The ONE man who puts Arsenal head and shoulders above the rest of the Big Four

Wenger is the best coach in the world. I think he was just a bit unluck this season that ended and i think arsenal board need to fight the FA for poor officiating because arsenal suffered alot from this

Yeah, with small budget we can achieve a lot,but then Arsene should realiase that with that strategy we must buy as many as available,especially cheap African talents like Adebayo, so that we can have a strong squad with so much depth.

To be fair though, Wenger is at a rich club but he sees the method of investing in the best youngsters in the world as his policy. Arsenal are one of the 5 richest clubs in the world but Wenger doesn't splash the cash because he's struggled with his big signings and star players. Therefore, to say Wenger is head and shoulders above other managers, only at recruiting youth. Also, Arsenal are still to win anything so you to wait and see how this team progresses

wenger is undoubtly the best coach in the world but must remember to ve several good player options to make up for injuries/occasional poor play.

Thanks for the article , it's rare these days to read anything positive about A.Wenger and his football philosophy. As we're constantly told you've got to spend 50 -70 million a year and pay in excess of a 100k a week/player to get a shot a the title . Well you dont , and bar some dodgy refs, Arsenal showed that you can keep up with splash the cash teams like man u ,chelsea not to mentioned all the other teams , like spurs etc... . And i wont even mention the football the true footy fan can only drool about. A true legend

Yeah your right, it shouldnt hamper Arsenal from progressing further into Tottenhams shadow, you lot do speak some utter crap sometimes!!!, look at the facts, no trophy in how many years now???????

btw he got sagna for 6.1 million wenger world's best!

Rory mentioned how Arsenal are one of the richest clubs, and how the youngsters are the way the clubs works. This is true, in fact it's a profit making exercise, too. Why look apon the talent that leaves as a bad thing, why not embrace the fact that being a footballer is a career. Arsenal are the Oxford/Cambridge of this career. The Arsenal model is based on the Ajax one (I think it was AW that said that) and it's not a bad one to follow. They are always contesting their league, and always do well, they sell players for ridiculous sums, and still manage to bring in new talent. I'm trying to say that trophies really aren't everything, unless you have more testosterone than sense. Arsenal has been a successful business for decades, and in the last century averaged the highest place in the top division of English football (everton second, liverpool third). There must be something being done right there, perhaps it shouldn't be 'Arsène Knows' ... rather 'Arsenal Knows'.

damn posting system 1 "Arsene knows" ... (that'll teach me to try to be clever with accents) 2 Arsenal have been the most (not has been). 3 The NEW Arsenal model is based on the Ajax one.

its not Fabregas, Henry, Pires, Adebayor or Veira who make Arsenal FC as an amazing team ever.....its Arsene Wenger who create it....

Agree with most of what you said, but Sagna better than Carvalho??? Come on, be real. Sagna is a fantastic player, but Carvalho has probably been the Premiership's top defender over the past 3 seasons. He's an incredible player, and if there were any justice, could have won a Footballer of the Year trophy by now. It's no surprise that Mourinho rated him so highly. Sagna was a great buy for one-third of the money, but let's not go overboard. Carvalho will help Portugal win Euro 2008. Just watch.

arsene wenger is the only man who couldve done what he has for arsenal. once the stadium is paid off arsenal will be able to match any club in the worlds spending power and that must be a frightening thought for other teams especially with this man in charge. however, he will not abandon his footballing philosphy and will only buy players that fit in with his team wether they are a big name or a nobody.

You are right it is nice story but at the end of the day NO TROPHY i think it is funny for me

All you forget its not just about trophies but trophies @ a profit or in some sensible cases profit without trophies, have u seen the arsenal accounts v Chelski or Manure. Give it time and we will be on top of the footballing world in all areas- talent, money & profit yes profit and a healthy balanse sheet and a very affordable salary bill.

How are arsenal in spurs shadow please tell me, the only reason Arsenal haven't won anything is the consistency and strenght in dept of chelsea and united. But that's what they are striving for at the moment while spurs are taking the Peter Ridsdale manual to success, if you can call one carling cup in how many years that... Please don't make me laugh you spud

Is it me or does referees really support Man United??

Behave, Spurs won the disney cup, we won the amsterdam tournament and the emirates cup but we don't go on about second rate trophies, we are hardly in they're shadow, they were 34 points behind in the league, leave it out!

I thought you had an amazinginly humungous WARCHEST of ?, 70 million pounds was it?, ho hum more BS from a team of losers, thats right losers, who else forgoes success for the pursuit of cash, cash that you need desperately right now because your board GOT IT WRONG, but over on the other side of NL we taste success, because if you hadnt forgot, the games about WINNING TROPHIES. 5-1 and still laughing out very very loudly!

dont make me laugh essex mug (noticably not north london). youve sat there for decades watching us pick up FA cups, premierships, worthless cups, the lot! you cant even make the champions league and your making it out like your more successful bacuse the only silverware youve had as long as i can remember is the cup where all the good sides field their reserves or youth. haha. i had so much crap from spuds saying you were gonna take our champs league spot this year and look what happened. we came a few weeks away from winning potentially the hardest trophy in club football, whilst you finished 11th! and your best player wants to leave you. get back to that dole office spudnik. save the football talk to those who provide the footballing world with anything that actually matters. and you can keep that can of carling in the fridge, were onto bigger and better things. p.s. how much did bent cost? hahaha!

Haha. Carling Cup is success now? Spurs are a joke. Only fans more deluded than the Spuds are the Scousers. Although at least they've won stuff.

er to the deluded spurs fan, losing once to you in 9 years in a competition no one other than our reserve squad really cares about and you winning one carling cup in the time weve won 4 fa cups and 3 leagues including 2 doubles and an unbeaten season and going to a cl final while i believe finishing higher than you in the league for the last 9 or so years and qualifying for the champions league for what 9 or 10 years straight DOES not constitute falling into your shadow. and if it does, then long may we be in the shadow of the mighty top 4 tottenham! ps. before you say you won something this year, lets talk about ambition, we challenged for the title and were unlucky to go out at quarters of the cl, you finished 11th and only managed to challenge for the relegation spots at the start of the season, sobefore saying how many years since we won a trophy how about how many years since spurs won a big one, an fa cup (1991, 17 yrs, we won it 3 years ago) a league ('62? we won in 04!) you havent won a major honour this century! your teams website also lists such vagaries as the 2005 korea peace cup and hospital cups among your 'honours' yet arsenal dont even class winning pre season tournaments as a trophy! to quote a famous sitcom, big club MY ARSE!

to essexian: our board got it wrong how exactly, by appointing a manger that on a fraction of a budget has never seen our team finish outside the top 4 and only 3 times out of the top 2 in 10 seasons! only his first season when he was appointed after the start (around halfway i believe, did he not achieve cl qualification, and even then we still got a uefa cup place! our club now has a debt that is almost all covered by property sales (95% already sold despite the credit crunch, i cant imagine anyone lapping up flats built in the old shite hart lane!) and is manageable even if we were (worst case scenario) relegated and our crowds fell to lower than 20k our club still havent finished outside the top 4 in the 3 seasons of the breaking up of the invincibles team and reformation of this next team, indeed in all of those 3 seasons weve either been in a cup final , although 1 was a carling cup, or challenging for the league spurs on the other hand have spent vastly more than us and have only once come anywhere close to even finishing above us nevermind winning a proper trophy, all the time writing cheques that in reality your club cannot cash. if you think theres some magicalpot of money that all your darren bents are being paid for from your mistaken, unless you actually manage to finish in the top half of the table and get in the top 4 so levy can sell you to the vulture with the fattest wallet your going to end up in the shit