Wenger's praise for Man Utd questions his pedigree

Wenger’s praise for Man Utd questions his pedigree
In football people believe everything happens for a reason whether it’s a slump in performance or a good run.
Few weeks ago when the manager of high fling Liverpool Rafael Benitez launched a scathing attack on Sir Alex Ferguson.
Football commentators augured that his comments will come back to haunt him and indeed they have. While Liverpool has tumbled in a few weeks from first to third place, Manchester Utd has gone to the top of the in style. From fourth place they have played 15 consecutive games without conceding a single goal, setting a new Premiership record in the process.
Last week when Arsene Wenger said Manchester United was untouchable, this was also to have an implication but this time on his pedigree.
The fact is that Wenger has doctrines he believes in such as; buying cheap and young players, playing sexy football, having a wage limit, and giving 30 year olds one year contract extensions to mention a few.
Wenger believing that United is untouchable and actually mentioning it is an indirect acknowledgment that his policies are flawed and that they are costing Arsenal. It also bespeaks how much he (Wenger) admires the man he has criticised for years.
While Ferguson policies have evolved with time Wenger has on the other hand remained static with his.
His (Wenger) refusal to give senior players like Robert Pires, Patrick Viera and Gilberto Silva longer contracts led to their departure Villa real, Juventus, and Olympiacos respectively.
It was also his reluctancy to give the hard working Mathieu Flamini a pay raise that led to his departure to AC Milan for free. Even though Flamini is warming the bench at San Siro, Wenger has never got an equal replacement.
Instead he has been playing naïve players like Alexander Song, Abou Diaby, and Neves Denilson in that influential position.
During the January transfer widow it was apparent that Arsenal needed a holding midfielder and a defender. To the surprise of many Wenger instead signed the want away CSKA attacking midfielder Andre Arshavin.
Adding him to a rich attacking midfield having; Fancesc Fabrigas, Tomas Rosicky, Abou Diaby, Samir Nasir, Neves Denilson, Theo Walcott, Emanuel Eboue and Carlos Vela.
Wengers’ transfer policy unlike that of Sir Alex Ferguson doesn’t aim to solve squad deficiencies. When Utd needed a holding midfielder, they signed Owen Hargreaves, when Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs seem to have hit their prime; Da Silva and Luis Nani are being prepared to take their places while when Arsenal badly needs a deep lying midfielder, they land Arshavin.
And while Ferguson gives his experienced players like Rio Ferdinand, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes longer contracts in their thirties Wenger has denied his in addition to frustrating them on the bench.
While Arsenal has sold Alexander Hleb and Thierry Henry without minding their (Arsenal) stature in world football, Ferguson has clearly stated that Manchester is not a selling club.
The fact remains that since Roman Abromavich bought Chelsea, the English Premier League has never been the same again. To win titles clubs have to buy big players at substantial prices. And people like Sir Alex Ferguson have accepted this reality and have evolved with the times.
If Wenger does not change his style of management Arsenal may lose their spot to Aston Villa and Everton and play in UEFA Cup
“United is untouchable” is comment that ought to be said by the likes of; Stoke City, Middlesbrough Sunderland, and West Bromwich Albion because of their small ambitions.
Such clubs neither attacks nor defend when playing against big teams like Manchester United because they think they are untouchable. I don’t think Arsenal is in that class.