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Arsene Wenger, “You make your fans happy if you win things”

Written by Jeffrey on September 19, 2011 – 4:30

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes a new “cycle” has started for the Gunners after they signed numerous players in the summer transfer window.

Speaking before and after the Ewood Park defeat against Blackburn Rovers, the Frenchman declared that the Club will not change its youth policy as he identified 18-year olds Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Ryo Miyaichi as two youngsters who will be given chances this season and will show that they are quality players.

The Arsenal boss added that his objective as well as that of the Club is to make the fans happy and for this to take place trophies must be won although with fifteen points from the top of the table in the English Premier League this will not be easy to achieve this season.

And speaking on Saturday after the Blackburn game, Wenger admitted that there is frustration following a very disappointing result adding that the Borussia Dortmund mid-week fixture could have played a part in the reason why the Gunners went down the way they did in the second half of the game.

Before and after Blackburn, the manager said:

The cycle starts again because we have taken five players. But we have invested as well, our highest investment has been in Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, a young player. We have the work permit for Ryo too, so we will not give up on our youth policy.

We want our fans to be happy, we want to win trophies and we will give absolutely everything to do it. That’s all I can say.

Is the balance difficult to find? Of course. But look at the Champions League results of all the English teams – it is not as easy as it looks to cope with both.

For me [standing still is not an option] and in the modern society a cycle takes zero days. But I will judge myself by giving the best of my intelligence, experience and commitment to the Club and after I let other people judge what I do.

At the end of the day and at the end of the season you know yourself whether you took the maximum out of the team and the team’s potential or not.

I want our fans just to be happy and you make your fans happy if you win things and if you win games. That I think is that.

[My thoughts on the game?] Frustration, it’s not acceptable to make the mistakes we made when we were two one up in such an important game.

It’s very difficult to take and what is more frustrating is that it was not all negative, we had long spells in the game where we were playing well.

But just not focused enough on what makes you win games and lose games. We had an experienced team out today and you know that in the weaker periods it’s important on set-pieces to be focused, that’s where you are in trouble.

[There was an affect from the mid-week game against Dortmund], yes, you could see that in the game today. [Bouncing back?] It is important to respond very well on Tuesday night and win our game.

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  • The Saint says:
    September 19, 2011 at 5:56

    I say we give Wenger 20 games before we give Ancelloti whatever he wants to come here. If we are relegated before then because of the lack of points to possibly survive then I say we forgive and forget and get George Graham back. We need you Slider Georgie!

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  • Sammy says:
    September 19, 2011 at 6:03

    Looking back to Saturday’s game against Black burn, we notice that Arsenal was dominating the game but missed very important opportunities to score. Gervinho was great creating havoc to the opponent defense but made errors on a couple of finishing moments. That was the time AW as a manager and RVP as the team captain to communicate with forward star. The fans are frustrated with AW because of his reluctance to bring in the new players who joined the team during this summer. I’ve difficulty to understand his reluctance to play the likes of Chamberlain, Yong, and Miyachi in such decisive game, especially where Ramsey and Arshavin had a hard time producing some thing. If you get a good 30 minutes from Arshavin, that should be considered a success. He is intelligent player but don’t use him for too long. Ramsey had his worst day last Saturday; he was not very impressive on his previous game either, Benayou played much superior game on Tuesday, so why AW didn’t take him out early remains a mystery. Don’t wait until someone gets injured to make your changes, use the new guys now early in the season. AW should stay active during the game, reading the other teams game not only Arsenal’s to make the necessary adjustments. We could have used Walcott as a right back, not Gurou, when Sagna left the field. Please bring in Chamberlain; Young and Miyachi on next game give those athletes 20-25 minutes during upcoming game. We all benefit from such adjustment and we could become real contenders.

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    • Waleed says:
      September 19, 2011 at 9:46

      Miyaichi and Chamberlain are not ready for first team action at the moment. They are kids. They have been brought in for the future, not the present. But even if they are good enough to play this season they will need to be introduced slowly. Start with the Carling Cup and then build from there if the performances are right.
      What we don’t want is to throw them in the deep end straight away. That is why we brought in Benayoun and Arteta and Young, so that we wouldn’t have to rely on untested youngsters.
      Speaking of Young, he will get his chance, too. There is no need at the moment to push him into the line up. He seems like a promising player but he has never played in England.
      Even Benayoun and Mertesacker have played too much already because of injuries.

