So, how do WE win the league?

[Özim]

That's the job he has been asked to do. That's the job the shareholders would have asked any manager to do. Legally it was their club and they decided to milk it for all the cash they could get. Wenger had two options, do they job they instructed him to do or resign. But if you get a new manager doesn't he get faced with the same simple choice? Do what the shareholders want or fuck off. After that it comes down to who can at least stop the looting having a dramatic effect on our league position.

A manager can challenge a board though, Wenger has al ot of respect from the board and if he went to them and told them we needed to do a bit more and needed to succeed I'm pretty sure they would back him.

A new manager would surely only accept the job if he was given adequate funds and with the intention of bringing success back, something Wenger seems to have little interest in doing.

[Niall_Quinn]

A manager can challenge a board though, Wenger has al ot of respect from the board and if he went to them and told them we needed to do a bit more and needed to succeed I'm pretty sure they would back him.

A new manager would surely only accept the job if he was given adequate funds and with the intention of bringing success back, something Wenger seems to have little interest in doing.

Not the board - the shareholders! The ones who stood to make all the cash and when you stand back and take a look it certainly appears the last few seasons have been all about setting the club up for sale. That seems to have been the #1 priority. Can Wenger dictate on something like that? I doubt it. £500mill and even PHW can grow a set. There was more to the Fabregas/ Nasri thing than has been made public, enough slipped out to suggest Wenger may not have been fully on board. But as is the way with any company hierarchy, the shareholders will trump the manager every time if they insist. Maybe it's true that a prospective replacement for Wenger would demand investment, our lot would probably settle for no manager at all then.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Not the board - the shareholders! The ones who stood to make all the cash and when you stand back and take a look it certainly appears the last few seasons have been all about setting the club up for sale. That seems to have been the #1 priority. Can Wenger dictate on something like that? I doubt it. £500mill and even PHW can grow a set. There was more to the Fabregas/ Nasri thing than has been made public, enough slipped out to suggest Wenger may not have been fully on board. But as is the way with any company hierarchy, the shareholders will trump the manager every time if they insist. Maybe it's true that a prospective replacement for Wenger would demand investment, our lot would probably settle for no manager at all then.

Pretty much. AW obviously knows alot and the board know if they let him go now. he will expose more then they want right now. So backing him is their way of keeping him quiet etc.

[Power n Glory]

Not the board - the shareholders! The ones who stood to make all the cash and when you stand back and take a look it certainly appears the last few seasons have been all about setting the club up for sale. That seems to have been the #1 priority. Can Wenger dictate on something like that? I doubt it. £500mill and even PHW can grow a set. There was more to the Fabregas/ Nasri thing than has been made public, enough slipped out to suggest Wenger may not have been fully on board. But as is the way with any company hierarchy, the shareholders will trump the manager every time if they insist. Maybe it's true that a prospective replacement for Wenger would demand investment, our lot would probably settle for no manager at all then.

If any of that were true we'd have sold Cesc when Barca wanted him a season before. It was football related and we had players unhappy with the club and wanting to leave. If we sell RVP this season, you can't say he was forced out of the door, the bottom line is, he's grown frustrated with the cycle we see each season.

Also, the shareholders can't dictate what we do as club at that sort of level. Not in regards to us selling players and what happens on the pitch. Advising the manager to sell his best players when he's reluctant to do so is suicidal. Actually believing that this has been happening for a number of years is crazy as well. Wenger's structure and policies have lead them here and shares have grown because of his management style and structure. Are we now saying he's being lead by the Shareholders? People that know nothing about football. And we've seen the AGM outburst a few seasons ago when he had that outburst as if shareholders have no business questioning his managerial decisions. He just wouldn't have it. He's not the sort of guy that allows people to tell him how to do his job.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

A manager can challenge a board though, Wenger has al ot of respect from the board and if he went to them and told them we needed to do a bit more and needed to succeed I'm pretty sure they would back him.

A new manager would surely only accept the job if he was given adequate funds and with the intention of bringing success back, something Wenger seems to have little interest in doing.

If he wants to get sacked he would. No manager in his right mind would challenge the board just to make a few fans happy.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Interestingly, I don't know if anyone heard or picked up on it today, but on SSN one of city's directors said that they would not be making wholesale changes to the squad this summer. They may add 1 or 2 players but they want to retain the core nucleus of players.

Maybe they won't be splashing out in the way every thinks in future?

[Niall_Quinn]

Interestingly, I don't know if anyone heard or picked up on it today, but on SSN one of city's directors said that they would not be making wholesale changes to the squad this summer. They may add 1 or 2 players but they want to retain the core nucleus of players.

Maybe they won't be splashing out in the way every thinks in future?

On the other hand it wouldn't be smart even for them to enter a transfer window shouting Loadsa Money!

[Alan B'stard]

Interestingly, I don't know if anyone heard or picked up on it today, but on SSN one of city's directors said that they would not be making wholesale changes to the squad this summer. They may add 1 or 2 players but they want to retain the core nucleus of players.

Maybe they won't be splashing out in the way every thinks in future?

They don't need to. They have established critical mass now and only need the odd marquee
Signing going forward. Plus let's not forget city always had a decent academy (unlike Chelsea)