I’m reading a lot about how Arsene Wenger is to blame for Arsenal spiralling out of control as of late, seeing the club go from top of the table (challenging for the title) to now fighting to finish in the top four in the space of a few weeks. Yet the majority of the Emirates faithful have pointed the finger of blame firmly at the Frenchman, not at the players – which is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion.
Of course he does have to hold his hands up and accept the share of the blame for the club’s implosion, but what about the players? Do you not think they too should be blamed for our recent run of form and performances? Wenger instructs each and every one of them what to do and where they should be during the course of the game, but it’s not his fault if they don’t deliver the goods. As players representing the famous red and white of Arsenal, they should all look at themselves in the mirror and say ‘am I giving it my all?’ sadly, they aren’t, and that’s not Wenger’s error, its there’s.
Wenger still hasn’t confirmed whether he will stay beyond his existing contract, which expires at the end of the season, and you have a number of rash fans calling for the Frenchman to walk away after what they have seen in recent weeks – ludicrous!
Wenger has done so much for this club and he deserves respect, no matter the outcome this season.
What if he wins the FA Cup and manages to qualify for the Champions League? Would you still want him to leave?
And if he does decide to call it quits in the summer, who exactly will come in to replace him? I don’t see any top managers out of work at the moment, and those top managers I speak of are at elite clubs as well. Be careful what you wish for.
Yes we were challenging for the title up until February but fell flat on our faces, but last year we were nowhere near the likes of Chelsea and Manchester City – even United were on top of us and look where they are now!
Stop your moaning and be happy that Wenger has and continues to stabilise our club, and if we manage to lift the FA Cup at the end of May, as well as finish in the top four, then the Frenchman deserves to be applauded.
it is his fault if the players do not perform, it was his choice to use/purchase the players out there and pay them so much for failure. when you surround a team full of fools – you will only get foolish results and for that the manager is at fault.
please don’t blame injuries either – his methods and regime are what the causes of all those injuries are.
don’t blame squad depth either – he had chances to buy and refused. is it any coincidence that the youth programme he project managed from top to bottom is being stripped and rebuilt from scratch due to it’s failure?
making him blameless is just not on
Shame. On 7.5 million pounds a year and the problems don’t begin with the manager, especially one who does no tactics.
The manager is mentally shot – he has been mentally shot for years. No Plan A, no Plan B.
The only plan after yesterday’s drubbing Wenger should be making his his retirement plan.
He needs to leave asap for his own sanity and ours too.
Wenger Out. Simple As. Stop being so blind.
Yessss he is to f…..g blame why he didn’t bother to strengthen the team while the other managers did that saying he couldn’t find playres and even suggested the january window should be abolished how can he be like that when we had a lot of injuries he wasn’t serious about us winning the title the fans who pay top ticket prices in Europe deserves more than top 4 he wenger is among the top earners in european managers he doesn’t have any thing new together with his players and funny enough he keeps protecting them he knows who the culprits in the team but keep playing them need we name them? We need a strong manager who can fire the team to titles 9 years counting he should pack we are tired of the stupid fu….ng warnings BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR take a f…ng walk and take with you that holing striker?????
Wenger never changes his tactics against different types of opposition. All of his great teams had big, powerful athletes spread through the team. Now the team has too many small, non-combative, tippy-tappy players who regularly get overpowered. Wenger is too careful with money and refuses to pay the going rate for available players. He is, however, only too willing to pay himself in the region of £8 million per annum for being a specialist in failure.
I read recently that the Board of Directors fear a Manchester United type meltdown if Wenger does not sign a new contract. I consider 9 years without a trophy, at a cost of £65 million in wages to a manager who has lost the plot, to be worse than a meltdown.
What a load of rubbish? If Wenger (the manager) is not to be blamed then who is? Who picks the team? Didnt he say that he has the final say on all matter related to the first team?
