theHotHead wrote:jayramfootball wrote:theHotHead wrote:Phil71 wrote:jayramfootball wrote:Nuggets wrote:How the club has fallen, we used to go for the best now we buy players and pray they can play sad really sad times.
At our very best, under the first years of Wenger, we rarely went for those players considered the 'best'.
True.
Who had heard of Vieira, Petit, Anelka, Ljungberg, and many more?
All fairly anonymous signings who turned out great.
Revison of history there.
IF you hadn't heard of Petit and Ljungberg you were obviously not interested in football much.
Ljunberg played for Halmstad and didn't even make his Sweden debut until the year he joined us.
Petit was at Monaco and only made a handful of French squads in the preceding 4 years before joining us. Monaco were not tearing up trees during the vast majority of his time there.
99/100 of Arsenal fans had no clue how good (or bad) these 2 players were when they joined us.
To suggest that fans were not interested in football if they didn't know who these two players were is actual revisionist history.
Nope, that is incorrect. We signed him AFTER the England game, in fact it is documented back that one of the main reasons Wenger bought him was on the strength of his performance for Sweden against England:Arsenal scouts watched him for over a year and Arsenal's manager, Arsène Wenger, took the unusual step of authorising the signing after watching Ljungberg play for Sweden in their victory against England on television, without seeing him play live. Seeing Ljungberg's performance against England only confirmed to Wenger that Ljungberg could cope against English opponents, and he was signed shortly after
We all saw that game .. we all saw how good he was.
We saw him in one game in his very first year as an international footballer whilst playing for Halmsted
Wenger had never even seen him live before he saw him on telly.
That's your definition?
Super. So we saw Ben White play all last season He was very good.
So why the complaints about him being a 'nobody'?