By Tony Attwood (You can go back and read the article from the start, by clicking here). So the revised Wengerian philosophy emerged out of practical considerations. It had these basic points… a) The new youth system is working and some of the players coming through (Wilshere is the most obvious but there are many…
By Tony Attwood Arsenal are the only leading club in the Premier League to make money from buying and selling players during the years of foreign ownership (which we take to mean since Roman Abramovich at Chelsea). Since 2003/04, Arsenal have received £21 million more than they have spent, and this is a figure that…
By Tony Attwood Apart from apologising for yesterday’s defeat and dealing (as usual without notes) about the problems facing the club, as well as its successes and its future) this year Mr Wenger told the AGM the story of a meeting of top European managers who meet from time to time. Much of the debate…
Arsène Wenger has three Hands!!! By Paul Blythe The Phrygian sage Epictetus said: ‘Everything has two handles, one by which it can be carried and a second by which it cannot’. There may even be a third handle, often not in clear view and the major problem being you need a third hand to reach…
By Tony Attwood Earlier this season I read that when one combines his football club salary, with his promotional earnings and his non-football income, Messi earns around £576,000 a week – which is just a little under £30m a year, and quite a bit more than I earn. At the same time there is the…
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood Mr P Neville, a footballer, has been reported in the UK press as saying that Everton’s game plan was to get a trifle rough with Arsenal on Sunday. He also said the strategy had worked in the past but didn’t…
By Tony Attwood I pointed out in part 1 of this article that Wenger brought to Arsenal a new approach to football, not just in the style of playing, but also in the style of coaching, of economics, and of running the club. However the world changes, and football was not blind to what Wenger…
Our Arsène has said that an Englishman should manage the England team, and on the basis that only an Englishman would be mad enough to take on the job after the fiasco of the last 40 odd years, it looks unlikely that anyone else would take the job (unless of course they don’t speak English…
The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything —————————————– By Walter Broeckx We know that one of the things that some part of the fans throw at Wenger is the fact that he can’t organise a defence. And that he is stubborn. And then they come up with the fact that he needs to…
Wenger, Chapman, Graham – a comparison By Tony Attwood I was intending to stop this series on Wenger after covering the three basics: Philosophy, Practice and the Total Revolution. But a reader wrote in asking me what would constitute failure in terms of the Wenger revolution, and I thought it such a good question I…
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