Arsenal paying the price for Wenger's incompetence

Benny wrote:

True, but it has worked for him in the past, eg Overmars, Petit, Vieira
and Henry. It all fell apart this season, because he didn't
adequately replace Flamini and Gilberto (and I admit, you were right
about Gilberto, he's doing extremely well this season, albeit in a
weaker league).


Because free transfers are usually never "free". The transfer fee is
embedded into the player's wages (at least for good players) and Arsenal
has a wage structure.



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On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:14:08 -0500, Manx Gunner
wrote:


You sad little boy, you don't have a clue what I was talking about,
run along and play troll

After serious thinking sugs wrote :


You call Wenger 'incompetent', and *I'm* out of my mind?

Righto.

On Nov 23, 4:41*pm, Alkamista wrote:

I know...just keeping it going

Alkamista wrote:

Also has played in England, France, Italy, and Spain. With an
international, predominately french speaking cast like that at Arsenal
he would have an advantage.

His Monaco side from 2002-2004 played a style of football that would be
very suitable to Arsenal's squad. He also got the best of their careers
out of players like Squilacci, Rothen, Prso, Nonda, and Giuly.


Others failed with equally expensive squads at Inter, and the Special
one is not doing any better.


That is probably unfair.


True.



They are not currently available (in contrast to the five I named). I
don't see either being a good fit with Arsenal's current squad,
especially the rather dour Moyes.

On Nov 24, 12:36*pm, MH wrote:

Yes, but a key difference is that they failed to win a *full-strength*
Serie A. Mancini OTOH, was literally gifted his first Scudetto, and
won the second when both of their main rivals were severely
handicapped (one was actually not even present). Only last year's
Scudetto can be viewed as a true sense of accomplishment, and that too
was with Juventus still in rebuild mode and Milan in the midst of a
cyclical downturn. Note that I am not saying that Mancini has done
inadequately in any way, form, or shape, but just that he hasn't truly
been tested.



Actually, it may be fair to McClaren ;-) He was after all an assistant
coach at one of the greatest dynasties ever in club football. What has
Donadoni ever accomplished? Granted he led Italy to EC qualification,
something McClaren failed to do, but then again Italy's international
pedigree dwarfs that of England.



Yes, I realized after the fact that you were talking only about
available coaches. I also agree about Moyes' style, but then again,
like Rehagel once said, maybe he's just making do with what he's got.