Fans had come for the coach over his refusal to buy any player apart from goalkeeper Petr Cech and had asked him to be booted out of the Emirates, but the former Monaco coach, has defended his supposed unseriousness.
According to The Guardian, the Frenchman, who has remain unperturbed, urged the club’s supporters to get behind the attackers at his disposal, despite the fact that Olivier Giroud, Theo Walcott and Alexis Sánchez, the club’s top attackers, have found goals hard to come by so far in the Premier League.
“To support the club and support the team is to stand behind the players.
“It is not always expecting someone coming down from heaven to sort out all your problems,” he stated.
He also revealed that Thierry Henry, who is regularly at London Colney while he works on his coaching badges and spends time with the under-18s, has also been a sounding board for the senior strikers.
“But let’s not be naive as well. These players have experience, they are 25, 26 years old and they know the job, they know what to do, they are ambitious, they have the quality,” Wenger noted.
The fact Arsenal did not end up signing another striker is, he added, a “massive opportunity” for Giroud and Walcott in particular over the months ahead.
Wenger, whose team have not started the new EPL season on the best note, also recently dismissed reports suggesting that Mezut Ozil will leave the club any moment.
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