New Book Challenges Wenger's Strategy and looks to Arsenals future
ARSÈNAL – THE MAKING OF A MODERN SUPERCLUB
By Alex Fynn & Kevin Whitcher
Published by Vision Sports Publishing, Out Now!
RRP £8.99, ISBN 978 1 9076 3731 5
Which Way Now for Arsenal?……… This New Book Challenges Wenger’s Strategy and questions the future of Arsène AND the club
Due to the disappointing start that Arsenal have made to the new season, the timing couldn’t be more perfect for the release of this new book. Co-written by Alex Fynn and Kevin Witcher, this book asks questions regarding the future together of Arsène Wenger and the club. They also aim to ask and answer all those awkward questions that all gunner fans will want to know.
In the revised and fully update version of the book, these are just a few of the questions they have asked:
1) Is Arsenal still a ‘big’ club?
2) What needs to change to keep Arsenal at football’s top table? What’s stopping them attracting the type of world-class star that once graced the ‘Invincibles’ side of the 2003/2004 season?
3) Is Arsène Wenger the right man to take Arsenal forward?
4) Where does Wenger’s reliance on youth – which has consistently failed to deliver silverware over the last 6 years – stem from? Is it actually harming the club more than it is benefitting it?
5) What does the club’s conspicuously reclusive Board really think of the current situation on the pitch?
6) Who are the key figures lurking in the shadows at the Emirates? How much say do they have in Wenger’s transfer dealings?
7) In light of recent departures, how much money does Arsenal really have at its disposal for strengthening the club’s current threadbare squad?
8) What would it take for Wenger and Arsenal to ever part company?
9) Despite their well-documented on-field problems, why is Arsenal still – potentially – in a better position than their great rivals, Manchester United?
Both of the authors are renowned experts on football and have an inside track on all the latest goings on at Arsenal, in a nutshell, what they don’t know about this club simply isn’t worth knowing.
This latest edition of the seminal biography of Arsenal, which was a bestseller, has 5 new chapters which take in all the events of the past 2 seasons, and is based on the unprecedented access which the author’s were granted. These include exclusive interviews with both current and former players, key members of the board and the man himself, Arsène Wenger.
The book looks in great detail at the way that the club was transformed into a global super team under the leadership of Arsène Wenger, and challenges the French coach to change some of his tried and trusted methods in order that Arsenal keep their place amongst the elite both in the premiership and in Europe.
The Observer has described this book as “fascinating”, and the Guardian thinks it is “shrewd and well informed”. Arsènal: The Making of a Modern Superclub, has had positive comments from all who have reviewed it, and ‘When Saturday Comes’, the respected football magazine commented that “at last, there was a football book with reflected the age and the modern game”.