      And Wenger does read the game, and reads it well. So far this season he’s made some excellent tactical adjustments to improve our performances. But when a manager makes a decision, he has to be sure of it, because he has to live with the consequences. It is easy for us to say “just play theo at right back” but if Theo loses every header an every tackle in that position and fails to track back properly, it’ll be the manager’s head we’ll be calling for.

      I suppose you are arguing that Wenger is playing it too safe. But I think he has made mostly the right decisions with the difficulties we’ve had this season (starting from the summer). But I think the team will keep improving with time and there’s no doubt we have the quality to make something of this season.

      At the moment we’re down on confidence so we just need the fans support to help us over the line.

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      • Chris says:
        September 19, 2011 at 9:54

        Yes, the problem is that when their future becomes the present Arsene Wenger will most likely be gone, replaced by a manager who wants to win with facts and not words, a manager who wants to keep the reputation of the Club intact and who doesn’t sign the Chamberlains or the Jenkinsons just because their dream as a kid was to play for Arsenal or want to improve their game.

        As for Park, Marouane Chamakh never played in England yet he was one of our best players in the first part of the season, fatigue was the reason he faded away in the second part but that’s not a problem for Park because he’s fitter and Robin is still healthy.

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        • Waleed says:
          September 19, 2011 at 16:13

          Chamberlain and Jenkinson are very talented players, and I’m glad we signed them. Chamberlain is already knocking on Capello’s door with his performances for the U-21s. Miyaichi also showed a lot of promise at Feyenoord and in pre-season.

          I don’t know what Wenger being here or not has to do with anything I said. The point was that these signings aren’t supposed to make an instant splash and replace experienced players like Arshavin. They will be slowly brought into the team just like any other young players.

          Except those, of course, who have been thrown in there because of injuries/short squad. Like Frimpong, Coquelin this season. Ramsey, Denilson, Song a couple of seasons ago. But that is not ideal, because the new players tend to struggle.

          The same goes for new signings. Chamakh adapted quickly but it’s not ideal that he was playing so much so early. If we had injuries to Chamakh and/or van Persie, or even to Gervinho or Arshavin, we’d obviously have seen more of Ju Young Park already. But not all of them can start, so I’d rather the ones that have the experience and have already been assimilated into the team are selected.

          The fact that Benayoun, Arteta, Mertesacker, Santos have had to play so much already has hurt us. You want to introduce new signings slowly into the fold.

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          • Chris says:
            September 19, 2011 at 16:41

            Carl Jenkinson is a very talented player? In doing what, exactly? He’s one of the most shocking players I have seen this season, signed only because his dream was to play for Arsenal and the “good samaritan” Arsene Wenger fulfilled his wish.

            Also, it’s funny you say new signings should be introduced slowly for someone who believes pre-season friendlies should not be used to over-analyse the squad. We knew we had issues in the squad six months ago and I bet Arsene knew Cesc, Samir and Gael would leave in July.

            Players had to be signed earlier so as to go through pre-season and friendlies the way it should be. That didn’t happen because the players he wanted to sign didn’t want to accept our wage structure so we had to accept the so-called 2nd and 3rd choice of our transfer list.

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            • jason says:
              September 19, 2011 at 21:37

              Over the top? Jenkinson is young he only just joined us the mistake is Wenger chucked him into the 1s squad in big games to soon.

              I dont know how good jenkinson is only time will tell.

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              • Hunter says:
                September 19, 2011 at 22:55

                Whose fault is it that Jenkinson is in the first team and that we sold Eboue? That is the manager’s fault.

                Also, I’m sorry but Jenkinson is NOT A GOOD PLAYER. Aside form one game he has been truly awful in every match he has played for us. Do you think he was a bit part player last season because he was the best player on his championship side?

                The current state of affairs is ridiculus and fans making excuses for players who aren’t good enough just makes matters worse. There is only 1 defender in our entire side good enough to be playing in one of the top sides and that is Sagna. The rest are dreadful and that includes Koscielny, Gibbs, etc. Crap players who aren’t good enough. None of them would even get into the Blackburn side we played on Saturday because they simply are not very good.

                Arsene has lost it and it’s time for a change. This buying crap players and hoping they turn out well project is a complete failure.

