Arsene Wenger has been critical of Kai Havertz’s departure to Arsenal. Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images
Arsene Wenger will always have the love and respect of Arsenal fans, although they may not appreciate the way he has talked about a current star.
The Frenchman left the club in 2018, with current manager Mikel Arteta taking over in 2019 after Unai Emery’s short-lived tenure and Freddie Ljungberg’s one-month caretaker role finished
Arsene Wenger’s latest comments could anger Arsenal fans
The Spaniard has so far failed to lift the Gunners back to the promised land of a Premier League title, the last time Wenger’s Invincibles won in 2003/04, and that could be as a result of decisions like the one he made against Bournemouth recently.
Sign a striker from Barcelona He could push the north Londoners on again this season, although Arteta clearly needs to accept the limitations of the players he has in his squad and not try to mold them into something they clearly aren’t.
Kai Havertz, for example.
“He will never score the number of goals that Kane scores.”
Arsene Wenger compares Kai Havertz and Harry Kane#beINUCL pic.twitter.com/t60S5h5TWZ— beIN SPORTS (@beINSPORTS_EN) October 23, 2024
“It depends on the way you want to defend or the way you play,” Wenger said beIN Sports when asked if he could choose between Havertz and England captain Harry Kane as a striker.
“Havertz is more of a contributor in the overall game, defensively he works very hard, offensively he scores less goals than Kane and he will never score the number of goals Kane scores. He has more than 10-and-a-half or nine-and-a-half.
“Kane is the center forward. You have to organize the team around Kane.”
While Wenger is seemingly right about Havertz’s lack of goals compared to a striker like Kane, it should be noted that the German plays a very different attacking style to his contemporary.
One could even argue that Havertz’s all-around game is actually much more useful to the team as a whole.
