In fairness he was talking about the press, but the arrogance of what he said was reminiscent of a dictator just before they are toppled.
What he does have to do however is justify his actions to the fans, but he doesn’t do that either. When asked what cost Arsenal the game, he said a tactical error, I thought at last, he is admitting he screwed up by taking Oxo off, unfortunately what he meant by a tactical error was in fact Arshavin’s inability to defend.
He blamed Arshavin! I like Arshavin, but this season he has been arguably our worst player, so why put him on? That was like the time he subbed the sub, Eboue and Eboue got booed instead, very cynical Arsene, very, very cynical.
He can’t even admit when he screws up, the fans sure let him know though didn’t they? Apart from the poor sods in row D that were ejected for trying to unfurl an anti Wenger banner, a bit like they do in Syria eh?
This was Wenger’s explanation…
…I can understand that the fans are upset about the substitution, especially when it doesn’t work, but he (Oxlade-Chamberlain) had started to fatigue
He was sick in the week and Arshavin is captain of the Russia national team. You have an 18-year-old kid making his first Premier League start and a player who’s captain of his country and they are querying the substitution? Let’s be serious.
I’ve been a manager for 30 years and have made 50,000 substitutions. I do not have to justify every decision I make to you (the press). I stand up for it. People pay for their tickets and express their emotions. We have to deal with that, it doesn’t mean they are always right.
First of all the Southampton captain said he spoke to Oxo after the game, he tweeted he wasn’t ill and didn’t have fatigue.
Secondly yes, you may well have made 50,000 substitutions but how many of those were made between 67 and 74 minutes eh? Most of them I suspect. Obsessive compulsive, or co-incidence we needed them just at that time? I could write a list of strange calls this season, like taking Oxo off and leaving Chamakh on when we pinned Man City to the wall and ended up losing, or in years gone by like taking Bergkamp off for Senderos when we were beating the Mancs and ended up losing, the list goes on.
The time has come Arsene, greatness doesn’t last forever, Britain used to be the richest country in the world, we aren’t now, you used to be the best manager in football, not any more you aren’t, Brian Clough ruled the world once but if history teaches us anything, nothing is ever forever.
This season started with selling our two best players and the best one had three years left on his contract and you sold him cheaply, this was followed by an 8-2 thrashing and the worst panic buying in the history of the EPL, now we need players and your head is buried in the sand.
It’s Ok people like Ian Wright saying we should get behind the team, but we have been behind the team our whole lives, but this manager has lost it, he has had 7 years of failure and in that time had £40mil+ in salary and that my friends is a joke, if a banker got that, the whole country would be going nuts.
I dare say we could still win trophies, but had we signed what we really needed this past 7 years we could have won a shed load by now, as Graham Souness said on Sunday, we are now a feeder club, but not because we have no money, but because the money we have is being spunked up the wall on mediocrity. On kids that never make it and management.
That’s how I feel, if you don’t like it then best not comment today, try and defend anything I have criticised here today by all means, I would be amazed if you could, what I witnessed on Sunday was beyond belief, ask Robin, and that was followed by a pack of lies.
And someone needs to explain the purchase of Park to me in detail, why did we buy a player that is going in 18 months, not play him for six, then realise he’s no good?
Have a great day grovers and see you in the comments.
Lurch
I remember when those reports about Wenger going to Madrid were circulating. My view at the time was I don’t doubt they were after him, but Wenger would never take the job.
There would be too much pressure for him to get results, he couldn’t deal with the egos of a massive club like Madrid he can barely manage the players at Arsenal. Most of all he would get lynched by the fans and most probably receive death threats if he handled Madrid like he does Arsenal.
Can you really see him leaving his cushy empire to go somewhere where he’d actually have to earn his money and was under scrutiny? As much as Wenger might wave that in front of our faces he’s not stupid he knows where his breads buttered and he wouldn’t risk it.
