UEFA President Attacks Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger For Going After Kids

33 Responses to “UEFA President Attacks Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger For Going After Kids”

1. looneygooner
   on October 31st, 2007 10:28 am

   How pathetic is your title, your suggestion that Wenger is being attacked for going after kids, when will cretins like you give up this absurd attack stared by Spud fans like you when Wenger first came to Arsenal.
   Get over it and try and conduct a proper football report instead of this lame drivel you have put out
   What a c..t

2. Danski
   on October 31st, 2007 10:31 am

   I come from Australia where all our sports have salary caps and I hate them. A successful team is unable to hold on to their star players so it’s impossible to have a dynasty and when a small team wins the title it kind of feels like they got piggybacked there. It’s bullshit. Platini should shut up. Even the successful clubs were small once, they shouldn’t be punished for winning, the onus is on the small teams to step up, not get a boost from daddy…

3. Andy Schatzenberger
   on October 31st, 2007 10:31 am

   where?

4. bollox
   on October 31st, 2007 10:32 am

   just show u dont have to be smart even thou ure good at playing football.

   the difference now and when platini played is now the big clubs do the development of youngsters themselves, and sell on what they consider are not good enuff by their standard. smaller clubs reap benefit of this, like kerrea gilbert, bentley, boa morte, connolly etc.

   but there are still loads of examples where the ‘old school’ transfers applied, such as rooney, rio, carrick went to man utd for insane money from sc smaller clubs.

5. Anonymous
   on October 31st, 2007 10:33 am

   It’s populist crap. Perhaps Platini leaving AS Joeuf at the age of 17 helps explain why they’ve never had a good team. There’s a football food chain and that’s what makes the football world go ’round - and the clubs that are at or near the top of it like Arsenal and Manchester United and Liverpool and… well, not Chelsea, have had to work damn hard to get there - and Platini knows that entirely well, he’s just saying nonsense like this to get angsty football blogs like this one on side with him.

6. emokpae samuel
   on October 31st, 2007 10:46 am

   i think platini is saying rubbish if it take arsen wenger to develop the kid and to grow to lime light who would have known the kid that he is talking about today. so please tell him to keep quiet and face other things.

7. flynn
   on October 31st, 2007 10:48 am

   Platini is one igorant bastard. He is aganist everything that happens and it’s a fact he hates english teams.

8. Andy Schatzenberger
   on October 31st, 2007 10:51 am

   [quote comment=”73162″]child rapist[/quote]

   who?

9. word
   on October 31st, 2007 11:00 am

   thats like saying gifted children shouldn’t go to speacialist schools and good universitys becuase its unfair to the provincial town they come from. what about the importance of developing great potential into world class talant? does he not think the academy where a 15 yr old trains makes all the difference to whether he will reach his potential or not?

10. Munopenga
    on October 31st, 2007 11:00 am

    Problem in Europe is anybody who has played football is regarded as a hero irrespective of the fact that he might be a complete idiot like this chap PLATINI. He was a good footballer indeed but that does not make him a good administrator. He speaks a lot of nonsense each time he opens up his mouth.

    People voted him for as a footballer and not for the skills required for the job he now holds.

    Indeed some people would not mind having GAZZA as head of the FA

11. Mike
    on October 31st, 2007 11:10 am

    When did Arsenal last take a player from Millwall?

    I think we just sent one of our lads there on loan, but plantini and his bud splatter really are talking out their rings.

    It’s time intellectual dwarks like this were kicked out of football.

12. Leonard
    on October 31st, 2007 11:18 am

    Thats unprofessional and childish, look at how these young players are developing into stars. look at fabregas, Walcott, Diab………Platini leave wenger alone and concentrate on other things to do plz

13. Diddy
    on October 31st, 2007 11:21 am

    Wenger is doing a good job. leaves him alone he knows what he’s doing and other coaches praise him coz of that.

14. WhiTeSnaK
    on October 31st, 2007 11:21 am

    Platini is a wally!!

15. sue
    on October 31st, 2007 11:29 am

    Blatter & Platini can both naff off

16. sue
    on October 31st, 2007 11:30 am

    Blatter & Platini can both n a f f off

17. merseyside for life
    on October 31st, 2007 11:32 am

    both big and small club benefit right…
    small clubs get money, which they need too… its not completely exploitation…
    get real people… the rich are powerful in football… just like with everything else

18. super goon
    on October 31st, 2007 11:48 am

    what would the FRENCH national team look like without the above policies.
    omg, a uefa president who dosen’t know football! this ought to be interesting..

19. Bill Vector
    on October 31st, 2007 11:56 am

    [quote comment=”73169″]When did Arsenal last take a player from Millwall?

    [/quote]

    probably Jimmy Carter, later went to Liverpool - absolute shite.
    Or Mark Kennedy? dunno - absolute shite.