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      • TT says:
        September 19, 2011 at 10:45

        “Even Benayoun and Mertesacker have played too much already because of injuries”
        What injuries? Merts has played 3 games for us and Benny less and they have already played to much? There should be no proplem for a professional football players to play 50 odd games a year, they are after all kept in peek condition all the time and when you play a lot of games you dont do endurance training between games thats a standard approach. For us to have a cohesive defense those players need to play togather regulary and often and be put through defensive training EVERY training session.

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        • Waleed says:
          September 19, 2011 at 16:16

          I’m not talking about fatigue. When I say they’ve played too much I mean I’d rather have seen Vermaelen or Wilshere or Rosicky or Ramsey there. You could debate about their qualities but I would rather have players who are already bedded into the club play and have the new signings be introduced slowly to the competitive matches.
          For us that wasn’t an option with our squad so thin, but for players like Miyaichi and Chamberlain we can afford to do that and make sure they are prepared when they go out to play for us, so why not? That’s what I’m saying.

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      • Jason says:
        September 19, 2011 at 10:56

        Dude, you made your point clear and I guess I have totally the same view like you do. Wenger realized something is wrong and have pull on his handbrake working out something to solve it. Yet it is hard to see effect in one or two weeks time.

        Mertesacker is tall, experienced in Bundesliga, not EPL. I don’t see him having much problem adapting yet. Its too early to judge him based on one or two games. Arteta, Bennayoun, Young, Gervinho all these are quality senior players. Wenger has changed his target to work on the leaky part. Its easy for us to make comments during the match asking for changes on formation or something. However, Wenger has his own thoughts and it takes time for the squad to be formed in his own way.

        The young one like Chamberlain, Miyaichi are fantastic talent. If not mistaken, we have two youngster signed from Barca as well. All of them should be played in reserve, then Carling Cup, then slowly into 1st team subs… They will have to develop that way. Not asking them to step up into 1st team straight away and judge them based on their performance that way.

        Arteta and Gervinho scored their 1st Arsenal goal. I will take all the positive sign out of it. This squad will only go better in the future games. Go Gooners…!

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      • Berk Face says:
        September 19, 2011 at 11:52

        Miyaichi is ready

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      • Ade Ajadi says:
        September 19, 2011 at 21:55

        Thanks Waleed . A rare voice of reason and understanding.

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  • Aussie Jack says:
    September 19, 2011 at 8:05

    “You make fans happy if you win games”; what a philosophical insight!

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  • TT says:
    September 19, 2011 at 8:54

    So he has discovered that winning things makes the fans happy? What an astonising discovery…..makes you wonder though why it took him six years to come to this conclusion. Regardless of the new players he has had enough chances.

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    • Waleed says:
      September 19, 2011 at 9:51

      I think you missed the point. His whole point in that answer was that it was a simple, obvious fact that you just have to win things to make fans happy (“that is that”). Perhaps these quotes should come with the (sometimes stupid) questions he’s asked…

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  • arseternity says:
    September 19, 2011 at 8:55

    patience is the key to contentment as ghandi said

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  • Edson says:
    September 19, 2011 at 9:18

    AW reacts too late all the time.
    He knew CF and SN were leaving but took his time on forming a good replacement base
    He is just paying for his sturboness, which in turn is affecting all of us.

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    • Waleed says:
      September 19, 2011 at 9:48

      Yes, the explanation for everything – “sturboness.” If you don’t understand something, just blame sturboness and feel better about yourself instantly.

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      • Berk Face says:
        September 19, 2011 at 12:01

        blind stupidity then

        you have a team where the entire system is built around a player you know will leave and yet you do nothing about it until you’ve had a terrible start to the season and the players aren’t settled? does that not strike you as an odd way to go about things?

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        • Waleed says:
          September 19, 2011 at 16:27

          You are assuming that Wenger is all powerful and has everything under control, and actually chooses to make things difficult for himself.
          To me that doesn’t make sense. That requires some serious logical gymnastics that I am not willing to perform.
          From what we know, we had a Cesc who no longer wanted to stay, and an Arsenal and a Barcelona who were haggling on the price. Finally when the season started Barca went closer to the asking price and Wenger had to step in and request that the board accept Barca’s demands so Cesc could go.

