The fallacy of the long term manager

[Marc Overmars]

Stability is overrated. You only need stabilising if you're swimming against the tide and we're most certainly not anymore.

I think we should be very grateful for the stability Wenger provided during the early years of the Emirates move, I don't think there are many managers around who would have kept us relatively competitive with a minimal net spend and a squad of ordinary players. The problem for him is that circumstances change, everything in football changes, yet he's not really shown much to suggest he can keep up with that.

Now we need to move forward but we're stuck with a manager well past his sell by date. Tactically he's really poor, seldom do we pick up wins against teams we're competing with and his performance in the CL over 18 years speaks for itself. Squad management is poor, he'll run players into the ground, play them out of position (through refusal to buy specialist players) and won't make the necessary personnel changes until they've slapped him in the face. Something he was once famed for, player development, is now non-existent. All of our young players (in some cases, established ones too) tend to have an explosive start but then they seem to stagnate or even regress. Lets all take a moment to pray for Bellerin.

Finally, what he did in the transfer market this summer was laughable. Every year we see players come into this league and take to it like a duck to water but he couldn't find anyone to improve us because he was too busy waiting like a tramp around the dumpsters at Real Madrid, PSG and other clubs who may have a top player surplus. Fancy not signing anyone because his own personal valuations were not met, that alone would have him sacked at any top club, hell, I'm pretty sure pub teams wouldn't stand for that either if money was available.

He's a great man but nothing lasts forever, he's had his time in the sun. The biggest shame of all though, is that we have a board who do not give a fuck as long as the money is rolling in.