[QUOTE=World's End Stella;4176710]
Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post

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?

http://www.awimb.com/showthread.php?...11#post4176211
I remember thinking Chelsea signing Essien was the death-knell for that period when we got all the best young Frogs. He was exactly the sort of player we'd have picked up for tuppence ha'penny a few years earlier.