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Arsene Wenger believes football might have to “rethink the whole process” if clubs who do not dominate possession continue to succeed.

Following Leicester’s remarkable Premier League title victory last season, Chelsea are on the verge of winning their second top-flight crown in three years.

Both sides have adopted a counter-attacking style, with more possession-oriented sides such as Arsenal and Manchester City struggling in the meantime.

Wenger fears that this change in approach must be addressed as teams should be “encouraged” to play more.

“Over the last two seasons, teams who have not big possession have won the league,” Wenger said. “And, as well, teams who were not involved in Europe, at all, won the league. Because the league is so physically difficult, maybe it is very difficult to cope with both. We will see how Chelsea respond next season.

“Are teams who are not making the game doing well? Yes. When we analyse it in Geneva [at coaching conferences], we always analyse the Champions League and I must say, in some seasons, the team who had low possession won the Champions League. Over a longer period, it is the teams who have the most possession who win it.

“I still think sport has to encourage initiative and, if it rewards too much teams who don’t take initiative, then we have to rethink the whole process because people will not, forever, come to watch teams who do not want to take the initiative. The responsibility of people who make the rules is always to encourage teams who want to play, because that is what you want to see.

“I am convinced you still need to have the ball to create goal chances and that you cannot encourage, as well, youth teams to say: ‘We do not want the ball’,” Wenger said. “You cannot buy big players and say: ‘We do not want the ball’. Big players want the ball.”
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Wenger's always been for me the most disgusting person involved in EPL. Biggest hypocrite, always whines about other persons doing stuff he doesn't like while doing it himself. Never penalized by the FA when he has tantrums, because he's a saint and a defender of the beautiful game. Cries about oil clubs while he's just jealous of them. Raves about his style of football while it's shit. Phone calls players left and right to tell them about the glorious and promised land (kek), buy said players, and then treat them like used condoms or ruins them. Dude has no spine and no class.
 
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