From Huseyin : Power, Organisation, Desire
Hi Myles,
That in a nutshell has been my biggest issue with AW over the last 10 years.
Who were the last title winning team in England’s top flight who did not have at least 6 or 7 ‘6Ft Plus’ outfielders who had desire and power?
The game has not changed, Wenger did and that is his biggest failure.
Some would argue he was trying to create a team to win in the Champions League.
But if that was what he was being judged on, he would of been sacked in 2009.
Myles says :
He had made himself unsackable by 2009, Huseyin.
But he is delusional.
He’s not a Champions League-winning manager, never has been, never can be.
But Wenger can’t imagine retiring without winning the Champions League.
So it’s been tragic to watch him he try to win the Champions League playing 5-a-side football with seven attackers making short passes to and from overlapping full backs.
Without Xavi, Iniesta and Messi winning it with that style was impossible until Messi, Neymar and Suarez did it without Xavi in Berlin last year.
Football is about players, not data
And any 60,000 stadium needs power players who can provide some spectacular attacks and spectacular goals.
Swarm football can only take you so far but this guy is so stubborn that he refuses to see that, learn that, admit that, and change his ways.
It has slowly become clear, over the last 10 years, that Wenger is a supremely selfish and needy character who is interested in nothing except pursuing his own private agenda.
His 2004 team played stylish power football with Vieira and Gilberto, two World Cup winners, in centrefield, and went through the season unbeaten because they had a mixture of muscle, artistry and speed.
After 2004 he wanted you all to pay the world’s highest ticket prices to watch him experiment with another model that has failed year after year after year after year. But somehow he kept selling you the future, kept selling you hope.
How did he manage hat?
Because Arsene Wenger is the Greatest Spindoctor in the History of Organised Sport.