Well good morning to you all.
Big thanks to Jonathan for the guest post yesterday, hopefully, more from him soon!
Also, I hope you tuned into our podcast yesterday, big thanks to Ash and Matt for that.
So what’s news?
Reiss Nelson is apparently going to sign a new deal with Arsenal then go off to continue his education in the Bundesliga with Hoffenheim. The English attacker has clearly been getting good intel from Jadon Sancho over at Dortmund and I’d imagine minutes at a high-level is exactly what he needs at this time. Great thing about this story is I think it tells you how much better English kids are getting these days. Championship loan moves are no longer viable, they want to give it a crack in a top league against great players. That’s a positive for the national team. Also interesting that Real Madrid is eyeing a move for Raheem Sterling. English galacticos finally a thing again.
The BIG news is that Arsenal is close to agreeing a mega-deal with Adidas to take on the shirt sponsorship for next season. They’re rumoured to be ploughing £60m a season into Arsenal, giving us another £20m to squander on Dortmund players next summer.
I don’t mean to bang on about this, but there will be HELL to pay if Adidas don’t give us the modern take on the bruised banana kit. I remember going to a Futureheads gig once, only for them NOT to play the Kate Bush cover. Who do bands think they are not playing their classics?
Adidas, I know you’re all fucking urban-b-boy-hip-hop-street-art-vinyl-mod-scene-street-wear’d up to your eyeballs… but be real with the fans, give us the hit songs we’ve been praying for, and maybe I’ll hand over £90 (don’t make it too skin tight).
I really hope Adidas signs off a new era. Puma felt like the nearly kit, it was ok, it had promise, but up close it just didn’t really deliver. We need to rock a shirt that speaks to the future, whilst having some respect for the past. I really, really hope our new kit is good.
I have to say, when watching Mourinho crash to Spurs the other night, I was taken by both teams kits. Very nice.
Also, look at me coming through with the goods on Jose. Who told you he’d be shite at United? I did. Apparently, he has 10 games to save his career. Then its international-jobs.com for him.
I have to say, I was having this dark thought the other day… wouldn’t it be incredible if Arsene Wenger took over the reins for the rest of the season before Pochettino ducked out of the Spurs rebuild to takeover next summer? That’d be so fucking grand. The job is perfect for Wenger. Low expectations, a group of players who’ve been disciplined, shouted at and called fat c*nts… the club is ready for some of that fatherly love. Some of that sweet, sweet tactical freedom. He could possibly be a force. Similar to when he took over from GG (be real, it was GG). The tough work had been done, he just need to sprinkle expression and love on the side.
I would LOVE that because you know Mourinho would DETEST it.
Amusing that publications are running with ‘ARSENAL HIERARCHY BACK EMERY’ over the decision to not play Ozil. What the fuck else are they going to do, pick the team for him?
It’s also pretty clear that the issue is that Ozil has fallen out over being asked to play wide right. Just as he gets the number 10 shirt, Rambo gets put in his position. Must be a stinger. A real wet towel to the cold arse. Ralgex in the eye.
Also, word to Oziltoligists who have more excuses for their messiah than anyone… it’s really fucking distasteful to spread rumours that the reason for his sick days are centred around depression. I appreciate that it’s a positive that it’s now acceptable to talk about mental health in sport, because who hasn’t had to deal with issues themselves or with loved ones. However, it’s not cool to self-diagnose a player from your computer just to shut down the conversation. It is not an argument to say, ‘hey, imagine if he was really depressed, maybe just don’t criticise him’. It’s the 2018 version of ‘Arsene knows’… super grim. Shame on you if you’re saying it.
Happy to revisit the issue if there is one, but it’s unfair on the player to start hawking that theory around unsubstantiated.
Anyway, that’s me done, catch you tomorrow
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The closest we have ever been to the elite clubs were during wenger’s early years and that was due to one person
Yep
DB10
Pierre
Hey Bergkamp was great but even he would tell you he wasn’t the sole reason for all the success back then.
