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The Sun’s Steve Howard Tries To Kick Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger And Misses Horribly

by | 31st, August 2011

STEVE Howard is the Sun’s football hack who knows more about Arsene Wenger than the Arsenal manager knows about himself…probably. In a piece about transfer dealings, the Sun’s man sat in front of News Now and Teletext, tells his readers:

It’s incredible to see the men brought in by Wenger and those allowed to go since the Invincibles won the title in 2004. The out-tray includes Vieira, Campbell, Edu, Pires, Bergkamp, Gilberto, Cole, Lauren, Ljungberg, Henry, Diarra, Flamini, Toure, Adebayor, Hleb, Lehmann, Gallas, Clichy, Fabregas and, Nasri.

The in-tray? Van Persie, Song, Diaby, Rosicky, Senderos, Walcott, Silvestre, Almunia, Sagna, Julio Baptista, Eduardo, Fabianski, Arshavin, Vermaelen, Bendtner, Koscielny, Squillaci, Chamakh, Gervinho, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jenkinson plus the three latest

He concludes:

In my humble opinion, excluding this summer’s signings only Van Persie, Sagna and Vermaelen have proved a success — with Song, maybe, a borderline pass.

Humble. And, er, wrong. That out-tray is also the in-tray. All players named by Howard, aside from Begkamp who was signed by Bruce Rioch, became first team players under Arsene Wenger.

Such are the facts…



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