The purchase of Welbeck and failure to acquire the types of players Wenger now claims to recognise we need is a dereliction of responsibility.
Fans, commentators and every one with an opinion has years commented on Arsenal's deficiencies yet the club's recruitment policy has become an opportunistic stab in the dark with the club unable to secure the quality players needed.
After 3 years as a senior Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck was discarded with less respect than Nicklas Bendtner exited the English game.
Meanwhile, Wenger and his merry men have been searching the globe for a prolific striker clinical enough to finish all the chances created but at the usual market stall prices. Welbeck's twenty goals in 3 years at Manchester United was not a goal scoring record LVG or an ambitious team accepts even from a player that team has nurtured for more than a decade. Yet this is the player Wenger expects to propel Arsenal to glory.
The club suggests there is enough money to buy top quality players and for half the transfer window was open to completing their acquisition. Given these riches at close of the window Wenger was content with the diminished offensive and defensive options that has today shown Arsenal as a touring embarrassment losing 2-0 to a Dortmund team for 6 key starters were injured.
Given the inflated prices of English players £16M represents good value Welbeck, provided he is regarded as a squad player or a replacement for Bendtner. However if he's expected to score to goals needed to win a bet £16M is a waste. Wenger has been polishing diamonds from chalk coal since Anelka but can he really make a striker of Welbeck who in 2 games has had opportunities at pivotal times but have missed them all. He does offer pace down the middle.
The TV tongues are already wagging Shearer, Owen, McManaman, Redknapp, Neville and others surprised by the move but confident he'll fit the Wenger mould, but does he really? Theo Walcott thinks Welbeck will be better at Arsenal and Welbeck himself has envisaged spearheading the arsenal attack, but to what end? How will he compare to Walcott for pace and power down the middle (as Theo wants) or as an alternate to Giroud, or Sanogo or will he be the new Bendtner?
Arsenal needed dominant striker, DM & CB, but after it all we settled for Welbeck. Whether he'll prove I be of value remains to be seen.
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. We are watching from an outside perspective. We have no information to go by except the distorted info we get from the media. Therefore, we do have very little insight in what really matters.
But then, why do some of you recklessly criticize key men of your football club? They are goddamn professionals, have more insight than you ever will, and are problably making decisions with rational reasoning. However, not even them are protected by the complexity of football. done the same in the heat of the moment. So please stop the reckless criticism of transfers, substitutions and acts of managers in general. They aren't flawless, but we don't really know better than them at any situation.
I've observed that you are very prone to these ettors. We don't know **** and should be very humble in our approaches. Football is complex, it isn't "buy him, sell him, sack him". It's far more complex than finding scapegoats. Please speculate and discuss, but be humble to what we don't know.What else did fans expect?For me,I don't expect alot but a lucky winning if the god of football is on our side.I can't imagine a warrior going to a war without any of his battle equipment and expect to win.Wenger had planned to fail so is not surprise things if his team is loosing now.Let all the fans envisage their happiness in supporting Arsenal comes back after the end of this foolish manager's career except if he change his loosing mindset in January transfer which I don't see of him.The board and the manager are just denying fans of their joy of supporting a team @the detriment of their pocket mstcheeeew.We are tired of them.Time to lash out some undeniable criticism to all ignorant supporters out there, especially those whose football education circulates around FIFA14-ratings.
Please understand that football is a very complex matter. We are watching from an outside perspective. We have no information to go by except the distorted info we get from the media. Therefore, we do have very little insight in what really matters.
I have been with the team for the last 15 years or so but I dont get the charm I would find in the era of Vieira, Henry,Pires,Bergkamp.
Sorry to say that this Wenger has made the Gunners bored with all his outdated ideologies.
I THINK MR. WENGER SHOULD GO AND ANOTHER AMBITIOUS MANAGER RECRUITED.
Simon, first FIFA doe snot rate clubs and I do support Arsenal and love my club. However anyone who has played at any level can see our shortcomings and in fact Arsene has mentioned them after the FA final and during the summer. It is his inabilty to pull the plug. Yes it is complex but why make it more complex. I hate Chelsea and think even less of Mou as a person but you have to admire that he recognized his short comings and before the premiership title chase was over he had already identified Costa as hos striker then went out and signed him. Arsene talks about finding quality but even if they a find one the economist in him comes out unlike his counterparts who see talent and just go get them. Don't just tell a player they are good enough put pen to paper to show you believe,
We make cesc, V.persie become what they are today but who are benefiting from them?!
Morinhois a typical example,do with who is ready and already made player please. DM,striker n CB.
Great, this is what makes football so fascinating, everyone has a point of view, much clouded, by emotion, passion and bloody mindness.
Most supporters support their team thro thick and thin. Me I have supported Arsenal since 1953, but last night was totally unacceptable, has Mr Wenger lost the plot???
If this continues we will be lucky to finish in top ten. Ozil has been very disappointing to say the least. Looks disinterested at times, may be time to cut our losses?, and purchase someone with a bit more height and power.
Obviously he must have thought that Welbeck was needed. Why? Because he accepted the transfer of Welbeck to Arsenal. Certainly Wenger does have some kind of competence in football, right? Or do you think that the fans are more competent than the manager?
Nah. Just a regular CNC-operator, nothing more.
Just tired of ignorant supporters who do not understand how complex football is.
Us fans would never do better than the manager. That's all.
Please understand that football is a very complex matter. We are watching from an outside perspective. We have no information to go by except the distorted info we get from the media. Therefore, we do have very little insight in what really matters.
But then, why do some of you recklessly criticize key men of your football club? They are goddamn professionals, have more insight than you ever will, and are problably making decisions with rational reasoning. However, not even them are protected by the complexity of football. Factors as luck and randomness dominate football, therefore, a decision should be judged by how rational the decision process was, not by the outcome. The result is always in subject to luck and randomness. Therefore, please stop venomously judging leading people AFTER the outcome, you would problably have done the same in the heat of the moment. So please stop the reckless criticism of transfers, substitutions and acts of managers in general. They aren't flawless, but we don't really know better than them at any situation.
I've observed that you are very prone to these ettors. We don't know *** and should be very humble in our approaches. Football is complex, it isn't "buy him, sell him, sack him". It's far more complex than finding scapegoats. Please speculate and discuss, but be humble to what we don't know.