Well, this is tough.
It’s a real mixed bag of feelings when you step up to write a post about a manager who is dying a painful metaphorical death in an undignified manner. Arsene Wenger looked like a stray dog tonight. One hit by two cars on a Spanish motorway, writhing in agony, hoping a juggernaut would make it quick and easy.
It took 180minutes, but the outcome was never really in doubt. In 2018, there was to be no fairytale ending for Wenger. Simeone controlled the both legs, like a cat with a mouse between its paws. The real torture was giving fans hope that there was a chance of escape.
At every level, Arsene-al were exposed.
Madrid survived the first leg through dogged determination, exceptional planning and an intense dedication to the gospel of the clean sheet.
The second leg was a little simpler. Make it all about Diego Costa. The Spanish/Brazilian picked up where he left off at Chelsea (pre-cup final). In the opening 6 minutes, he brutalised our backline, proving he was the alpha male. From an Oblak hoof, he won the first ball brushing Koscielny over, then swatting Monreal away with ease for a lash at our goal. It was humiliating to watch, I felt like a troubled parent seeing his kids decked on the playground, I wanted to run onto the pitch with a blanket and shout ‘you monster’ at Diego for bullying my babies.
Sadly, no one could intervene in the inevitable, Thomas Partey (who was excellent) won the ball in the middle of the park finding Griezmann, the Frenchman released Costa in behind Bellerin, the chipped finish evaded Ospina, and flatlined our hopes. So predictable he’d have that sort of game against a team that’s never really come to grips with his real-life boogeyman persona. Almost cruel he’d do that in Wenger’s last European match.
I’d be foolish to put it all on bad Diego juju, but his leadership from the front inspired a world-class Atleti defensive performance that limited Arsenal to 1 Xhaka shot on target all evening. Really poor considering our MO is apparently attacking football. I will give credit to Chambers who performed really well after coming on for Kos, who sadly looks like he’s in very bad shape for the future.
Outside that, Arsenal struggled with the usual issues. Jack Wilshere and Xhaka failed to impact the game under harsh pressing from Atleti, Ozil melted into nothingness showing the club have indeed made a huge mistake giving him a mega-deal under duress this year, Lacazette was easily absorbed by towering performances from Godin and co. We didn’t have many options on the bench, not that Wenger had done any sort of scenario planning to chase the game if things weren’t going his way against a resolute defensive team.
There was one moment when a ricocheted ball found its way into Ramsey’s path, I counted 4 Atleti players who were alert to the ball, it was unreal focus and animalistic determination to keep the clean sheet that muzzled the chance. I miss that sort of care for defending.
It was an ‘almost’ game. One that we’ve seen so many times over the years against teams that don’t really like possession. You’re convinced there’s a shred of hope, but the reality is Atleti had a next level, Arsene Wenger’s side absolutely did not. Men against boys. We were totally schooled in tactics, intensity and desire.
What this exit did prove is this: The campaign to remove Wenger was entirely correct. The people that fought for his continuation in the face of damning evidence were enablers of the rot. Martin Keown made a brutal attack on Ozil after the game that’s stealing a lot of headlines.
“And it’s almost like somebody needed to grab him a long time ago and give him a shake and say ‘we’re trying to get the ball to you, we are working for you but you’re not working for us’.
“I bet he doesn’t play again this season. He’ll have some emotional breakdown and won’t be able to play at the weekend.
“I don’t know how many illnesses he’s had this season. The fella is not kidding me. That is not a proper performance. He’s not giving everything and there’s much more under the bonnet. Somebody else will find it.
I’m game for digging the German out for another insipid performance, but let’s take a step back, where was Keown when Wenger was tanking the side over the last 5 years?
This was him in 2015:
“Arsene Wenger decides when he leaves Arsenal. The topic of Wenger comes up all the time and I think we should allow the great man to decide when he goes,”
This was him Feb last year:
“If he was to go at the end of the season I’m not sure the club would be ready. Which manager they would turn to?
“We’ve seen Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola arrive at Liverpool and City and they’ve not been successful either in terms of winning trophies.”
Arsenal has missed out on so many great managers over the last 6 years because of enabling comments like the above, along with the consistent drumbeat of ‘well, who else is there?’ from so-called experts. Now where are we? Our team is in tatters, we’re 6th in the league with Burnley breathing down our necks and our rebirth job is going to need £200m, but we only have £50m to do it with because we wasted £150m on a manager who has been a disaster with the chequebook.
