking about offence.

Sweet jesus, you saw it with your own eyes. We have problems up front. And I am referring specifically, as I made clear, to that piss easy run we had where we were supposed to make ground and pass United. To make it even clearer, here is what I am referring to:
Wolves 2-0 win
Stoke - 1-0 win
Sunderland 0-0
WBA 2-2
Blackburn - 0-0
Liverpool - 1-1

Eight points out of 18. Three home games in a row where the only goal came from a penalty. Van Persie, the only guy delivering. I'd fucking love to rely on Van Persie, he is world class. But I can't because he is injury prone.

Don't tell me you didn't sit wondering last season where the next goal was going to come from.

Yeah, we started scoring again during the run in. Except it was not a run in. We were completely out of it when we started scoring again, and it was pretty much all Van Persie.

[ElusiveGooner]

Just looked at the scores in league games where we dropped points last season (there were 19, we won the rest).
6 times we conceded 2 goals, 4 times we conceded 3 and once we conceded 4 (no prizes for guessing who that was against!)

Whilst I agree that we have at times failed to kill teams off we really shouldn't need to score 3 or more goals to win a game. In 11 of the 19 games where we dropped points last season we'd have needed to do just that. IMO that points to a problem in defence far more than offence although I agree we are wasteful at times.

Letters, if thats the case, then why isn't Wenger pulling out all the stops in order to fix this issue? Why hasn't he identified a player, or even a coach that can help to resolve these defensive issues? It's going on for two months since the season finished. And Wenger's 'activity' in the transfer market are a couple unknown kids, and YET ANOTHER signing from the bargain basement that is LIGUE1.

Fans can see it, pundits can see it, the media wont stop talking about it. But Wenger? Nope all we need is a bit more 'spirit' coupled with another ageing French past it defender. I swear, if Jonathan Woodgate was French, we would have just pipped Stoke to his signing.

[Kano]

He was getting questioned about the defensive issues and he said that if we improve offensively that will offset the defensive problems, he more or less shrugged his shoulders and was dismissive of our defensive issues.

what a load of bollocks

let's be honest, you didn't even see it did you, you're just making stuff up to justify your criticism.


the question was: when you won the titles in 98, 02 and 04, how different was your coaching philosophy back then compared to now? do you stand by your principles of attacking, entertaining football

aw: the competition is very hard in england, hardest league in the world. we have changed a little bit in 04, 05. we have developed a team is capable to compete at the top level in the world now, they are getting maturer, stronger and we do not need to change our philosophy, we have to be better in what we want to do. we are an offensive football team, i think we want to be better in our offensive game than we have been and continue to do that, be stronger in what we want to do.


see, bollocks created by a nothing news article on a quiet news day.