I think we were defensively appalling last night and I'm beginning to seriously doubt

[WES]

Clichy, Kolo Toure, Van Persie, Adebayor, Diaby. All bought for very modest fees and either sold on or crocked.

WES is right about the those top, top players. We would have been priced out of moves for them ten years later. Perhaps not Vieira, who everybody thought was a bit of a crock.

I've always though that once the stadium really hit our financing, Wenger felt he couldn't build a squad that would be big enough to sustain a title challenge and instead tried to build a side with enough technical ability to win a champions league.

Hmmm interesting thought in the last paragraph.

I always thought that his obsession with technical ability especially in midfield at that time, came from Barcelona and Pep. I seem to recall him saying something along the lines of never having seen anything technically like that team, he seemed quite smitten

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Hmmm interesting thought in the last paragraph.

I always thought that his obsession with technical ability especially in midfield at that time, came from Barcelona and Pep. I seem to recall him saying something along the lines of never having seen anything technically like that team, he seemed quite smitten

You two know more about things like this, tactics etc than I. So you're probably right.

I'd just assumed Ars?ne liked sexy players so he wanted to play them and was trying to find out how many sexy players you can fit in the same XI.

And who can blame him? If you love football, you love Thomas Rosicky.

We all loved GG's back 5, but started to moan when he replaced Limpar, Rocky and Davis with Hillier, Selly and Morrow.

MA's already had bits lately with 2 no.10s and 2 wingers behind a striker. When he plays 3 {or even 4 - Kai and Ethan as well as Odin and Easy} then he will officially become our greatest ever manager. Can never have too many no.10s.