… but here’s the thing. At least the Arsene Wenger chapter of our story is now over. I’d take any scenario over his on-going tenure. If the cost of him leaving is a stand in his name, so be it. I’ll carve the name plaque tomorrow and arrange the party to announce it.
Being predictably humiliated in major competitions will now be a thing of the past. I’m not saying we won’t have bad moments, but we’ll have less of them, and if we’re being beaten consistently in the same way, the manager will pay a price. We’ll be like a real football club again.
We’ll hire a manager who can build a defence, imprint an attacking philosophy and provide innovative answers for the issues that happen on the pitch. We’ll move away from thinking values trump results. It’ll be magnificent.
I’m not saying I want a win-at-all-costs scumbag in charge, I’m just saying I want someone at the helm who can offer up an intelligent path forward for a club desperately lacking an identity. I want an exciting philosophy, I want a disciplined pressing style, I’d like someone to bring joy back to the Arsenal.
A club of our size and reported ambition should be fighting to be the best. We should be an excitement cauldron everyone wants to be bubbling in. We should be challenging past March. We should have a chance of winning major trophies when we’re in the semi-final. We should never be beaten before the game has started.
That’s coming.
Arsene going out of the Europa League a failure is sadly what he deserves, it’s what the club deserves. Why? Because sentimentality has no place in elite sport, and we’ve allowed the ‘thanks for the stadium’ tour go on for far too long. Our legendary manager had three chances of a glorious send-off over the past 4 years and he greedily middle fingered them all, with no one around him gutsy enough to tell him to quit while he had an open top bus parked outside Colney. Instead, he tried to make progress bend to his regressive whims, foolishly thinking the past was his future accountability. He treated the club like his own personal fiefdom and Arsenal became a weird lifestyle job for a rich old man no one could ask to leave. The ending was never going to be pretty, but now it’s well and truly over.
Wenger: 22 years in charge, 22 seasons of European football, 2 finals, 0 trophies.
A sorry return when all is said and done.
… but, I can promise you this, the next 22 years will deliver more.
We are The Arsenal, and things are about to start looking up. The future is bright, and now we can start getting truly excited for the next chapter.
See you in the comments.
GoH
“To have our wage bill and not be in the CL is criminal. Unless we do offload the shit from the club, how long do you think we’ll sustain a £250m wage bill?”
Culling season is imminent. £200m wage bill, yet the coffers will be starved of CL revenue.
This is so damaging. Made worse by the fact that our highest earner is 29, earning £350k p/w while tied down for the next 3.5 years.
Clusterfuck would be an understandment
Wenger still bleating on about how this present squad is only two or three players short from challenging for the biggest honours. Emmm, he really doesn’t get it does he? He said exactly the same thing last season when we crashed out of the top 4, saying we were two or three players short from challenging for the league. Remember what our rivals did when they were in our predicament recently? Need a reminder? Chelsea sacked Maureen, hired Conte and won the League the following season. Man Utd, when they were into the Europa League last season, made sure they… Read more »
Max Meyer should be the first considerable bit of business we do this summer, lad has found a role he’s excelling at, it’s one we’re in dire need of, and he’s on a bosman.
For our situation he’s relative gold dust. He’s been quietly doing his thing and enabling players like Goretzka the freedom to operate in reckless abandon (cough…Ramsey…cough).
I have maintained all season that Wilshire should not be awarded a new contract even if he accepts a reduced wage. He is not good enough for first team and I don’t think that he will accept sitting on bench. I have a different view to most posters about Xhaka. I think that he has the potential to be a good player in the right set up. It would be interesting to play him alongside Maitland-Niles next season who will be competing for sure for a regular place in starting lineup. M-N has the pace and defensive recovery to play… Read more »
I do think we should went all out for Max Meyer
he has not confirmed his new destination but I do know Liverpool, spurs and even united are interested so loads of competition
Clarification. Yes, the players must take the responsibility… but who hired these players? Who trained these players? Who awarded these players on astronomic contracts for not very much performance?
Wenger.
Both are to be blamed.
Carts
£46,800,000
That’s what Ozil will fleece from us over the next three years…if he’s on £300k pw.
Wengers last hurrah was to essentially screw the club over by buying in all the shite and giving them massive deals.
