Wenger has a dig at Drogba after dismal defeat

[quote name=Mark]The so-called professor would be better off looking at his own failure to bring any backbone ino the Arsenal team[/quote]What can he do? He’s fighting the tide. With clubs like Chelsea, Man Utd and now City always outspending him and having the squad power to cope with injuries they are always going to be better placed to challenge.

Well done Chelsea on another bought win over Arsenal, you must be really proud with your record signings playing so well. Russian oil, that’s Chelsea’s backbone.

when was that record signing???in 2004 i suppose…they have earned title every year due to that..not a bad return huh??n they haven’t bought any new heavy signing which was significant last night….so..nothing its refrees fault

I should point out I would love us to build a successful team in Wenger’s image again – but he needs someone to make him more competitive. We’ve need built an entire team from developing young players – it’s a myth.

Wenger has a great scouting system and an eye for potential he can nurture – but that has got him 80% of a title-winning squad. We need to add players to that, in the same way we had Adams, Keown and Bergkamp to complement Vieira, Petit and Anelka; and when we bought with Campbell and Pires to help blossoming players like Henry, Edu, Toure and Cole for the Invincibles.

[quote name=Gareth]What can he do? He’s fighting the tide. With clubs like Chelsea, Man Utd and now City always outspending him and having the squad power to cope with injuries they are always going to be better placed to challenge.[/quote]May I make a couple of comments as a Chelsea supporter at the game yesterday?

It seems to me that there is a fundamental difference of opinion about what sort of club Arsenal is or should aspire to be.

In my view you can either be a “big” club who challenge for everything they enter and would expect to win trophies, or you can be a “well run club” who look at financial considerations first and foremost.

If you want to be the former then you are underachieving and if the latter then you are about the best possible example it’s capable of being.

Reading some comments this morning bemoaning the lack of a big strong centre forward – you had one for the last two years and sold him!

Arsenal are a selling club. With the exception of Van Persie and Fabergas, Wenger has sold many decent players over the years and not properly replaced them.

Wenger’s first instinct is to play youngsters, build them up and then accept big money offers, replacing them from the ranks with the cycle starting again; how Everton would love to be that successful.

But Everton don’t get revenue from 60,000 high paying patrons at every home game, their owners are not a succession of the worlds wealthy and their fans don’t expect to win everything (or even anything).

Perhaps if you are the worlds best at being the “well run club” then it may be possible to get the success you want from being a hybrid but that doesn’t seem to be Wenger’s way.

So come on – what do you want to be?

Gareth, you are right about the initial Abramovic surge, but two things, a) we were anyway challenging the top of the PL before him and we had already had a good run in the ECL – so no comparison with Citeh and b) very little has been spent recently but the best is being got out of this squad of what SAF refers to as old men! The fact remains that Arsenal do not have the physically strong players to compete at the very top in this league and some of those who would have done that job have been sold by Wenger – presumably not because he was told to raise funds, therefore by his choice. With one exception, you cannot win anything with kids – but those kids were an exceptional generation for Man Utd.

you are right about AW. He is a bad loser. Actually the current failings in Arsenal are his responsibily.He shd have strengthened the defence and midfield.
Arsenals defence is a joke.
AW wants to play pretty/attacking soccer. When the attack breaks down the gunner defenders can’t cope with the fast breakaway.
He better know all the epl sides have wised up his game paln and if he persists he will bring down Arsenal to mediocre status.

I was pretty much agreeing with you Vash until you got to the Abramovic tirade. At the end of the day its not about the money its about who you sign and, in your case who, you let go. Your board chose to buy a fancy new ground so now all your money goes in repayments to the bank. I would rather have our cranky old stadium and challenge properly every year, maybe it is different at Arsenal, though any Gooner I know is well fed up with being so far off the pace for 4 years now.