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You want your Wenger in, your Wenger out

16/11/2014

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I get various levels of rubbish thrown my way on Twitter, from so-called ‘positive’ Arsenal supporters who don’t like the fact I criticise certain goings on at the club. To these people, the Black Scarf Movement is a bad thing because as a group we dare to question how the club is run, and how it treats its loyal fans. There is however one common link that never fails to go away. Criticise the club? That means you MUST be anti Arsene Wenger.

The BSM’s apparent stance on Arsene Wenger has been done to death, resurrected and done to death again... about 8,000 times. “You’re that ‘Wenger Out’ group aren’t you?” No, we’re not and we never have been. Have a read (or another read) of our website – you’ll find out there what we’re about. 

But while here, I want to talk about the manager from a personal point of view.

Now, I totally get that plenty of fans will be fiercely loyal to Wenger. To many, he’s all they know at Arsenal; they’re unaware what the club was like before he came, what it was like as a supporter, to a large extent how things were shaped on the pitch and the foundations laid by previous legendary managers and players. 

On the flip side there are ever-growing numbers who now oppose Arsene Wenger remaining as manager. This has seen a huge divide cut through our fanbase – and it continues to grow at an alarming rate. I’ve been an Arsenal fan all my life, I’ve been going to games for around 30 years and I’ve never seen such a spiteful, aggressive and at times physically violent mood against each other. Civil war is taking place among our own fans. 

The two sides
To some, Arsene Wenger is responsible for the dismantling of the Invincibles, replacing them with inferior products, and stubbornly refusing to accept our teams since just haven’t been good enough. The numerous strange signings of sub-standard players, lack of in-game tactics and his general “you all know nothing” attitude to anyone who dares question him. Many fans think he’s been left behind by modern day football and is holding us back. There has been amazing growth in numbers on this side over the past few months.

Then you get the loyalists who are steadfast in their defence of the manager. The “keep the faith” people who are fine with an Arsenal team achieving a top four place and one trophy in the past ten seasons, because Wenger is the man in charge. Whether it be the early success he had at the club, the way he’s managed to keep us treading water following the stadium move financial restrictions, or how he’s battled against “oil money” (*cringe*) – the consistent message is we should have pride and confidence in our manager. To huge numbers of fans across the world, Arsene Wenger is THE man and simply irreplaceable.

Middle ground? What’s that?!
I absolutely get that people are entitled to their opinions and I can see both sides of the argument. Until recently I was bang in the middle of these two groups – neither a ‘Wenger in’ (or AKB – Arsene Knows Brigade) or ‘Wenger out’ (WOB – Wenger Out Brigade).

However, quite strangely, we have so many fans with the mentality that if anyone criticises the club, they MUST be having a pop at Arsene Wenger. I have a message for those people... Arsene Wenger is NOT Arsenal. We were already a huge name in football before he arrived, we’d won plenty of trophies (at home, and abroad) and we’ll still be a huge club after he goes. Yes he’s brought so much to the club, but no one person is bigger than The Arsenal.

There is a hint of similar sentiment from the ‘WOB’ side – that if you see any benefit in him being manager, you’re one of the ‘AKB’. 

On the fence? Middle ground? Yes… it CAN and DOES exist. Get used to it!

My views on Wenger
So where do I actually stand on the subject of Arsene Wenger as Arsenal manager? 

I know the usual suspects who’ll maintain I’ve always been anti-Wenger. They’ve been adamant and no matter how much I argue back, apparently I hate the man because I’ve dared to criticise him at times.

Along with these assumptions and declarations I’ve had all manner of insults. Death threats, ‘promises’ of people coming to Arsenal to beat me up, I’ve been called a racist, a BNP / UKIP member, recently the “son of a rapist and a whore” and just recently some charming man declared me a “vile human being”, that I’m the worst WOB, and one of the worst Arsenal fans of all time. 

Bearing in mind the people aiming this stuff at me know zero about my level of support for the team, how long I’ve been a fan, the distance I’ve travelled, the games I’ve been to, following my club through thick and thin… to me it makes their comments, threats and insults utterly laughable. Ignorance is in abundance behind the keyboards of these warriors.

So am I Wenger in or Wenger out? Before I go on to explain, I’ll say this – it’s not something that’s easily black or white. There are valid arguments on both sides.

I’m completely grateful of what Arsene Wenger has brought to the club. I consider him one of our greatest ever managers and I’ve been truly lucky to be at matches to see some of the world class players he’s put on the pitch. The best football I’ve ever seen from Arsenal has come from some of Wenger’s teams.

