Arsene Wenger is a Purist, not a Realist

I totally agree with this guy. Arsenal is not playing to win. Who care about beautiful football if you cannot win? Look at Arsenal, they keep attacking and attacking but cannot score. The opponent counter-attack once and they score. How often have this happen to Arsenal?

I am speechless.....

From a Forum after the fall of Arsenal at the hand of PSV:


Well i'm totally gutted after that but had a retrospective think on the way back thinking how United and Chelsea keep achieving what we cannot and at the heart of it is Wengers ideology about football.

Wenger is an idealist he wants to see beautiful football and perfect play and at the heart of his teams is that philosophy. He is also a purist in it and thats why when other teams come to play and defend or be negative he says people come to football to be entertained etc. Unfortunately his idealism is not very practical and when he builds these teams with that idea in mind and assumes or hopes it will lead to trophies. However, as much as i hate them Fergue and Mourinho are realists and their main goal when they build their teams is winning as Mourinho said on the weekend. If they can get some good football as well so be it. But they focus on building a team capable of winning and challenging for trophies. Unlike Wenger who builds a team capable of great football and believes the results will come. In reality this doesn't occur everything needs to be perfect to work and it seldom is.

I think as a team we have lost our focus somewhat in whats important. Yes we love good football but not without end product and challenging for things otherwise its hollow. We have put too much emphasis on playing great football rather then winning and getting results and we are now suffering for it.

I'm not advocating Wenger being sacked or anything but he must compromise in his idealism and focus the team on winning not on the brand of football we play. If he cannot, and this is the problem as he is a purist , add a compromise i can't see us winning or challenging for much with Wenger at the healm. We may win the odd trophy but not because of the way we play inspit of it. When we moan about entertaining the crowd and teams playing negative they do it to get a result and win a match which is at the heart of their focus. It now needs to be at the heart of ours and a reassement in the team we have buillt is needed if we want to move forwards.

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