I would give Wenger £9.00 let alone £9m to fuck off. In fact, I’d take the bastard to court.
Arsenal’s youth aide better get ready because we can’t keep paying silly wages.
Right, but where you advocate wholesale changes I’m of the opinion this team is transformed with 3/4 key ones. I’m advocating wholesale changes because it’s not that this team has 3-4 players who aren’t good enough it has more. a Leno (quick, agile, imposing, good with his feet) Agree love him. a Koulibaly (Physically dominant, defender first, leader) Agree. But we need another. What’s the point of highlighting how good Koulibaly is if teams target Mustafi and he makes mistake after mistake. His performances this season alone show he’s not good enough a Max Meyer (tenacious, scrapper, baller) Agree. Still… Read more »
“Because sentimentality has no place in elite sport”
I’m sorry but I have to disagree!!
Omg, I’m starting to speak like vicuntious…
“Allegri is the one, demanding, charismatic, bold, and a winner. ”
Anyone would of thought you’d had a punt on him!!! 😉
Marko
Mate. 3/4 players won’t touch the side I’m afraid.
We need at a minimum:
GK x 2
RB, CB x 2 and a LB
New midfield
Wingers x 1/2
A better forward than Laca
Tell me I’m wrong. Im not. The squad is a mess.
Wenger ought to decline the 10.5 million payout next season in good faith. He’s is leaving the squad in a worse shape than he found it. Are we a bigger club now compared to 1996? Absolutely YES but it has very little to do with Wenger. Our growth is derived from the fact that the world is a much smaller place due to technology and the entire premier league has grown exponentially. He built the Emirates?The stadium isn’t that much of a big deal because at least 10 premier league clubs are building as well. Atletico just moved into a… Read more »
I bet if we had Sven in the summer we would of went for the Naby Keita deal
he is what we need, box to box aggression type
the closest is Denis Zakaria of BMG at the moment
Leon Bailey is a huge talent
The difference between a well coached team and one that is not was clear for all to see. Sorry to say as much as Ramsey gets a lot praise for his engine and getting into good goal scoring positions his return is nothing to write home about and he should be moved on in the summer and an upgrade brought in. Just not good enough.
To the next boys in charge : please get rid of wilshere vegas boy, our false rambo, ospina and cech, mustafi and Co… and mostly Ozil, or at least you can buy him a pair of f*cking balls.
Considering his salary, I’m surprise that he cant afford to buy them himself.
Marko
Do you still think I was far off for prioritizing a pacy and dribbling Winger over a central midfielder.
I know it’s a debatable choice but it’s not bizarre.
We cannot keep trying to pass the pall through a monkeys atse in athe middle of the two banks of the opposition.
Agree with Edd
If you want a player with an “engine” go and hire a fucking runner instead of a footballer.
Ramsay is just not that good. Squad player at best. Useful sub but no game changer.
Wenger is often lauded as the man who brought the Emirates Stadium to Arsenal. How much did that cost? £500m?
It’s going to take that much to reshape this club to be league contenders…
Honestly, in light of the absolute mess he has left us in, what has he actually done for us in the past ten years?
I recall gooners laughing at United for paying Alexis 450-500k weekly. All the while we were ignoring our on albatross nightmarish situation; we’ve been paying a perennial absentee 300-350k weekly. At least United can afford the Alexis deal, they have massive commercial income and are back in the CL to keep those deals. Our situation is worse because we really cannot afford a to pay Ozil that salary, not at the expense of a depleted squad playing in Europa league. The Ozil extension will come to be remembered as one of the worst in modern sporting history. It will be… Read more »
Arsene didn’t build the stadium. He just happened to be the manager at the time.
Danny F (RIP) probably had more to do with it than anyone at Arsenal.
Oh and the hundreds of architects, engineers, builders, workers, civil and transport infrastructure engineers and of course the bank who actually gave us the cash…but yeah, apart from that…Wenger had loads to do with it.
Fucking fraud.
‘That’ll become ever clearer moving forward, but Wenger has gotten far more flak than he’s deserved. He leaves our greatest manager, we’re in great shape, people could do with just drawing a line and looking forward.’
Wenger leaves us in 6th position, without CL football for a second season in a row and a largely trash squad that’ll need a major surgery ie a massive investment.
