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Chapter 217 Wenger's Misunderstanding

Four to one! Looking at the bloody score on the big screen above the White Hart Lane Stadium, Arsenal players couldn't help but lose their minds. This is mainly because when Tottenham broke the dream of Arsenal's unbeaten league last season, the two teams also played at the White Hart Lane Stadium, and the scores of both sides were also four to one!

Originally, the two teams confronted the Community Shield Finals at the beginning of the season, and the Gunners finally lost 2-3, which made Arsenal players think they already have the capital to compete with Tottenham. Now, with Tottenham scored four goals in a row to reverse the score, the confidence that Arsenal players finally built up was completely ruined!

Before we knew it, the gap in strength between us and Tottenham has become so huge? Seeing that we were about to lose another battle against Tottenham, Henry, Vieira and others thought in despair. Although they didn't want to admit this slightly cruel fact, they had to choose to accept it when the reality was right in front of them.

Hopefully the club can realize this, introduce several strong players in the next transfer window, and strengthen the depth of the bench. Retract your eyes from the big screen, Henry thought in his heart. Kings of Highbury have a deep relationship with Arsenal and Wenger who saved him from the trough of his career. Therefore, he hopes to lead Arsenal to win championship trophys through his own efforts, rather than leaving Highbury when the team is in trouble and join another team with bright prospects!

In George's previous life, Henry continued to persist after Vieira left, and led Arsenal to the Champions League final in the O5-O6 season. However, when the O6-O7 season ended, King Hebry, who was in the year, finally chose to transfer and leave. Because Henry had already recognized the reality at that time, realized that Arsenal, who had entered the reconstruction period, could not realize his wish!

Now, although Tottenham has been repeatedly defeated, Henry is obviously more willing to stick with Arsenal after just winning a league championship with the team.

Unlike Henry, who hopes to strengthen the club, Vieira, who joins Arsenal earlier than Henry and has a more straightforward personality, is a different idea at this time. For the Arsenal captain who almost joined Real Madrid this summer, he hopes to achieve higher achievements at the peak of his career, rather than a hugely famous international football teammate Robert Baggio when he played for AC Milan, who has not had many outstanding championship trophys until he retires!

Therefore, when Tottenham saw that under the leadership of George Nelson, there was signs of becoming a new generation of British overlords, while the overall strength of Arsenal he played for was deteriorating, Vieira couldn't help but start to seriously think about his future in Highbury again.

With a severe setback in morale, Arsenal, who was three goals behind, was naturally unable to make a comeback. Although Henry scored a point for Arsenal in injury time and had an extremely exciting volley, everyone knew in his heart that Henry's goal was actually irrelevant to the overall situation. It can only be said to be a consolation prize for Arsenal, which made the Gunners look a little better in terms of face.

In this way, Arsenal, who was away from White Hart Lane Stadium, lost a good game while leading for a while, and was successfully reversed by Tottenham, who was more powerful, and finally lost the important derby battle with a score of 2-4! This is also Arsenal's fifth consecutive defeat in the North London derby!

Arsenal fans were naturally extremely dissatisfied with this result. Therefore, after the team lost to Tottenham, they left messages on Arsenal's official website and official forum, hoping that Wenger could adjust his transfer ideas and introduce several powerful defensive players to avoid the miserable situation of the team being killed by the opponent with a high-altitude ball once Campbell and Gilberto were injured!

However, what disappointed Arsenal fans was that Wenger did not give any positive response to this, but gave a very speechless answer that made them quite speechless - the team's current lineup is already strong enough, and only minor repairs are needed, and there is no need to spend a lot of money on the transfer market!

This does not mean that Wenger is indifferent to Arsenal's future development. Of course, he is also very clear about the current problems in Arsenal's lineup, but the solution he came up with is completely different from what most people think. The professor's idea is to dig more young players from all over the world to train them, and select candidates who can take over the existing main players!

In Wenger's view, since he can achieve the same effect with less money, why should he buy expensive stars instead of choosing young players with greater growth space and lower transfer fees?

Of course, the reason why Wenger tends to select young players to enrich the lineup is that the construction of a new stadium has brought huge financial burden to Arsenal, which makes the cash-strapped professors have no way to compete with other clubs for those famous stars.

To be honest, although Wenger's view seems to have no problem, a professor with a bachelor's degree in economics has overlooked a very important issue, that is, after the implementation of the Boseman Act, no club can become a top giant simply by cultivating young players, and no ambitious star would be willing to join such a team that is so stingy to strengthen its strength!

Even in Barcelona, ​​which was known as the "cosmic team" in his previous life, attaching great importance to youth training construction, this Catalan giant also spent a lot of money on a certain player in the transfer market. For example, Alves, Ziglinsky, Suarez, Neymar, etc., never thought that the team did not need to spend a lot of money to attract stars because of their outstanding youth training. Arsenal is different. Before Fabregas paid the transfer out of his own pocket, Wenger had not introduced several famous stars even when the financial pressure was reduced. He relied on a group of young players to hold on, saying that he would compete for the championship every year but fight for the qualification for the Champions League every year.

It can be said that Wenger's team-building ideas have entered a misunderstanding from the beginning. His practice of ignoring the psychology of players and the role of stars not only made Arsenal fall out of the ranks of top giants, but also made the Gunners' attractiveness to top stars significantly!

However, George did not remind Wenger of his plans. Not to mention that Arsenal is Tottenham's direct competitor in the domestic arena, the relationship between the two clubs for a century is enough to make George give up this idea - he doesn't want to be labeled as a "investor" by Tottenham fans.
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