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20 May 2018 20:53:27
Forgive me if I'm wrong but surely a manager decides where he needs to strengthen, the board decides whether funds are available, the scouts report on who is available and passes over to the chief negotiator to agree terms once the manager has chosen who he wants. Why is it that potential new signings are be touted without us having a manager?
Arteta may be an inspired choice although the jury will be out if appointed but I doubt whether the fans will have too much patience. He seems to be a Gazides choice but what does he know about football?
I agree with previous posts that this is an opportunity missed and typical of the real issues which is the ownership of the club which has no idea.
1.) 20 May 2018 21:11:36
We are not looking for a manager as we know them we are looking for a head coach.
A bit like a head chef who isn't responsible for ordering or chosing the ingredients or chosing the menu just making sure that the food he and his team of chefs send our tastes and looks fantastic so the paying customers are happy and keep coming back.
Most head chefs want to run the kitchen from top to bottom hence our field of chioce is narrowed this time but if it goes well under our new system then it will be much less of a problem in future years attracting bigger name candidates.
{Ed025's Note - a tasty theory that G62..
2.) 20 May 2018 21:18:55
Could be a recipe for success Ed025 mate :-)
{Ed025's Note - and they wont have to pay a lot of dough for him, it will be a piece of cake if you ask me mate..
3.) 20 May 2018 21:21:25
Then it's no wonder all the top notch candidates are not interested and we'll end up with a 'yes man'. Doesn't look like will be eating at the top table anytime soon.
{Ed025's Note - you may have to eat some humble pie if your wrong though lincs..
4.) 20 May 2018 22:49:32
It's a pie I'll happily eat, but for now I've lost my appetite.
I'm still stunned with this decision. I can understand our coach options dropping off, but how come we got to the "not even a coach yet" options? . Seriously.
5.) 20 May 2018 22:56:36
What's been served up in recent years has been hard to swallow and has had a nasty habit of repeating on us.
6.) 20 May 2018 23:43:14
Cherry up Fidelio mate, its still only why Sky and the Metro plus usual sauces serving up this possible load of old tripe:-)
7.) 21 May 2018 05:03:21
Thanks mate, it's my time to moan about it right now. Once it's confirmed will be time to do the dishes and support!
8.) 20 May 2018 21:49:55
More than happy to do that if I'm proved wrong ed.
9.) 21 May 2018 13:36:08
Someone pass me the indigestion tablets please.
10.) 21 May 2018 13:57:12
I hear Epping salts work well for indigestion mate:-)
27 Aug 2017 17:51:20
School boy football. Are we any further forward. No I don't think so. Groupd hog day again. enough is enough. Three games in and two defeats. How can we have any cofidence in Wenger and the board.
1.) 27 Aug 2017 17:54:53
It's not the defeats, It the manner of the defeat.
2.) 27 Aug 2017 19:28:39
I agree steve. It's well beaten.
27 Aug 2017 17:36:02
I've been an Arsenal fan for over 50 years and whilst I admire and appreciate everything Wenger has done, enough is enough. Stoke and Liverpool today is the final straw. Wenger is well passed his sell by date.
1.) 27 Aug 2017 17:55:54
Some of us new that a few seasons ago. Now it's getting embarrassing on a new level.
2.) 27 Aug 2017 18:15:18
Steve r we are on the same wavelength.
I'm not one for a knee jerk reaction. I've seen the writting on the wall for a while now. We are all over the place. I'm sick of his rectoric. I for one am ready to risk a change. Are you you?
3.) 27 Aug 2017 18:36:39
Lincs do you think it would really have been or would be a risk.
12 Apr 2017 18:23:21
Managers today are sacked on a whim, even across Europe's elite. This is not something I necessarily agree with but it emphasises the current demand for immediate success. I've always been proud of doing this the 'Arsenal way' with dignity and in that regard, will always be thankful for what Wenger has achieved for the club in the past. I do though now think that enough is enough and things have to, must, change. Most of the reasoning has been covered previously and continues to be restarted on these pages and many other forms of social media.
For me, you can break Wenger's reign into more or less three eras. In the first ten years he transformed the club with his innovative ideas winning trophies and playing the best football I've seen at the club in over 50 years. The only fly in the ointment is that he never succeeded in winning a European title. Despite this, he enhanced our history which can never be erased.
The next five years or so coincided with the move to the Emirates. During this time, with no funds available, he still kept us competitive whilst having to sell off his key players and not replacing those past their sell by dates. This achievement cannot be underestimated and genuine football fans will know this, despite being frustrating to some.