In recent years, I totally get that we’ve had the stadium move and I side more with Wenger than the Board on the issue of money to spend. Despite assurances that funds for squad improvement would be “ring fenced” when we moved, it’s been blatantly obvious that money has been held back and the club has been far too conservative with what’s been spent on new signings.

Are there any other managers who could have kept us treading water over those years, achieving a top 4 place on minimal spend? I very much doubt it. And I doubt if there would be many other managers who would have wanted that job anyway. He’s stuck it out.


Of course that said, Arsene Wenger has been extremely well rewarded in financial terms because of his performance. I truly believe that the Board gave him the sole Key Performance Indicator to get us Champions League football while keeping a close eye on expenditure, and have based his huge contracts on this. I still think it’s the case to be honest.

That said, since 2006 I’ve become very frustrated with the sub-standard players he’s tried to pass off as quality. I’ve been pissed off with the amount of dead wood he allowed to accumulate and the ridiculous wages he paid them. £52,000 a week for Bendtner? £60,000 a week for Diaby? Those are just two; we’ve had so many other players on salaries above market rate and we’ve been stuck with them because no other clubs are silly enough to pay them equivalent wages. Thankfully we’re now getting past that debacle but Wenger has wasted tens of millions of pounds in the process.

I’ve not liked the lies (spin) and the excuses. I’ve hated the outbursts at journalists who’ve dared question him, especially the utterly embarrassing “why do you look at me?” press conference. Some fans love it and make out he’s sticking two fingers up at the press, but I think it lacks class. It’s simply not the Arsenal way.

So there are pros and cons in my mind for Wenger. But when it came to last summer, and Wenger’s contract was up, did I want him gone? No, I didn’t.

The summer of 2014 was heralded as the time when the financial shackles would come off – when the hugely improved sponsorship deals and TV revenue would give us the financial muscle to go and compete with the big boys. Gazidis teed it up and we awaited a fruitful summer transfer market.

After so long in the job and steering us through tricky times around the stadium move, especially after winning the FA Cup in May, I thought he should be given the freedom to go out and spend our new riches on building another title-challenging team. That said, I thought a rolling one year contract would have been best; after all he was approaching 65 years of age and I thought he could carry on his role as Manager, but work with the Board to help identify his successor. After all, he would need to give input on this because the Board haven’t got a football bone in their collective bodies. As we know, the Board deemed that a new three year contract was deserved and I shake my head in disbelief at this decision.

The summer was again spun as a successful transfer window but I disagree. There were ‘one out, one in’ replacement signings; Ospina for Fabianski, Debuchy for Sagna, Chambers for Jenkinson. Despite our desperate need for a top class striker there was no movement until Olivier Giroud broke his ankle and in came Danny Welbeck. A decent enough player but top, top class? Not for me. 

The one luxury signing in Sanchez has been immense and he’s carried the team so far this season. A centre back to replace Vermaelen? Promised, but not delivered – despite knowing for months that our former captain would be gone. The much-needed defensive midfielder to shield the defence? Nah, nothing.

So it would appear that the manager is still being stubborn in his ways. A v-sign at those who claim they know what the team needs. I’m the boss and what I say, goes. Even this crap that people giving opinions know nothing because they’ve “managed zero games”. How rude and disrespectful?! Telling us that some of the club’s greatest ever players don’t know the game and don’t know how to set up a team on the pitch to defend a lead? Absolute rubbish.

Right here, right now 
Ultimately for all the greatness he brought to the club and what he’s done for us, I respect him and thank him. I stuck by him in the summer and wanted him to move with the times – I wanted him to show people they were wrong and that he could bring back the good times to this club of ours. But what I’ve seen since we won the FA Cup has been absolutely baffling.

I’d love to see Arsene Wenger turn things around, but I fear that modern day football has passed him by. There are other managers who out-think us on the pitch, who know how to deal with the teams we put out there. I don’t see any acceptance from our manager that times change and he’s flatly refusing to adapt. We’re still trying the same things over and over, and for me, it’s not working. Wenger is becoming (or has become) a dinosaur lost in modern day surroundings.

Unless there’s a big turnaround in the team’s performances I fear for the man. He’s looking frail and stressed and the teams he’s putting out just aren’t performing. There seems to be no camaraderie on the pitch and there’s a lack of fight that Arsenal teams of old would provide. 