Zeus I think on Klopp he lacks that experience in Europe but I think he’d do fine domestically. He knows how to build a defence anyway and has a good spine to his team. They could probably do with adding a bit more quality if they had the funds but given their resources he’s done fine and I would trust him to do Ok for us. It’s not as if we’ve ever won the CL anyway so all he would have to do is qualify and get us to the latter stages to achieve what Wenger has and he is more tactically astute than Wenger.
radio-
geographically speaking, russia and ukraine are in europe.
nice own goal!
Radio Raheem
Europe still the centre of the financial world, hence it’ll keep it’s upper class
Take note that many of the biggest stars in European football aren’t European at all, but their teams couldn’t hold them as they couldn’t match the temptations the European sides could offer, starting with money, then life style, the ability to earn more from advertising and all the luxuries the so called modern world can give
Sorry Lurch my post at 19:51 should have been aimed at Iffy.
New away top looks like complete shite!
Whatever happend to the good old yellow with blue kits?
2301
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there were a couple of crossover conversations involving Madrid, mine related to Mourinho coming this way.
No I don’t think AW is a good fit at RM, likely he’d move upstairs with us (yikes) or to the board of PSG.
I can’t see a club demanding his coaching services and these days most big clubs split his role into 2, a director and a coach – he wouldn’t be happy just being a coach so look at clubs needing sporting directors.
Lurch,
your familiar with China’s human rights?
don’t think they’ll struggle when it comes to finding a ‘humane’ solution for their aged , they’ll wrk till they drop anyhow.
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haha
As for managing their modernisation I am not too sure how they’ll be able to do it in a sustainable way. The Japanese failed with their State Capitalism and Korea have had to adopt a westernised form of capitalism too. I think the same forces that make it inevitable for China’s economy to be more capitalist, in the western form, will help it improve its human rights record. Capitalism and central control are not bedfellows.
There are other factors that may curtail China’s growth that I’ve deliberately left out here. When considered together amongst other logistical concerns I, like you, am not sure if we can get 3 million Chinese to pay £3 quarterly.
Let the gods decide
yup.
Strange shirts for Juve …..
Bade That won’t be the case for long the financial model used in Europe and US is collapsing. The power will be in Asia. They say it is a global financial crisis but it’s not really it’s only Europe and the Western countries that are in crisis, Asia is growing right now.
I don’t know 2301
It’s not only the direct financial power, it’s the whole system working for it
Asia has more less friendly regimes where you have lesser chances to express your wildest fantasies, also Asians spend less than Europeans
The financial centre will always be where the big spending is going on
radio-
geographically speaking, russia and ukraine are in europe.
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Yes they are fernchie but they might as well be Asia in football terms. Still, it doesn’t detract from my main point that we are seeing (high profile) players, at their peak or close to it, move to what we might call smaller footballing nations for the money.
WengersSweeties says:
January 24, 2012 at 18:17
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Brilliant Dan, loved the video too, really well put together.
I’m surprised they were so surprised you wanted wenger out.
radio-
i disagree, but money will do strange things…like bring players to citeh or even china.
Fren
They’re taking care to their pensions, they’re players on the retirement route already
Lurch I agree with what you’re saying. Why do you suppose Wenger would criticise teams for financial doping such as Chelsea and Man City yet advocate this same doping model for PSG but not for us? http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6443119,00.html
bade-
that is what i think.
Gunner2301:
Because Wenger has truly last his marbles. I know for a fact there are players who dont ‘understand’ anymore.
Its quite fine to throw names about, but you have to consider this management that fully support Arsene and the “self-sustaining” model.
Will they give the new manager the tools to work with?
Both Arsene and his boss are culpable.
Gunner2301 says:
January 24, 2012 at 19:51
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Yeah but he has to leave all the same. We might not be real madrid but we sure as well don’t want a good for nothing manager.
That said, the answer to your question is no, i don’t think he’ll want to leave Arsenal. I do believe that a line has been crossed and there is simply no going back now.
