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Tue 10 Oct 2007Wenger puts his trust in his playersGroup H/Steaua Bucharest v Arsenal:Arsène Wenger may be going for a fourth Premier League title but he continues to rethink and revise his methods."Success is paralysing," says the Frenchman. "If you don't change anything, three years later you are suddenly not successful and you don't know why. You want to repeat quality but also to improve quality, so you have to change. When you lose there's also a resistance to change but when you are a manager you can't be scared to put pressure on and to take a risk by changing. You can't be scared of change."