Dammit I didn’t see Joe’s comment and made the same joke.
Real Madrid have re-signed striker Mariano Diaz from Lyon for £33m on a five-year deal just a year after selling the player for £7.2m
Jaysus
Sorry
We were no bigger under wenger than we were under GG
The PL blew up at the same time as wengers reign.
I saw just as many Newcastle jerseys as arsenal ones.
Ahh I see the only way to answer a question about Pochettino is to ask one about Wenger….
Makes total sense.
“Why did wenger get sacked and Poch still has a job?”
Wenger is no longer manager because he’s not good enough, though you’ve sidestepped the rather obvious point. If Wenger wasn’t good enough, why is Poch getting you all moist when he couldn’t even deliver a Mickey Mouse cup?
Glad you’re back Joey, missed your blinkered nonsense.
Arsenal were the biggest club in the World in the 1930’s …muppet
f Wenger wasn’t good enough, why is Poch getting you all moist when he couldn’t even deliver a Mickey Mouse cup?
Because every one knows that a cup run is a just that.
A cup run.
As Portsmouth. Wigan. Hull have shown.
Any team can win and make the final.
Just have to have a nice draw. A bit of luck
Maybe pochs bosses are happy with Cl football and top 4 because they are a smaller club than arsenal and he isn’t failing in their eyes
Why did it take so long to sack Wenger
ANSWER: The muppet fanbase was to blame.
Valentin Looks like the knives will be out for you on le grove……. I to have my reservations regarding Emery and his tactics ,formation and personnel so far and it is hard to actually believe what we have been seeing in the midfield and defence so far ,the sweeper keeper, the supposedly high press… I want.him to succeed ,I want him to sort the midfield and defence,I want him not to alienate ozil and get him back to his best,I want him to tell both full backs not to bomb for ward at the same time ,I want him to… Read more »
Valentine
Oops my bad
PSG has won the ligue TWICE in all their existence before oil money came.
Spurs had won as many English league championships as PSG until oil money came.
PSG was not a french football power house before the sheikhs came.
Joe
Surely you mean when was the last time Wenger got the Spurs fans excited?
February 10th, 2018,when Spuds beat us 1-0 at Wembley.
Joe are you seriously comparing Arsenal with Newcastle? I am sorry, but go abroad at one of pre-season tournament and see how many Newcastle shirts you see. There is a generation of fan in Singapore, in Japan, in Africa, in the U.S.A, in France and in England who support Arsenal because of Arsène Wenger. Arsenal is now a world household name because of him. Every thing is not Black and White. Wenger is not God, but he not the devil incarnate either. I can respect the man and his achievement during the first 12 years of his tenure and still… Read more »
Joe
“Poch has spurs fans excited When was the last time wenger did that”
I would say that watching spurs fans at Wembley, I can’t say they have ever showed the excitement level of the Arsenal fans at Wembley when we won our TROPHIES……
Valentin
I was taking about the late 90s early 2000s
. Arsenal is now a world household name because of him.
I was an Arsenal fan waaaaaay before wenger came along.
And I grew up in Canada
Arsenal are a global laughing stock.
Wenger turned Arsenal into the whipping boys of Europe.
You only have to look at Spurs to realise why Pochettino is in a job and Wenger isn’t.
Also look at the proactive body language of Pochettino and compare to that of our deceased French master.
Pochettino also constructed a team with limited funds, yet still managed to keep them motivated and competitive.
It should be obvious to anyone who knows anything about Football why Pochettino was head and shoulders above Wenger over these past few years.
Wenger couldn’t lace Jose’s boots’
Only a goofy fireman can come up with this inanity,..welcome back j.oey
Where was the urgency for change 10 years ago.from those who are now demanding instant success…..clowns ..
Wenger’s Legacy will be one of a flat track bully who stayed way past his sell by date.
Nice logic there joey, Poch hasn’t won a cup because ‘everyone knows its just a cup run’.
Brilliant. As I say, good to have your desperate ramblings back. I’m assuming I won’t have long to wait before George Graham gets a thorough rim job?