Jadson moved to Sao Paolo for less money allegedly…he might not have received what he is getting now 5 years ago butteh wages on offer in Brazil have improved dramatically recently.
Neymar is only still in Brazil because he is said to be on something like 100k/wk. Again, a year ago that’ll not be possible in Brazil. Yes he’ll still move to Europe like Arshavin did to Arsenal for the challenge/prestige.
The point being made here is a simple one. The concentration of top players in Europe’s top leagues may continue for a while yet but changes in economic and other global factors might mean that this situation may not continue, at least, not in the way it is at the moment. Consequently, this may impact of the strength of European football clubs as brands and their earning power globally since this concentration of top players diffuses to other emerging parts of the world.
If one can understand shitty collecting top players within 3 years is it that much of stretch in imagination to see something similar happening elsewhere, albeit, at a slower pace?
Bade,
like I said earlier players move for DIFFERENT reasons but money is one big factor. I said that up top
All this talk about Jurgen Klopp. If you’re gonna replace Wenger with a Wenger wannabe then why bother replacing him @ all.
DG I think it’s probably more due to hypocrisy. He wants the best for a French team but sustainability is good enough for us? He;s a hypocritical Cunt!
G4R That’s why I cited Wengers love child Stojkovic he’d go along with a sustainable model and I believe Bould would. Any manager of world standing wouldn’t accept not having any funds for transfers.
Iffy Yes he has to leave and I for one don’t fear him leaving. I don’t believe he’ll leave and go to another managerial position at another Club he’ll either try to go upstairs with us which would be disaster or PSG possibly.
A line was crossed about 3 years ago when he’d already been given a few seasons to make his Youth project work but it didn’t and ever since he has no plan or strategy for what he’s doing.
It’s amazing that Gazidis said he went to Asia to discuss players and plans with Wenger for 2016 or something, which is alarming because that’s past his contract date and secondly how can they be planning for 2016 and have no plan now? Fucking baffling.
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by the way PSG wanted AW before Ancheloti but AW said no to their call
Iffy
Considering Wenger was the grand master of the Youth plan. He couldn’t deliver it but Klopp has done already in a shorter space of time. That’s why I believe he’s worth considering. Have you seen their defensive stats the season they won the Bundesliga? We could do with some of that knowledge now and that alone would elevate him above what Wenger is doing now.
I’m not saying he should replicate another Youth project but at least you know he is capable to bring through youth if we have to, and maybe you’d see more youngsters coming through than we have under Wenger who has just distracted us from the fact that this area has been a disaster for Arsenal despite the massive wage bill.
I think a lot of people agreed with the blog today when they heard wengers reasoning. Its the arrogance in his approach that pisses everyone off. He doesnt want to listen to other views of how we could improve.
As a manager he is finished. The same as many greats, times change.
Stéphane Guy, who’s close to Wenger, told Canal+: “Arsene went home feeling betrayed by Arshavin on Sunday.”
@abnet
I hope that’s true, and if that’s true, I hope Wenger will act about it in this window.
Wenger OUT – Mourinho IN
Best transfer ever.
abnet-
as did many of us…
If it was just about winning, Mourinho will be the manager of Barcelona
@ Goonzer – I hope so too mate
I just read about Gotze being out for 2 months, looks like playing so many games has taken it’s toll on him at his age.
Gunner2301 says:
January 24, 2012 at 20:52
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Rightly so too. No manager should accept zero or insufficient funds, it’s madness. Unless you get really lucky with your youth system, you need money to buy the best players, they are not free.
Arsene betrayed us by failing to stand up for us. Instead he stood up for the board and sold us this stupid project youth idea.I just hope that the same board stands up for him when things start to really get messy.
It’ll be interesting to see the reaction of the players at our next game. Will they fight for their manager? I’ll be most interested in the attitude of Alex Song whose performances Arsene and us fans had to bear for so long, waiting for him to come good
What was worse:
Arshavin getting caught out, half-assing it back, never really challenging, and letting ManU score, or,
The fact that Wenger put the most out-of-form, least-caring player on our team in the game in the first place (for the Ox no less)?
