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With comments from Gazidis recently and also Wenger, I get the feeling that he might get a new contract and continue for a few more years at Arsenal. The board probably had a look at what happened to United and the amount of money they have had to spend just to finish 4th and panicked.
No sadly for us he's going to be around for a long time yet, which from a success and progression point of view isn't good news for us.
Sadly, as usual, Wenger will do whatever HE wants to do with no pressure from above. The saying in football is "no-one is bigger than the club" - in Wenger's head, this doesn't apply to him.
YeahOriginally Posted by Özim
We haven't won a trophy for literally months.
Yeah we haven't won a major trophy for over 10 years.
Excuse me?Yeah
NOTE: The location of this post has been moved and the thread title (which was previously Wenger is Leaving) has been manipulated by a notorious pro-Wenger moderator. What was previously a message that contained no profanity and made a comment on a real life event has now been manipulated by a deliberately provocative title. An old and crude propaganda and censorship technique.
Wenger is under pressure, just not the kind of pressure man-toddler fans want him to be under.
I really don't understand this idea that Wenger is under no pressure and it literally doesn't matter how we do. Of course it does.
Had we slipped out of the top 4 (as the 'experts' on here have predicted year on year we would) then he'd have been long gone.
As to the original question, it is probably up to him. If he continues to deliver what the board expects (which I think he will) and thinks he can still do a job for us then he'll stay.
He's a far safer pair of hands than some of the laughable suggested replacements.
I mean a trophy that counts
(Obviously the FA Cup doesn't *really* count because if people assert that Wenger will never win a trophy for us again then we have to move the goalposts and dismiss the FA Cup rather than admitting we were wrong).
I wrote that before I saw Zim's post. Textbook.
RVP spoke to Rio about this when he joined Utd. The mentality at Arsenal is that we’d like to win trophies but with United, the mentality is that they have to win trophies. Most of our rivals around Europe have this same attitude and we need to start thinking in that same way. If Wenger stays on he has to adapt. The Board need to put more pressure on him. He deserves job security but he also needs to know that we’re aiming higher and he must adapt with the times. If they don’t put pressure on him our only hope is that Mourinho indirectly helps us again with his constant goading. The ‘specialist in failure’ comments must have irked Wenger and spurred him to make Jose eat his words and I hope the rivalry continues. Wenger’s competitive spirit started to die when he and Fergie became bosom buddies.
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