Fair enough, but if I recall correctly Wenger's back line was very solid but aging and nothing to build upon - I'm thinking Dixon, Winterburn, Adams and whoever. I'd much rather have Fergie's base than Wenger's. And replacing said back four and building a very good and very French new midfield and attack is a bit more than you give him credit for in my book. Weren't Arsenal the first team to field a starting XI without a single Englishman? Still, getting Petit (perhaps karma for what we did with Fergie and Gascoigne?) and Vieira to run the midfield were more genius than winger-turned-striker Henry, which every man and David Moyes who played Football Manager in the 90s knew would work..! And afaik, Utd had and still has a far bigger budget and more pulling power than Arsenal.
They both went out on a whimper though, and proves that everything has a best before-date.
