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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Yes and are you really saying that his legacy was to leave a club that couldn't see how good a player Bergkamp was. I think Bruce Rioch would dispute that or are you implying that he was undermind within weeks of taking the job by having some pen pusher signing the players for him.
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My mistake. It was Patrick Viera whom Wenger requested be signed before he took the position of manager. Not Bergkamp. Although Dein had sought Wenger's advice on Bergkamp it was not a decision he made. (Wenger and Dein had started a close relationship a few years prior to him taking over at Arsenal.)
I think it's a small issue anyway. My point was that the unbeaten team was not one inherited from Graham. It was filled with his players and when fans and journalists pontificate about Wenger's recent inability to recreate the success being because he no longer had these 'inherited' players they are talking inaccurate nonsense.
He managed to assemble a team that went unbeaten, yet had creative and attacking flair which you would associate with his sides.