I don't see how anyone can continue to defend him.
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I don't see how anyone can continue to defend him.
That we spend zilch and make profits off good players leaving every summer? Unless you are 100% sure he is sitting on a shitload of available cash, I am not sure how you can say there is no defence.
No recycled jokes about Arsenal's defence plskthx.
I keep hearing these comments from everyone how "you can see how much it is hurting Wenger" or "you can sense his frustration"
Can you?
Does he really look anymore hurt or frustrated than McCarthy did in the games before he went? Bruce look frustrated & hurt all season. He doesn't look remotely different from any other manager at any other club, who loses as many games as they win.
Nor does standing there with your arms outstretched and moaning to the 4th official, 60 times match show too much hurt.
Sorry guys, this isn't the fault of Wenger. The quality just isn't out there to improve our squad. If the right quality was available, he would snap it up.
Sebastian Larsson Birmingham Sunderland Free 29/06/2011
Scott Parker West Ham United Tottenham Hotspur £6,000,000 31/08/2011
Demba Ba West Ham United Newcastle United Free 09/06/2011
David Vaughan Blackpool Sunderland Free 06/07/2011
Danny Graham Watford Swansea City £3,500,000 13/06/2011
Rafael Van Der Vaart Real Madrid Tottenham Hotspur £8,000,000 31/08/10
Over the years on GW, there have been numerous threads on transfer targets who we should sign. Most of us could easily see the problems in the squad, and those problems have still not been addressed till this day. We've been crying out for good centre backs , a world class striker, and good attacking wingers. For instance, players being mentioned many times : VDV before he went to Hamburg, Kompany before he went to City , Juan Mata (should have just stumped up that extra £5 mill or so, all those wages being wasted on dead wood can amount to that difference) , Scott Parker (the world class DM we've been craving since Flamini left).
Nothing is going to change if it currently stays as it is, Wenger waited until the LAST DAY of the transfer market, when we all KNEW CESC/Nasri would leave. He only acted because we got smashed 8-2 , would he have bought if it was a narrow 1-0 loss ?
Not sure at the time How Danny Graham or Vaughn would have helped us at all.Originally Posted by Keith
If all these available, low-price players are so much better than the ones we bought and, how are we 4th?
There might be a bit of facetiousness in that. I think there is a point there and that there is an unreasonableness when discussing these issues. It is going completely on Wenger's back without acknowledgement of certain facts - i.e. expenditure. There is a website - http://www.transferleague.co.uk/ - 20th in net expenditure since 2006. Why is this so readily overlooked on here?
That's why I find it ironic on here now that those willing to give Wenger the slightest leeway are called fanatics. I don't think there is balance to the criticism now.
Last edited by Dennis Bendtner; 18-02-2012 at 08:44 PM.
The difference between 4th and 12th is Robin Van Persie. I fully accept that we don't spend much relative to our sales. But quantity-wise, we have spent. And the Park, Diaby, Gibbs, Chamakh, Arshavin and quite a few others that never play are not sitting on their arses for free. This has been a severe mismanagement of funds and we're about to hand Djourou a new contract. It's ridiculous. If a new manager with some common sense can look at that from a fresh perspective - from the same perspective that Petit has - and also looks to sort out the injury problems we've been having (the no.1 problem at the club) then great. We've fucked Wilshere up (Arsene has admitted the setback was avoidable) and we've definitely fucked Rosicky over - which is why we'll keep handing him contracts out of guilt. The whole thing's a mess and needs new leadership...even if he can't spend much money.
Diaby has accrued something like 15-20 million in wages in his time here. On a per-game basis of full 90 minutes, the return has been abysmal.
Show the door
1Manuel ALMUNIA
21Lukasz FABIANSKI
4Per MERTESACKER
18Sebastien SQUILLACI
20Johan DJOUROU
25Carl JENKINSON
2Abou DIABY
7Tomas ROSICKY
23Andrey ARSHAVIN
30Yossi BENAYOUN
9Ju-Young PARK
27 GERVINHO
29Marouane CHAMAKH
14Theo WALCOTT
11Carlos VELA
24Vito MANNONE
52Nicklas BENDTNER
DENILSON
Perhaps it is form
16Aaron RAMSEY
Keep
13Wojciech SZCZESNY
3Bacary SAGNA
5Thomas VERMAELEN
6Laurent KOSCIELNY
11Andre SANTOS
28Kieran GIBBS
8Mikel ARTETA
17Alex SONG
19Jack WILSHERE
39Francis COQUELIN
10Robin VAN PERSIE
15Alex OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN
26Emmanuel FRIMPONG
I can't name 11 & subs from our squad!
No idea
31Ryo MIYAICHI
46Henri LANSBURY
Joel CAMPBELL
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