Ok, fair enough, my memory of that season is a little out. Yes, Liverpool meaningfully challenged. But Spurs didn't.
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[QUOTE=Burney;4176689]And I would add he had an intimate knowledge of French football at a time when French football was having a purple patch and before most clubs had world wide scouting networks.
How many trophies would Wenger have won without Vieira, Henry and Pires? Certainly no league titles, I think.
[QUOTE=World's End Stella;4176694]I have a lot of sympathy with much of what you say, so dont take this the wrong way; if you ever produce that little list again without including Dennis Bergkamp then I shall be mightily irritated to the point of not wishing to converse with you.
I shall let this first offence pass without further comment.
[QUOTE=Peter;4176699]Um, my point was that Wenger was very fortunate to have ended up with those players as he knew them well from his days in French football when they were junior players and he was able to buy them in no small part because other clubs didn't have the scouting networks available to them that would have been needed to discover them. Nowadays he would have a much harder time i.e. Mbappe.
Dennis wasn't relevant because he didn't buy him.
Good thing you never saw this, eh? :-)
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