DIssenter, unless you are trying some kind of childish play, the name is Valentin, not Valentina, not Valentine. PSG was founded in 1970, so quite a young club. Before Qsi, it has won: 2 league titles, 8 French FA Cups, 3 French league Cups, 1 European Cup. So not great, but not so insignificant. During that same period Arsenal won: 6 league title of which 3 are due to the guy you don’t rate Wenger. 7 FA Cups, (4 for Wenger), 2 league Cup and 1 European Cup. So pretty similar pedigree. So yes, the recent PSG success is due… Read more »
For some who claim to be arsenal fans it’s hilarious to read how our only successful time was under wenger
Shows where your heart lies.
And it’s not with The Arsenal
It’s with wenger.
If it’s more than just a cup run and wenger is so brilliant for getting us the 3 fa cups in 4 years
Why hasn’t he been snapped up by a top club
Or by any club for that matter
And Poch is still employed even though he can’t win a trophy???
Wenger has 3 good seasons out of more than 2 decades at arsenal. And left the team in a complete shambles.
gg left the team with the backbone that made the transition easy for wenger. The best back 5 in Europe and DB10 was also here
That is a terrible legacy anyway you slice it
It should be obvious to anyone who knows anything about Football why Pochettino was head and shoulders above Wenger over these past few years.”
And yet has absolutely NOTHING as much of a rubber spoon to show for it.Wenger with a much more weaker team during same period managed 3 trophies while Mr Poch has the progressive’ team trophy to show
At least he has doofus like your ilk parading as arsenal fans and yet blowing hot air up his arse of despite been a loser, what a legend.
Since 1970 Arsenal:
2 European trophies (Fairs Cup,Cup Winners Cup)
6 League titles
10 FA Cups
2 League Cups
Let’s hope Emery’s legacy is a great one.
Initiation by fire by facing city and Chelsea to start the season.
Hopefully we blow Cardiff away this weekend and Emery can work on things over the 2 week break
We know he won’t be commentating
On French tv
“For some who claim to be arsenal fans it’s hilarious to read how our only successful time was under wenger”
Same thing can be argued in reverse you pleb. Here you are totally incapable of giving Wenger any dues for his successes at Arsenal, and you claim others are fixated?
Guess you’ve not done much except exist in your time away ehh, still that same muppet protesting from his basement futon.
Wenger with a much more weaker team during same period Everyone keeps saying this? Who’s fault was that? Who spent the money? Who trained them? Who couldn’t get the best out of them? they showed what they could do in offs in the fa cup. Why could wenger get the best out of them week in week out? There is no way we should have a weaker team than spurs. The only reason we did Was because wenger was the manager And the team would pull their heads out for the fa cup despite wengers failings. Again shows how terrible… Read more »
Valentin
Pardon my misspelling of our moniker (i assume it’s not your real name). My autocomplete made it “Valentino” or ” Valentine”.
Why are you acting like a snow flake because I stated that PSG was a small club before the influx of oil money.
PSG is a nonentity club that hit the jack-pot thanks to Nicolas Sarkozy’s machination. Their fans are not the arbiter of what constitutes a good manager.
You seem so offended that I misstated their league championships. Are you a PSG fan by any chance?
I give wenger his dues.
1) Chapman
2)GG
Tie for 3rd) Whitaker, Allison, Wenger and Mee.
Pierre, I am not championing Sanogo. I think that he is a decent striker not a great one. Maybe serial injuries have robbed him of a great career, we will never know. What I do not understand is the hate and vitriol he received from so called fans. On the other hand, Podolski is revered as some kind of legend and has cult status, where most people who have seen played at theEmirates will tell you he has been consistently disappointing. My view on the tactic that Emery is employing is that they are not working and are unlikely to… Read more »
Valentino-Valentine-Valentin
You’re a PSG supporting troll with Emery-obsession.
Stop spreading doom about the Arsenal manager.
If he fails then Arsenal will move unto another target.
