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Downward spiral anyone?
Downward spiral anyone?
I remember travelling back from Sussex on the night they won the league 2-0 at Liverpool, listening to it on the radio and I was cheering for them. I was so sick of Pool being spoken of like all conquering gods and winning year after year.
Sorry guys. Do I deserve a lifetime ban???
Nah fuck that. Wenger lifetime contract. Just to watch their fans burn down the EmiratesStill think they will/should get De boer. Aren't Bergkamp and Overmars on his staff?
Baffling if this doesn't happen. What a perfect set-up for them.
the 2nd caller lol
Agree 100%. One thing about Wenger is that he is an honourable chap. The only negative about all this is that I can't see him staying on now unless he somehow pulls it together to win every remaining league game and win the FA cup again. I would rather see him stay on and Arsenal to stay relatively average because with the potential that they have, if they get a good replacement and back him with money then they will be back to seriously challenging for the title.
It's OK mate, I already got detention for my post (see previous comments).An honourable chap? This is the guy who claims he never sees any bad tackle or foul play his team ever makes? A guy who never, ever admits his mistakes or his team's culpability for anything? A man who blames officials and opposition players for every negative thing that ever happens to him?
He's one of the least fucking honourable ****s in football.
Jesus wept what is going on in this place - it's like half the members have had a collective lobotomy and just forgotten what a complete **** this guy has been, both to us and in general, over the last 20 years. 5 defeats and half the people in here want to run the fucker a bath and light him some smelly candles to de-stress the poor soppy old tosser.
Fuck's sake.
If ever there was a story that sounded like complete bullshit to placate a team's fans it's this one!
Ive put in bold the key sentence that gives that away, even West Ham wouldn't be that stupid!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/crumbling-arsenal-plan-massive-200m-10203316
Crumbling Arsenal plan massive £200m summer transfer spree and will trust under-fire Arsene Wenger to spend it
Ozil, Wilshere, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Giroud and a raft of squad men could go, topping up the £100m already in the kitty
22:30, 11 APR 2017
Updated23:16, 11 APR 2017
Arsenal are ready to spend £200million in the next window to fix their squad — and Arsene Wenger will be the man splashing the cash.
Manager Wenger is still expected to be in charge when the summer transfer dealing starts, despite the increasingly bitter fan backlash, as the Gunnersprepare for the biggest revolution of his 21-year reign.
A dismal 3-0 defeat at Crystal Palace on Monday put another big dent in the Gunners' Champions League qualification hopes and brought renewed calls for Wenger to leave when his contract expires at the end of the season.
But instead he is close to signing up for another two years.
Wenger is still likely to sign a new deal and oversee a crucial close-season for Arsenal (Photo: Rex Features)
The 67-year-old is already working on his summer plans and could end up cashing in on Mesut Ozil , who has stalled on a £280,000-a-week contract offer, and Jack Wilshere , who is a £20m target for West Ham, while Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United are all interested in Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
THIS!!Jesus wept what is going on in this place - it's like half the members have had a collective lobotomy and just forgotten what a complete **** this guy has been, both to us and in general, over the last 20 years. 5 defeats and half the people in here want to run the fucker a bath and light him some smelly candles to de-stress the poor soppy old tosser.
Fuck's sake.
The silly thing is that they don't even have to sack him, his contract is up in the summer so all they need to do is shake hands say thankyou and goodbye and move on.
@OptaJoe
14 - Arsenal are 14 points behind Spurs in the table; the first time they've been 14+ points behind them since May 5th 1963 (also 14). Gap.
They've got themselves into a shit situation, the only person (apart from Kronke) who can technically sack himself is Wenger, none of the other guys on the board have that power. Kronke likes Wenger and understands what he's done for Arsenal and appreciates his loyalty so he won't get rid of him. Wenger doesn't want to leave because he thinks he's not done at Arsenal (he is) The players aren't playing for him and clearly want him to leave and all this uncertainty over Wenger's contract is causing uncertainty over their future's as well seeing as there's quite a few of them with a year left on their contracts they don't know whether to re-sign or not and the fans are just utterley pissed off with the each other, the players, the management and the board.
You couldn't make this shit up, it's beautiful
It's all really bizarre given how well they've been run for the past 10-15 years - Their first major misstep IMO is this lack of certainty regarding Wenger.
Your post sums it up perfectly - From most perspectives, he looks done. Out of ideas, unable to inspire and get the most of the players there, has been unable to bring on players who joined with big potential and now the team is losing confidence and that consistent mentality which Wenger has been a big part of over the years.
But the board not planning for ending his time there has caused a lot of turmoil. As you noted - loyalty suggests he deserves one more year to either turn things around or set something up and plan for his exit properly. Reality suggests he's not offering anything and it's time for fresh ideas.
Where they go from here could really define what they do for the next decade or so.
None of that, if correct, explains why the players have stopped playing for him, if indeed they have.
The other conundrum for them (poor things) is, if they are really about to splurge £200m in the transfer market this summer, would you want a brand new manager to be in control of that sort of budget straight off, or would you trust it to the man who has brought you unprecedented success?
Yes, they are in a mess of their own making, but they do like to wallow in self-aggrandising and nauseating pity don't they?