Stop choking on Wenger’s dick.
we need intelligent central midfielders like the Gabi’s and Koke’s
positional play and awareness with great technique and determination
we need that chiellini, godin type of defender
and a wide player like leon bailey, di maria, salah
if it means getting the potential superstars so be it but I trust Sven would have done this homework here
‘we need intelligent central midfielders like the Gabi’s and Koke’s positional play and awareness with great technique and determination. we need that chiellini, godin type of defender and a wide player like leon bailey, di maria, salah’
And don’t forget about the goalkeeper. Basically we need close to an entirely new team.
Great shape, my backside.
We need to be careful about just dropping names of players to sign. To say that we are in some chaos right now would be quite polite. Why would any player commit to staying or new players agree ato join us when there is so much uncertainty? There’s nothing appealing about Arsenal other than an extended extravagantly paid vacation in London. Until we appoint a manager, no player with a future will join us. Good players commit to PROJECTS and are convinced by seeing some stability, either in DoF or manager. Chelsea used to sign players even when they didn’t… Read more »
Arsene basically pissed in the drinking water and left.
Actually we need two good GKs.
Goalies need to push each other for the starting position
Cech is done, let him off the last year of his contract.
Ospina, to his defense has been trying to leave every freaking summer: Wenger kept persuading him to stay for one more year. Let him scurry off to Turkey.
We need a staring goalie and a back-up goalie.
Current state of play:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/0/next-arsenal-manager-odds-tracker-has-market-has-changed-now/
Remember when emptywit AKBs took shots at Fergie and the team he left behind for his successor?
Fergie was a glory-hunter and selfish they said, Wenger puts the club before him they said, he would leave the squad in far better shape they said, Arsene Wenger’s legacy they called it.
Where’s Cesc Appeal?
Haven’t heard from him in a long time.
Hope you’re doing good mate. How’s your budding legal career doing?
I’m going to quote myself from January: ————————————————— “I find myself on the fence regarding Ozil. He’s clearly very talented, but I think his tendency to be useless after Christmas makes him too expensive to be spending £200k a week on. I’d rather we let him go and sold Xhaka and then just bought the midfield general we need. Not sure who that would actually be now that Kante and Matic are both contracted up for years, but there has to be somebody out there.” ——————– Of course in the end we didn’t spend £200k a week on Ozil, it’s… Read more »
Rambo Ramsey
we just need intelligent positional play spine with grit and determination
hopefully the new manager is good at this and works on the shape of the team in defensive situations
our defence gets exposed too much and the goalkeeper suffers
look at CECH!!!! how he was at chelsea
Alexander
The club needs to end this freaking managerial change charade they set in place. It’s embarassing.
They ought to have done 50% of the work behind the scene before they judged Wenger out of the door.
Ideally, they should have had an informal handshake with their leading/preferred choice and have back-ups lined up.
I want the new manager to be more flexible, sometimes beautiful football and sometimes pragmatic football. For pragmatic, I mean defense and bypass the midfield and long ball to the striker. For that, we don’t play Ozil. For beautiful football, we’ll play the quick one-two short passing game.I prefer to watch Ozil than Fellaini style football.
AH
So basically that chart is the reverse of what everyone actually wants.
Eddie Howe? I mean seriously.
Arsenal should start thinking about downsizing the stadia…60,000 is far to ambitious for a club that might struggle to get 15,000 soon.
Eddie Howe!!!!!!!!!
I would literally explode into infinity if that happened.
GunnerShabz,
Cech is 35 now though and well past it.
We desperately needed a goalkeeper, an experienced center back, full backs, wide attackers … what’s that? A 55+ million striker who is cup tied to the only competition we have a shot of winning/competing in? Let’s get him. Clueless. It’s going to be a rough couple of years, guys. The next manager won’t have UCL football, will only have 50 million to spend, if what certain outlets report is true, and won’t have any players worth selling. Koscielny’s injury and Ospina/Cech’s performances this year HAS to mean we’re going to buy a goalkeeper and a center back, right? Right? Welbeck… Read more »
“Anyone would of thought you’d had a punt on him!!!”
Shhhhhhhhhh…
🙂
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11670/11358031/arsenal-have-made-no-approach-for-caglar-soyuncu-says-freiburg-chief
Lol
Rambo
I don’t have the patience to indulge your pathetic commentary. Suggest you get back to your Ramsey poster, and bore off with the halfwit remarks.
On a topic related to the on-going shambles, it seems entirely possible that we will not even make 6th in the EPL this season. This would make it even mroe difficutl to bring in a quality manager and players. Does 7th mean Europa Cup qualification?
