So obviously Wenger is gone, whether it's now or at the end of the season. He can't blag this out any longer. But who replaces him?
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So obviously Wenger is gone, whether it's now or at the end of the season. He can't blag this out any longer. But who replaces him?
Pointless thread as its nearly 5 years too early.
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Originally Posted by dostoy
Made a small correction.
There will never be another manager after Wenger. The club will disappear into the Matrix ether after he has gone and we will all wake up faced with a choice of two colored pills.
My mum - even she knows Giroud is shit.
He'll see out his contract and he'll be here for one more season after this one.
Wenger will just pack up his stadium and squad and ride off into the sunset in about 25 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
Exactly, without Wenger this club wouldn't exist, all the titles and trophies we won before him count for nothing (all mickey mouse), we'll all have to go and support Aldershot after he leaves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
Monk has done a great job at Swansea..
Agree with Munchies, Monk is doing a great job and has bought well. Wenger is here for a while yet IMO. He has the perfect job.
Are you feeling ok?Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
He has but he's still unproven and with no offence we are too big a club to be going sign unproven managers. If Wenger went right now, we'd be looking at Ancelotti, Klopp, Joachim Low and possibly Guardiola (we'd have Bould in as caretaker until the end of the season)Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
Though of course it's all pure fantasy Wenger is here until 2020 at least
Which one allows you to live in blissful ignorance of the nightmare existence you have?. That'd be the one id go forQuote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
As much as i am at the end of my teather with Wenger, I do have fears of a new manager. When i look at ManU, Pool, Spurs etc they cant settle on a decent manager. I for one would prefer a comfortable(ish) top four finish rather than the suffering Pool, spuds etc go through each season. Moyes was lorded as the next big thing, and he did a good job at Everton, but failed at ManU. They are all up and down, players come and go as they play well for one manager but not the next. I feel sometimes better the devil you know. Yes Monk is doing well, but give it a year or so and he could be the next Coyle, or Rodgers. I look at Pep, Mour, they go from one mega rich club to the next, teams that are already graced with `top top quality`. Klopp has done ok, improved this season but last was dire.
Im not a gambler in life, so Im probably wrong. Out of that list above, I would punt for Pep, but as for the others, Im less inclined. Other than Klopp, Pep, who is out there that can make a real good job of it.
Who is Klopp managing?Quote:
Originally Posted by alexander
GW really should have been an option in this poll, we could do it for half the wages
Asunlounger FCQuote:
Originally Posted by Harland
Be careful what you wish for, although lack of silverware is disappointing but we are consistent top 4 club, just wish Wenger would buy those last few bits of a jigsaw puzzle.
He will. He has bought a couple of expensive players since the stadium debt became history. He won't just buy for the sake of it. Look at spuds who spent a load of money on 3 players and it did not work out. Buying one or two each summer is the way to build the team/squad. Even SAF did not go out and spend loads every time - he bought a couple of key players each time. Sure - we needed to buy someone who would put the ball in the net but as AW said, you don't want just anyone. You need to get someone who will improve the squad and Giroud is not as crap as some seem to make out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goonerno1
Since the stadium build phase,we have won the FA Cup twice and come 3rd - 1st if you ignore the two teams with a billion pounds of silly money. The way some people talk about our club, you'd think we were languishing in the conference. Of course it would be nice to get another title and to win the CL but most clubs in England would love to have our 'problem'.
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Originally Posted by Harland
My bad. Not keeping up with the German league fail. Apologies.:doh:
I seriously don't understand some people on here. Wenger does deserve some criticism at time but not to the level he gets on here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coney
He hates spending money, he isn't interested in winning. But just in the last 2 years we've signed players like Ozil, Sanchez and Cech, all top players of the level we weren't signing before the new financial deals were put in place. We've won 2 FA Cups in a row and finished 4th and then 3rd - only the two teams with the infinite money cheat turned on finished above us last year. Right now we're 3rd, Utd are only above us on goal difference and while City have hit the ground running they're the only team to have done so and they will hit a rough patch sooner or later, probably sooner. Chelsea meanwhile are nowhere.
We did need a striker to push us on and Wenger deserves criticism if his failure to land one costs us, but I agree there was no point signing another 'Welbeck' just for the sake of having another player.
Utd have shown the dangers of replacing a top manager with someone who isn't up to it. Moyes (who some on here actually suggested as a replacement for Wenger :lol:) took the reigning champions to 7th. Van Gaal is now desperately trying to buy his way back to success, it's too early to know whether it will succeed but if it does it will have been because of the money rather than Van Gaal being any good. Klopp was also suggested as a replacement for Wenger, he's obviously a good manager but Dortmund had a car crash of a season last year - something Wenger has never done. Rodgers was also suggested after one good season - somewhat skewed by a combination of Liverpool having no European football that year and Suarez on insane form. Again, Rodgers is decent enough but has done nothing to suggest he'd be a capable replacement for Wenger.
Clearly at some point we have to move on from Wenger but the way some people talk on here you'd think Wenger is so inept that any idiot would do better. That clearly isn't true.
Addendum - it's been pointed out that we're not 3rd :lol:
I didn't notice how the Leicester result affected the table yesterday, but I don't think we need to worry about them too much this season, longer term.
Maybe not worry, but at least let's treat them with a bit of respect and prepare properly when we meet them. We don't want another of those performances where we arrogantly assume we have won before stepping on the pitch and consequently get our arses handed to us.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/articl...layoff-hopes-sQuote:
HOUSTON – With five matches left in the regular season, there’s little optimism around the Houston Dynamo. A two-game losing streak has put the club’s season on the brink of being over nearly a month before their season finale at Vancouver on Oct. 25.
As they prepare to face rivals Sporting Kansas City – a team looking to cement their playoff positioning – on Wednesday (8:30 pm ET, MLS LIVE), the Dynamo’s focus could be as much on next year as finishing the season strong.
“To make the playoffs, that’s a big ask. There’s no getting away from that, considering we’ve given up the last two games,” head coach Owen Coyle told the media Tuesday. “We as a group have to go in and show a reaction to the losses and show a bit of character.
“As it is, we now have five games where we want to play well and we want to go and try and win games. That’s what I’m looking for from those players from right now to the end of the season. To show who wants to be part of Houston Dynamo, to show who wants to be here.”
There are managers I would take above Wenger these days. All this talk of life being difficult after Wenger is nonsense, life with him in charge now is difficult and it's all his own doing.
That list is growing with each passing seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by selassie
I think the list dwindles, not because I think Wenger is marvellous because I think in the fullness of times many managers built up as the next big thing tend to be utter shit.
If we really wanted a proper step up on Wenger (and not anyone will do because Wenger is a cunt) we'd go all out to poach Guardiola from under Man City's noses.
Ancelotti, Pepp or Klopp. Wenger should be sacked on the spot if we have any chance of bringing one of those guys in.
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Originally Posted by Maestro
I'd add Diego Simeone to that listQuote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
more accurate
Brendan Rodgers
:woohoo:Quote:
Originally Posted by Douglas Reynholm
Hey wait a minute<_<
I hear Orson Vagner is the man being touted.
Aparently he's a German that has been working Grampus 8 in Japan. Some really good things have been whispered about him. Watch this space.
What, that paedo??
Well our manager has certainly lost his touch with the kids :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Douglas Reynholm
Wenger until 2019 I am reading.
Granted on Bleacher report, reporting from The Sun. :lol:
What else is new?
The more things change elsewhere, the more they stay the same at Arsenal. At least Letters will be happy.