Wenger Wary of City
The great Arsene Wenger says, according to football365.com, that Man City’s money blitz is going to propel them into the top 4 and that Arsenal should be worried. He talks about the threat from Villa and the Spurs too. WHY?
Yes, “Professor” Wenger is known for being realistic and stuff, but looking down is not going to help the gooners move up the table. We should NOT be worried about 4th place. It’s high time we start competing with Man Utd like we used too. A little more consistency and better friggin’ injury-luck should be enough for us to really go for the title next year. Arshavin is buzzing and settled in. Van Persie is really taking off. Fabregas is now a veteran. Toure is officially “old” (in a good, experienced kinda way) with regards to Arsenal standards. We have arguably the best wing backs in the world in Clichy and Sagna. Almunia was a shinning beam among the battery-less torches last year and is soon going to keep for England. Walcott is kinda getting there. Vela is going to be kickass. Eduardo is going to be back – for good this time. Adebayor can go wherever the hell he wants to go. Rosicky better get his act and knee together. We are probably going to make a couple of weird, un-heard-of, but solid signings. We play arguably the most fluid football in England. And to top it off, Wenger is an awesome coach. So, all he has to do is think a little positively and kick some major butt next season. He needs to obviously keep a look out for Man City, but conjuring an inferiority complex is NOT what Arsenal needs. Money cannot always buy success, especially in the friggin’ legendary sport of soccer. I hope Arseblog tears him up to with regards to this.
P.S. Arseblog is the BEST Arsenal blog. If you love Arsenal, you better be reading it every morning.
HEY! I didn’t even know you’d fucking started this man!
I know what you mean about looking down, but I think what Wenger’s concerned about is that retarded selling like this will only instigate other clubs to do the same, and the result is that a player like Vermaelen who, maybe 4 years ago would’ve cost say 5 million, will now cost no less than 10.
Arsenal are perhaps the only club who aren’t willing to compromise financial stability for a player or two and the problem with others spending is that it then threatens our stand. (bear in mind we’ve never over priced any player, if at all we’ve under priced them. 16 million for a 25 goals a season, heading, drifting, stinging, stunning Henry? Jeez louise!)
Last season we came so close to signing Xabi (at the cusp of his best season mind you) but the deal only fell through because Barry was worth 18 million and not a far more reasonable 12 million.
Had villa not been in such a sweet bargaining spot, they’d have sold him, and Xabi’d be up for grabs. Instead everyone stayed and we got shafted with an over compensating Denilson- who with the greatest admiration, I must say, may have had a potentially regressive season.
Thing is, someone like Modric who was on our radar, was never someone we’d pay 16 million for. In the current market, what choice do we have? If we don’t Spurs will or Villa will.
True, we must focus on our own troops and such, no doubt about it, but the fact is, this does fuck things up for us.
Great website man. Very inspiring. I’m actually going to go ahead and have a go at it myself.
Blog on.