Burnley play as a team (completely unlike AFC) and will be no push-over on Sunday as they battle for European qualification. Leicester will want to rub Wenger’s nose in it and Huddersfield will be fighting to stay up on the last day of the season.
Charlie, are you one of those types that plug your ears and shout ‘Tralalalidayyy’ when reality is banging on your front door?
No idea who’s going to be manager and neither do the press or bookies – at this stage anyway.
Here’s an idea though.
If the new manager doesn’t work out the club can fire him and try someone else.
Imagine that
hope next season we see some kids come up from the academy and settle down in the team. been a while since we last saw a decent home grown player who didn’t turn to shit after joining the 1st team..
Chopping block over the next two seasons:
Cech
Ospina
Koscielny
Mustafi
Welbeck
Iwobi
Wilshere
‘a Max Meyer (tenacious, scrapper, baller)’
As a squad option, sure. As a starter, no thanks rather we looked at other better players.
And doubt he’s leaving Schalke to sit on the bench somewhere.
What a great feeling it was when the final whistle went and I thought, ‘this is the last Wenger Euro-Capitulation’ I’ll ever have to witness. I almost don’t want to judge our players (although they have been absolute shite) until I’ve seen what proper coaching can coax out of them. It’s hard to remember, or believe, sometimes but we do actually have some decent players. And we have some average players who could do better with proper coaching. Ozil was pathetic last night (and disappears far too often) but there is no doubt he is a highly talented player. Let’s… Read more »
“hope next season we see some kids come up from the academy and settle down in the team. been a while since we last saw a decent home grown player who didn’t turn to shit after joining the 1st team..”
Given that it wont be Wenger nurturing them along, they have every opportunity to do well.
Rambo
Either you’re stupid, or wilfully ignorant. Pick one and run with it, I don’t care which.
weagle
“better” meaning what? More expensive? Sexier name? He’s one of the top performers in his position this season in the Bundesliga.
Yea sure, I’d like to dump 45 mil on Nainggolan…but that wedge isn’t manifesting out of nowhere and Meyer is a superb ‘deal’ this summer.
Given that we need a new goalie ( I would keep Cech as backup) and probably 2cbs I don’t expect us to spend all that much on the midfield sadly. Atm I would take a Meyer + Doucoure combo and get rid of Jack and Xhaka. Would about break even. If we’re serious about competing we would raise more money by selling Ramsey and buy a 3rd top midfielder too, but doubt that’s going to happen. The only hope is that Ramsey might want to leave or prices himself out of a contract. Just pray there’s enough money left over… Read more »
Genuine question here.
Who can think of Bosmans at the top level that have worked out? About the only one I can think of was Lewandowski.
Sol Campbell did alright…
Going to be more and more common place now when most of the power lies with the players and transfer fees are skyrocketing
Max Meyer on a free is a no brainer, but how exactly he’ll fit in would be interesting.
Small, diminutive and quite technical, essentially spells the end of Wilshere.
I suppose what will inform our player purchases will be what formation said coach/manager will opt for.
3 midfielders in a 4-3-3 or 2 midfielders in a 4-2-3-1…
Still. Could be worse.
What Freddie said…
Players know if they run their deal down THEY are the beneficiary’s of the inflated market through their wages.
Lewy, Ozil, Alexis, Goretzka…….. Can, Meyer, De vrij, Asamoah, Shaw are all ‘available’ the summer and would provide Arsenal possible solutions.
Could care less about sexy names CC, I just don’t rate Meyer particularly highly.
Think he’s good but we should be looking for better than good players if we truly are looking to be ambitious under a new gaffer.
Can not nailed on for Juventus?
They love a freebie.
‘Either you’re stupid, or wilfully ignorant. Pick one and run with it, I don’t care which.’
Says the numpty who claims Arsenal are ‘in great shape’. Not even a halfwit could come up with such stuff.
Is Shaw really available on a free this summer?
Fuck me that was a supreme waste of money on United’s end.