But would Wenger call it a day? Not for me – I can see his stubbornness keeping him there. Stan Kroenke loves the riches Wenger brings to the club so while we make the top 4 year on year, there’ll be no movement. The manager is here for another 2.5 years, unless he calls it a day.

Of course many Wenger supporters maintain that there’s nobody good enough to take his place. In my opinion that’s out and out blinkered, blind faith bollocks. Even Arsene Wenger would tell you you’re crazy if you said it to him.

I know that there was an Arsenal before Wenger and there will be one after he’s gone. I’ve seen pre-Wenger days, and while some were poor, some were absolutely amazing. At the end of the day, we are The Arsenal and we’ll go on, no matter what. I’ve loved what Arsene Wenger has done at Arsenal and I’ve hated some parts of his leadership. I’ve acknowledged both sides and I see that as realism, not carried away on a whirlwind of blind faith.

So where am I right now on the big question? For me the cons outweigh the pros and I think Arsene Wenger’s time may be up. We’re seeing the same issues, still, and to me the manager seems lost. His teams don’t seem to be playing for him, we haven’t really played good football for a few years, and I remain to be convinced that Wenger will change his ways and adapt to modern football.

As ever I’ll always support the team on the pitch. But football has changed, times change and right now I think we need a fresh approach.

Up The Gunners.

'Highbury Harold'

28 Comments
Tim
14/11/2014 07:32:57 am

Excellent!. I could not have put this better myself. Exactly where I'm at myself right now put into words.

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Mikegooner
14/11/2014 08:07:56 am

Lol you say your on the fence. Mate you been Wenger out. Only reason you haven't come out and said it is because of representing BSM.

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James
14/11/2014 09:00:49 am

I disagree, I don't think Harold has been Wenger Out. I think that message has been lost with the BSM critique of the club on other matters, as he says at the top of the article. This is a balanced view. I agree wholeheartedly. For me, I think even the biggest of the "WOB's" would like to see him succeed, as it means that Arsenal are doing well, which is why we're all in this anyway right?

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Chils link
22/11/2014 03:55:55 am

Wenger must accept and go

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Busso
14/11/2014 09:18:05 am

I absulotely agree with he should being fired longtime ago, he is disgrace to arsenal now. We want to win something every year we go through

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Ade
14/11/2014 10:02:03 am

SPOT ON...As an Arsenal fan,U expect your team to challenge for trophies even if they don't win it all as U win some and lose some.Wenger's team ain't not challenging at all on the pitch.
Wenger is weak and has become tactless.Hes done great for the Club but his time is up

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@arsyagooner89 link
14/11/2014 10:22:50 am

I dont know if other fans experience this civil war that we've been having for the past few years. But, it's getting ridiculous.

Let's put Arsene Wenger aside for awhile. Let's think about what is best for the club. Obviously, we all want to see Arsenal becoming one of the elites. Not just rich in cash but, most importantly, winning trophies from time to time. I definitely want to see the club win the UCL. Think of Barcelona or Bayern Muenchen as the perfect example (I dont want Arsenal to follow on Madrid's path). Keep producing world class talents while at the same time, acquiring external superstars to keep the balance. And so they are champions in and out of the field.

Now lets put AW into the context. To say, "Wenger In" or "Wenger Out" must be followed by an important question, "what's the plan?" To say that we want the manager in or out, just because we want to honor the man is as damaging as rushing to get rid of him because we hate him to guts.

We all have to make sure that currently the club is building something to achieve a certain goal in the future (mine would be the things i've mentioned above).

Imagine if we fail to get top 4 this season and wenger finally gets dethroned, who can takeover? certainly not Bould, he's not an upgrade (i'm sure you all agree).

Guardiola? may suit our goal for the long term but under contract.

Klopp? the same.

Martinez? the same.

Hiddink? I dont know. can he deliver instant result? maybe not.

Jogi Loew? Maybe, if he wants to.

Simeone? Under contract.

I assume most of you want big names and not someone like Moyes or Sami Hyppia kind of Manager.

We all have to be able to answer the "who" question and ensure the guy fits our plan for the future.

I certainly not having a start from the beginning, building foundation thingy. It's pretty much done by AW.

We all have to be able give a name.

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Dave
14/11/2014 01:58:55 pm

Interesting read and good points made. For me wenger is longer past his sell by date than a piece of Stilton from Oct2007. The fraud along with the yank need driving out if Arsenal asap. If not mediocrity will continue to reign. WENGER OUT NOW

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Chris
14/11/2014 04:57:45 pm

Well written piece. I think that just about sums up how many of us old school fans think. The annoying thing about it all is we are only a couple of signings short on the playing side of things . A quality centre half and a strong unit to hold the midfield together. We have needed this since Adams and Sol retired and Gilberto moved on. This simple problem has never been addressed and you don't need to be on £67000 a week to solve it. Wenger out . Klopp in would be nice. Always The Arsenal.

