Arsene Wenger should manage Scotland next, he's practically made for the job. 'We tried to qualify but we didn't', glorious failure is his thing.
The 'Arsene Wenger Tried to Sign' Thread
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One of their ex scouts, Goran Milosavljevic now claims that Arsenal passed on signing Vidic before he joined us.
https://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/...former-chester-city-midfielder-goran-15118544
https://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/...former-chester-city-midfielder-goran-15118544
Jadon Sancho
Almost signed Sancho!
Can't believe he keeps that up even in retirement. Legend.
He nearly retained a title. Nearly.
His last words will be "I could have signed Cristiano Ronaldo's grandson"
I wonder how many players Wenger nearly signed who turned out to be shite?
amazing''I could have signed Pele you know.''
Apparently he rejected Real Madrid more than once.
Let's hire someone to stay next to him all day long to hear, who he would buy, just to buy his "almost signings"
Would be the best XI of all time
Would be the best XI of all time
Maybe we need a 'Arsene Wenger Rejected' thread as well?
I want to hear a full length interview of Wenger talking about all the players he's tried to sign in his time in management. Name's, reason and why it didn't happen please. I'd read that book.
95% of them would be money or work-permit related. Some just rejected us like Zlatan.
I thought we wanted Zlatan to do a trial, which he refused? Rather than an outright rejection
Nah, 95% would be just made up. The rest would be money and work permit related.
95 % of them would barely be conceived. The rest are mentioned in this thread.

At this point I think he's trolling.
Agree, he has to be aware that it's like a running gag by now
Almost signed Griezmann and VVD.
Wenger for DOF! He's clearly amazing at identifying talent, Arsenal just too stingy to break the bank. 
The “almost signed by Wenger” XI would give Pep’s Barca a good game I tell ya.
" They were also close to signing Virgil van Dijk when he moved from Celtic to Southampton"
So, we are supposed to believe that Southampton had simply too much pulling power for poor Arsenal to compete with?
So, we are supposed to believe that Southampton had simply too much pulling power for poor Arsenal to compete with?
We were super tight with money and known to be super indecisive, we have history of messing clubs and players about. I don't know if we were close to signing him but we were linked to him very heavily when he was at Celtic.
Does Arsene ever admit to almost signing anyone who's shit?
Exactly. Give him Peps checkbook and he'll make another invincibles team. I mean, he already made one without unlimited funds.Wenger for DOF! He's clearly amazing at identifying talent, Arsenal just too stingy to break the bank.
Almost extended with Ramsey.
Wenger 'almost signed Declaration of Independence and Magna Carta':
www.bbc.co.uk/world/sport/bloody-wenger-again
www.bbc.co.uk/world/sport/bloody-wenger-again
Almost kept Gnabry.
What's Wenger's greatest almost-signed XI now?
You can’t really fault him that much, he’s picked up a few and turned them into stars. Arsenal board should be ashamed for not backing their long term manager
I wish we’d turned to wenger after Fergie. Probably wouldn’t have been such a mess
Should Petr Cech be in this thread ? Wenger did, in fact, sign him in 2015.