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So we will start the season with our a striker... typical wenger mismanagement. How can you pretend to be ambitious when all the enthusiasm is taken out of the fans before I ball is even kicked.
Tbh as I said on the other thread, not many fans have missed the football or are actually looking forward to the new season so it doesn't make any difference.
Joke of a club.
On the plus side, I won't be getting FY any tickets this season.
Just read on Arseblog that Mahrez won't be signing a new contract. We should be pulling out all the stops for him now that the other options seem to be drying up.
Why are we so surprised? This happens every year. One more season of this shit and Le Prof should be gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ralpheroo72
I think we should go for Zlatan. I know he's just moved, but a solid round of rumours and speculation followed up by a concerted effort to avoid all contact with the player and his club might just lead to a spectacular announcement. We should at least not try, what do we have to gain?Quote:
Julian Draxler's hopes of sealing a move to Arsenal this summer remain slim after Wolfsburg sporting director Klaus Allofs insisted he will '100 per cent' stay at the club.
As reported by Sportsmail this week, the Bundesliga club expect 22-year-old Draxler to push for a move and Arsenal remain keen on sealing his signature.
But Allofs has insisted the Germany international, who is valued at £50million by his club, will not be leaving the Volkswagen Arena in this transfer window.
for people who are in no way surprised, there does seem to be a lot of thinly veiled anger dressed up as sarcasm on here
I just shrug my shoulders and think it's not worth getting angry about.
I can believe the Higuain link was true in so far that we asked if he was available and a basic estimate of how much and De Laurentis told us either where to go or quoted the ridiculous price he came out to the media with and instead of trying to turn the player's head and negotiate a lower asking price, we shrugged our shoulders and said "well we've done everything we can".
I guess going into the summer many, including myself, imagined not even WUMger could pull the same shit again. There was too much unrest throughout the fan base during last season. The inability to compete with Leicester was a new low point. The fact WUMger had been shown up time and again as the mistakes everyone pointed out last summer came home to roost. Surely this man, despite his overwhelming arrogance, his incompetence, his supreme stubbornness would change the equation just a little, if only to preserve what little is left of his shredded reputation. He still has a month remaining. But after so many seasons of the same old shit Arsenal fans can detect the signs. There seems to be no limit to what this fool is prepared to do to keep on trying to prove his methods that have failed and failed and failed again have validity. Too many years in the one place, too much power. Too complacent. No consequences for his actions or inactions. A recipe for nothing and that's what he keeps on delivering to the fans. Or, viewed from the board's perspective, holy shit, the man's a genius! And that's the divide.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
Think the board are caught between a rock of we don't want to rock the boat because our minimum objectives are being met and damn that marble clad stone flooring in my bathroom is nice.......and the hard place of people might stop coming to the emirates and buying our toot which might upset current and prospective sponsors and i'm paying for this marble clad stone flooring in instalments.
And Wenger is doing what any person would do when there's very little job pressure on him and the only one who decides whether he stays or goes is himself, the bare minimum.
I think he is genuinely more scared of spending loads and still failing which in his mind would be tarnishing his legacy as well as betraying his bizarre "changes to whatever best suits him" principles.
If you know you are going to please management if you do things the way you always have done things, why would you do things any different?. Why not just live on past achievements and pretend that your record of never finishing lower than 4th means something.
If i was 66 and knew my best years were behind me...I'd do exactly the same.
I am not too fussed, because if he fails to challenge for the title and is awarded with a new contract then there will be no doubt in my mind that the club is not worth investing any of my time in. I can maybe derive some amusement between the Wenger out Brigade where despite being far more sympathetic to their point of view have nothing better to channel their frustration into other than blind rage at anyone who dares to look at the situation with any sense of detachment, and the Arsene Knows Bests who frequently change their goalposts because they equally can't divorce emotion from their assessment of the situation.
I know a lot of people are tired of the factionalism and the silly i'm in one camp or the other mentality, but it's what people do....they are desperate always for a sense of belonging and will defend something they know to be nonsense because they've planted their flag.
The only sane thing to do, is hope for the best, expect the worst....and have something better to do with your time when it invariably goes wrong.
It certainly wasn't an emotional reaction not renewing my red membership, i just didn't want to spend money on something which i probably wouldn't end up using. There was no "so it's come to this" lamentation, it was a bit like sifting through clothes to get rid of when i moved last week it was a case of "I don't really need this any more".Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie