Wenger named best manager of the decade
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Look, thats Berba's style of play and obviously it works, Obviously it looks bad on him when he as player like Rooney, Nani, Hernandez and others running around the pitch, but it's not that he doesn't try.
And I'm not debating the prices, I'm just debating the ability & stats of the players.
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Look, I don't deny we have had some flops, but lets put it this way would you rather spend nothing and win nothing or spend and win..?
For me its the second.
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But that proves to me that Wenger is better with his money than Fergie, has a more youthful approach and plays better football therefore, IMO, a better manager.
http://transferpriceindex.com/2010/11/arsenal-1992-2010-extract-from-pay-as-you-play/
Kieron O’Connor (@SwissRamble)
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Arsène Wenger is arguably the best manager that Arsenal have ever had. He’s certainly the most successful in terms of trophies and is also the club’s longest-serving manager. However, his reign has been a little like the proverbial “game of two halves”, winning three Premier League titles and four FA Cups in his first nine years, followed by no silverware at all in the last five years.
It’s probably over-simplistic to say that this is due to changes in the club’s finances, but that has certainly played a part. For example, many fans might be surprised to hear that Arsenal’s first league win under Wenger was achieved with pretty much the league’s most expensive XI in current-day prices. Having said that, the legendary Invincibles, featuring the glorious talents of Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Robert Pires and Dennis Bergkamp, should also be called the Incredibles, as they won the 2004 title with a team worth only 64% of that season’s most expensive £XI.
Since then, austerity has been the order of the day with Arsenal spending far less than other major clubs, having been hit with a double whammy. Externally, the transfer market was artificially inflated by the presence of extremely wealthy benefactors like Roman Abramovich and Sheikh Mansour, leading to the “financial doping” so despised by Wenger. This relative financial weakness was then compounded by the self-imposed constraints arising from the construction of the Emirates stadium.
Arsenal’s response has been to focus on younger players. In fact, there are two elements to the youth policy. The one that everyone understands is utilising the worldwide scouting network to buy young players from other clubs, develop them for a few years, hoping that they will ultimately become a fixture in the first team, but selling them for good money if they do not – the best examples being Cesc Fàbregas (whose value, in current terms, is £36m higher than the fee paid in 2003) and Nicolas Anelka (an amazing £53m CTPP profit).
The second strand is what might be described as the extreme youth policy, based on the successful approach that Barcelona, and Ajax in days gone by, have adopted. This is a long-term project, whereby the academy recruits young English talent and brings it through to the first team, Jack Wilshere being the obvious success story.
For Arsenal to spend so little in this period and yet still remain competitive, epitomised by qualifying for the Champions League a record 13 years in a row, all the time playing a dazzling brand of football unrecognisable from the days of “boring, boring” Arsenal, is a tremendous feat, which is why the vast majority of fans idolise Wenger: “In Arsène we trust”.
There is no doubt that he is an outstanding manager, though there is a feeling that he might need to modify his transfer policy and loosen the purse strings to ensure that his legacy is not tarnished. Either that, or UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Regulations will bring the other clubs’ way of thinking round to “The Professor’s”.
I also forgot about K.Toure who he bought for 150k and Adebayor for 5m
I will tell you most of it mate, he didnt spend a lot at all. So id ont kno where he got that from. Ready ...
GK: Seamen (Wenger did not buy)
DR: Lauren £7m
DC: Keown (Wenger did not buy)
DC: Campbell £0
DL: Dixon (Wenger did not buy)
MR: Lungberg 3m
MC: Viera 3m
MC: Petit 3m
ML: Pires 6m
FC: Bergkamp (Wenger did not buy)
FC: Henry 10m
How can you justify calling him one of the best managers in the world when he's done nothing to show that he is.
Maybe he is a world class manager, if he is then he'll keep blackpool up. He'll build on that success and he will get his chance. He'll take that chance and will one day be in one of these polls. Till then, he doesn't deserve to be even considered.
BTW People im loving this debate were every1 has their own opinion lol its great 
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Can u get the man Utd one up? and this chart doesn't mean the amount of money he has spent in each season, it represents the amount he has payed for his first 11 wheter they have been their 5 years or 1 year.
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Can u get the man Utd one up? and this chart doesn't mean the amount of money he has spent in each season, it represents the amount he has payed for his first 11 wheter they have been their 5 years or 1 year.
Yes, it's a relative price based on TPI (Transfer Price Index).
£XI Rank is obviously how costly the side was in comparison to the other teams.
He has spent a fair bit of money, I just can't quite find the info I was after so posted that instead.
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Where the **** is Pep Guardiola?!
This was done on a points bases over the last 10 years. He's not on it as manager have 10 year worth of points but he would have on 2.
Clearly someone didn't click the accompanying links.