Was this our most wasted summer transfer window yet?

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Originally Posted by Özim

From what I've seen he's still on another popular forum and hasn't been banned from there, a forum people use to say wouldn't tolerate certain peoples' views.

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What forum?

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

That's not what I find ridiculous, it's your daft assertion that the club would have been better off if he'd never become manager in the first place and that it will be worse off once he leaves than when he took on the job in 1996.

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People hail the man as somekind of magician, guess what a magician doesn't go most of his career at one club consistently failing to succeed, name me 1 other manager who after a period of great success has failed to reproduce for so long and still remained in charge.

I'm pretty sure that once he leaves we're likely to go through a slump (I'll take it though) simply because this club is basically Arsene Wenger FC, it shouldn't be but it is, so when he leaves it will be hard for anyone to take over, his personality and flaws are so ingrained in this club it will take a good few years to get rid of that.

Man U went through it, but they had a far superior manager, with a will to succeed, so at least they had years of success before it happened, we on the other hand have had years of frustration and disappointment, some of us have even come to accept failure and turned it on its head as if it's actually success.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

What forum?

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Goonersworld.

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Originally Posted by Özim

Goonersworld.

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The bastards. He goes down as the RVP of GW.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

What gets me about this place is the attempt to police things that are said, not even the Wenger discussion as that's completely anodyne anyway

And to be fair on Letters this tends to be more Macca than him, the need to delete things that might be seen as a little edgy

We are all adults on this site and we all know the difference between hyperbole and genuine sentiment.

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I refer you to what happened to the Big Four forum of which had former GW alumni. And their forum was smaller even than this..

Also I don't have much of a problem with any of the signings we made this summer. I can't think of any players that went in the summer I am even jealous of really. Maybe Mane.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

Driving people away from the site? :lol: Have you seen this place? What you guys are doing now is just as bad. We've totally gone off topic.

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I know for a fact that people left because of him.

The post count isn't anywhere near enough to make this a good site, we definitely need new people. My feeling is that we're not going to suddenly see a resurgence I don't think we've done anything wrong though, the whole concept of messageboards is less popular than it used to be, people have moved on to chatting about things on FB and in other ways. I couldn't work out if you were accusing me of discouraging discussion, I don't see how I've ever done that.

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Originally Posted by Özim

People hail the man as somekind of magician, guess what a magician doesn't go most of his career at one club consistently failing to succeed, name me 1 other manager who after a period of great success has failed to reproduce for so long and still remained in charge.

I'm pretty sure that once he leaves we're likely to go through a slump (I'll take it though) simply because this club is basically Arsene Wenger FC, it shouldn't be but it is, so when he leaves it will be hard for anyone to take over, his personality and flaws are so ingrained in this club it will take a good few years to get rid of that.

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You are pettifogging, the issue is not whether he's the second coming or something like that....the issue is whether the club has improved and grown bigger as a result of him being the manager than the position it was in in 1996. No-one is stating that he hasn't massively outstayed his welcome or that he hasn't come close to emulating what he did in the first half of his arsenal managerial career, but we are an incredibly well run club and Wenger is part of that even as a football manager he is massively lacking.
I'd like him to move on to give a younger, more ambitious and more innovative man a chance to move the team forward, but there is absolutely no question that this club is a very attractive prospect for any manager and Wenger takes responsibility for that as much as he takes responsibility for our inability to challenge for major honours.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

What gets me about this place is the attempt to police things that are said, not even the Wenger discussion as that's completely anodyne anyway

And to be fair on Letters this tends to be more Macca than him, the need to delete things that might be seen as a little edgy

We are all adults on this site and we all know the difference between hyperbole and genuine sentiment.

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Things are hardly ever deleted on here. IMO we've always moderated with a very light touch on here, arguably too light. Back in the day it was very hard to get banned from this place.

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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

I refer you to what happened to the Big Four forum of which had former GW alumni. And their forum was smaller even than this..

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:lol: Wow, yeah - I'd forgotten about that!

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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

I refer you to what happened to the Big Four forum of which had former GW alumni. And their forum was smaller even than this..

Also I don't have much of a problem with any of the signings we made this summer. I can't think of any players that went in the summer I am even jealous of really. Maybe Mane.

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I am just stating the things on here that personally aggravate me. It's your forum you can do what you like, my suggestion is don't try and pre-empt people getting offended.