When he first joined Arsenal, in fact, Wenger still had a lot of big-handed reinforcements, when signing Henry and other people were worth a lot, but since 2006 and 07, because Arsenal built the Emirates Stadium, Wenger had to cut back on food and clothing, and began to sign some young and potential players in the transfer market, and Wenger was also ridiculed by many people at that time, thinking that he would only buy small demons and practice small demons, and Wenger's sentence "The strongest man is already in the squad" has also become a joke he often says. However, more than a decade later, the fans who mocked Wenger at the time may not have thought that Wenger's transfer method has become the most popular transfer method in football now.
At that time, Wenger did not have much of a transfer budget, and in this case he began to rack his brains to build Arsenal, and then he thought of a way, "buy a little demon". That is, to buy some talented players, and then train them, such as Van Persie, Fabregas, Diaby and many other players at that time were bought by Wenger at a low price. However, what Wenger did not expect at the time was that because the club could not give enough support, he could only sell these little demons one by one, if so many players had not been sold, perhaps Arsenal would have won the Premier League title.
Wenger's way of buying people can actually be summed up in one word, that is, "buy potential". Only buy players with potential, not those who are at the championship level. In fact, Wenger's transfer idea is really very advanced, because modern football has begun to popular "buy potential". Once upon a time, the hottest players in the football transfer market were those who won the championship and won the Ballon d'Or. However, this situation has changed in recent years, the champion players still want, but the desire to buy is not so strong, the major teams are more eager to sign some young, potential players, and this "high-potential" players, has also been speculated to sky-high prices.
In the past, record-breaking players in the transfer market seemed to be some championship-level players, but now what? When Manchester United bought Martial for 80 million euros, Bayern then signed Sanchez also spent 80 million Champions League, with the young, potential players began to double year by year, Mbappe 180 million (before going to Paris but only half a season), Pulisic 75 million euros, Dembele 150 million euros, they do not have much honor before joining the new team, but why are the major clubs willing to pay a high price to buy people? Because they have high potential. And now, the value of several high-potential demons in football is not low, such as Sancho, such as Haland, such as Martinelli, such as Vinicius and Rodrigo, etc., their value is also tens of millions or even over 100 million.
Why did the major teams start paying attention to these "high-diving" demons? Because such a player can be trained from a young age, which can make the player more belonging to the team, and the young high-potential demon can play on the team for many years once he is kicked. And now there is a very strange situation, many giants would rather spend 100 million yuan to buy an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old high-diving demon than spend seventy or eighty million to buy a twenty-seven-eight-year-old champion player. For example, Atletico was supposed to buy Cavani before sending Griezmann away, but in the end they spent 126 million to sign the young Felix, barca left the team in Neymar, the closest to Barca at the beginning was Dybala and Mahrez, but in the end Barca chose the younger Dembele, which are all signs that major teams began to "buy potential".
In fact, in recent years, major teams have begun to "buy potential", Arsenal bought Martinelli, Guendouzi, Tierney and other high-potential demons, Manchester United also bought James, Chelsea also won Pulisic and Ziyech, Real Madrid signed Vinicius and Rodrigo, Barca signed Dembele and De Jong, Paris signed Mbappe, Bayern signed Davis, Koeman and others... These represent that major teams are paying more and more attention to these "high-potential demons", and are willing to buy these "high-potential demons". Even Real Madrid, Manchester United and other teams that have always invested heavily in the transfer market have begun to sign more of this high-diving demon, and I have to say that this is also a trend in football, after all, what if these players kick out? The big teams are making a lot of money.
I have to say that more and more teams in football now hope to sign this kind of high-potential young player, and this is really what Wenger did more than a decade ago, which also shows that Wenger did not have any problems with his original idea, but unfortunately, what Wenger did not expect at that time was that the team did not have too much financial resources to support him, resulting in the loss of the team's demons and being poached by major teams. If Wenger had coached in a relatively wealthy team, he might have won many championships. Now, Wenger's transfer method has begun to become popular, but unfortunately he has also aged, and I have to say that this may also become a major regret for Wenger.