Which didn't go Sam's way as those "foreign youngsters" dumped Sam's first team out of the League Cup last month.
He may have the right idea, of course, going with home-grown kids. But only if those kids are up to the job.
Sadly, Sunderland's U18s "gave his boys one HELL of a beating" this weekend, and I'm sure Wenger will have been laughing in his coffee this morning (if he was that interested).
Nathan Luscombe netted twice as Sunderland cruised to a 4-0 derby drubbing of Newcastle in the FA Premier Academy League with Jordan Henderson and Martyn Waghorn also scoring at Little Benton.