20 Feb 2013 15:09:09
Are we as Arsenal fans spoilt, are we arrogant to think that our club should always be challenging for top honours? After all only one team can win the Champions League or Premeir league!

Well no. We as fans are very patient and supportive of the club we love, anyone who was at the Emirates last night would have seen that. We are just sick of a club lying to us and a manager who is an absolute control freak it is almost bordering on a dictatorship.

We have all heard stories of Wenger micro managing ever aspect of the club from the training ground drills to travel arrangements. This is too much responsibility for one man and the pressure looks as if it is starting to break the once great manger of our club, who's legacy is now in serious danger.

Wenger cannot or will not delegate responsibility.

Wenger cannot construct a defense.

Wenger cannot coach tactical awareness or defensive organisation.

Wenger cannot compete in a competative transfer market.

If these facts are so evident to every pundit and die hard Arsenal fan then why has someone from within the club not taken responsibility off Wenger and let him do what he is good at.

Ferguson love him or hate him has successfully delegated most of the responsibilities to trusted coaches and club officals, so he can concertrate on the more important issues of winning football matches. Man United keep ex players such as Bobby Charlton around to inspire all the young players and give the club depth and history.

We declined Patrick Vieira, Bergkamp is coaching at Ajax, Adams was rejected as a coach. the list is endless! Steve Bould and a few others i. e. Liam Brady have a small input but not enough to really make a differance.

My club is falling into mediocrity, I as well as you fellow readers are powerless to stop it. We have been kept on the precipice for the last 8 years because we are not good enough to challenge for the top honours but are not bad enough for a full scale protest. They give us just enough, tell us just enough lies, spend just enough of our season ticket money on new players to keep us from banging on the Emirates doors and demanding a hefty chunk of our hard earned wages back.

Wenger has tried to construct a team built on youth, this was done not for the club, not for the new stadium, not for the fans but for his own ego. Wenger can take the praise of a win, loves the plaudits of being a revolutionary to the English game but cannot answer a poor reporter's honest assessment of why his team is underperforming. The players have been brought and moulded by him, his infuence is such that only he can be blamed for the lack of success at our club.

I fear for the future as it appears he is unsackable, and will try to instill fear with statements such as 'You will miss me when i'm gone', well I fear the absolute power given to Wenger has absolutely corrupted his views on what Arsenal Footbal Club stands for, and fear that like another famous dictator his rein will end with a statue being pulled down close to N5.

There is still time to change, for this team to grow and improve, we need him to listen to people with valid ideas and delegate reponsibility to those who are better equipped than he is to make decisions on the factors that are hurting this club, some will see this as a hyperbole but when I see fans leaving a home match after just 19 mins, it makes me question how many fans are still happy with the current situation.

Pinchy the Gooner

1.) 20 Feb 2013
Great post. I agree with everything you say. I love Wenger but he needs to start listening to these sort of comments. Hope he reads your post!

2.) 20 Feb 2013
Briliant post. spot on
And before all the look at what he's done for the club and wenger knows best brigade speak up remember Brian Clough won the European cup twice with forrest and them got them relegated.

3.) 20 Feb 2013
Great post pinchy!