@Scouseinthehouse
Wenger was definitely a revolutionary, but it's easy to become a revolutionary if you're arriving to a league that was stuck in the 1980s. That's what I'm getting at. Heavy drinking, smoking, poor nutrition, all of that stuff was still going on and Wenger changed it. But any decent continental manager would have done that job too.
And yes, he build a side that was great for 3 years, what has he done for the other 19 years? A lot of 4th places and a lot of getting humiliated on the world stage. Not exactly stuff of legends.
They always seemed to struggle with goalkeepers for example,. Cech arrived and he became ****, Leno seemed like a flop at first, meanwhile Szczesny and Fabianski transfered out Arsenal and Wenger's care and magically become much respected goalkeepers basically overnight. That's too many examples to be a coincidence, it's poor coaching that probably wasn't limited to the goalkeeping department.