Chapter 217: Wenger's Misunderstanding
Looking at the bloody score on the big screen above the White Hart Lane stadium, the Arsenal players couldn't help but lose their minds for a while. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This is mainly because when Tottenham Hotspur shattered Arsenal's dream of winning the league unbeaten last season, the two teams also played at White Hart Lane, and the score of the two sides was also 4-1 at that time!
The two teams met in the Community Shield final earlier this season, with the Gunners losing 2-3, leaving the Arsenal players thinking they had the money to compete with Tottenham. And now, with Tottenham scoring four goals in a row to overtake the score, the confidence that the Arsenal players have built up is completely ruined!
Before we knew it, the difference in quality between us and Tottenham had become so great, and seeing that we were about to suffer another defeat at Tottenham, Henry and Vieira thought with some despair. Although they don't want to admit this slightly cruel truth, they can only choose to accept the reality in front of them.
Hopefully, the club will realise this and bring in a few reinforcements in the next transfer window to strengthen the depth of the bench. Pulling his gaze away from the big screen, Henry thought to himself. King Highbury has quite a deep affection for Arsenal and Arsene Wenger, who have saved themselves from the trough of their careers. Therefore, he hopes to lead Arsenal to win trophies through his own efforts, rather than leaving Highbury when the team is in trouble and joining another team with a bright future!
In George's previous life, Thierry Henry continued to hold on after Vieira left, and led Arsenal to the Champions League final in the 05-06 season. However, by the end of the 06-07 season, the young King Highbury finally chose to move away. Because at that time, Henry had already recognized the reality and realized that it was impossible for Arsenal, which had entered a rebuilding period, to realize his wish!
And now, despite his repeated failures at Tottenham, Henry is clearly more willing to stick with Arsenal after winning a league title with the team.
Unlike Thierry Henry, who was hoping to strengthen the club's squad, Vieira, who joined Arsenal earlier than Thierry Henry and had a more straightforward personality, had a different idea at this time. For the Arsenal captain, who came close to joining Real Madrid this summer, he would rather be able to achieve more at the peak of his career, rather than being like his superstar team-mate Robert Baggio at AC Milan, who was so famous in international football that he didn't win until he retired.
Therefore, when he saw Tottenham's strong rise under the leadership of George Nelson, faintly showing signs of becoming a new generation of Premier League hegemons, while the overall strength of Arsenal he played for was deteriorating, Vieira couldn't help but start to seriously think about his future at Highbury again.
With serious morale setbacks, Arsenal, who are three goals behind, are naturally lacking in skills. Although Thierry Henry pulled a point back for Arsenal in stoppage time and it was a brilliant volley, everyone knew in their hearts that Henry's goal was actually irrelevant, and could only be said to be a consolation prize for Arsenal, making the Gunners look a little better on face.
In this way, Arsenal, who visited White Hart Lane, lost a good game while leading for a while, and were successfully overturned by the stronger Tottenham Hotspur in four consecutive cities, and finally lost this high-stakes derby with a score of 2-4! And this is also Arsenal's fifth consecutive defeat in the north London derby!
Naturally, Arsenal fans are extremely unhappy with this result. Therefore, after the team's loss to Tottenham, they left messages on Arsenal's official website and official forums, hoping that Wenger can adjust his transfer ideas and introduce several strong defensive players, so as to avoid the tragic situation of today's situation where once Campbell and Gilberto are injured, the team will be bombarded by the opponent with high-altitude balls!
However, to the disappointment of Arsenal fans, Arsene Wenger did not give any positive response to this, but gave a rather speechless reply - the team is now strong enough to make minor repairs, and there is no need to spend a lot of money on the transfer market!
This is not to suggest that Wenger is indifferent to Arsenal's future developments. Of course, he was well aware of the current problems in the Arsenal squad, but the solution he came up with was very different from what most people thought - the professor's idea was to recruit more young players from all over the world and develop them, and pick out those who could take over the existing main team!
In Wenger's view, if he can achieve the same effect for less, why should he buy expensive stars instead of young players with more room for growth and cheaper transfer fees?
Of course, Arsene Wenger's preference for young players to bolster his squad is partly due to the huge financial burden that the construction of the new stadium has put on Arsenal, making it impossible for cash-strapped professors to compete with other clubs for the stars who have become famous.
To be honest, although Wenger's point of view does not seem to have any problems, the professor with a bachelor's degree in economics ignores a very important problem, that is, after the implementation of the Boseman Act, no club can become a top club by simply developing young players, and no ambitious star will want to join such a team that is so stingy to strengthen its strength!
Even Barcelona, who was known as the "Universe Team" in the previous life and attached great importance to the construction of youth training, the Catalan giant also has a lot of moves to spend a lot of money on a certain player in the transfer market. For example, Alves, Ziglinski, Suarez, Neymar, etc., have never thought that the team does not need to spend a lot of money to bring in stars because of their excellent youth training. Arsenal, on the other hand, did not bring in a few famous stars before Cesc Fabregas paid for the transfer out of his own pocket, even when the financial pressure was reduced, and he relied on a vote of young players to support it, shouting for the title every year but fighting for Champions Cup qualification every year.
It can be said that Wenger's idea of building a team has entered a misunderstanding from the beginning. His neglect of the psychology of the players and the role of the stars not only made Arsenal fall out of the ranks of the top giants, but also made the Gunners' attraction to the top stars drop significantly!
However, George had no intention of reminding Arsene Wenger. Not to mention that Arsenal are Tottenham's direct rivals in the domestic arena, the relationship between the two clubs for a hundred years alone is enough to make George give up on this idea - he doesn't want to be labeled a "rival" by Tottenham fans.
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