Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
thanks mate - can sleep easy now......things are going to happen, they have to and I believe Wenger knows this more than anyone......well at least more than all of the Arsenal fans worldwide put together.......better go back to counting sheep, can't sleep anymore
Agree about Wenger resting on his laurels when we won the league. And from the past few years expectation levels are understandably low.
I do think it's a little early to start wetting our collective pants though when the transfer window is barely open let alone closed.
If we're in the same position come August then people will be rightly annoyed, I'll be one of them.
Samba & Cahill are the only really credible players we've been linked with who I believe can upgrade our team.
The rest are pretty much projects, typical Arsene signings....the likes of Gervinho, Alvarez & Alex OC are talents but this team doesn't need talents it needs the finished product. We finished 4th for a reason, the team isn't strong enough period.
I'll wait, but I don't expect anything.
says who? The papers? You are a cleverer man than that Squelchy.
The window isnt even open until next friday, yes manyoo have sigend people good for them, we never announce anything until its done. Winger says he will make signing and he has what, 9 weeks to do it. jesus give him a chance.
Let's be honest, Wenger should have been hounded out after last summer's utter shambles. We lined up with Almunia in goal because Wenger was too tight to spend £3m on Schwarzer and bought in a couple of shite defenders and no replacement for lazy Song.
Yet again we arrive at the transfer window needing a keeper, defenders and DM. Every bloody year we seem to need to buy the spine of the team and never do!!!!
beginning to think the same myself......got all worked up by the rush of names and then calm after the storm puts things into reality, that these kind of things don't get done at the bat of an eyelid. We do have a cautious manager and in some ways that is not an overly bad thing.
ManU have signed a couple so we may feel we are already playing catch up........which to be fair considering they are champions was indeed the case the same moment the final whistle blew a close to the season (or for some that whistle was blown around the turn of the year!!)
As has been said we don't announce things early......let ManU do it their way and us do it ours, to be fair there hasnt much much else going on. AW I believe knows the score and will be doing his best.......just that we are going to have to wait
*enters rant mode.
Some of you guys make me fucking sick by the way, you moan we dont buy anyone but then wont wait for the window to open for us to sign anyone, when we do sign someone you will undoubtedly moan they are shit and its all a joke and so on before they have even kicked a ball in the shirt. We could sign Messi and you would still fuckin moan Wenger isnt changing his ways. Any player we bring in you have already decided you wont like because you dont like/want this manager and therefore will empart all hatred of him onto anything he does.
I genuinely wonder what you will do if Wenger pulls one out of his rather dusty magic hat, would you swallow your pride and admit he had done well? No of course not you will claim someone else within the club engineered as Wenger can no longer do any right at all.
Seriously if something brings you that much misery and despair why entertain it? You wouldnt keep watching a film or a stageshow that made you angry and drove you to the depths of depression like you claim watching this team does. I mean i hate swimming for instance, it makes me feel icky and wierd, so you know what i do? I keep my hairy arse out the pool.
I think 3 titles, 4 FA cups, a solid financial base and the best stadium in britain could buy the man who gave us the invincibles 9 weeks to buy some players for fucks sake.
*and breathe
If ever you needed proof that Wenger has lost his drive then it was last year's transfer window. It was nothing short of a disgrace.
We've seen the same situation (almost) every year for the last five years so it's understandable that fans are skeptical that Wenger will hold true to his word, given that he hasn't numerous times before.
Remember him saying he would sign two 'world class' ready players after Vieira left? That we would add to the squad 'only if' there was a player that would improve us? That we'd buy a defender if Squillaci/Djourou were injured? He's lied many times in the past.
Our end of season collapse is an annual happening and steps haven't been made to fix it over the last 5 years. Apart from the Arshavin transfer window and the Adebayor-Walcott-Diaby transfer window (coincidentally both times we were in danger of slipping out of the CL, which is why questions about what the board really want are often brought up), we've weakened ourselves in every transfer window over the last 5 years.
Nothing will change until Wenger leaves as he simply doesn't have it in him to win a top trophy anymore (and apparently not even a lesser trophy, even one as worthless as the Carling Cup).
The King Is Back.
He's had his chance, 6 years of chances in fact.
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