Now to the era where I have issues, the previous 5/ 6 years. I'm not an advocate that we should go out and spend stupid money. However, with the financial constraints lifting, this was the period where Wenger should have built the squad for here and now, in fact, from last season, where he could have capitalised on the shortcomings of our rivals. This to me is why I think he has to step down and the sooner it is announced, the better for all concerned. I don't like the personal abuse he is receiving but I can understand the frustration of the fans, since what we are currently witnessing, including last night's debacle, is totally unacceptable. Yes, we do not have a divine right to win everything, but with our resources and fan base, we deserve people to play with passion and pride and this is clearly not happening.
I also have major concerns about his clear lack of basic tactical awareness and player acquisition which are clear for all to see and this is someone who is paid circa £7.5m a year with an alleged two year extension on the table increasing his salary over that period to £10m. He keeps on referring to what he has done previously for the club, but things move on and other younger managers have caught up and overtaken him with their own innovations and enthusiasm. I'm concerned that he recently mentioned about the imperatives of retaining a 'British core' to the side, yet the players he mentioned are nowhere good enough.
Despite getting all that off my chest, I won't go there with the Board, who don't have a footballing brain cell between them and are just interested in making money. I know there is a debate about what fans can do and it doesn't matter if they boycott games as the club already has the money, but just think of what will happen if huge swaths of empty seats were beamed around the footballing world, that would send out a massive message which the board will be extremely uncomfortable with, especially when attracting sponsorship, although far be it from me to tell fans what they should or shouldn't do.
1.) 12 Apr 2017 18:48:40
Great post LG.
2.) 12 Apr 2017 18:54:32
Top post LG.
3.) 12 Apr 2017 19:24:36
Great post i wish i could be as articulate as that without losing the thread and going into a rant. The bit about our games beamed around the world with loads of empty seats is absolutely spot on.
4.) 12 Apr 2017 20:05:25
Thanks guys. I was going to post sooner but had to compose myself after watching that shambles on Monday evening otherwise I would have ranted.
5.) 12 Apr 2017 20:38:33
If you need to get the rant out feel free.
6.) 12 Apr 2017 21:51:13
Good post lincs mate.
My guess is the board will continue try and please the majority of the fans which in the past has meant Arsene stays but right now I'm not sure anyone actually knows if the in or out fans are the majority.
7.) 12 Apr 2017 22:29:06
Gunner all the poles suggest massive out. I haven't seen one anywhere that is remotely in favour of wenger and his supporters on tv and media are changing their minds in droves.
8.) 12 Apr 2017 23:05:09
The problem with polls Steve as elections show us repeatedly usually attract a platform for unhappy people to voice their views while those who are not unhappy tend to remain silent and there is as we all know such a thing as a silent majority sometimes.
Talking to people i meet the only change I've detected is that's those who wanted Arsene to stay prior to the Palace game still do but are less confident of how others feel and are almost resigned to the fact he is most likely finished despite thier own views.
9.) 13 Apr 2017 00:54:43
Gunner, I don't know any of my close friends who want him to stay and many did at the start of the season. Work colleagues and people I talk to all want him gone.
10.) 13 Apr 2017 07:33:09
That's good to hear Steve, it must be a regional thing mate a bit like brexit i guess. The remain vote is quite strong still in my constituency :-)
11 Apr 2017 21:19:46
Hi eds. I posted earlier this afternoon, quite a lengthy one, but it's not showing. Any reason why?
{Ed033's Note - it doesn't appear to have come through. Did you want to send it in again?
1.) 11 Apr 2017 21:37:21
Okay thanks. Will do when I get time.
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20 May 2018 21:49:55
More than happy to do that if I'm proved wrong ed.
20 May 2018 21:21:25
Then it's no wonder all the top notch candidates are not interested and we'll end up with a 'yes man'. Doesn't look like will be eating at the top table anytime soon.
{Ed025's Note - you may have to eat some humble pie if your wrong though lincs..
30 Jan 2018 22:11:54
You missed Elneny.
27 Aug 2017 18:15:18
Steve r we are on the same wavelength.
I'm not one for a knee jerk reaction. I've seen the writting on the wall for a while now. We are all over the place. I'm sick of his rectoric. I for one am ready to risk a change. Are you you?
01 May 2017 14:25:58
Excellent post Ryan. Totally agree. I also find it staggering that when interviewed after the first three at the back formation, the players acknowledged how difficult it was to adapt. This to me confirms that Wenger has no plan B and begs the question what an earth has been going on at the training ground for all these years. Surely in addition to working on fitness and conditioning they should be working on and perfecting tactics and formations so they can adapt accordingly rather than smiling for the cameras. Mind you if I were paid tens of thousands of pounds each week for under performing then I'd be smiling! Essentially we have a bunch of overrated and overpaid premadonas, a manager with out of date methods who is passed his sell by date and a need for a complete overhaul of the club's governance arrangements.