Comments on: Arsene Wenger’s transfer talk is starting to grate

By: chris from Cambridge

chris from Cambridge — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:28:37 +0000

Either Wenger HAS sigend players without seeing them play …. or …. his judgement of players is rubbish.

By: chris from Cambridge

chris from Cambridge — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:27:03 +0000

I can tell you who will NOT read it. The controlling Arsenal shareholder.

By: guy

guy — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:07:47 +0000

this is it for Arsene wenger to go, the man lost his touch,out of idea in the transfer widow even in the pitch;enough is enough, i can’t buy his policy anymore.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:45:13 +0000

Wenger is to much invested in all aspects of operations at the club ,and when one does that it takes away from their ability to do everything well. Wenger the manager wants to sign a player but Wenger the Accountant thinks the evaluation is too high. Alex Ferguson once signed a player without seeing him play, can you imagine Wenger trust a scout enough to do that. When you macro- manage a big club like Arsenal , there are simply too many aspects of club’s operations for one person -no matter how talented – to stay on top of ,without overall performance suffering. Having a dictator like control has become Wenger’s trademark and that’s why he isn’t interested in Real Madrid job. With a strong chairman like Perez who demands trophies on day one, and Wenger’s tactical deficiencies combined with his inability to deal with big egos, Arsenal is where he will stay.

By: Georgio

Georgio — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:42:17 +0000

Great article Thomas, these things have to be said. Those fans at Brighton that unfurled that banner should be allowed to do what think is right. Shame on those thugs that intervened using their fists. Freedom of speech anyone?

By: Michael Dosse

Michael Dosse — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:10:29 +0000

Absolutely; this is a marvellously written article. All is true in it. I didn’t want my reading to stop. Weldone to you Mr Hallette. Let’s jsut hope that the right people read it. Well … will they ever do?

By: Gooner of the day

Gooner of the day — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:56:58 +0000

What a brilliant article and all so true
hope the boss reads it too.

By: vijay

vijay — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:40:59 +0000

the last point. that absolutely describes whats happening at arsenal now. I Pray to god to change the mindset of arsene who thinks he is living in stone age time of football.

By: vijay

vijay — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:39:30 +0000

the last point. thats absolutely describes whats happening at arsenal now. I Pray to god to change the mindset of arsene who thinks he is living in stone age time of football.

By: abob

abob — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:34:03 +0000

It’s almost gotten comical the amount of analysis that can be made about Wenger from a few press conferences and few newspaper articles.

… by the way he has also bought players for 15 millions in the January transfer window – remember Arshavin? So really it’s a case of him doing it more often… kinda ruins that ‘changing his ways for once’ angle you were going for…

Also Fabregas sold for close to nothing? Sure it wasn’t the world record Arsenal wanted but 25 Million down payment with potential to take deal to 30-35 million? What are you on about with close to nothing?

So, it’s fairly obvious Arsenal need new players in in January – pretty much anyone can see that but the rest of this blog is just the same old rehashed staple of the blog sphere…

… and before I get pounced on by the anti-wenger brigade… please not I agree that wenger needs to splurge the cash, just bored of the way this blog has gone about it…