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The secret life of Arsene Wenger: How Gunners boss takes it for the team
A different sort of manager, a different sort of man – and there are many in football – would have started pointing the finger
Under wraps: If Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger blames the club for underfeeding his squad he's not saying in public
Thirty years ago, the film director Robert Altman made a movie called Secret Honor, set around ex-President Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal.
Secret Honor put forward the idea that Nixon set up Watergate himself so his downfall would ruin the plans of a cabal of businessmen who controlled him and wanted him to continue the war in Vietnam.
He suffered the public disgrace and took the hit to stop more American lives being lost. He chose secret honour. He sacrificed himself.
It was far-fetched. The nobility of the gesture is too much to comprehend when set against the scale of his disgrace.
Not much relevance to football, perhaps. Not now, anyway, when people tend to pass the blame better than the ball.
Not now, when we live in an age of diuretic disclosure and an exaggerated sense of self where the idea of secret honour has come to seem increasingly strange.
Not much relevance in an age of engineered public humiliation, instant gratification and brutal social judgment.
Except, I think Arsene Wenger has chosen secret honour at Arsenal.
Secret honour? Has Arsene Wenger done the noble thing?
I think he’s staying silent where other managers would turn around and point the finger at their club. I think he’s keeping quiet where other managers might brief against the chief executive. I think he’s taking the heat when, actually, he doesn’t really deserve it.
Sure, I keep hearing the claims about how much money Arsenal have got in reserve. And I keep hearing people saying that the problem is Wenger is just too stubborn to go out and spend it.
But the notion that he could go out and buy the best players in the world if he wanted to but chooses to sit on his hands instead is deluded.
Arsenal pay big wages, we all know that, so it is not as if Wenger is philosophically opposed to spending the club’s cash.
But, despite the vague assertions made by Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis, no one knows how much Wenger has available to spend.
What we do know is that in the last 20 years, Arsenal are 15th in the list of biggest net spenders in the Premier League. They are behind Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool. That’s a given.
But they have also spent less than West Ham, West Brom, Stoke, Everton, Fulham and Sunderland.
That is the reality that Wenger has to work with. The simple truth is that, financially, Arsenal simply will not compete with the teams considered their direct rivals.
The reality is also that those teams are only still considered their direct rivals because, somehow, Wenger has kept Arsenal within touching distance of them.
While his competitors have wallowed in an ocean of splurge, Wenger’s success built a new stadium for Arsenal.
And once it had been built, he abided by a policy of fiscal prudence to help pay off the debts incurred in the construction.
So why does Wenger get all the blame? Why are more questions not asked of majority shareholder Stan Kroenke?
Arsenal's great and good: Arsene Wenger is far from the centre of financial power – but is taking the responsibility
Why is more pressure not being exerted upon the club’s American owner to back his manager with the kind of money they need to mount a realistic title challenge?
Instead, some Arsenal fans take out their frustrations on the greatest manager they have ever had.
And through it all, Wenger has taken the heat. He has never complained about money. He has never blamed Kroenke, Gazidis or the club hierarchy.
The last couple of years, he has felt the anger beginning to grow at The Emirates as he has lost many of his leading stars.
He has felt the disillusion setting in as another year has slipped by without winning a trophy.
And still he has never complained. Still he has never sought to pass the buck, leaving others to observe that Arsenal have qualified for the Champions League in every one of Wenger’s 16 years in charge.
Amid the criticism aimed at him over the club’s faltering league position, Arsenal completed their Champions League group stage last night with a dead rubber against Olympiacos in Athens and sailed into the knockout stage.
That’s the same knockout stage that will not be featuring Manchester City, in case you forgot, and which may yet elude Chelsea, too.
To many of us, it still seems clear that Wenger is a wonderful club’s biggest asset. By a long way.
It’s why Real Madrid have courted him. It is why PSG are rumoured to be preparing a move for him now.
Without him, without his energy and his brilliance, if Arsenal pursued the same fiscal policy they do now, they would finish consistently outside the top four. But because Wenger loves the club too much to allow it to turn in on itself, because he loves the club too much to start a civil war, he keeps his counsel.
He has chosen secret honour and for that he deserves our admiration, not our scorn.
Anti Wenger fans коментар ???
A different sort of manager, a different sort of man – and there are many in football – would have started pointing the finger
Under wraps: If Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger blames the club for underfeeding his squad he's not saying in public
Thirty years ago, the film director Robert Altman made a movie called Secret Honor, set around ex-President Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal.
Secret Honor put forward the idea that Nixon set up Watergate himself so his downfall would ruin the plans of a cabal of businessmen who controlled him and wanted him to continue the war in Vietnam.
He suffered the public disgrace and took the hit to stop more American lives being lost. He chose secret honour. He sacrificed himself.
It was far-fetched. The nobility of the gesture is too much to comprehend when set against the scale of his disgrace.
Not much relevance to football, perhaps. Not now, anyway, when people tend to pass the blame better than the ball.
