You on the gear, red? The FA Cup is always more important than some quasi 4th place trophy nonsense.Originally Posted by redgunamo
Always.
You on the gear, red? The FA Cup is always more important than some quasi 4th place trophy nonsense.
Always.
I mean, we are still on course to win both.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Ah, I see. Lord knows how I was meant to understand that given what you posted, but then again if we understood you, you would lose some of your charm, red.
Might I make so bold as to clarify something?
The 'fourth place trophy' idea with which so many like to bash our greatest ever manager stems from a perfectly reasonable comment. He said that fourth place was 'like a trophy', which, indeed, it is, since every club achieving CL qualification celebrates it as a success.
'Like a trophy'. Not, 'is a trophy'. 'Like a trophy.'
It takes either an incredibly lazy, or incredibly vindictive mindset to continually beat Arsene around the head by warping a perfectly reasonable comment.
Carry on.
Footballistically, it's *******s though. I'm convinced He wishes He'd never said it, especially in front of the men.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
No it's not. It's an absolutely valid point.
Yes, of course it's a valid point. Wenger was simply wrong to make it, that's all.
It gave people the wrong idea and accomplished nothing except, as you say, giving people like me a stick with which to beat Him. Most importantly though, I'd be prepared to argue it poisoned the players too, both ones we have and ones we don't. Especially when taken in conjunction with the "financial doping" comments. After all, who doesn't want to be financially doped? I know I do
The message was understood as, If you want to win the league or the European Cup and make loads more money, then do not join the Arsenal.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
He's repeated it since
Sure. Having said it once, He's committed to it. Even more so with the way things have gone.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Certainly you can clarify it, and you have every right to hold that view, of course.
And others have every right to disagree. And those who disagree would argue that it is nothing like a trophy at all and shouldn't in any way be celebrated as such. I would be one of those people and my view has nothing to do with my attitude towards Wenger, it has everything to do with much of what I consider to be wrong about modern day football.
Avoiding relegation is celebrated as a success as well. Is that like a trophy? I think not.
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