(Honest question; what do you guys think? Arshavin or the man who played him?)
abnet says:
January 24, 2012 at 20:52
by the way PSG wanted AW before Ancheloti but AW said no to their call
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Wish he’d said yes
Stéphane Guy, who’s close to Wenger, told Canal+: “Arsene went home feeling betrayed by Arshavin on Sunday.”
Thats a bit stupid of him to feel betrayed when every man & he’s dog could see arshavin has lost it.. I mean what did he expect of him?
You woulda had a better chance pulling someone out the crowd tbh…
OPG – or maybe his Arsenal DNA controlling over his body
abnet says:
January 24, 2012 at 20:59
Stéphane Guy, who’s close to Wenger, told Canal+: “Arsene went home feeling betrayed by Arshavin on Sunday.”
Exactly, Arshavin promised him a blow if he got a run out. And has soon as the game was over he pissed off into the night. No wonder he felt betrayed.
Dan,
Wenger has to take blame for everything that has been going wrong on the feild..
He buys & picks he’s team so therefore he is to blame..
I agree with the post, I’m so sick of waiting for a change at the Emirates. It’s fine and dandy to say that Wenger’s time is nearing an end but what if nothing changes?? What happens if Wenger stays, nothing changes, and we turn out to be a mid to bottom table team?
I don’t what kind of decision Wenger has to make to either keep his job for certain or lose it. We are trapped in a fucking limbo and it’s terrible.
Let’s either hope Henry whispers valuable advice in Wenger’s ear or that we get bombed by Villa and again by Bolton. Maybe in response to two beatdowns some changes will be made.
Gorze out for 2 months? You only have to get linked to us to surcome to the Arsenal injury jinx.
We slag Samir off, we’ve slagged Ashley for years. And ok Ade” it should have bin you”.
But knowing the real story and the fact that Cole didn’t really want to go, only parity (is that right) with the other players in the team wages wise, and we all know that if we had offered Nasri good money early enough he may have stayed.
It seems to me that all along we have been singing the wrong songs. Hhhhhmmmmm.
“Na na nana nana na na na na naa Wenger your a cunt your a cunt Wenger your a cunt. ”
OR………
“Oh Arsenal your all greedy arse holes,
Your all greedy arse holes,
your all greedy arse holes.
Sorry AKB’s but the truth fucking hurts.
your all greedy arse holes!!!
Ricky, by that logic though, he must be praised for everything that goes right. Don’t see anybody around here giving him a medal for RvP’s record-setting year.
http://le-grove.co.uk/2008/12/07/wenger-has-lost-it-im-afraid/
Remember this…?
All these years later & its the same story.
Usmanov’s money
+Deins transfer negotiating
+Mourinho’s tactics
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TROPHIES
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ManU has Giggs Scholes and Neville hanging around making sure the youngsters know what it means to play for THEIR club.
We have Song, Walcott, and JD starting neither of whom has the slightest idea what it is to represent a club internationally (if they do their game attitude certainly doesn’t show it)
As for Wenger, it was clear way back in August that he was not mentally fit for the position. Does anyone remember how difficult it was for him to answer even the most simple questions asked of him after the first ManU match? He simply cannot handle the responsibility he owes his club’s supporters
Rwandan president wants Arsene Wenger to leave Arsenal
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/rwandan-president-wants-arsene-wenger-leave-arsenal-195849011.html
Alan smith’s interview for those that have not heard it.
http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/premier-league/1487/00/exclusive-smith-wenger-has-got-his-transfer-policy-wrong
I love that president of Rwanda….
Take a bow, take a bow son!!!
WENGER OUT!
Resign you cunt!
Or the board – GROW SOME BALLS! He’s failed at his job therefore deserves sacking! The sooner the better!
