Looking at Newcastle so far this season, it strikes me that what they have achieved in the last few seasons is very similar to what Wenger has been aspiring to achieve over the last six.
Whereas we had to deal with the financial burden of building a new stadium, Newcastle were forced to deal with the burden of relegation and promotion.
They reacted with balanced spending, avoiding splashing out large vast sums of money on over-priced players, they cashed in on their talismanic player while the price was right, to the criticism of fans and pundits alike.
Their manager has brought together a young, talented squad of players and they have grown together and learnt to play as a unit. Some of their passing and aniticipation of eachothers movement is typical of a squad who have grown used to how eachother play and it allows them to out-play teams who are superior on paper.
This is almost exactly what Wenger was trying to achieve at Arsenal over the last 6 years.
It remains to be seen whether they will suffer the same trials, tribulations and capitulations over the coming season as we've watched our young Arsenal team do so many times.
But for a working example of what Wenger has been striving to achieve since we moved to the Emirates, I don't think there is a better example than this young Newcastle team's opening to this season. And now that they've got rid of Barton, I find myself rooting for them more and more as a result.
Newcastle's execution of Wenger's vision
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How he had the balls to confront Wenger.
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All I remember about that coming together of worlds was Pardew performing a really carp dance about a metre or two infront of Wenger. It was as funny to watch as it was peculiar.
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I bet you any money you like we will be above Newcastle at the end of the season.
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I think people are taking the tone of the article the wrong way. I'm not saying Newcastle are untouchable this season or that they're going to beat all the top teams and 'do a Blackburn'....
I'm merely pointing out the similarities between their policy in recent history and how a lot of their recent success is down to emulating something that we've been trying to do for quite a while!
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It was better than that! He ran up and celebrated right in Wengers face
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I have missed that one but just one question, I though that the last 2 times we've played Newcastle, we drew?
That's just show how much Perdew is expecting from his team
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Why is so bad to be smug as a manager?
Maybe that's what Newcastle needed having been so poor over the past decade. Pardew deserves praise. You probably wont finish in the top 4, maybe not even in the top 6, but he's laid the foundations for a solid season.
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Newcastle will come midtable. One loss and they will fall down like domino's
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That might be the case, but you cant knock Pardew for starting them so well. Atleast they wont be looking over the shoulders at relegation.
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I read something interesting about the type of contracts Mike Ashley has introduced(not sure how many players are on them though). Apparently they're based far more heavily on wins/goals/clean sheets etc than a normal weekly wage. Anyone else heard about this?