Should Wenger go?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I will. I'll be boring the shit out of my grandchildren about some of the football I've seen.

Which is what makes what is happening now, even harder to stomach. Someone - even if it is Dein has got to convince Wenger to go. I expect it to happen at the end of the season.

Did you see him yestersday looking all dejected and what not, does not look like a man who has any fight left im him, imo he will be gone in the summer he really will, id be suprised if he is here in july.

[Coney]

George Graham thinks he might have finished at the Arsenal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17065874

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Another slight cause for concern is that Wenger will probably have a say in who is successor should be, I mean he approved the appointment of Gazidis didn't he. Fancy that, choosing your own boss.

Dragan Stojkovic is rumoured to have been earmarked, apparently he's a mini-Wenger. Spookily also currently managing the club in Japan Wenger did before he joined us.

I understand the clubs self-sustaining policy, it's rammed down our throats enough times, but I really hope when Wenger does leave, the club back the new manager with some funds even if it means taking a hit on the profits for one year. The new guy has to be given a chance to compete. Wenger spent some relatively large amounts during his first 4-5 years to build his team, so hopefully that is the case for his successor.

Not really a concern i mean SAF is having a say to who will suceed him, so don't see the problem with wenger doing the same. Don't mean the new manager will be a Wenger clone etc. Its The board who will have he final say anyways.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Another cause for concern is that Wenger will probably have a say in who is successor should be, I mean he approved the appointment of Gazidis didn't he. Fancy that, choosing your own boss.

Dragan Stojkovic is rumoured to have been earmarked, apparently he's a mini-Wenger. Spookily also currently managing the club in Japan Wenger did before he joined us. It's just not what we need right now.

I understand the clubs self-sustaining policy, it's rammed down our throats enough times, but I really hope when Wenger does leave, the club back the new manager with some funds even if it means taking a hit on the profits for one year. The new guy has to be given a chance to compete. Wenger spent some relatively large amounts during his first 4-5 years to build his team, so hopefully that is the case for his successor. Otherwise the cycle will just go on and on.

Yep, I've been drinkin hot whiskey.

[GP]

Gazidis just got back from Kamino where he's been overseeing the development of the Wenger Clone Army.

[DJ Philosophe]

No doubting the respect for Wenger will always be there and for what he's done for us. The very fact we see 4th place and going out in the CL knockouts as a flop says it all. All good things don't last forever though and Wenger is yesterdays man now, Football has moved on from 1998 and he just doesn't cut it anymore for me. If ever there was a manager living off reputation alone it has to be Arsene Wenger.

The club is stuck in a turgid cycle that remarkably repeats itself every season, it is very draining as a supporter to know exactly where the club is going wrong and to see nothing done about it. The fact my interest and emotional attachment to Arsenal has waned over the past 2 years tells me that something is broken.

It is very obvious that the club needs something radical to happen if it is going to compete at the top again.

Exactly what I would have posted. He set a high standard the even he, AW, cannot maintain anymore. Also, would like to add to it the fact that AW has bred a culture of mediocrity at the club by bringing in average players and hyping them up to be superstars, when they are really just not good enough. That psychological theory has finally come back to haunt him over the past years.

[Marc Overmars]

Not really a concern i mean SAF is having a say to who will suceed him, so don't see the problem with wenger doing the same. Don't mean the new manager will be a Wenger clone etc. Its The board who will have he final say anyways.

Exactly and the board will probably go for someone who they think will be happy to work under the self-sustaining policy and make a profit every year.

[Marc Overmars]

Also, serious GW scares me.

[GP]

Also, serious GW scares me.

It's not often I'll make a serious thread, but the results of the poll are overwhelming.

[AKBapologist]

Oh yes, lets make a knee jerk poll after a big defeat.