Match Reaction vs Fulham 10/11/12

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Finding a new manager, for one. Which creates a whole raft of issues around how that manager will get on with the board and the players and rest of the staff.

It could create unrest amongst the players who are loyal to Wenger (hard to say right now how big a problem this will be right now, a few years ago it would have been a bigger problem).

We don't have much to lose any more and if Wenger goes then I won't be as sad about it as I would have a few years ago but it's not a magic bullet and everything will be fine once he's gone. We'd still have a board who are content with 4th place and we'd still not be able to compete with the top 3 financially.

There is no new manager who is in sync with his board right from the start. As long as the manager is achieving the clubs expectations whether they be staying in the league, mid table finish, Europa, CL qualification or winning the PL title. Problems only start when these objectives are NOT being met. Arsenal s unique problem is that the manager IS meeting the boards expectations but not that of the fans. The only reason people rant here is that we dont agree that we cannot and therefore should not even try to compete with the top 3. What we are now seeing however is that we are not even able to compete with the middling teams like Everton, Newcastle et al. At our current rate we are just as likely to end up 12th as 4th. the problems are on the pitch not in the board room. We should have beaten Fulham, Norwich and Sunderland with a moderately competent manager like Martinez of Wigan, and if we had an excellent manager like Klopp, or Guardiola we would be sitting on maybe 25 points even with this current squad.

As for players being loyal to Wenger, we have seen that the quality ones are mosdef Not loyal as they all leave ASAP. The likes of Djourou, Squillaci, Fabianski, Ramsey, Diaby, Rosicky et al, Well they all love Wenger and would be understandably distraught if he were to leave.