swipe right 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.
Phil the royalist,
You are revising history. Vieira and Henry were not unknown. They were in Italy and considered top talents. It’s just that they hadn’t fit into their respective teams and Wenger had a reputation in France that attracted them to him. After all they were both members of France 98 so hardly nobodies. I think Henry was even a record signing at the time. Petit was Monaco captain when he joined us and someone known to Wenger from his Monaco days. There are many other such examples like Wiltord who were accomplished players. Not everyone Wenger bought was unknown or a punt.
You accuse somone of revising history and then claim Vieira was a well known player when we signed him!
Vieira was TOTALLY unknown to us and just a kid when we signed him.
Henry was known for sure, but not considered the 'best' by any means.
The vast majority of Wenger's signings we'd never heard of.