I've proved you wrong in this thread :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
I posted the video showing Wenger's very muted reactions to the goals. Yes, he reacted as would pretty much anyone but your hatred (and that really isn't too strong a word) of him robs you of any objectivity and you will never EVER change your opinion even when it's shown up to be nonsense.
There is plenty to criticise him about, you don't need to make up stuff.
You've also said in this thread he hasn't been doing a good job for over 10 years. So you'd have sacked him in what, 2006 or 2005? A year or two after The Invincibles? Really? Behave.
Let's stop all the revisionism. IMO you can split Wenger's time with us into 3 periods.
When he came he was remarkable, he revolutionised the club - arguably English football as a whole, other clubs soon followed suit with a flood of foreign players and managers and diet and fitness regimes. He took us to dizzy heights that no-one at Arsenal could have expected. Yes, yes, we won stuff before he came along but it was often awful football in my early memory of the club and, historically, success at Arsenal was pretty sporadic - read Fever Pitch.
Then the billionaires stuck their nose in just as we were doing the stadium move which restricted our finances. Was Wenger too frugal and cautious during that time? I think that is arguably true but, overall, I think he did pretty well to keep us relatively competitive.
Now he has the money to compete and he's even signed a few players who should enable us to but it's increasingly clear he's no longer able to deliver the biggest prizes. So he must go.
But don't proclaim yourself right as if you knew 10 years ago that he wasn't up to it and stop making up stupid reasons to have a go at him, there's plenty of real material to go on.
I don't like what we as a club have become either by the way - a big business - but IMO that is partly a reflection of our owners and partly a reflection of how football has gone in general. It's sad and I'm increasingly reluctant to engage with it but you can't blame Wenger for that one - that's the fault of people like Sky and UEFA who have made it all about saturation in the media and ever spiralling money.