Since when did your PSG supporting friends become the arbiter of what makes a good manager?
BOLLOCKS.
RedTruth, I stated the trophies won between 1970 and the take over by QSI of PSG. Since with the exception of Unai Emery first season, they have won all domestic trophy every years: League title, FA Cup, League Cup. Not really a fair contest.
Joey
Yea mate, totally balanced view you bring to the table. Not like you’re known for being a complete drip or anything. Imagine most folk dive back into the fire when you’re there to ‘help’
Imagine most folk dive back into the fire when you’re there to ‘help’”
Lol… oh dear.
Dissenter, PSG have been the most dominant club in French football in recent history. They have tasted real domestic success, So their view of what constitute a bad manager is a little closer to the truth. Moreover, if Wenger is so crap, how would you recognise a successful manager? I am not a PSG supporter, it just turn out that Unai Emery was their manager, so I did checked with PSG supporters their opinion of the man. Whenever I go back to France, I support my local team Lens that after years of bad management is at last looking like… Read more »
Imagine if Emery was lucky enough to inherit what wenger did from GG
Wenger left Emery with no chance.
It proves wenger would have been nothing without GGs back 5 and DB 10
The team left behind for Emery is a shambles.
Shackled by Ozils huge contracted
Terrible bugs the last bunch of years. Xhaka. Mustafi. Wellbeck. Ozil. Cech. Etc.
Poor Emery has to start from Scratch. Mentally and player wise. Unlike wenger who has the base of a top team.
Joe’s only back and so is the usual suspects dog piling on him. So he thinks Mourinho is the dogs bollox (he’s not) and thinks Wenger is the dogs dinner (he is) so what. I’m just glad I can write Joe again. Fuck Joe Cole. Love Joe Frazier. That Joey spin-off was shite…eh Joe Morton.
Wenger arrived, he was under the likes of Fiszman, Edelman and Dein, the latter said each day, they planned how to make the club better. That’s when the club peaked. Unfortunately, they ceded control to Stan Kroenke, a man who does not wake up each day thinking how to make Arsenal great. Ambition has to come from the top, and what ever wengers well documented faults, Stan , since 2008 has been a killer of ambition. Emery is a I believe a decent manager, but there is still Stan. Emery had to go into a new job with a shit… Read more »
It’s good to see Joe back. If there’s one man that can make up for all the ex-AKBs trolling this site daily its him.
Marko
Put the cape away Marko, if you’re angling for a recipe from him just ask. Other than that let’s not pretend he’s getting any special treatment, he says dumb inflammatory shit and gets the standard reactions.
Joe,
None of Invincibles defense played under GG.
Lehman, Lauren, Toure, Campbell, Cole.
Wenger bought four of them and the last one came from the academy.
What Wenger inherited was some drunk and extended their carreer by buying two of the best defensive midfield players to protect them: Viera and Petit.
You may hate what Wenger did toward the end of Arsenal, but that revisionism is getting ridiculous.
David
Never has a manager ruined a club in every aspect as much as wenger.
Salaries. Morale. Fans. Etc. Everything on the club has a wenger stench.
It will take Emery a while to
Cleanse it of wengers stench.
“Poor Emery has to start from Scratch. Mentally and player wise. Unlike wenger who has the base of a top team.”
guessing this is article one of ‘I give Wenger his dues’? Do you fuck, you just ramble on and on to discredit him whilst keeping rival managers hard simultaneously. Its painful
Valentin
“My view on the tactic that Emery is employing is that they are not working and are unlikely to work work without a complete overhaul of the playing staff. ”
I said something very similar after our opening fixture and got slated for saying it even though it’s true.
Drunk?
Adams was already sober by the time
Wenger got to the club.
Who do you think taught those defenders? Not wenger. That’s for sure
Wenger wouldn’t have made it to the invincibles if it wasn’t for the back 5 and DB10
“Never has a manager ruined a club in every aspect as much as wenger.”