          Ideally of course you’d want the manager to do his business straight away and not in the last few days, but for whatever reason that’s how it turned out. Perhaps if Mata and Jones had chosen Arsenal instead of Chelsea and United, respectively, we’d have had a slightly different start to the season. Wenger was trying to get his business done as early as possible, he couldn’t.
          The hunt for signings was on all summer, we just couldn’t make it happen until very late.

          Everyone was calling for us to put deadlines, but realistically deadlines don’t work. What happens if Barca don’t pay up by the deadline? We’re stuck with an uncomitted, unmotivated Cesc.
          The Nasri situation was more our fault but I think Nasri and his agent dragged the saga on trying to play three clubs.

          But anyway, you can argue that this wasn’t handled really well by the club (not just Arsene), that they should’ve just taken what they could get and just move on quickly with respect to Cesc and Nasri (or whatever your opinion may be), but I don’t think there is any valid reason to think stubbornness or even blind stupidity (and these are just rhetorical, meaningless terms as far as I’m concerned) was the cause. Let’s not dumb everything down just to justify our anger and frustration.

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          • Hunter says:
            September 19, 2011 at 23:01

            We could have made it happen if we wanted to. Whomever is negotiating contracts has dropped the ball and cost the club. Juan Mata had already picked out a house and was coming to us but we delayed too long and allowed Chelsea to come in. Same with Elia. He even said it himself. He was ready to make the move but Arsenal took entirely too long to complete the move so he went to Juve.

            This club is an absolute mess right now because no one can do anything decisively. We hang on to crap players too long. We don’t sign new ones when we need to. We screw up our commercial deals. You name it and we somehow find a way to screw it up.

            Arsene, Gazidis and the entire board deserve the sack. There is no way in any other walk of life these would still have a job with this performance.

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  • kevin says:
    September 19, 2011 at 11:06

    Guys we are all disappointed ! I watched the game and i can tell you that the result does not reflect the game. I feel Arsenal did have a good game. We were just unlucky. Ya! we have said this a lot during our few last games but thats the way it was.

    The players need to get their confident back. And that would only be achieved through a comfortable win in our next game. we can do it. Lets support our team and stop throwing insult at the Manager and the players.

    Go Arsenal!

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  • Rokabox says:
    September 19, 2011 at 12:05

    it is no brainer that Wenger is the culprit in all the mess Arsenal is enduring
    at the moment, or to be honest in the last couple of years. The form of the team
    since they lost the Carling Cup is a relegation form. If the manager can’t fix the defence in
    4 years when he had more than 10 chances to do so then it is a failure. it is a failure buying the wrong kind of players, or not buying on that matter, it is a failure when your
    instinct and tactics desert you as many times as Arsenal lost games.

    The play become boring boring boring. and it is getting worse. About all those promising kids he brought, what grantee that they going to stay in 2 or 3 years. they all leave.

    I have to say with the exception of Alex Song and Jack Wilshere all the promising
    kids have either left or failed dramatically. so something is wrong the team goes one step
    forward and 3 backwards. Arsene Wenger WAS a great manager WAS one of a kind, but he has lost it. all good things come to an end I am afraid! He needs a break and different challenge in different place, then may be he can get his magic back!!

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  • Pat Rice says:
    September 19, 2011 at 12:24

    What I don’t understand from Wenger and Arsenal is that, we play the high defensive line, play a posession game yet we don’t apply pressure on the ball when we lose posession and we don’t attack the ball when we defend. If you look at Barce they have small defenders and sometimes don’t play with any center backs yet their defense is good because they press and give the opposition no time and space to make a clear pass, just like Dortmund did with us.

    Its like our defenders wait for the opposition to make their move before they tackle, its ridiculous cause it gives them time and space to string a few passes and get back into the game with momentum.

    This happend with west brom, spurs, dortmund, new castle, wigan, and now blackburn. If Wenger don’t do something about this he must go.
    I can’t understand why we can’t hire a better defensive coach.

