Quote Originally Posted by Dein-machine View Post
If he had gone 3 or 4 years ago I think you would be right but I'm afraid the appreciation we have for him gets less every year & by the time he leaves he could well be a hate figure. Fergie did the right thing, pubbed the Premier league with the worst United team in recent history & fucked off. He knew competing against Chelsea & City was going to be difficult & when you had had the success he had, the future was only going to be disappointing for fans of a team that won big trophies every year.
Only the twattiest of internet twats would ever regard him as a hate figure.

What I don't understand is...we did win the FA Cup last year, and the year before that. And finished 4th then 3rd. Wenger's hardly taken us into mid-table, or worse. Clough got Forest relegated and he's still revered up there, all Wenger's done is gone too long without a trophy and we've dropped from 1st to 4th - in no small part due to the billionaires.

We were a bit spoilt by the first half of Wenger's reign but some people's take on how bad things are is way overboard. With our resources we should be pushing harder but the level of criticism he gets is somewhat out of proportion. Moyes showed us what a properly poor manager can do when let lose at a big club.