Arsenal’s 0-0 draw with Liverpool last night left them five points behind Premier League table-toppers Manchester City, leading to Sky Sports pundit Neville suggesting that a flawed transfer policy employed by Wenger was the cause behind the Gunners failure to win the title since 2004.
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In comparing that Arsenal vintage to the current crop, Neville was scathing.
Neville accused Wenger of arrogance, saying: “Arsenal haven’t won the league in the last ten years and there are some factors in that. It’s either naive or arrogance because they keep losing this way”.
And Gary Neville could not understand why Arsene Wenger had to play his players out of position when he can actually go out in the market and bring in a proper midfielder. Belief? It is misheld belief’.
“I can’t think of a word to describe that bunch – I could but it wouldn’t be usable on television”, Neville said.
“You find all kinds of attributes from this”. I cannot get my head around why he would not sign players of power to assist these talented players to enable them to win the league.
“We have started very average I must concede”, Wenger said after the game.
When you don’t win, you’re wrong and people always find reasons why. I’m here so I’m quite used to it and I try to do my job well, which is all I try to do. I leave judgment to everybody else, the assessment of the quality of my work.
“Are they the good reasons? I have enough experience to know when it’s right and when it’s wrong”. It didn’t help Arsenal that through illness and injury they were without regular centre-backs Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny (the first time both have been absent from a team-sheet since April 2012) but all the same Wenger will have been alarmed by the sub-standard defending of their deputies, particularly the headless Calum Chambers.
“I think sharpness is missing a little bit in some players”.
After a hard start to his Arsenal career, Cech was pleased to show what he can do following his summer move from Chelsea.
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The other central players – Santi Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Ozil, Tomas Rosicky and Jack Wilshere – share relatively similar builds.
