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Arsenal on MOTD tonight
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Publius Ovidius
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Arsenal are probably the only side I would pay good money to see in the Premiership
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Arsenal play more attractive football than any other Premiership team, their one touch stuff is sometimes breathtaking, what's not to like if you're a football fan? I don't care what nationality their players are, I don't support them I just enjoy watching them, I doubt they'd be nowhere near as attractive if they had the opportunity to substitute some of their players for the best English players though. Says more about English players than anything else.
Tooting Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I don't really want to get into a slanging match on this one, but I do disagree with you about Wenger TLO, and I'll tell you why.
Firstly, it goes without saying that as a football fan I enjoy watching Arsenal play. It's fantastic, and I only wish there were some English players he had somehow incorporated into the team.
However, I do think it's a bit of a myth that Wenger brings through loads of young talent. He doesn't. He just goes out and buys it, even younger than other managers, from abroad.
He's been there for, what, 11 years? When he arrived, if the whole structure at Arsenal was not bringing through lads with the right technique, he could have set up a new one, say by 2000, and the club would be seeing the fruits now. Arsenal have a big enough name always to attract 10-12 year-olds from other London clubs.
The fact that Arsenal are not bringing through young English players is a major failure of Wenger, because that would help him as well as the national team. If there are not English players good enough, he's been there 11 years, it's his fault.
Firstly, it goes without saying that as a football fan I enjoy watching Arsenal play. It's fantastic, and I only wish there were some English players he had somehow incorporated into the team.
However, I do think it's a bit of a myth that Wenger brings through loads of young talent. He doesn't. He just goes out and buys it, even younger than other managers, from abroad.
He's been there for, what, 11 years? When he arrived, if the whole structure at Arsenal was not bringing through lads with the right technique, he could have set up a new one, say by 2000, and the club would be seeing the fruits now. Arsenal have a big enough name always to attract 10-12 year-olds from other London clubs.
The fact that Arsenal are not bringing through young English players is a major failure of Wenger, because that would help him as well as the national team. If there are not English players good enough, he's been there 11 years, it's his fault.