20. Hugo
    on October 31st, 2007 11:59 am

    Would Platini prefer that players like Clichy and Diaby were still in France with their careers going nowhere instead of working with the best coaches and being turned into top class players? Maybe he should pass a law saying Arsenal are only allowed to go and buy 25 year olds and for 20 million plus instead of improving the next generation of the world game? Stupid prick

21. blue's clues
    on October 31st, 2007 1:13 pm

    we at chelsea respect what arsene wenger has done for football and arsenal. while annoying at times, he is a fair and just man whom i admire greatly.
    but i guess as the new uefa president, platini must say some idiotic stuff to piss ppl off or ppl won’t notice him. i think he is just an attention seeker. i bet it would be our turn and then man utd, real madrid..etc.
    maybe we should ignore him, or just laugh at him…
    i mean why get angry with such an absolute idiot. i m already very peplexed by his proposed champs league changes…

22. John
    on October 31st, 2007 1:32 pm

    [quote comment=”73169″]When did Arsenal last take a player from Millwall?

    I think we just sent one of our lads there on loan, but plantini and his bud splatter really are talking out their rings.

    It’s time intellectual dwarks like this were kicked out of football.[/quote]

    You are an absolute idiot.

    Plantini does not at any point suggest that Arsenal have poached Milwall players, and offers Manchester United and Milwall as examples of the development of a traditional “small club” being stifled by a transfer policy employed by Wenger and Ferguson among others.

23. arsenegnnr
    on October 31st, 2007 1:34 pm

    Platini was born with his mouth as an arse and his arse as his mouth.Wenger made Petit,Vieira,Henry,Pires world class players when France won the World Cup.Now he is moulding Clichy,Sagna,Flamini into world class status.You just have to watch arsehole.

24. Greasy Kenny
    on October 31st, 2007 1:41 pm

    [quote comment=”73203″]Platini was born with his mouth as an arse and his arse as his mouth. You just have to watch arsehole.[/quote]

    Do we really? I’d rather not. Blatter is worse. He needs stabbing. By all the heads of football associations across Europe. Then they could hold hands and dance around him in a ring chanting “You can’t put a better bit o’ Blatter on your knife”
    It would be a bit like Murder on the Orient Express only slightly different - and far more worthwhile.

25. Anonymous
    on October 31st, 2007 2:04 pm

    [quote comment=”73150″]How pathetic is your title, your suggestion that Wenger is being attacked for going after kids, when will cretins like you give up this absurd attack stared by Spud fans like you when Wenger first came to Arsenal.
    Get over it and try and conduct a proper football report instead of this lame drivel you have put out
    What a c..t[/quote]
    you should try reading things properly you numpty - it was Platini who said that not the guy writing this article.

    Its a load of bollocks anyway. Who gives a fuck what Platini says. Usually no one - unfortunately the tit has a position of some authority now and lets just hope he dont get a chance to use it against us.

    We play the best football in Europe - maybe the world - who knows, you’d think that for someone who played beautiful football would have nothing but respect for AW and the way he has brought thru youth playing quality football. I think there is something French behind this. Some sort of percieved slur by Wenger to Platini. I think his issue is with AW not with what AW transfer dealings cos it smacks of sour grapes to me and his argument about the smaller teams is nonsense. Not every decent young player is snapped up by bigger clubs - that would be a stupid thing to say and not based in reality.

    Platini is a know just another football knobnead - a bit like Blatter, as far as i am concerned and has now only succeeded in diminishing my opinion of him as someone with anything worthwhile to say.

26. blue's clues
    on October 31st, 2007 2:10 pm

    so man utd is now a small club?

27. Bill Vector
    on October 31st, 2007 2:27 pm

    no…. that’s still everton

28. andrea
    on October 31st, 2007 2:28 pm

    [quote comment=”73156″]It’s populist crap. Perhaps Platini leaving AS Joeuf at the age of 17 helps explain why they’ve never had a good team. There’s a football food chain and that’s what makes the football world go ’round - and the clubs that are at or near the top of it like Arsenal and Manchester United and Liverpool and… well, not Chelsea, have had to work damn hard to get there - and Platini knows that entirely well, he’s just saying nonsense like this to get angsty football blogs like this one on side with him.[/quote]

    and I’m on your side. the argument is a little crass. Platini may well be a good football player and a decent president of the UEFA but he needs to stop thinking its part of his job to provide the footballing world with something to gossip about at the watercooler.

    It’s just a strange argument to make because it’s not like the big clubs are stealing the players from the small clubs. The player’s club does have a say in it, you know. It’s not like Arsene kidnaps young players while everyone at the club is asleep.

    And realistically, if he’s really against it what is he going to do about it? ban aspiring young players from saying yes when bigger & better clubs come knocking?

    Two words: crap idea.

29. iceycalm
    on October 31st, 2007 2:41 pm

    LOL! what road is platini taking us down? we can’t sign young players showing potential from other teams? what? does he eventually want to ablolish transfers altogether?

    him and blatter are a bit sensationalist. so far their suggested ideas and comments are a bit ominous.

    does he feel sorry for small clubs like barcelona ravaged by sneaky arsene? would theo walcott rather still be playing for southampton?

    get real, and stop trying to make a name for yourselves at the expense of modern football.

30. Blue's balls
    on October 31st, 2007 3:11 pm

    [quote comment=”73162″]child rapist[/quote]
    his father.

31. blue's clues
    on October 31st, 2007 3:16 pm

    blue’s ball, if ur balls is blue, i suggest you see a doctor before they drop off..

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33. nicky anelka
    on October 31st, 2007 4:35 pm

    blue’s anal balls shut your dirty mouth.

    blue is the colour of bruising which is ironic as you obviously subject children to abuse - hence your hatred for fathers…

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