I watched all of Real v Bayern the other day, I was stuck in Houston’s IAH with a decent WiFi connection, very early for a flight. I was so impressed with quality of play from both teams, to be honest,Bayern especially. They were very, very good. All I could think is how far Arsenal have fallen from this level of performance, how far Wenger has dragged us down. It will be interesting to watch his next move. Will he just move into mega-paid punditry? He will undoubtedly take some undeserved shilling from the WC in Russia this summer. International management?… Read more »
I think that Watford midfielder Doucarye is someone we can buy this summer good box to box and strong on the ball
that’s the level we looking at this summer now, I am guessing Watford will want around £30m for him
A free signing of a ”top performer” in the Bundesliga.
That’s turned out well for us, third time’s the charm right?
Rambo
Stupid it is.
Wilshere can’t play as a defensive midfielder though, Meyer can, and have been for the last season, apparently doing a great job too. Would feel a lot more confident about him in there than Jack.
He may not be the best player available, but since we get nothing for Jack and we also imo need to replace Xhaka then it’s a no brainer. Unless we get really ambitious and decide to splash the cash. Can’t see that happening though.
Do you still think I was far off for prioritizing a pacy and dribbling Winger over a central midfielder
Priority for the summer the defence and midfield. After that sure a winger would be brilliant. But over sorting out the midfield? No way
DeVrij isn’t free this summer. He’s attainable though. Him Sokratis and the Turkish lad with Mustafi and Chambers leaving goes a long way to sorting out the defence for me. Potential pace issues with DeVrij and Sokratis but they’re proper defenders good tacklers and good reading of the game
Meyer as a Wilshere replacement would be good but as a starter I’m not so sure. Fabinho should be the priority this summer. After that someone like Kondogbia or Kovacic to play alongside him
According to transfermarkt his contract expires in june. Wouldn’t mind him at all, but someone (gambon?) said he’s nailed on for Inter.
A shame, him + Koulibaly would be fantastic business, giving us a massive presence at the back we haven’t had for ages.
No way we’re spending 80-100 million in midfield this season, not even if we sold Ramsey and got a decent fee there. Just not going to happen. SAD
Marko
de vrij is out of contract this summer
DeVrij is free
However hes almost certainly going to Inter I believe.
Spitballing, but Emre Can has been heavily touted to go to Juventus. Should Allegri come here is there any possibility he’d sway Can to come south instead?
Must’ve had some say in his recruitment/scouting.
de vrij is out of contract this summer
Then what are we doing. Jesus Christ him Goretska, Can and Meyer would walk onto our team and strengthen us for nothing
Why would he go to inter though they’re shit and I’d be shocked if they don’t lose their best player this summer. Icardi is off for sure
Ramsay
Wilshere
Welbeck
Holding
Chambers
Nelson
Maitland-Niles
That’s the list of shit.
What top 6 club would want any of them?
“[My successor] will need to make this club the priority of his life and commit completely and totally like he owns the club.
Spend money like it’s your money
I think Costa did the same thing at Wanda that Laca did at Emirates. Strikers generally are more confident at home than away. It’s not big deal. Costa was also handled very well when we played the cup final even though he scored.
Imagine the board shitting themselves right now on who next becomes the whipping boy when things go south.lol
The scenes on here when Buvac who? is unveiled as the new manger.
Firstly I’m happy Wenger has gone and believe it’s 4 years too late. However, I think blaming him for having Ozil being an a huge contract is worrying, what was Gazidis, the board and Huss Fahmy doing to allow that!? Surely they share the blame give it was signed in Jan with the new team in place and arguably knowledge that this was Wengers last season. At best we have to blame the whole club. I agree the team is weak, lacks fight and physical dominance 100% bu Xhaka was not the worst player last night, sure he’s no DM… Read more »
“Arsène Wenger on Arsenal’s European exit: ‘It’s very difficult to take”
But it’s very difficult to watch iwobi and wilshere When you play them.
“Imagine the board shitting themselves right now on who next becomes the whipping boy when things go south.lol. The scenes on here when Buvac who? is unveiled as the new manger.”
You and your buddies may be the only ones shitting yourselves, Vic. Pretty much everyone here is thrilled your buddy Wenger got the donkey hoof!
Imagine the board shitting themselves right now on who next becomes the whipping boy when things go south.lol
The scenes on here when Buvac who? is unveiled as the new manger.
He’s gone vic let it go it’s over
“Imagine the board shitting themselves right now on who next becomes the whipping boy when things go south.lol
The scenes on here when Buvac who? is unveiled as the new manger.”
We have more talented players than Burnley but they have a better defence. The reason for that is Wenger.
