stmichael wrote:It maybe that Rafa wants to play pass n move football but just doesnt have the players to do that, if you looked at the wide players Arsenal had last night, not household names but players with good technical abillity and comftable in possession of a football unfortunately Kuyt, Babel, Pennant and Benayoun are just not good enough if you want to play pass n move football
Hang on a second, if we dont have the players its because the gaffer prefered to buy others who play a different style of football. Lets not confuse the issue and say the manager or the club are innocent of their own actions, they´ve built and trained the current team to play as it does and being darn good in the CL therefore was their aim.
Maybe statistically its easier to win the CL than a long drawn out injury ridden and expensive league campaign? Maybe its more profitable, pound of expenditure against income? Maybe the club see it as the first objective to winning the league again, or... maybe the club as Shanks and Bob developed pass and run, they see it as the logical development of the english game and once we have a stronger squad and win the league (insh´allah) inevitably other clubs will have to play catch up and adopt our perfected methods.
I dont think its fair though to say we ´just dont have the players to do that´, we have the players we bought.