So here we are mid-February licking our wounds once again after being dumped out of two cup competitions in the space of four days. Sound familiar for the past four years?
After being embarrassed in Milan, Arsenal had the chance to restore some pride in the FA Cup when they visited the Stadium of Light, a place where they had won a week ago in the league. I don’t want to go through the match, as all of you would have seen it, but what was very alarming from the match is that it seemed the players had lost confidence in the manger and were no longer playing for him. It seemed the players would rather be at home collecting their hefty wages rather than be fighting it out for the Arsenal cause.
Players like Turner, Richardson and Cattermole, who earn a combined wage as Diaby, played with passion and commitment, which was sadly lacking from their more illustrious opponents. Over 4000 Arsenal fans travelled in the bitter cold to watch their team and were let down yet again. Another poor decision from Arsene Wenger was the team he set up which was strikingly similar to the one which got spanked at Milan. Our offensive problems are just as glaring as our defensive ones. Poor old Aaron Ramsey looks knackered and out of his depth, a player who was on loan twice last season at Championship clubs and suddenly is expected to fill in the void left by Fabregas.
With Sunderland playing with two banks of four when we had the ball, why didn’t Wenger play Andrey Arshavin behind Robin van Persie? A player who is capable of producing something, or at least play Marouane Chamakh up top with Van Persie behind him, who is a decent target man and would’ve given the Sunderland defenders a different kind of problem. Instead Wenger brings on Theo Walcott and plays him up front, who ends up having five touches the entire game, but what do I know, I haven’t worked half a day in football!
It’s the same old mistakes being repeated over and over again that is making this frustrating. A squad lacking depth and quality, looking absolutely knackered by February, very poor tactically, players lacking effort and schoolboy errors being made all over the pitch. These are the same things which are being repeated every season and it has been overseen by Wenger every time, and what is most alarming is that he seems incapable of finding a solution.
Make no bones about it, next week’s north London derby will be the most important game in Wenger‘s 15 year reign. God forbid, if he loses that he may not last to the end of the season!
Does Stan Kroenke even know the terrible week Arsenal have had? He and Ivan Gazidis may be very comfortable in their fourth place Champions League revenue, but with fan unrest gaining momentum every week they will have to wake up and smell the coffee eventually.
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Dont blame Wenger! Give him a purse, he cant work miracles without quality players.
This “Not me gov” attitude just doesnt wash with me anymore. All the players have been selected by a manager who is supposed to now better. nfortunately they are not good enough. We need a changing of the guards bothe in the team and management.
Wenger has a purse, quite a large one at that, but he refuses to open it, and when he does tends to buy for the future as opposed to the here and now. Without any doubt The mighty Arsenal are regressing big time, and it seems the most we ‘silly’ fans can do is argue whether there are sufficient resources or not.
yes wenger has money but won’t spend on quality rather buy shit then complain GTF we won;t win another thing with him if he stays 2 more years then we win nothing for another 2 years complete tosser
I tire of hearing the excuse of give Wenger more money, f*** the money. What about the players that we already have? Even if Arsene was suddenly awared this mystery war chest, we still have players on the books who Arsene would never get rid of, regardless of how poorly they play. My question is, if this is the case, why not spend more time and effort training these players to do the job they are supposed to. Are yo telling me Djourou’s positioning cannot be improved? Or Walcotts crossing ability cannot be improved? Non-sense, if these players are to be kept, regardless of whether they are worthy of the cannon or not, at least tutor them more thoroughly on the basics of the game. Real school boy, Sunday league arrears are appearing in Arsenals game at the moment. Which is why lesser teams such as Sunderland are rightly giving us a beating.
You’ve said it all mate.sometimes i wonder if the training exercise of wenger just includes trap,pass and run,no defending,no dribbling,no heading,no crossing,no ball control e.t.c. It must be a pretty boring training exercise.