Interference Would Force Me To Quit, Says Arsene Wenger

With an emphatic victory over Blackburn, we are now in the third position in the league. Next up is a trip to Dynamo Kyiv and reports suggest that Clichy will travel with team and Eboue wouldn’t. Also travelling with the team will be the surprise signing of summer, who says that he has a lot of experience and wants to play as a centre back. And I seem to remember him playing as a left back before Evra made the position his own. I have already begun to not like this fellow. I mean I never liked him anyway. We shall have to wait and see where does he fit in. Is he going to break the central defensive partnership of Toure and Gallas? As I said, we shall have to wait and see. Meanwhile, Arsene Wenger has hit out at the trend of money minters taking over football clubs and interfering with the transfers and team selection. He went on to say that if anything of that sort were to happen in Arsenal, he would resign immediately. He says:

“What is very important for me is that I decide who we buy. I am not against money but I feel I should decide what happens on the technical front. It looks like managers have less of a say but I will go on my way if that happened. Foreign owners bring their own culture to the game and that doesn’t just affect the managers but also many other aspects of the game. It will be far more dangerous if they are picking the team.”

And he is right too. Imagine the Abu Dhab... <Read More>