Article two of “I give wenger his dues”. Fucking parody of himself haha 😀
Marko not shocking anyone with the rimming job on joey
Gladly wager it won’t be long before he finds himself in the shitcan again, the repetitive hate-filled comments has only just begun.
Oh dear what a joke. PSG compared to Arsenal. They won a few trophies in a league that is clearly inferior to the English Spanish German and Italian leagues. Sure the French teams breed lots of great players and are World Cup winners but the Clubs in France are just a nursery for the bigger teams in Europe. So it is because of Wenger that we are a world brand. So what reason are the other EPL clubs so well supported around the world? Is this because of Wenger? Red is correct we were THE biggest club in the world… Read more »
Valentin
RE: Sanogo – “I think that he is a decent striker ”
You dumb motherfucker, way to shred your own credibility.
CC Gave him tied for 3rd. Thats all he gets from me. That’s all dues I’ll give him I was so fucking happy the day he was gone. One of the best days in Arsenal’s history. I’m so happy it’s a new era wot Emery And if you can’t see that wenger has left him a bowl of shit compared to What Wenger had when he arrived then I totally understand how you think Xhaka is a top 1% footballer Emery has a huge mess to clean up If he can win us the Europa this year it is the… Read more »
El Tel
Bravo!
Take a bow son.
“If he can win us the Europa this year it is the equivalent of wengers invincibels because that’s how much of a shit show I believe wenger has left”
Why stop there? I’d say it’d be the equivalent of that time Jeff Goldblum gave the mothership a virus, and the nuke took out the entire alien fleet remotely. Amirite?
Other than that let’s not pretend he’s getting any special treatment
No that would be Bamford for you Charlie. You’ve got a bit of a hard on for Joe and gambon but you’re straight up infatuated with Bam. Don’t you get tired of it the being a constant dickhead just for the sake of being a dickhead. Must be exhausting knowing you
The team left by Wenger was unbalanced, not a shambles. A decent goalkeeper. More importantly I think that we needed a good goalkeeper coach. All our former goalkeepers improved once they left Arsenal and the one we bought regressed. I know that when we bought Cech, we also wanted Christophe Lollichon the Chelsea Goalkeeper coach. the agreement was that we could get Cech, but could not get Lollichon for two years. Now that we have a proper goalkeeper coach, Cech seem so on go back to decent level. A good agile left side central defender because Koscielny is not going… Read more »
Valentin
We will have to wait and see how Emery does.
Until then can we give him a chance [and TIME] to fail or succeed.
That’s all time of us are asking for.
Marko
Says the guy who cannot go a day without aiming a comment my way, but names some of the most prevalent posters on here and thinks there’s an infatuation by engaging with them regularly.
Why not throw in Weagle, Paulinho, yourself, Wallace, Dissenter, Vic et al. Because I engage with all of them as regular as they post. Seems you’re a little fixated with my interactions with a select few.
Valentin
“You may hate what Wenger did toward the end …”
“Toward the end”? By “toward the end,” do you mean his second DECADE with the club, when he failed to even once contend for a title?
That’s not just “toward the end,” guy, that was an entire decade, indeed an entire era.
He was fucking terrible for ten years. As was Sanogo, btw. Not for ten years, thank God, but terrible nonetheless. I don’t know where you think you are, but your arguments are fucking dumb.
Valentin
The team is mentally pathetic because of wenger and his “methods”
How many players have started off strong and then you just see the Demise after a few months under wenger.
Aubu even mentioned something similar and he had just got there
The mental part will be the toughest
We need a winger probably 2. CB’s. And get rid of Ramsey and Ozil and buy new CM
Sell wellbeck as well
Goldblum did nothing, he was shite, Will Smith definitely carried the Earth team that season.
“Don’t you get tired of it the being a constant dickhead just for the sake of being a dickhead. Must be exhausting knowing you”
Radical thought, but maybe I’m a dickhead to those who encourage that type of response….
And no, I help people daily so exhausting isn’t the right word whatsoever. Try again
Sanchez Mazorla,
Insults are the first resort of the idiot who can’t make a valid argument.