WENGER OUT…KRONKE SELL UP & STAY AT HOME.
It’s gonna take balls from many of us on here who attend games to keep slagging him off & fight our corner when the AKB cunts have a go.
I’ve now had 4 major altercations at home & away grounds. Once the old bill threatened me & some AKB deluded kid to throw us both out at OT last year.
At the risk of being shot down in flames I have to say I was expecting Oxlade to be subbed on Sunday. I was at the game and had just commented to my daughter that I thought he was starting to look heavy legged. He has not played for 90 minutes all season and does not look as fit as he could be.
The problem was not the substitution but the substitute……but look at our bench! Perhaps the Chelsea player would have been a better choice.
the rwandan president was probably WTL.
WTL wouldn’t accept the Rwandan presidency, not with his ambition, unless maybe someone bought the country for him as a Christmas present.
“It’s gonna take balls from many of us on here who attend games to keep slagging him off & fight our corner when the AKB cunts have a go.”
Take a knife next time, only way they’ll listen.
true, though it has pretty good genocidal opportunity & could be fun for a few months and they speak french.
Not if Don Cheadle has anything to do with it.
set monica bellucci on don, diversionary tactics.
WENGER OUT NOW!
Clearly, a Manager that is out of touch with reality and worse, out of touch with the fans. No one expected what happened on Sunday, least of all Wenger. His comments are those of someone who is against the ropes and in trouble from a serious shot to the head, or ego in Wenger’s case.
This was a serious wake up call for Wenger and I don’t think that he’s going to be getting any more free rides from the supporters. This was long overdue and for Gunners fans to turn on Wenger in this fashion and this loudly…the honeymoon is now officially over (took a very long time).
It would not be a stretch to declare that should Arsenal continue with its current form, Wenger will be gone at the end of the season and it will be by his choice. As with any dictator, the end usually does come…and it usually is never a pretty sight. The first signs of serious discontent have appeared and don’t think that Wenger does not know it either. The end is nearing.
he’s probly in bed now, would be mean to do it no? surely the morning would be more suitable?
Trying to remember the exact match/competition when Old Stubborn Fck Face refused to play Arsharvin even though AA had just scored 4 against Liverpool and couldn’t play in the next league match.
Did we play in a semi final of the FA Cup against Chelsea? Seems to have been erased from my mind.
What a w**ker. AA hasn’t been the same since.
Tricky
The thing is many may call Cole for what he was perceived to have done. Maybe those who read his book might look at things a little differently. Cole was already here when Wenger arrived so Wenger didn’t create him.
The French clique was rife at the tiime and as you said he wanted parity considering his standing as and England international and one of the best LB in the world.
He was watching lesser players come in on more than him and because he was seen as a fixture of the Club he was overlooked. They wouldn’t give him the little extra so he left.
It’s funny how Wenger has given all his own babies sweeteners even the undeserving. Fabregas, Denilson even Djourou. Others not deserving of contract extensions whilst injured or just coming back from injury Rosicky and Diaby.
Cole did the right thing and I don’t hold it against him. He grew up with the Club moreso than the imports that were brought in and I don’t believe he wanted to leave. It wasn’t due to money that he left rather than not being valued by the manager who had his obvious favourites. In a similar work situation you have to sympathise because I’d do the same thing.
Excellent Post Geoff. Next time you meet Wenger can you just read it out aloud to him? or best paste it on his door. The fact is – use as much of statistics as you want….but after a point those numbers should get you trophies. Else you can only be a mediocre feeder club. I guess the club needs someone to challenge the status quo at board level. David Dein r u listening????
Late in the day I know, but great post!
DJ, no tango Dave won’t be listening as he is too busy counting the 75 mill he took for selling his shares to Jabba.
Joppa
I don’t even blame Arshavin for how things have gone. He;s been played out of position since he’s been here that’s enough to fuck you off. Then to see someone like Ramsey playing an attacking role when he’s not capable when you could do the job must be demoralising for him.
