An introduction to Wenger-nomics

Arsene Wenger needs to open up to the transfer market

For anyone who bothered watching yesterday’s Sky Sports’ pre-show to Manchester City vs Newcastle, Jamie Carragher made a pretty damning statement, “The only people that are spending too much money at Arsenal are the fans.”

After you are done with making stupid jokes of requiring subtitles to understand what Carragher says, only then will you understand how factually accurate the statement was.

An Arsenal ticket for a single costs roughly £90, amongst the highest in the Premier League and I am not even bringing the Bayern Munich season ticket rhetorical into the question yet. The picture still looks bleaky, very much dim taking into account their on-field displays.

Another very valid point raised by Carragher was where he correctly interpreted Wenger’s outlook towards transfers, he said,“I think if Arsene Wenger has a valuation in his head he won’t go above it.” Which means if he thinks Cabaye is worth two chicken sandwiches, he wont even pay for a sachet of ketchup more and that is where the problem lies.

When Arsene Wenger first came to the league, his ideas were deemed ‘revolutionary’ and ‘ahead of its time’ but now it seems he is still stuck in that quasi-dimensional thought process of his. As Alfred said in The Dark Knight Rises to Bruce Wayne,“You just havent moved on”. No set of words are, perhaps, more truthful than these.

Arsene Wenger needs to see that since Arsenal last won a trophy, 29 English teams have won at least one and every team in last year’s top 7 have won at least a trophy apart from Everton and themselves. Teams with shoestring budgets like Wigan, Portsmouth and Birmingham have a trophy to their name yet, Arsenal are never really in nit to win it.

Without starting the fourth place vs Cup debate, my point is why do Arsenal never buy the players they need?

Ever since Patrick Viera left, they have never been able to replace him, Abou Diaby is as reliable as Mundungus Fletcher, while Alex Song moved on to greener pastures.

Their current midfield is attacking enough but they certainly don’t, in anyway, intimidate the opponent. Still, they spent their whole summer chasing the the luscious fruits when their foundations underneath were never really in place. Now, after messing up on that front, they went to have a look at Yohan Cabaye and bid the ‘princely’ sum of £10 million which prompted Mike Ashley to ask,“What part of him?”

Their profligacy in the transfer market is for all to see, yet Wenger won’t budge, is it a man proud of his principles or is just stupidly stubborn, more will go with the latter.

Using stupid for a man of such integrity as Arsene Wenger seems plain buffoonery, but I do not think there is another word in my vocabulary that can describe the situation better.

All Wenger needs to is look at the sunshine outside his window and step out of his home with a smile and understand the current climate and evolve accordingly rather than remain stuck in the monotonous routine of his, which reads:

Wenger: We would like to bid £15 million for your player X

Selling Club’s CEO: Sorry, but our evaluation is £25 million.

Wenger: Okay.

Wenger to the press: We tried.

This has been happening for too long and has not only angered the Arsenal faithful, but also people like us, who are witnessing one of the greats of the game become a laughing stock.