"A football team is like a beautiful woman.
When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful."
Arsène Wenger
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Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Monday, 7 September 2015
Benzema Never Arsenal Bound
Karim Benzema says he was never interested in a move to Arsenal - and wants to stay at Real Madrid.
The French striker was continually linked with a move to the Emirates during the summer transfer window, with his first team place at Real apparently in jeopardy.
Ultimately Arsenal did not make their move for the striker - despite their supporters' clamouring for Arsene Wenger to add more firepower to their squad - and now it appears they may have lost their chance.
When asked by the French TV channel Telefoot whether there was ever any chance of moving to Arsenal, Benzema said: "Not at all in fact. I'm not going to repeat myself every time.
"I'm at the best club in the world and I'm going to continue to work every year. I'm happy where I am."
The decision not to attempt a move for Benzema was criticised by a host of pundits, with former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry suggesting Wenger's inability to sign a new striker could cost the club dearly, especially in the wake of a serious injury to Danny Welbeck.
“I do not know if the boss wanted Benzema or not but the player must also want to come if there is to be a deal," he said.
“What are you going to offer to the guy who is playing for one of the best teams in the world, knowing that he is playing there every week and doing so well?
“So I do not think that Arsene did not want to bring any other players in.
“I think he should have tried to bring players in and I think he did try but it could not happen. I still think the team needed some players."
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Merson Critical of Arsenal Wenger
Paul Merson, the former Arsenal striker, rounded on manager Arsène Wenger on Tuesday night after his side threw away a three-goal lead in the Champions League group game with Anderlecht at the Emirates Stadium.
Goals from Mikel Arteta, Alexis Sánchez and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had put the north Londoners within touching distance of the knockout stages, however a second-half collapse now leaves the door open to the Belgian champions despite having earned just two points from four games.
Merson, working as a Sky Sports pundit for the Group D match, blasted Arsenal as "tactically clueless" while adding that Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho would not have thrown such an, apparently unassailable, lead away.
"If I'm being honest I think they're tactically clueless. How you can be 3-0 up and attacking? This is not the first time, this happens a lot of times. It is absolutely clueless," said Merson.
"For me the manager's got to get a message on [to the players]. You're playing with international footballers, these are not little kids. These have played for their countries lots of times.
"They've played in World Cups, they've played a lot of Premier League games. They're all bombing forward. If you know football you say 'right, let's stop here. Let's have two banks of four, let's leave two up front and we'll go from there. Let them break us down.
"I bet you Jose Mourinho hasn't drawn too many games from being 3-0 up. That tells you everything."
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