Why should Wenger stay?

[Blitzen]

I love to correct you on this one.

"Liverpool" have never won the EPL.

I know...and have no idea why i put it.

(never likely to either )

[Blitzen]

Once again your contribution is astonishing.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Once again your contribution is astonishing.

Yours too,

thank you.

anyways Lets see if wenger will strengthen our team and whether fabregas will go

[Raz316]

I wouldn't be surprised to see Wenger is encouraged by the board to make a couple of 'big' signings. The club needs to justify the ticket price increases and I've got a nagging feeling they want to justify it with buying some players.

[3DWizard]

A few months back I would have said a new keeper would be a cert but with Szeznesy (sp?) stepping up, it isn't as bad. He looks a decent young keep that'll only get better with games under his belt.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

So another piss poor performance.

No plan B, crap defending. trying to pass the ball to the net, etc etc.

And you wonder why i want wenger to go. 6 years of this crap is too much. Fergie, Pepe, Morinho, Achelloti and just about "ANY" manager managing a top side going 6 years without a trophy and 6 years making the same mistake, would have been sacked YEARS ago

[Splash]

Anyone see the Alan Sugar Saves Football (or whatever it was called) program last night? He pretty much help up Arsenal as a shining light in the quest for sustainable ways to run your football club, which seemed fair to me. The fact that he's refused to spend beyond his means while maintaining a top 4 performance is pretty decent if you ask me. Not sure if all around here remember what happened with Leeds a few years back, but it seems that Arsene is one of very few managers to have taken the lesson to heart. I personally can't see why you'd fire him and take the pretty large risk (imo, anyways) of bringing in someone else who might not be able to maintain the performance of the Wenger years without spending big (which it doesn't seem like is an option)

[j.o.s.h.1408]

You dont need £££ to teach your team how to defend corners! Stoke have what? half of the budget on there team yet they know how to defend set pieces?

If you cant defend corners for 6 years then you will never win a trophy.

[Splash]

It's true, but I make it 21 points between those 2 teams at present (not to mention a goal difference of 30 vs 2), and nobody could argue that Arsenal don't play a vastly different game to Stoke.

Sure, it was humiliating for Arsenal but I still don't see how replacing Wenger is likely to have anything but a negative impact on league positions at the end of the season.

[leesa99]

I think he should stay, yes again another winless season, but I believe were only missing a couple players to take the title, WE NEED LEADERS badly.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

How the hell is Wenger still in charge of arsenal?

Did you know, we have only managed 3 YES 3 wins since the CC defeat and one of those wins was against LEYTON ORIENT.

i swear our form is as bad as west ham yet Wenger the untouchable is still our manager.

behond a joke now. its becoming REALLY stupid and silly. How he hasnt been sacked yet is behond me.

The fans at the emirates have EVERY right to boo the lazy useless idiots running around the pitch. Now we are going to finish 4th most likely.

In Wenger we trust eh

[Splash]

i swear our form is as bad as west ham yet Wenger the untouchable is still our manager.

Arsenal - W 19 D 11 L 8 GD 29
West Ham - W 7 D 12 L 19 GD -27


Over the course of the season (insert regulatory "marathon not a sprint" quote) I'm struggling to see the logic in your statement. Arsenal are almost the direct opposite of West Ham. Would you prefer a Chelsea situation, where you change your manager every season you don't win something? Or perhaps the Newcastle situation, whereby you call for the manager's head every time you lose a match?


As a neutral (I don't even support a team in the PL) all I can say is that your constant demands for change baffle me. Sure, Arsene has made some questinable decisions but he's brought a great deal of stability to the club without spending beyond his means. That's pretty admirable in my eyes, and a 4th place finish is a tad better than the seemingly comparable West Ham have managed.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Arsenal - W 19 D 11 L 8 GD 29
West Ham - W 7 D 12 L 19 GD -27


Over the course of the season (insert regulatory "marathon not a sprint" quote) I'm struggling to see the logic in your statement. Arsenal are almost the direct opposite of West Ham. Would you prefer a Chelsea situation, where you change your manager every season you don't win something? Or perhaps the Newcastle situation, whereby you call for the manager's head every time you lose a match?


As a neutral (I don't even support a team in the PL) all I can say is that your constant demands for change baffle me. Sure, Arsene has made some questinable decisions but he's brought a great deal of stability to the club without spending beyond his means. That's pretty admirable in my eyes, and a 4th place finish is a tad better than the seemingly comparable West Ham have managed.

Look at our form after we lost the carling cup. its the same form as birmingham. fact.

About chelsea, yes they chop and change managers quite often and it is a bit extreme and shows wenger is untouchable but how many trophies have chelsea won in the past 6 years?

i can tell you this, if wenger was in charge of united, barcelona, Inter, ac milan and went 6 years winning **** all their, he would have gotten the sack long ago.

If pepe guardiola went just 3 seasons trophyless at barcelona, he too would have got the axe. Dont understand why you cant understand the fact that arsenal are suppose to be a top european club? being satisfied with just trying to finish in the top 4 is not a team trying to win titles or trying to become a big club like united, barcelona, inter milan etc.

Arsenal are becoming like a club like "Valencia" i.e a very good side, always finishing top 4 and thats about it. no trophies and not regardes as a top european club.

is that what Arsenal are? Valencia/Villereal type of team?

[Stringent]

If he doesn't buy anyone or such this summer then I will be very upset. But as always its down to the players to deliver, and frankly, they haven't. Very disappointing season. I would have liked to have won one cup, just something. Instead we rely on our ladies team to do the winning. Maybe they should play next season in the Premiership.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

if the players have not delivered, they should be sold. its really that simple. if i diddnt deliver in my job i would get the sack.

The thing is, Is wenger doing his part? is he emplying the right tactics/instructions to these players? Is he motivating the players in the right way? if he is then its all down to the players and they need to be sacked/sold. if wenger is not doing the above then he himself needs to go.

Simple really

[Splash]

I don't want to have to be the one to break it to you like this, but I honestly don't think of Arsenal as being in the same league as your Barcelonas, your Man Utds or you Milans. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is.

I can appreciate your frustration that they always seem to fall apart at the end of a season (why is that?), and that your defensive line is nowhere near as solid as it was back in the days of Adams, Bould, Dixon and Winterburn but there's nothing to be gained from reminiscing about how great the past was. As it is I really do think that there's a very big risk in replacing Wenger at this point. Any manager coming in is going to need to make wholesale changes to appease the fans (after all, if they just carry on with the same squad then you might as well stick with Wenger, right?) and I honestly don't think Arsenal have the financial resources to do that at this point, especially with the introduction of the UEFA Financial Fair Play rules.

Again speaking from a neutral point of view I find Arsenal to be an entertaining side to watch. I'd rather be spending my money on a ticket to see them play than someone like Bolton, even if Bolton were pushing for a top 2 finish.