Arsenal legend McLintock: Criticising Wenger like criticising the Pope
Arsenal Double-winning captain Frank McLintock says the Gunners have turned into a selling club.
He told the Independent on Sunday: "I can't believe they're not going out and buying at least two players. I know they've been trying to get the lad from Bordeaux but didn't want to pay the money. They might get him in January, but the season could be over by January. They've got 40-odd million [for Kolo Touré and Emmanuel Adebayor] and spent 10. I didn't know we were a selling club, I thought we were a big club."
Any suggestion that Arsene Wenger is less than infallible can, of course, be taken badly even from such a revered figure as McLintock.
"Arsène's done a great job, I think he's a great manager, but the trouble is if you ever make a valid point about Arsène and the club, it's like criticising the Pope. Everybody gets up in arms. There are certain players at Arsenal who Arsène's talked about coming through, who if they play to 30 won't be good enough for Arsenal in my opinion."
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Comments (12)
He's not listening to you. He doesn't care what any of you say. Why should he? He doesn't even know that any of you exist let alone care what you think. How does that make you feel -worthless? powerless? angry? Go on, write about it in a blog. We're all dying to hear from you - honestly.
true "addy". but he is paid £4mln a year for it and still dosnt win anything.
loser. wenger is a top manager but he team are 2 dimensional, the never have a plan B.
wont win the lague again. only won it when there was no chelsea or liverpool and united had the odd bad year. overall league is much stringer now and wenger not good enough to overcome that.
wwenger knows more about football than all of u...so noone cares wat u say bout him
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