CanadaGooner
Fergie used footballing mind games to get to his goal of winning more and more trophies (almost like a Tiger Woods of football - with a solitary objective to win!). Unfortunately, we now have Arsène Wenger's version of mind games, which is solely to deceive Arsenal fans, keep himself in the job he now considers his birthright, and continue lining the pockets of the owners of the club.
For the first seven trophyless years, Wenger told us we do not need to buy "known" players, and that the young shall become great and we all got led on, while we quietly sold our experienced players each year and someone held on to the profits (and I'm sure Wenger got his share each time). Then in the last two seasons, Wenger has become obsessed with the terminologies "quality" and "true quality", and he promised each summer to get those, and on transfer deadline day, we count our list of 'true quality' players brought in, which included a certain Messrs Gervinho and Squillaci amongst others of supposed 'true quality'.
At the end of the 2012/13 season, and in fear of losing his job for the first time in several years, as some fans (most on onlinegooner) finally began to call Wenger on his lies and long chain of failed promises, he finally told us all that bringing in some established, known players is needed at Arsenal and that he will be doing that this summer. But the brilliant Mr. Wenger and Mr. Gazidis have now formulated an equally brilliant mind game, in which they know they can bluff with silly bids for virtually any player; why not offer £20 million for Ronaldo?
They know the dim-witted UK press will lap up and publish any storyline anyway; they just have to keep their newspapers and glossy magazines selling, and Wenger has exploited that brilliantly! He had no intention whatsoever of buying Suarez or Higuain; all he has done here is demonstrate that he has tried to bring in established players (but the crazy prices prevented him from buying – let’s all blame the current state of football in England!). Wenger will continue to play these games each season and Gazidis will continue after Wenger. They know some Arsenal fans are still gullible enough to believe in the smoke-screen, while they get away with leaving us exactly where we've been for the last nine years, at the end of the transfer window, with some free transfers and no useful additions to the team.
The goal-keeping and midfield positions and parts of our defence remains our Achilles' heel as it has been for almost ten years now, and would have been the same in Wenger's first few glory years, if not for the consistency of some players like David Seaman, Ray Parlour, Tony Adams, Martin Keown and some others whom Wenger didn't bring to the club. He (Wenger) added the flair and passion of the Vieiras, Henrys and a few others, which turned out to be very successful, and then his arrogance took over, and he replaced that defensive midfield and the goalkeeping position with gutless players, leading to the last nine barren seasons, and counting!
But wait, some fans remain gullible, and I am sure some of those will be out in force shortly, to criticise this article, even though we all know the truth of what's going on at Arsenal, and we all know we will be fighting for fourth spot at the end of this season, with zero trophies, even before the season has started, because we have not made any moves to change those situations. Suarez, who spends significant portions of each season under suspension, is supposed to be our messiah? Let the mind games continue Mr Wenger. Arsenal FC will be rid of you sooner or later (unless you intend to live to a ripe old age of 150 years?).
I am now back home in London and will no doubt attend all the home games this season and a handful of away games as usual. I can only hope we get a bright start and - maybe - luck will aid us in winning the Capital One trophy this season at least.
Come on you Gooners!!!
