Comments on: How Arsene Wenger Motivates His Arsenal Players

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:36:34 +0000

Yea, very basic teamwork points, as well as points which will generally improve your character.

So in essence, not a load of rubbish. I think that the more so called “professionals” who learn some of these things the more professional they will become – in reputation as well as official status. Too many footballers need to learn this stuff.

By: Bethany K Ford

Bethany K Ford — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:53:53 +0000

nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now
keep it up

By: zebing

zebing — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:48:24 +0000

wel if the kids want to win this talk will work not for the game …..war will be waged

By: formerly alex hleb

formerly alex hleb — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:12:01 +0000

the amount of anti arsenal talk here and in the media is shocking.

By: JLay

JLay — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:45:44 +0000

What a load of crap... looks like he copied down phrases from every middle manager's motivational poster he could get his hands on. Fourteen generic bullet points on teamwork, hooray!

This is why we have the Thanksgiving holiday in the US - so we can limit this BS to one day a year...

Oh Arsene, you froggie genius, you had me at "This attitude can be used by our team to focus on the gratitude and the vitally impor tant benefits "

PFFT.

By: lsmetana

lsmetana — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:14:24 +0000

Strikes me as a bit odd that this would be labelled “Confidential”. While it is great to see that Wenger is also looking after the team's mental fitness, nothing in that letter is of a secret nature. It was mostly generic pep talk material. Perhaps it was just the letterhead it happened to be printed on.

By: formerly alex hleb

formerly alex hleb — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:47:29 +0000

i think arsene was very good points here. its the team first mentality and pushing yourself as an individual to build cohesion in the team that makes arsenal work well.
this is obvious in how arsene runs the team. no one player is bigger than the club and we are strong enough that we can always find a valid substitute to take the place of a player that has let the club.
unfortunatley, the team emphasis isnt apparent on other teams where their players seem to overshadow the team-whether its a player flirting with a spanish club in madrid, or a player whining about their manager being fired by their russian owner and threatening to leave.

henry left because he was bigger than the club. it was time to let him go and it was obviously the right desicion. there was trouble with adebayor over the summer, and while i think we should have let him go, he apologizred and the team is working again.

arsene knows.

By: BootyBanger

BootyBanger — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:17:18 +0000

Bullshit