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Originally Posted by EmilHamilton I agree with you to an extent, but Wenger's been bringing unknowns through for ages now, so I don't think that's a fair assumption. Henry,Anelka, Pires and Vieira were hardly known outside of their respective countries, along with most of the players he bought. I hope there are some good youth players coming through, but our track record doesn't really show any major chance of that. Wenger's does. On another note Barrett is getting horribly boring with just posting interview after interview in his daily column.

Henry and Viera cost 16m and were signed from Juve and Milan. Hardly, unknown kids who were batting oranges about the street to each other.

Wengers track record in his first few years was Anelka. Its only been the last few season, coincidentally, when they've won nothing, that he's actually brought a whole team of kids through. Again, Im not saying Rafa has done the same, just that we have a very young sqaud. Plus Wengers genius, given a pateient board and some time, is to bring through youngsters. So to not be up to Wengers record isnt a great crime. Wenger can't match Rafa in the league or Europe, since he's been here, so maybe Wenger will get on up on Rafa this season. But Id rather Rafa our manager than the Prof.