Just making this bunch of players accountable for their defensive action would give us an additional 12 points.
When asked if his replacement may struggle to bring in a big name during the transfer window, the Frenchman told Sky Sports News: “It is possible, yes. But I think we have enough quality inside the club.
If they is enough quality in the club why are they 36points behind man city?
Dont worry, Le Grove already has the next whipping boy.. Mesut Özil Le grovellers just can’t get their heads around the fact that he has negotiated a good deal for himself so instead of Wenger and his 8 million a year it will be özil and his 350 grand a week… wages shouldn’t be the criteria on what özil is judged… It should be performance and performance alone.. Don’t let your little minds be overcome with jealousy and envy because he owns a bigger car, bigger house and is set for life… That’s what you get when you are talented… Read more »
Champagne Charlie
You talk sense on here, but you’ll have to explain how he’s leaving the club in great shape. Mavraporonos, mikki and auba weren’t his signings. Look back at his signings over the past 3 year. Look at player development (stagnation/regression in this case) over the last 5-7 years. Look at squad imbalance. For crissake look at the wages being dumped right now on santi and per!
Look at how far behind the competition we’ve fallen, how we are scrapping for a Europa league spot.
Pierre
I’ve seen you say before that Ozil isn’t well suited for certain types of opponents or away game atmospheres. Can you provide a single other example from any sport where the star player, highest paid member at the organization doesn’t play in the tough games? I’ll wait
I’d also like the star offensive player to occasionally take it upon himself to fuckin shoot.
If Wilshere got a £350k aweek deal then English would be happy.
Pierre obviously saw no problems with Ozil last night.
Pierre I think the point with the Ozil thing is that we dont have the resources to be carrying a player on those kind of wages especially when the knock on effect it has on the wages of others and i didnt see why we had to offer so high. I blame the club for that and Wenger for not dropping him for sub par perfomances. I might be wrong but he appears to play when he feels up for it, these kind of players i dont personally want to see wearing our shirt even if its just an impression… Read more »
Great post today Pedro by the way.
Zfree Because the club is in great shape, that’s how I see it. Let’s be real, very rarely are managers changed because they’re doing a fantastic job. But beyond that what is the next manager walking into? Well at Arsenal we’re in the top league in Europe, we have money to spend, we have a global appeal to players, we have a squad who at present could challenge for top 4 next season with the introduction of a top manager. I’m not one for dramatising the current situation as many are doing, there’s plenty of good to work with in… Read more »
On another note. I wouldnt want Mertesacker anywhere near the youth team. Hes entitled to express his feelings but for someone to say theyd rather be sat on the bench or in the stands rather than play whilst contracted i dont want anywhere near the club. Others may have felt the same but they havent come out and said it. He didnt need to be that honest and goes to show the culture that is rife at the club. Now you have to call into question every sicknote hes submitted even his performances (although i admit hes not the worst)… Read more »
Yea Steve bould has done a great job with the defence
We can judge Ozil on performance… sure. He has not made the type of impact the team needs for a player of his caliber- who negotiated a massive deal. His vanishing acts, Flu, etc wreak of someone who is not committed. I was a fan of his in the early days, but its clear he really struggles with our team, and has yet to change his game up. I would trade in the all the chances created for more hunger and more fight- thats what we need….. When we need the extra effort, the pressing, the needed movement off the… Read more »
Wenger to the end remains a disingenuous person. He’s sad for the players because he felt they deserved to go to the final, and on and on (the script is yellowing from overuse over the years). The truth lies where it lies, with Wenger. He wanted to beat Atletico, he wanted to win the Europa Trophy, he wanted the CL spot. Why? So he could use it to shove it down the throats of the media and supporters at his free will, to remind them of what they were losing and what he brought them, how great he was –… Read more »
Ozil is who he is, indifferent and mood driven. Of course he loved playing for Wenger, cause he never asked anything more of him than to just show up – occasionally.
Not fussed about Ozil in the least, he will remain the pister child of all that was wrong with Wenger and his socialist regime. A new manager will not put up with Ozil’s soft play, he will do what any real manger should do, hold him accountable. Ozil’s world is about to get a lot tougher and his salary may not look as appealing to him soon enough.
I’m with Charlie, Wenger isn’t leaving the squad in a good place, but the club is in good health.
Transfer market value:
Héctor Bellerín who’s shit he’s value £36mil
Jack wilshere English talisman value £16mil