Arsene Wenger - 10 years a Gooner!

mike65

I was just remined that its 10 years this Thursday since the Frenchman of German bearing took the reigns at Highbury.

He took charge in Sept 1996 after Bruce Rioch was sacked due to a conflict over transfer finances. The new man wasted little time changing the way the team played and the nature of the players in the squad. He had the luck to inherit the only good player signed by Ricoh - Denis Bergkamp and he added
Patrick Viera, Nicolas Anelka, Gilles Grimandi, Marc Overmars and Emmanuel Petit in his first year. Suddenly the most 'English' of the major Prem teams started looking very exotic and playing with a panache that one could never associate with any previous Gunners era.

Over the last 10 years Le Professeur has seen his teams win the Premiership 3 times win the FA Cup 3 times doing "the double" twice, reach a CL final and break the (already distant) Man Utd monopoly on power.

And they've played some bloody good football too!

Mike.

Mad Dog

Good luck to him on makin' 10 years in this day and age but

Gilles Grimandi

Come on :rolleyes:

kinaldo

Fair play to him, I probably have more respect for Wenger than any other manager.

Big Nelly

kinaldo wrote:

Fair play to him, I probably have more respect for Wenger than any other manager.

Also one of the Blindest....."Oh I couldnt see that from where I was sitting!!"

Mad Dog

Big Nelly wrote:

Also one of the Blindest....."Oh I couldnt see that from where I was sitting!!"

Yeah but sees everything else

Huggles

mike65 wrote:

I was just remined that its 10 years this Thursday since the Frenchman of German bearing took the reigns at Highbury.

He took charge in Sept 1996 after Bruce Rioch was sacked due to a conflict over transfer finances. The new man wasted little time changing the way the team played and the nature of the players in the squad. He had the luck to inherit the only good player signed by Ricoh - Denis Bergkamp and he added
Patrick Viera, Nicolas Anelka, Gilles Grimandi, Marc Overmars and Emmanuel Petit in his first year. Suddenly the most 'English' of the major Prem teams started looking very exotic and playing with a panache that one could never associate with any previous Gunners era.

Over the last 10 years Le Professeur has seen his teams win the Premiership 3 times win the FA Cup 3 times doing "the double" twice, reach a CL final and break the (already distant) Man Utd monopoly on power.

And they've played some bloody good football too!

Mike.

Amen.

GuanYin

I think the real winner over the last 10 years has been football

Tusky

Ive always liked Arsenal under Wenger and if I didnt support Liverpool, I would support them

sgarvan

psi wrote:

I think the real winner over the last 10 years has been football

bang on, been a life time arsenal fan and seen them go from being VERY boring to being the most attrative football team in england

futuredeath

Tusky wrote:

Ive always liked Arsenal under Wenger and if I didnt support Liverpool, I would support them

same boat,
there was a few years where i used to get more excited bout watching arsenal.

Noelie

Not only a great manager but he seems to be very savy with his transfers, would he have a positive tranfers balance through his time with the club? if not it must be pretty close.
hope arsenal get to keep him for another ten years too.

zAbbo

Their unbeated season was as close to perfection as we'll see, unreal how good the football was, strange it's also their downfall in many areas. Overplaying the ball too much, but when it comes, it's brilliant.

Arsene always invested in youth as well, you don't see him splashing the kinda money Fergusan has (Veron, Rio, Rooney, 25m+)

Big Nelly

Everyone has forgot to mention the terrible discipline record that Arsenal had since Wenger took over. The amount of red and yellow cards where a constant problem for Arsenal but that seems to have cleared up over the last season.

Not having a go but you cant just be constantly praising someone and forget about the bad aspects

Mossy Monk

i wondered how long it would be before someone would come in saying that

like you said it has become not a problem

gosplan

These days managers like Mourhino and Bentiez would have you believe that the only way forward is to press the opposition hard and play with defence first in your mind.
To quote Jack Charlton, nowadays they call it 'pressing', we called 'put em under pressure'.
I'm not knocking Chelsea or Liverpool as most teams in the world play this way.

IMHO it's important that someone like Wenger can remind us of the alternative; free-flowing attacking football.

Arsenal went unbeaten in the league playing this way. No one can ever mach that, not just due to the achievment but the way they did it.

Pepe LeFrits

10 more years, 10 more years...!

He deserves a statue outside the new ground. I know it shouldn't be done until after he retires, but even if it was done now, he might not see it...

Rikand

Big Nelly wrote:

Everyone has forgot to mention the terrible discipline record that Arsenal had since Wenger took over. The amount of red and yellow cards where a constant problem for Arsenal but that seems to have cleared up over the last season.

true, the departure of Patrick Viera seems to have cleared all of that up!

Pepe LeFrits

Dixon on working under Wenger:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/5382632.stm

Mossy Monk

good article there

just shows how he changed the club. as Dixon says the thought of retirement was there but he played for another 6

Roddy23

He is a Legend. He has completely transformed the club. I can only hope as Pepe said that he stays with us for another 10 years.

tred

Big Nelly wrote:

Also one of the Blindest....."Oh I couldnt see that from where I was sitting!!"

Irrelevant to this thread..

Noelie

A job for Life

and sure isn't every manager blind to things that are bad for the team.

Big Nelly

tred wrote:

Irrelevant to this thread..

Why? you cant go around saying Wenger is a God etc because he is far from it, I am not saying he is a crap manager and that his team doesn't play some great football. I have no dislike or like for Wenger or Arsenal but its the same as most teams I will watch them on TV but if you start a thread where everyone is saying he is a God isnt it ok if someone says that he has a few faults????

Only post so far irrelevant to the thread is yours!

Big Nelly

Noelie wrote:

and sure isn't every manager blind to things that are bad for the team.

I think Wenger is the worst and known for this, can see everything against his team if its a half mile away but if Pires dives, players get in fight, player gets sent off(all in previous season I know but season has just started) then all of a sudden you get "oh from my position I couldnt see it".

I can name other top manager's who have come out and said "yes he should have been sent off" etc.

jank

Not having a go but you cant just be constantly praising someone and forget about the bad aspects

Maybe that but should be turned into a "**** It anyway!"

Nobody is constantly prasing them. As far as I know this is probably the only thread ever on this forum about Wenger.
We are just saying congrats at staying at a club for 10 years!

But then there is always some ejit...such is life

Onto happier things

http://arseblog.com/WP/?p=179

kinaldo

Big Nelly wrote:

you cant go around saying Wenger is a God etc

In the football world, Arsene Wenger is a God!

jank

Even Roy Keane is getting on the act on praising him...which is nice to see.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,278-2380145,00.html

Nalz

football365.com wrote:

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admits he is concerned by the increasing trend of foreign ownership in Premiership clubs.

The Frenchman put out a first XI in the Champions League on Wednesday with only one British player in the line-up.

He said: "This trend [for foreign ownership] does worry me. Generally you want the clubs to be in control of their own destiny. If you suddenly have 20 foreign investors who buy 20 English clubs you are in danger.

"The manager is foreign, the players are foreign, you need to draw a line. England doesn't control it any more."

He added in Arsenal's magazine, reproduced in the Daily Mirror: "I feel the soul of football in this country is first granted by the owners of the clubs. Here, for example, at Arsenal I feel I am really at an English club.

"Traditionally the people who owned the clubs were first and foremost supporters. If that ceases to be the case then the clubs lose something."

this above is taken from football365.com. Arsene, who is one the best managers ever...is talking a bit of poo poo here IMO (<- now that means In my opinion, before I get slaughtered for taking the Gods name in vain)

jank wrote:

But then there is always some ejit...such is life

be nice you