Neville: Arsenal Are Arrogant

Neville: Arsenal Are Arrogant

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville has blasted Arsenal for their arrogance towards transfers. Although Neville isn’t the Gunner’s favourite pundit in the world, what he says actually makes quite a bit of sense.

Neville pointed out that Arsenal will not win the Premier League title until they change their ways with the way they go about their transfers.


The following quotes are sourced from Sky Sports and the Daily Mail.

“I think it’s arrogance. I really do.” said Neville on Arsenal’s transfer business.

“To think that you are not going to adapt your team, to change to impact on the other teams that you’re playing against and their strengths.”

“It is either naive or arrogance, because they keep losing this way. (If it is) belief, it is misheld belief.”

“I just cannot get my head around why he would not sign players of power to assist these talented players that you’ve got to enable them to win the league.”

“You could make one mistake… But then you sign (Mikel) Arteta and you turn him into a midfield player. Rosicky signs, wide player, turn him into a midfield player. Ramsey plays midfield even though he is a wide midfield player. Cazorla now, this team here. It is a continual string of errors, it’s a sustained period time.”

“It is the one big, if you like, black mark against Arsene Wenger in these last 10 years of why he hasn’t identified an issue with these types of players because they cannot win the league with those types of players. It can’t happen.”

“I think they are good players, Cazorla is fantastic to watch. But I’m talking about Arsenal winning the league.”

“Think about a Cesc Fabregas or a Paul Scholes when we were playing, fantastic players.”

“You’ve got to build people around him. Facilitate what maybe they can’t do. Mourinho puts (Nemanja) Matic or Ramires alongside him (Fabregas).”

“We’ve talked about the likes of Vieira, Petit, Gilberto, Keown, Campbell, Adams, Bould, all strong people. All of a sudden the most significant signings between 2004-09; I can’t think of a word to describe that bunch – I could but it wouldn’t be usable on television.”

What do we think, Arsenal fans?