Wenger Slaughterhouse

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

im not racist against him leaving.

[Niall_Quinn]

That's 210 minutes of Santos being slaughtered and Wenger has done nothing about it, just let it happen. He must have seen it but does nothing. On the other hand he sees Giroud being effective, against a shit Reading granted, but then watches for 90 minutes today as he is completely isolated. Again nothing is done to change it, no attempt whatsoever to bring Giroud into the game. I'm at a complete loss to even guess at what he's seeing, what he's thinking, how he imagines persevering with such obvious calamity can be of benefit, what he thinks might happen eventually if he just leaves it, how long he thinks we can go waiting for this mysterious payoff without taking so many hits it won't matter a damn anyway. Has he had a stroke or something, some sort of mental condition that makes it impossible for him to see Santos? Or makes it appear Santos is having a great game? Is he being blackmailed by Aaron Ramsey?

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

That's 210 minutes of Santos being slaughtered and Wenger has done nothing about it, just let it happen. He must have seen it but does nothing. On the other hand he sees Giroud being effective, against a shit Reading granted, but then watches for 90 minutes today as he is completely isolated. Again nothing is done to change it, no attempt whatsoever to bring Giroud into the game. I'm at a complete loss to even guess at what he's seeing, what he's thinking, how he imagines persevering with such obvious calamity can be of benefit, what he thinks might happen eventually if he just leaves it, how long he thinks we can go waiting for this mysterious payoff without taking so many hits it won't matter a damn anyway. Has he had a stroke or something, some sort of mental condition that makes it impossible for him to see Santos? Or makes it appear Santos is having a great game? Is he being blackmailed by Aaron Ramsey?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

"Im getting paid in the morning, I'm getting paid in the morning"

[Cripps_orig]

It may not have matched the 8-2 drubbing suffered at Old Trafford last season, but Arsenal’s 2-1 defeat at Manchester United on Saturday lunchtime was an all-too familiar tale for the Gunners as they yet again failed to produce in a big game.

Arsene Wenger’s side lacked any sort of spark or imagination going forward, and the defence which has shipped the fewest goals in the Premier League this season was easily exploited by United’s wealth of attacking talent.

What is more worrying is that the Gunners boss chose to stick with an XI that barely scraped past a poor QPR side just a week earlier.

Andre Santos looked well out of his depth on the left of Arsenal’s defence, and was run ragged by the ever-threatening Antonio Valencia. The former Fenerbahce man struggled where youngster Kieran Gibbs may have succeeded, and he certainly didn’t match the £6.2million fee paid for him at the beginning of last season.

Wenger aim is surely to build a strong back four echoing the classic defence from the late eighties and nineties, but times have changed and the 63-year-old needs to be able to adjust his side to fit their opponents, and not stick blindly with the same tried, tested and failed formula.

Thomas Vermaelen had a particularly poor game for the Gunners, shanking a clearance which inevitably created the opening goal for Robin van Persie, and almost making the same mistake again when the former Arsenal striker robbed the Belgium international and nearly provided a goal for Valencia.

Aaron Ramsey has also struggled for form since returning to the side after his horrific leg break, and the Wales international never truly looked comfortable deployed in a wide position. Theo Walcott’s introduction early in the second half proved futile as the Gunners struggled to string together any meaningful periods of possession.

Had the England international started the game it could have been a different story, but his fall to the lower depths of Arsenal’s squad meant he was always unlikely to earn a spot in the starting line-up. His fantastic display against Reading in the Capital One Cup had many clamouring for him to start, though Wenger may have argued that, after playing 120 minutes of football, his charge may have struggled with another full afternoon.

These are worrying times for the Gunners, when it is hard to see where the goals are coming from. The injured Gervinho’s threat was missed, but the Ivory Coast forward only has three goals in the Premier League this season, and new signing Olivier Giroud is still struggling to settle into life in England.

One of the key problems is that Wenger is not renowned for being proactive and reacting to match situations. Jack Wilshere’s red card was a perfect example of these shortcomings.

Less than ten minutes before Wilshere picked up his second yellow of the game, Sir Alex Ferguson hauled off Tom Cleverley – also on a yellow – when referee Mike Dean gave him a final warning after the midfielder fouled Arsenal’s number 10.

The United boss saw the impending danger and immediately reacted. Wenger did not, and Arsenal ultimately paid the price as they failed to make any serious inroads into the Red Devils’ two-goal lead.

The gap between Arsenal and the top is ever-increasing. Wenger has to be prepared to adapt if the Gunners are to have any hope of picking up silverware this season, including the “fifth trophy” of Champions League qualification.

Spot on

[Power n Glory]

It's all been said before and I'm just waiting to see his squad selection for Champs League to see how far he's willing to go with this stupidity.

[Cripps_orig]

The squad will more or less be the same.

Its the starting line up that should looked upon

If Ramsey is on the right again, Wenger needs to be sacked

[Özil's Panoramic View]

Spot on

You can't teach an old dog new tricks, maybe except for SAF.

Wenger is spent, he should go before he drags the club further below any level of respectablility. He's an arrogant, deluded ****, who's stuck in his flawed ideals and ways of doing things.

We see an ever changing football climate around us but he never seems to do anything different. Same old, same old, whether it be on or off the pitch activities.

He needs to just fuck off.

[Cripps_orig]

Wengers reputations is in tatters. His legacy ruined. On a personal level he is a nobody now.

As a club, we still have some sort of respect but to keep that and to build it back up, we indeed need Wenger to fuck off asap

[V-Pig]

Wenger is spent, he should go before he drags the club further below any level of respectablility. He's an arrogant, deluded ****, who's stuck in his flawed ideals and ways of doing things.

He needs to just fuck off.

Wow.