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    • TT says:
      September 19, 2011 at 12:52

      Because a defensive coach will still have to adheare to the managers training program and live with his total micro management of every aspect of the training. As he takes no council from anyone there is no point in adding world class coaches to the payroll…

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    • Waleed says:
      September 19, 2011 at 16:35

      For some reason we’ve been sitting back more and allowing teams onto us this season. Last season of course we pressed more and it worked brilliantly for a while. But for some reason Wenger is trying something different this season (at least so far). I guess the idea is to drop back and keep our shape so we can defend better under pressure, but also so that from a deeper position we can counter attack more effectively by using our pace.
      But that hasn’t really worked because without real pressure on the ball it is too easy to break the offside trap.
      Perhaps the pressing will get better once the new signings and young guns have bedded in. Our defensive line has also been lopsided at times because of our defenders not being on the same page (that is also expected with the new look defence).
      So given time we could improve, or Wenger could decide that we need to press higher up. I’m not particularly a big fan of us sitting so deep sometimes but as I said above there probably are valid reasons behind it.

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  • Simon says:
    September 19, 2011 at 14:02

    “I want our fans just to be happy and you make your fans happy if you win things and if you win games”

    How patronising.

    I’ve supported him until now.

    Wenger out!

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  • Lameck says:
    September 19, 2011 at 14:07

    “you make your fans happy when you win things”. From the horses mouth. Win something then Wenger, not games, try actual cups this season, then we will be happy because we are a gloomy bunch as it is.

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  • peter tosh says:
    September 19, 2011 at 15:13

    do u really read letters send by your fans? if u do then prove to me by posting the letter on arsenal news update which was sent to u by peter kamau tosh yesterday 18/09/2011.read it .it is important.

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  • wengers straightjacket says:
    September 19, 2011 at 15:17

    Wenger talks bollox, HE is responsible for this pathetic run of performances…no-one else.
    In his deluded mind we are 90% satisfactory, as stated after the blackburn shambles.Its more spin that he hopes ill ease the concerns we all have.Let me recall how bad it has been for us over a very long period. 2-1 defeat to hull at the emirates 3 seasons ago…..2-2 with villa after being 2-0 up(same season)….3-0 hammering by chelsea at the emirates 2 seasons ago….plenty more results like that if you look back.
    We have had a problem at centre back after sol campbell left us (the first time) and wenger doesnt know how to replace someone of that strength and quality.
    Wenger has fooled many of us for a very long time. He isnt a good manager….technically he is very precise in some of his methods…as an academic you would expect that. But football is about character and characters, not remote, ineffectual, theorists that talk a good game. He cannot motivate, delivers no tactics aside from tippy-tappy possession football. How did he win those trophies?….easy!….players like adams, dixon, campbell vieira keown and parlour just went about their business instinctively…they dont require motivation from the manager. Also with henry and pires you only needed to feed them the ball and its job done. Wenger is struggling now with a team that has a shortage of top quality players….a mid-table outfit. Mid-table outfits usually have an inspirational manager to lift the average/good players to perform heroics and give the top teams a hard match..pulis,bruce,managers like that. Wenger is no good in this type of manager role…he cant motivate players to “up” their performance.
    Champions league qualification for the past 6 seasons was achieved on the back of cesc fabregas, RVP(when fit) and nasri and adebayor (however grudgingly that is admitted)and others. Their performances made the difference between finishing 8th and 4th.
    Wenger is a totally spent force….dont expect any surge up the table either…arsenal will be mid-table at xmas…..i think he will talk his way into remaining at our great club….that is a dreadful prediction!

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    • Berk Face says:
      September 19, 2011 at 16:32

      His defensive tactics seem to have been – use very good defenders. Arsenal can’t afford very good defenders, they can afford gambles and average ones. So they have an average defence. Thank god we got lucky with Szczesny coming through or you could throw Fabianski or Almunia into the mix also.

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      • Aussie Jack says:
        September 20, 2011 at 9:16

        Szczesney is a very talented lad but I`m not sure how long he will last unless he gets some decent defenders in front of him.

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  • mzeey says:
    September 19, 2011 at 17:12

    yes arsenal can spend but they wont, they selled cesc and nasri for top doller and the two billoners that owen more then 80percent of the club but that is the problom were there is conflect there is weaknes are two big boys are at war both didnt want to put any green in the summer trust me we could have made a lot of good signing but wenger wanted to hold on to cesc and nasri but we all knew that ship is gone becuse he knew the club didnt have the money to bring in top players , in they end a 8-2 defet is what made the board go and give wenger the green light to sign new faces with just a few days left ( you can see the conflect dont you) all summer all the players linend up (hazard-cahill-zarata-jadson-martin-and alot more) we did not even get on star to shin in are new team the new hero .

    what im saying is the problom is up top (owners and board) and we need our some one needs to do somthing about it .