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Potter
14/11/2014 06:02:49 pm

It is a shame that it gets harder to discuss things Arsenal without being catagorised and attacked by one or even both poles of the supporter base's compass. My tenure at Highbury goes back further than yours , my grandfather , father , uncles were scattered around the ground some on the clock end , others on the North Bank , it's what you did , it was where you went. It was family.
Not now ! I still go with my son and we get on great with a few of the guys and girls around us , but I don't work in the soft furnishing trade but I know a lot about it because the people behind me don't shut up about it , one of them is a marketing director and the others are customers , they come to be entertained. Wenger of course is a conundrum , so many good things , we should all appreciate the way he has steered the club through the move and it is pretty obvious that he has had to fight the board as much as opposing managers to reach his targets. For me that's the optimum word , "Targets " what are they ? . what are we striving for ?. Until there is more clarity about the club we will never know. Our board is like a clandestine secret society that seems to hold it's paying customers as an inconvenience. It thanks us for our interest in their club. Should they ever decide to let us into their secret world and lay out where they are aiming with a proper annual statement there would be something to judge their success on. Merely saying we want to rub shoulders with the top clubs in Europe is not enough . Tell us the truth and we can stop arguing amongst ourselves , take the heat out of the debate and let the fans unite for a common cause. For me the Wenger thing is not about the politics the players wages , his so called socialist wage ideals , it's about the field of play. I don't care he paid Bendtner to be a cameo appearer , I care about how we go about accruing points from Chelsea , City , United etc. I know that in the long run the other matches should look after themselves . His pedanticism seems to have alienated members of his playing staff . I don't think that they all buy into his methods now. Most of them are internationals and it is naive to think their countries managers do not discuss their positions in their club. If players are unhappy they don't perform , if you have a squad of 25 and only 15 get games 10 are unhappy. If it takes his leaving to get a squad that unites and starts playing for each other then although painful it is probably the way to go.

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SteveR89
14/11/2014 06:40:04 pm

Great piece - balanced and pretty much nails it!

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Ingo
14/11/2014 09:27:56 pm

Very very good article !!

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redr0cker
14/11/2014 10:15:14 pm

First of all I have to declare that I am one of the WOB. I have been for the last 5-6 years.

There is a saying "if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you've always got". And that is exactly what has happened for the last 10 seasons or so apart from 1 FA Cup victory and that was lucky!

Wenger came to Arsenal and totally changed English football, that's why he was so successful early on. He brought fresh, new ideas and philosophies. Out went the "pie n a pint" attitude in came "steamed fish and room temperature bottled water". As Harold has said everyone else eventually cottoned onto that but some improved on that and took it further.

I'll just throw in another point, how many of the top European Clubs would've kept a Manager for 10 without any trophies? I don't like the fact that Real Madrid's n Barcelona's seem to change their Managers every season even if they have won something, but it does make you wonder how long we have to put with 1 success. They might even give him another contract til he's 70 just for Champions League qualification. That could be 15 years with only 1 trophy!

I would love to have seen Jose Mourinho take over, he seems to instill a real team ethic in his players, just like we had when Wenger first joined. Mourinho takes all the pressure off his players by just doing crazy things, it's genius whether you love him or hate him, he's a winner, that's what we lack.

Another one Pep Guardiola, but he'll probably go to Man City. And while I have mentioned Man City, why is Patrick Vierra, one of our greatest players and Captains working for them, why isn't Tony Adams doing something for Arsenal, why isn't Dennis Bergkamp coaching here, are we going to employ Thierry in some role?