Way to show where you lay in the intelligence scale.
And no, I help people daily so exhausting isn’t the right word whatsoever
Insults are the first resort of the idiot who can’t make a valid argument.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Every comment directed at me
By a certain few on here today.
Sancho
Will Smith put out the cones
The Chelsea reject is in his mid-thirties and he needs a goalkeeping coach, i’ve never heard such ridiculous drivel.
Toward the end, because for me Wenger jumped the shark in 2011 not in 2008. I remember that during that second decade, until Eduardo got his leg literally cut into into two we all thought that this was our year. Things unravelled pretty quickly after that.
I don’t like Jose Mourinho, but his record against Wenger was 9 wins, 7 draws and 2 losses, and his team humiliated Wenger 6-0 in Wenger’s 1,000th game for Arsenal, an embarrassment that Wenger idiotically wrote off as an “accident”.
Mourinho also managed to win the the CL title with Porto, whereas Wenger never won a CL.
As I say, I don’t like Mourinho, but an argument could certainly be made that he got the better of Arsene Wenger.
Is there a sadder, more sickening human being than a wengerite that hopes arsenal crash under emery?
These pathetic, deluded strange wenger-zealots should wait for their great leader to land a job somewhere and follow him to that part of the world.
They have no place at arsenal…that’s for arsenal supporters and fans. Wenger was and now certainly is a separate entity.
RedTruth, Irrespective of his age, every goalkeeper need a specialised coach. An external eye who can tell him where he is making mistake and how to improve. That is their role. Also as you age, your body does not react the same way than 10 years before. So things you were doing may now work for you anymore. Cech need somebody who can tell all those things. If players knew what to do, why have coaches at all? In Tennis, Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal, Djokovic, Andy Murray still relies on coaches despite their experience. Most of the coaches are ex… Read more »
Valentin, you raise an excellent point about GK coaches, Gerry Peyton killed our keepers, both Polish keepers said as much, and Wenger drummed them out of the club to bolster his yes man GK coach. Not only that, both Poles went public in their praise for Roberts, so Wenger drummed this highly thought of GK coach out of the club as well. At the time , David Seaman tweeted that Arsenal had just got rid of by far their best GK coach. Just as he did when keown was credited with sorting the defence to get to the Champions league… Read more »
Joe, I disagree the mental part should be the easiest. new manager, new style of play. Everybody should be excited at the possibility of new beginnings. The air should bream with positivity. Ingraining new tactics and new style of play should be the most difficult. Some players will not be able to adapt. Pep had one look at Joe Hart and came to the conclusion that he was never going to make it. My opinion is that Xhaka, Özil, Mikitharian, Sokratis, Moustafi, and Cech will not survive. Lacazette will try to leave for the sake of his International career. I… Read more »
David, Christophe Lollichon gave an interview a few years ago in France where he mentioned the two years clause. The funny thing is that he had a poor relationship with Courtois. So the following year, he became goal keeper coordinator, so he had less direct input in Courtois training. I personally thing that Courtois then regressed. At the beginning of 2017, there was a possibility that he joined Arsenal, but because his status at Chelsea meant less hours he was able to go back to France more often. Arsenal did not want a part time coach. I have been told… Read more »
red talking from his ospinard brain again. the only downfall of Wenger is that he failed to realise he had overstayed his welcome. the man was actually excellent during the first half of his reign and went downhill afterward. only foolish fools we say his success was dependent on GG settings. he actually saved a bunch of drunkers and their careers. this was the man that revolutionised the our brand of football though this brand disappeared when we started looking our best players one summer after another. Emery on the other hand is a tested and trusted hand. fail or… Read more »
Interesting Valentin.
Also read somewhere that Cech was working with Lollichon in his own capacity away from the club as his form started to drop.
GK coaching was clearly an issue in recent years, Peyton was not rated by anyone other than Wenger, certainly not by DS
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/bestcoachbyamilethere?src=hash
He should hang his gloves up.
No coach is going to waste his time on a busted flush.