    F.U.I did you know that osmanof the owenr of more the 25percent of our club is not given a place on the board and another FUI he is the thrid richest man in russia more then chelsea owner ibrahmavic so you tell me we are not a aclub with riches around it and also tell me there is no conflect between stan and osmmanof .

    i think they are whating for each other tell the club stokes fall and one gets tired and sells and stans is the one to blame
    becuse he has magority over the club its his responsblty i dont care about his confects i want to see my club in top of all compttions .

    how to solve these dilemma

    number 1- force one of the two to make a buy out stan has the uper hand i do want osmanof becuse of his deeper pocktes 20bil is alot more then stans 2.7bil yes i did my reserch.

    number 2- bring in a biger power yes every body knows that qatar holdings is intrested in buying man utd but with the glizer famliy in charge and manu success and the deal smoney coming in no way there selling but if a certen arsenal fan club hwo owens a few shares (arsenal supporters trust) contact them i dont know what are there methods our there loyalty to whom usmanof or stan.K but im sure that the club comes frist in there eyes and we need stabilty deep pocket to make it in these new era of football . ( qatar holding ) is a very rich institution that can buy arsenal and keep it in the top for many years to come and they are looking for an english club with big history and arsenal fits the profile .

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    • Berk Face says:
      September 19, 2011 at 17:37

      You are right about Kroenke v Usmanov being a big problem. Both want sole ownership – Kroenke is in the box seat but Usmanov is so wealthy and doesn’t care about the club at all so he’s not selling up. It’s a mess. Arsenal could have kicked on over the Summer, as it was it went pretty much as badly as it could. Thank you Usmanov/Dein.

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      • Hunter says:
        September 19, 2011 at 23:21

        Actually you are wrong about that. Usamov offered to give the club 100 million to use on players and the club refused flat out. The board refused to give Usamov a seat but allowed Kroenke in who has never laid out any plans to help the club advance. Dein was part of the most successful board this club ever had and only left when he saw that profits had become more important than winning.

        ‘If the role of a board member is to oversee a trophyless period, while making significant personal profits and asking fans to pay inflation-busting ticket price increases then, no, I would not want to be on the board. If instead it is to try to deliver sustained success, to increase your personal investment in the club, to help develop the commercial position and to ensure the fans have a say in the running of the club then, yes, I think I certainly have something to contribute.’ -Alisher Usamov

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  • okey joseph says:
    September 19, 2011 at 17:36

    AW over rates himself by thinking he is clever but he is not. he believes that he can smoothtalk us into dummies yet he has also failed. He and Kronke are only fooling themselves, anyway they dont read these mails and they dont give a damn about the fans either, but they causing us soo much pain.AW and Arsenal players dont feel ashamed conceeding 4 goals plus in a match. Why is Kronke buying up Arsenal shares when he is not interested in bettering the club?, He will not lay off AW cause he is using him to rip us. The way to make fans happy and win matches is by chosing not buy the right players for the right position?, is it by sticking only to youth program, dont Barca run youth program also? is it by developing few boys from your youth team added to the few you got from other clubs and sell them that you will win matches/tropies and make fans happy. See the face of a liar/pretender, your just busy toying with our emtions and viciously killing our passion. your crooked and shrewd stand not to buy good players to complement the works of the existing ones choked up frustrated the likes of Kolo T., A. Hleb, Flamini M., G. Clichy, C. Fabregas, S. Nasiri etc out of the club without perfect or better replacement. Is that what a serious manager and board that wants to win things should be doing? You have lost touch and dont want to accept it. A manager that failed to land players over one month but bought 5 auctioned players on the closing day.May Nasiri is right, you are are not a buying club rather a selling club. You sold all those good players to win matches and make su happy with the likes of Dhjorou,Gibbs,Traore,Squillaci,Chamack etc. If you like dont make haste tidy up the deal of Cahill, Samba and another good attacker by Jauary transfer window. yours is to point hands and mention names for those that paying you as their scout master when they are through then you will go for crumbs. things have change but you the board have refused to change and up date like your counterparts. Stuborn grasshopper for over 5yrs you have failed yourself right, you are not changing and saying you ‘ll do everything to win and make the fans happy.. HEY STOP THE LIES ENOUGH! You and Kronke may be having secret plan to send Arsenal to relegation and fold it up or sell it you too love any littlle change but hate to spend.