Wenger ruins many careers. I’m surprised that more of them don’t have the balls to leave when they understand how he intends to play them. You wonder what the discussions were about during the transfer negotiations, surely they cover the position the player is going to play in.
So in Ashley Coles book he blames Wenger ?!
Yeah Gunner, I just thought it was another classic example of Wenger being a stubborn fck. Arsenal lost that match v Chelsea, but Wenger never really gave the Arsenal team a chance that day. What the fck is up with the man?
This was the team that day:
Where’s Andrey Arshavin? On the bench, that’s where, along with Samir Nasri. And will you look at that defence! Fabianski, Eboue, Toure, Silvestre, Gibbs, Walcott, Fabregas, Diaby, Denilson, Van Persie, Adebayor.
Subs: Mannone, Nasri, Vela, Ramsey, Song Billong, Arshavin, Bendtner.
Chelsea are pretty much at full-strength.
Just look at that…what an arrogant fck Wenger is. He does not give two fcks about the fans.
Get Mourinho in.
Lurch
So how do you explain the success of the likes of David Silva, Xabi etc they didnt scream mummies .Farca will find the way……
*the = a
Keyser
No he doesn’t blame Wenger directly but he does elude to preferential treatment being given to foreign players. I can’t recall him saying anything directly bad about Wenger.
I believe it was Dein (correct me if I;m wrong) he felt had betrayed him, as he his agent was negotiating the increase with Dein who wouldn’t go the extra 5k pw, however we all know that Wenger has a say in what wages players get paid according to what they are worth to him.
For Cole it was a matter of principle. It’s a shame because he epitomised the Arsenal that we are missing now.
Joppa
That just shows how long the teams been a pile of shit and we have been lucky to get away with it. The thing is had he done things slightly differently and paid that little bit more for the odd player, the team would have a totally different complexion.
I was all for scrapping the team after the CC debacle and I would have been prepared to go through a couple of season of transition to re-build even at this stage. The thing is we had nothing more to lose and we may well miss out on CL which would have probably happended had we got rid of everyone but we still have the majority on the wage bill.
has he gone yet?
No he’s still here as far as I know, LMAO We’ve got a long wait me thinks.
Just scanned through the a 2008 LG blog and could only find Keysar out of all the fans still on LG. Guess that makes you a true LG legend. Here’s to you for 3 years!!!
iffy:
I think you’ll find yours truly on there @ 10.11
I was stating WEnger was finished back in 2006 & was laughed at by all my mates.
Strange…Not many laugh now.
Wenger was finished when he backed Almunia after the CL final.
John Cross, Arsenal Fan & AKB making a cunt of himself on Talkshite Breakfast show.
‘Theo is just going through a dip, he should always start a game’
‘Fans were disrespectful singing ” You dont know what you’re doing”.
‘He’s the best manager we’ve ever had’
Double,
Cross does not want to have the club’s back door slammed in his face, so he needs to defend the regime a little, eh?
RvP’s press statement and now this, equivalent to TASS at its brilliant best!
Morning addicts,
I’d ask that bloke: Who are ya?
As they always say, after all the results will talk the talk
Arsene was hanging on due to massive luck and poorness of other teams.
Luck because getting the 4th CL spot was always due to English teams success, mainly Mancs and Scousers.
Poorness because we were always struggling but we enjoyed fuck ups of other teams. Remember when the Spuds lost the CL spot in the last game of the season? Can you see how poor Scousers and Toons are, that they couldn’t overtake us despite our 3 consecutive losses?
His luck seems now to run out
We’re definitely losing the grip on the CL money, unless the miracle continues and:
1) we keep our Robin fit till end of season,
2) we get back all of our injured players with a blazing form and we don’t suffer no more injury blows for top players
3) The Chavs fuck up big time
I don’t believe all the above will happen together, when frankly 1 element of the above is enough to gain us free Tuesdays/Wednesdays …..
Arsene to Real?