Just my thoughts. Cheers

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K
14/11/2014 11:33:37 pm

A well thought out piece and probably the same view as most fans. Well balanced article seen from all sides

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Chris Byrne
15/11/2014 01:53:49 am

Wenger should've gone ages ago. He has no defensive philosophy, just an attacking one and he buys poor to average defenders, hence the reason why we have and still concede too many goals. This is the Main reason why we haven't won the premiership in 10 years and fail to progress past the Last 16 of the Champions league. We now throw away leads and even though we have bought forwards, we have generally replaced like for like in some positions. We haven't strengthened in defensive positions and what we have at centre back positions is poor. We have gone backwards since last season and keep making the same defensive mistakes as a team and individually. Nothing has changed there, even with Steve bould as assistant. He was just a token appointment, to appease the board and fans, but obviously hasn't been given enough responsibility in training. We will never win the premiership again under Arsene Wenger, so he has to go at the end of the season. The board are co condoning his failure. They are more interested in profit than real success. Stewart Robson obviously knew what he was talking about, when he criticised Wenger, while working at arsenal in their media department. He criticised Wenger for making the Same defensive mistakes, time and time again and was eventually sacked for it. He was just telling the truth! Anyway, I'd push for a simeone appointment, someone that can make sure we can defend properly and keep a clean sheet and then that gives you a great chance of winning. We know how to attack and play good football, so an appointment along those lines would be preferable.

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Marc
15/11/2014 06:20:24 pm

What utter nonsense about no one being available or wanting it, go to any club and compensate them (lime we do with players) and offer any manager the 8m a year Wenger fleeces from the club and you will see plenty of managers become available and wanting the job.

It is the the fans responsibility to submit names, it is the boards.

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Marc
15/11/2014 06:23:33 pm

It is not the fans responsibility to submit names (as opposed to the auto correct in my comment)

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Bob Bluffield link
15/11/2014 07:18:18 pm

an excallent and well balanced appraisal of what Wenger has done and is doing. Every Arsenal fan should take the time to read it. I totally agree with everything written. There are also other issues: why, when players get injured they, more often than not, are long term? Why is it that key players Arsene targets don't always seem to want to come to the club? The latter is perhaps answered by Arsenal's reluctance to pay the ridiculous salaries of other clubs.

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DavidHillier'sSuitcase
15/11/2014 08:51:29 pm

Very well written and sums up how most Arsenal supporters,that I know,feel about Arsene.

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Lalah
17/11/2014 07:26:32 am

Which other top club in world football has bequeathed as much power as AW has at AFC?

Which other top club in world football has the manager as the sole director of its course?

Which other top club in world football has the manager as the ONLY voice in matters of transfers?

I will tell you if you are still digging in the deep for answers. NONE!

The club is on a slide not because, AFC has suddenly lost his football managing abilities but because he is an idealist with absolute powers.

His ideals have never been hidden as he has never hidden his contempt for the atrocious, obscene amounts that have determined on-field success in this era's football. That's an approach he just isn't going to follow if he is not compelled to.

Who can compel him to then? His employers, I say. Same person/people whose duty it should be to chart the course of the football club he/they own.

Has anyone ever seen Kroenke at a game? I haven't.

He doesn't even begin to pretend to be a fan of football or even AFC. He has delegated the task of running the club to AW who as long as he continues to keep the club profitable just may have a job for life -at least for the life of Kroenke's ownership of AFC.

There isn't a thing wrong with being an idealist as long as the pursuit of perfection is kept within the idealist's own "laboratory" and has no direct impact on the health of millions.

Let Wenger be! Those who should know better have set a target for him which he meets year after year and for that he is rewarded with a laboratory in which he can tinker until he attains perfection his own way.

However quaint his ways might be, he has proven to be a sure banker and Kroenke is not about to go out and hire someone who may or may not deliver at the minimum Champions League football and risk the loss of revenue that will come with missing out on CL football.

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Malc Spring
19/11/2014 12:46:50 am

Bang on the money in my humble opinion. We are a shadow of our former selves and it really pains me to say it, but we aint gonna do nothing while Wenger remains in charge. And I am sure Kronke will still be very happy while the stadium remains full every home game, so while fleecing the living daylights out of the loyal supporters. When Wenger arrived he brought new methods and ideas and while everyone else has caught up we have stagnated to the point that we seem to struggle now. The one ray of sunshine that came during the summer was Sanchez. That guy is top, top quality and you can see that he gives it his all every game and you can see his frustration when the players around him don't put the same kind of shift in that he does. How long is it going to be before he gets so pissed off with playing with such shitty mediocre players that he decides to leave for pastures new?????? Something has to change and while there remains a huge waiting list for season tickets and tickets in general the greedy board will not give a monkeys. To my mind there has to be an orchestrated boycott of certain games. That might be the only way we are going to get the board to sit up and listen. I know it goes against the grain, but having a half full stadium might just give these tossers on the board the wake up call that they quite clearly need.