Not now, when we live in an age of diuretic disclosure and an exaggerated sense of self where the idea of secret honour has come to seem increasingly strange.
Not much relevance in an age of engineered public humiliation, instant gratification and brutal social judgment.
Except, I think Arsene Wenger has chosen secret honour at Arsenal.
Secret honour? Has Arsene Wenger done the noble thing?
I think he’s staying silent where other managers would turn around and point the finger at their club. I think he’s keeping quiet where other managers might brief against the chief executive. I think he’s taking the heat when, actually, he doesn’t really deserve it.
Sure, I keep hearing the claims about how much money Arsenal have got in reserve. And I keep hearing people saying that the problem is Wenger is just too stubborn to go out and spend it.
But the notion that he could go out and buy the best players in the world if he wanted to but chooses to sit on his hands instead is deluded.
Arsenal pay big wages, we all know that, so it is not as if Wenger is philosophically opposed to spending the club’s cash.
But, despite the vague assertions made by Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis, no one knows how much Wenger has available to spend.
What we do know is that in the last 20 years, Arsenal are 15th in the list of biggest net spenders in the Premier League. They are behind Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool. That’s a given.
But they have also spent less than West Ham, West Brom, Stoke, Everton, Fulham and Sunderland.
That is the reality that Wenger has to work with. The simple truth is that, financially, Arsenal simply will not compete with the teams considered their direct rivals.
The reality is also that those teams are only still considered their direct rivals because, somehow, Wenger has kept Arsenal within touching distance of them.
While his competitors have wallowed in an ocean of splurge, Wenger’s success built a new stadium for Arsenal.
And once it had been built, he abided by a policy of fiscal prudence to help pay off the debts incurred in the construction.
So why does Wenger get all the blame? Why are more questions not asked of majority shareholder Stan Kroenke?
Arsenal's great and good: Arsene Wenger is far from the centre of financial power – but is taking the responsibility
Why is more pressure not being exerted upon the club’s American owner to back his manager with the kind of money they need to mount a realistic title challenge?
Instead, some Arsenal fans take out their frustrations on the greatest manager they have ever had.
And through it all, Wenger has taken the heat. He has never complained about money. He has never blamed Kroenke, Gazidis or the club hierarchy.
The last couple of years, he has felt the anger beginning to grow at The Emirates as he has lost many of his leading stars.
He has felt the disillusion setting in as another year has slipped by without winning a trophy.
And still he has never complained. Still he has never sought to pass the buck, leaving others to observe that Arsenal have qualified for the Champions League in every one of Wenger’s 16 years in charge.
Amid the criticism aimed at him over the club’s faltering league position, Arsenal completed their Champions League group stage last night with a dead rubber against Olympiacos in Athens and sailed into the knockout stage.
That’s the same knockout stage that will not be featuring Manchester City, in case you forgot, and which may yet elude Chelsea, too.
To many of us, it still seems clear that Wenger is a wonderful club’s biggest asset. By a long way.
It’s why Real Madrid have courted him. It is why PSG are rumoured to be preparing a move for him now.
Without him, without his energy and his brilliance, if Arsenal pursued the same fiscal policy they do now, they would finish consistently outside the top four. But because Wenger loves the club too much to allow it to turn in on itself, because he loves the club too much to start a civil war, he keeps his counsel.
He has chosen secret honour and for that he deserves our admiration, not our scorn.
Anti Wenger fans коментар ???
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Да видиме дали ќе се деси и ова
http://www.goal.com/en/news/596/exc...ry-agrees-to-rejoin-arsenal-for-a-third-spell
http://www.goal.com/en/news/596/exc...ry-agrees-to-rejoin-arsenal-for-a-third-spell
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Walcott has told Arsenal he is unwilling to sign a five-year deal worth £75,000 a week.
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Walcott has told Arsenal he is unwilling to sign a five-year deal worth £75,000 a week.
Подолски и играчите го зафркавале за песната sign da ting хаха
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Nema zaebancii 
...... nego Lukas i Teo nema da nastapat protiv WBA, uaste ova ni falese 
...... nego Lukas i Teo nema da nastapat protiv WBA, uaste ova ni falese 
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Ќе играат Алекс и Челото по крилата и Жиро во шпицот. А нема да биде чудо ако го стави КАзорла лево крило , а на негово место Росицки, и воа е изводливо...Nema zaebancii
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Ako igra se oprostuvam so vas i ......Ќе играат Алекс и Челото по крилата и Жиро во шпицот. А нема да биде чудо ако го стави КАзорла лево крило , а на негово место Росицки, и воа е изводливо...
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Jenkinson e podobar za tebe neli, na ovoj nema potreba nov dogovor.....
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Имав читано дека му понудиле 1година продолжеток на договорот којшто ја одбил. . .
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Најголем кикс ќе и биде на управата ако го дозволи тоа. Фала , пријатно.