Ha ha ha, Joke Friday
Maybe he had some chance few years back, but the way he’s running Arsenal will surely expel any interest from any top club with actual aspirations to win the big trophies every year
Though I’d love the move to get done
I’d be happy to get Maureen, and even happier to watch Arsene sacked from Real after three months….
At least, if Real really got Arsene, we’ll know that Perez shares him the thoughts that 4th is a trophy ….. Or he’s maybe had it with Barca, surrendered and lost any desire to compete with them
WEll said.its over Wenger sorry sunshine if you loved arsenal as much as you say then leave take hillwood and kroenke on the way out call dein and beg him to come back and with usmanovs billions we could at least build for the future
Lose Arsene, lose Arsenal has to be the worst comment i have EVER EVER read.
This comment is eveything wrong with our club. Most players play for Arsene, the fans pay there wages, cheer and on the odd occassion boo, but they need to show some respect for the fans everyone does
That’s upsetting..”lose Arsene, lose Arsenal”. I’m glad i don’t know any AKB’s they’re a mindless stupid lot
Many rumours that Real want Arsene. Could very well be a win-win. I think Arsene should leave Arsenal as he is no longer the right man for the job. We need someone with more passion, who is less of a dictator, with a different style & phylosophy. I would love Klopp, Van Basten, Guardiola, Bould or Hiddink.
Arsene might be a good fit for Real too. His style is definately more expressive than Jose’s, I think Real are playing the wrong type of football given the strengths of the players. Arsene has showed before that he is very good when he is given world class players (I know he should have gone out and bought some world class players with us, that is his bigest shortcoming in my eyes). So with Real he will inheret a strong team which he can get playing more effective and expressive football.
I also think we are not that far off from being a top squad. One of the above mentioned managers would come in and ship out the ineffective/passionless players like Arsh, Chamakh, Almunia, Squid, Bendtner, JD, Song & maybe even Theo. He would then identify our shortcomings (a top CF to rotate with RvP, another top winger/creative mid like Gotze/Hamsik/Hazard, another versatile defender like Vertonghen). With those relatively small tweaks and with a small net transfer spend (after taking into account the sales & the money from the Cesc & Nasri sales that is left) we could be a top top team.
We have a very good spine in Chezzer, Sagna, Tommy, Kozzer, Jack, Arteta, RvP. We have some fantastic squad players in Oxo, Gerv, Ramsey, Santos & Gibbs (some of them are just out of form). We have bags of young talent in Le Coq, Frimpong, Oxo, Ryo, Campbell, Afobe, Aneke, Miquel, Yennaris, Lansbury. Not all will cut it but some of them will.
Sorry nuudles, dont agree.
We dont have a spine at all. We have some good players, some shit, and one world class player who is leaving in 6 months.
Our defence is a shambles, one of the 5 worst in the league undoubtedly. Our midfield is lightweight both defensively and going forward, and we only have one real option up front.
Gibbs & Jenkinson are useless and completely lack experience. Our CBs play well but always make a mistake, Ramsey is nowhere near good enough to play 40 games per season at a top club, Walcott is a championship player, Gervinho is Eboue Mk2, Chamakh & Park are appaling.
As for listing all them kids, well im sure you were saying the same about Senderos, Djourou, Flappy, Denilosn, Diaby, Walcott, Vela 7 Bendtner.
As for Lansbury, he is the most overrated footballer in the history of the game.
All CBs will make a mistake if they’re put under constant pressure. Our problem, in my opinion, is still the midfield’s inability to retain possession. It’s been our problem since Hleb and Flamini left.
What’s worse is that Wenger fails to recognise it and continues to play imbalanced midfields with players who aren’t good enough to play there in a 4,3,3..
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The long and the short of it is he only has to justify it to his employers, ie the board.
Supporters need to get back into their stations about this. Yes you buy tickets and merchandise but that doesn’t make Wenger answerable to you.
You are the arrogant ones!!!!