Redtruth
August 29, 2018 23:10:47
He should hang his gloves up.
No coach is going to waste his time on a busted flush.
ospina I guess?
victorious
Hi victorious!
How was school today?
Come up for air young man, your 21:10 post was yet another classic showcase of your Footballing knowledge.
As I said, anyone who knows anything about Football.
You can’t blame Peyron’s coaching as he had barely worked with the Chelsea reject when he made those two horrendous errors on his debut against West Ham.
Tee, I can assure you Poch will win things, at Utd.
tee
Agreed, I also “don’t believe this team is trash”.
Problem is, they’ve been subjected to a manager who couldn’t recycle the trash for far too long.
I think you can blame Gerry Peyton for a lot of faults in Arsenal keepers.
after all they have some pretty consistent faults.
Peyton was just a journeyman keeper who got a job through being mates with Liam Brady, at a time DS chose to try and prolong his career on the pitch rather than as a coach.
Peyton like Wenger and others realised you could survive at Arsenal by being totally subservient to those higher in the food chain, as opposed to being any good at their jobs
Arsenal have no standout player or players; just above average players
Winning 3 FA Cups in 12 years and not genuinely competing for anything else, does not, imo, constitute success.
By the way, genuinely competing means taking it to the wire.
This has nothing to do with being spoilt.
It has to do with being short-changed and disrespected or, should I say, sold a lie.
Had to laugh yesterday when I heard the rumours about the possibility of Wenger going to MU.
Ludicrous.
Dissenter, I wouldn’t pay Ovaltine any mind. Any credibility was lost when he tried to make a defence for the much maligned (with reason) Sanogo.
All I want is for you enablers who can identify themselves to exercise some patience for Unai. Arsene was afforded far too much, with little resistance from a huge chunk of the fanbase. At least see where the position is come the spring.
Wenger may be gone but he’s certainly left baggage behind, one such baggage is the the football team.
Randy Quaid
@ Tee Bravo Mate!! Sometimes it beggars belief the way some see things as concerns Arsenal. Everyone is entitled to their view (well except for the Fireman who just spews bollocks all the time. Btw best joke of the day CC as regards folks jumping back into the fire when a certain fireman approaches, spit my drink all over the olace when i read that!!) Many have developed an intense “Wenger Derangment Syndrome” and hate the bloke so much that they blame him for everything under the weather/Sun, revising history to suite whatever narrative they can think off. Was Arsene… Read more »
Wenger did what he could do in his first decade and latter one.
Poch is good but nowhere near Wenger.
They both belong to different generations. A coach is regarded as a success or failure depending on the generation of supporters.
It’s just like the Messi and Maradona debate. They both belong to different generation and their generations see them as the best
So does it apply to coaches.
Any Coach that is given time would (or should) win things with United (Maybe apart from Moyesy and probably Giggsy who I have my doubts will be a good Manager, reminds me more of Big Tone does Giggs, believe so much in his own hype). They have the money and clout to get almost whomever they want. Just the fact that the fans have this level of entitlement now that beats the Bindippers. Just great watching them go through this agony of being “Also Rans” as well. Sure they will get their act together soonest though. (especially after “The Sulky… Read more »
Wengers baggage extends far beyond the team, compounded by Stans dereliction of duty that allowed it
Wengerr turned Arsenal into Spurs. All style very little substance.
Good comments re Gerry Peyton. As soon as Bob Wilson retired and Seaman gave up we had the terrible Peyton as Keeper coach. Wenger was often blamed for not being able to find a decent keeper but he kept faith in the one person who was constant through those lame years. Gerry Peyton.
Only Mad Jens could be some. On the same terms as David Seaman in that time.
Why will the Mancs come back soon? Liverpool dropped off the radar after a 20 year spell and so could they.
Let’s hope they do as thy ruined football as we knew it.
I loved what Wenger did in the early years and was so happy when he traded blows with the Norhtern cheats. It was Him and only Him who gave up this fight and started to turn the Arsenal into what you see today.
We ended up like Spurs. All show no Glory