Wenger's Positional Eye For Talent

Wenger has discovered mass amounts of talent over this years with us and all his generations of squads have always had at least 1 'special' player. We all know that Arsene has had a very strong attacking philosophy during that time.

In this article I'd like to discuss what's been his strongest position in nurturing talent for. As mentioned the man is very attack minded so this debate is likely to be split between midfield and attack. In defensive positions we haven't really been too blessed with GK's and thankfully in Sczesney we have a gifted young keeper who can hold his position for numerous years I believe he'll only get better. Wenger always likes particular centre backs who are flexible and comfortable on the ball with his preference for such specific attributes he has found a lot of below-par defenders and in this department a top class one seems to be found every other generation, Kolo and Kos come to mind.

I am of the belief that midfield may be his where his eye casts strongest. I used to think that strikers surpass this but the last couple of years have dictated such feeling, every generation has consistently had a top midfielder who have been the engine/catalyst of all his teams. The likes of Vieira, Fabregas, Ramsey, Wilshere are players that have guaranteed solid foundations to build on. The other midfielders around those players have also mostly been at a high standard Hleb, Nasri, Santi, Gilberto, Petit etc..

Up top I'd say is where Wenger does still find his overall greatest players, right now though it is quite blatant that we're a little short on world class talent up front and though I do trust Wenger on his Sanogo judgement his much discussed poor injury record convinces me that he may not be the teams consistent goal scorer for some time. I'm torn because we have seen him find players such as: Anelka, Henry, Kanu, Van Persie, Adebayor, (his ability has been proven let's admit), Eduardo, Vela but we've been missing something there for a while which makes me think that midfield has just edged it lately.

What postion would you vote has been Wenger's strongest one for recruiting talent?

Attack 5

Midfield 4

Defence 3

Goalkeeper 2

Staff 1 (I would appreciate serious votes though