Its because of people like you that he will continue to be incompetent without being held accountable. Go ahead and pat him on the back and say “well done Arsene”
arsene re-built our club and I respect what he has done , but I believe he will not be here next season . Why the influx of dutch coaches ? Van gaal is coming hopefully with Dennis has assistant
I have been a Wenger-ite for years and years. But the fact of the matter is, player for player, there must be about two players on the Everton side that would have made our starting eleven. We keep conceding the same goals in the same manner over and over, and we’re beating by obvious, foreseeable and preventable tactics every single time we come up against a major premierleague opponent. The draw at home to Man City was the same; it is always the same goal that we concede. That we cannot learn from our mistakes was what caused the fans to turn on Wenger last season, and while I stuck up for him for the same reasons that you have said, seeing it done in exactly the same way again tells me that unless there is substantial change we are going to be watching the same thing unfold time and time again. Yes Wenger has done wonders for this club, even on a budget that was a bit lower than necessary (we easily could have made major signings seasons ago too). The constant injury crises we have need to be addressed and the reason why we had no transfer plan in the summer or this winter. I personally feel sorry for Giroud who is being made to look terrible as a result of playing way way way too many games when it is obvious to everyone that we need another striker. I understand the wait for ‘top class’ but again I’m not sure that buying a third choice would have been a bad idea either because Sanogo is raw and would obviously benefit from going on loan. The fact that our system is not adaptable is another worry. Play Lukaku on the flank and watch him bulldoze through our tiny midfield and monreal/vermaelen. And what do we do? Well, we wait until the 65th minute before making a change when up until that point we’d made a few efforts on goal… fantastic. The tactics that Chelsea employed were obvious, and any formation where two DMs are played against Giroud and we have no pace for him to link up with clearly pins us back allowing the other midfields to harry and press in our own half! Why doesn’t he see this. I’m convinced that our lack of height in the centre of the park makes it too risky to consider playing a 4-4-2 for any meaningful length of time and the constant boiling this down to character is not what will solve this problem. Last season, the players asked to review videos to see what was going wrong at the back. The players! Is there not something amiss here? And constantly talking about attitude, it seemed to me yesterday that the players lost faith. Arteta is pushed over and no-one sticks up for him. Why are they apathetic? Is it something to do with playing 65minutes alone with absolutely no progress whatsoever?
We needed to win against Stoke, we lost. We needed to win against Chelsea, we lost. We needed to win against Swansea, we drew. We needed to win against Man City, we drew (and other teams far worse than us have beaten them this season. I’m not one who believes that we should have considered ourselves underdogs at home to these lot. Maybe with injury problems, sure. But I also think City settled for the result and outclassed us in the first half). We needed to win against Everton, we lost. And in what manner? In the exact same manner that caused Cesc to leave (his own words) all those years ago. Something needs to change at Arsenal because if he loses 4th and the FA Cup this season then he runs the risk of being forced out. What kind of insult to dignity is that to a manager who has done so much for us? It is unfair? that is absolutely certain, but its not illegitimate to the people who spend so much time and money watching the same obvious errors and painful humiliations (6-0 against Mourinho on Wenger’s 1000th? Could one game get any worse?). As long as this series of events goes on and on, the more obvious it is that there needs to be a change. As long as this series of events goes on and on, the more questions will be raised about whether Wenger has got it in him to turn things around. I am still the guy’s biggest fan, and will be however this ends, but lets not pretend like the issue is not there. At times this season, Arsenal Football Club has been humiliated for reaons that are simply preventable. I don’t mind a 6-0 here and there if it means attacking football. But 6-3, 5-1, 6-0 and then a loss to an Everton side that have marginal resources compared to us and who in Lukaku and Baines have two players that would make our starting line-up, when we needed the team to perform, I’m sorry I will thank Wenger wholeheartedly for his contribution, but if he is not asking questions of himself and his methods right now, then he’s not fit for the job.
What a delusional post? Shame how anybody can still hold it in for Wenger? Blame players? The same players he signed? Injuries aren’t bad luck as it’s his methods that make us top of the injuries table. He won’t even use the money available to sign world class players. #WengerOUT
The truth is that Wenger is yesterday’s man and has nothing to offer Arsenal or its fans other than great but fast fading memories of past glories. Wenger’s reign in the first 8 years was fantastic but since then he has, as Mourinho stated, has been rewarded for abject failure on the pitch. £7.5m a year to manage a clueless and pedestrian team that is not even shadow of the Invincibles but getting worse by the game.
This is Arsenal – one of the Top 3 English clubs over the last 100 years but fast becoming cannon fodder.
Time moves on but Wenger hasn’t kept up. He look resigned and either doesn’t care anymore or just doesn’t know what to do to change for the positive. Either way thanks for the Memories Monsieur Wenger and Au Revoir.