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  • diamond dave says:
    September 19, 2011 at 19:13

    Wengers comments irritate me, fed up of his over sized, egg like thinking, if he was intelligent surely he should be able to see and reason with himself, only winning 3 games in 6 months is relegation, he knew for long time that fab and nasri and clichy was leaving, we had thousands of promises of buying new players it never materialised, and for the last 3 months of last season fab,nasri and clichy who was bit opart did not play, and our results showed that, wenger seems dillusional believeing in youth policy where over six years it has shown it has not workedand wenger need to realise that when a team plays football it plays as a team meaning everybody defends and helps each others out that is how it worked under george graham, what we see numerous times week in and out is players just walking when the opposistion attacks, wenger has along with kroenke taken this team backwards, he keeps on about his signings, but there is so mnay professional managers and players alike all saying these where panic buys they are second class signings players nearing the end of the careers, and that shows, they sold our best players world class players and what we have signed are not world class, look at walcott how everybody thought he was the bees knees, yet he really has never improved at arsenal, wenger keeps on about youth poicy is it not funny that bendtner, dennilson, djourou, fabianski etc etc wenger calls these quality? yet when they played they where lazy and continued match after match to cause mistake after mistake, wengers transfer policy has been poor he has only bought maybe one or two players that reached full potential, and i still believe by christmas we will see where we are at, and i do believe weneger has to go, when you have a statistic of 3 wins in 6 months most managers would have been sacked, his philosophy has not worked, and how a player can not concentrate for 90mins i can not understand that, then you hear the excuses of well we played champions league in the weak, sorry but that is not good enough most of the top teams have to as well and how many of them moan about that, none to my knowledge, what wenegr is dillusional about is this team lacks world class quality, depth, and that word again committment, i think and it is personal opionion but has wenger lost the respect of the dressing room? if you respect your manager you would give 100% that is not happening, wenger needs to get to grips with the real proplem his philosophy of kids is not working, and all we are is a selling or feeder club to the top teams, why? to line the pockets of those at the club, success is not an issue when money speaks and sits in ones bank account, success is bought it is the only way to re-cooperate, tell me what happens then when or if we are relegated? who takes responsibility then? becasue at the end of the day a club who hiked ticket prices by 6 % to watch this trash should take the blame starting with kroenke right through the board, but we all know who they will blame, dont we!

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  • Salvage says:
    September 19, 2011 at 21:43

    “You make your fans happy if you win things”. Is he talking to himself, the fans or the players?

    Since we the fans have not been happy for such a long time and it doesnt seem like this season will be blissful, what then is the right and decent thing for him to do?

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  • PhilF says:
    September 19, 2011 at 22:06

    12m for an untried 19 year old winger…. We could have got Cahill for that. Winning teams are built from the back. Wenger is deluded. Anybody read the Emperors New Clothes?

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    • Aussie Jack says:
      September 20, 2011 at 9:02

      No, I haven`t read the Emperors New Clothes but I have it on good authority that he was seen running around Emirates stark naked. Perhaps he`s trying to tell us something?

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  • Ade Ajadi says:
    September 19, 2011 at 22:14

    I used to think we were different from the rest, our passion , our loyalty and yes our commitment but reading many postings I find that we are no different from the placard waving so called fans of many other teams. Wenger will leave some day, Arsenal will win soon enough but the question is where did you stand when your team’s back was to the wall . Our support can and does restore confidence but we will rather join those who make our team and manager second guess their efforts. How is it possible that a Manager who has won on behalf of this team and achieved the seeming impossible deserves our disdain? It is one thing to disagree on policy and even challenge his choices but this endless whinging and complaining has the opposite effect to what we want. I am an Arsenal fan not just because they win or when they win, I am a fan because they represent something more than just winning. A value system, tradition and more importantly recently a style of skilful football. For me and no offence to anyone else even if we do not win I want to see us play our best football and show real commitment never let our heads hang and our shoulders drop. Like anything in life s**t happens but what matters is how you handle it.

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  • Bouba says:
    September 19, 2011 at 23:01

    The headline resumed how deluded Wenger has become.
    Has he realise the obvious just now?

    Is it the age catching up with him? or is he just being funny?

    Ohh yes, fans are unhappy when you loose…!!!

    I cannot believe this guy !!!

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