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Brad
7/12/2014 05:23:32 am

Top post. I want him out and have wanted him out for five years. Everyone thought I was mad five years ago, no one does now. Every day every game every year is like Groundhog Day. Same shit defending same mistakes same piss poor substitutions same crap preseason where he fucks up signings never addressing the areas that need addressing. Same old fourth place bollox, who cares whilst I have a hole in my arse we ain't winning the champions league whilst he remains. So man things are wrong, the ridiculous never ending injuries ( that is not just bad luck ) the wasted wages, not being able to defend a cross for five years, the pathetic lack of spine, the lack of leadership the unbalanced squad .... It goes on forever. 8 million a year for that tosh what an absolute insult to us hard working, loyal proper fans. I actually hate him and this pathetically weak board.

I want my arsenal back, I don't give a toss if that means winning jack for a few years, were arsenal we've suffered that many times before but better to have tried and failed than to have endured this wank.

That's me on the front page of the website after the fifth against s---s first time round. I can barely muster a clap right now that's what this fraud of a manager has done to me.

We need numbers we need another march the time has come.

ALWAYS ARSENAL

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Bill Robertson
9/12/2014 08:46:05 pm

It is now over 12 years since I wrote to Wenger and pointed out pretty much all the things that now afflict Arsenal, not that he took any notice because I had only been an Arsenal supporter for 50 years. What do I know about football according to Wenger?

The point is, Billy Wight, Bertie Mee, Terry Neill, Don Howe and Sir George Graham are no longer AFC Managers. All were fine men and decent Managers in their own time, and George was the best by a long way, but for various reasons they had to move on. Why is Wenger any different? Ten years of mediocrity, blundering and a monumental waste of money and still some people, (who don't realise that AFC were a massive club before Wenger, and can still be after Wenger) are scared of change.

Wenger has lost the plot completely and needs to be got out by whatever means available. The Club are now an embarrassment. The fifth richest club in the world (by most measures) and struggling each season to qualify in the top 16 of European football. Remaining years away from being able to challenge seriously for top honours.

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Bob Bluffield
10/12/2014 12:00:33 am

I have been an Arsenal supporter for about the same time as you Bill and I agree with your totally. The simple fact is that Wenger has refused to change and move with the times and the tactics he employed to win us so many trophies in his early years at the club no longer work to the team's advantage. There is also the fact that he has brought in many players that clearly are not worthy of wearing the Arsenal shirt.

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NickF
20/12/2014 08:36:03 pm

"I’d love to see Arsene Wenger turn things around, but I fear that modern day football has passed him by" - this line sums it up best for me.

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Dave C link
30/12/2014 09:43:20 pm

Great article. I have been going to AFC for 52 years and have always taken the rough (early 60,s) with the smooth GG onwards.
I used to have a North Bank Terrace ticket and could choose not to go if I wished (I never did) I had an Emirates Season ticket until end of 2010-11 and wrote to the club at the end of the season saying I could not pay top whack anymore for the rubbish I was watching.Did I get a reply ?The failure is partly board related but most of it is down to Wenger. I thought about chucking the ticket in in 2008 after the game at Birmingham when Eduardo and our so called captain(Gallas) sat on the field at the end of the game. That,s when I realised Wenger had lost it and had to go. It has become too painful for me to go all of the time now.
This season the only good things are Alexis and the Ox the rest well.... There is now a big split at the Emirates the older fans such as myself ,mates and family all want him gone. Bertie Mee and George Graham knew what "The Arsenal" meant to us fans- does Wenger now ?

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Herb's Army link
28/7/2016 05:04:23 pm

I look at the time-line of these comments and wonder in amazement at how Wenger's position at Arsenal goes from strength to strength.
The fifth richest club in the world are pleading poverty, and refusing point-blank to compete.
Essentially, Arsenal's mouth-piece, Ivan Gazidis is waving the white flag of surrender, and we continue to sit back and allow this farcical horror show to go on, unchallenged.
This situation wouldn't be tolerated at Liverpool or United, so why Arsenal? Even Everton have been revitalised and are showing ambition, acting decisively in sacking Martinez and acquiring the services of Koeman.
West Ham weren't far behind last season, they've been gifted a new stadium, and Bilic only needs a few tweaks to have a very good side.
The privileged greed consuming the club appear to have only one strategy, and it certainly isn't football related.
Arsenal spend a fortune on wages, as much as Bayern Munich, but the two clubs couldn't be further apart in philosophy.
Have we enough love for Arsenal Football Club to halt this tyrannical madness that is slowfully and painfully killing it?

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Haley link
16/4/2019 05:35:42 pm

"I’d love to see Arsene Wenger turn things around" - ha!

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