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"After all, it was the Gunners’ goalkeeper who started the move that culminated in Thomas’ crowning glory. It was Lukic who, in injury time, decided to throw the ball out to Lee Dixon rather than lump it long..."
I can't believe people persist to excuse the guy who has been totally shown up and time after time has been seen making baffling decisions noone in their right minds would make.
Or is that the boards fault as well?
Has the stadard dropped so low that we can't beat teams like Swansea and Norwich? I disagree with that. Even if we don't have a team that can challenge for the title, we shouldn't look so toothless against certain teams each year and we should have at least won a domestic cup by now.
Wenger is supposed to be one of the elite mangers and even if he had players that were on the same level as Swansea players or lower, he should still come out on top because he's supposed to be the more skilled manager. He is supposed to be of the elite class and it's why he gets paid so much. This is like seeing Hamilton or Alonso go head to head against a Force India or HRT driver and constantly getting beat. Our manager and team should be miles ahead of these guys. It's a disgrace and right now it looks like Wenger is no better than guys like Hughes, Mancini and Di Matteo...pay cheaque managers that need super star players to get results. Wenger might as well have moved to PSG and joined a super rich club where he can buy who he wants. He's not cut out to manage us and we don't want him anymore.
I feel the same way about Wenger as I felt about GG towards the end of his tenure. I've still got programme notes with Graham regularly stating that he was in the market for players but wasn't going to spend money on players that weren't any better than the ones we already had - does this sound familiar to anyone?
Don't get me wrong, but I loved GG and look back on what he achieved and how he achieved success with us with pride. But football moved on and GG did not and we progressively got worse and more and more uncompetitive - even with the great quality of the back four and a lethal striker.
I wanted GG out at that point - so it seems did the Board, but they were spineless bastards that used football bungs that were an endemic throughout football and an established part of the culture to hang him out to dry. The Board then were complete and utter ****s.
As for Rioch - what can anyone say? It looks like it was always the intention for him to be an interim Manager - what other rationale can there be for what happened? The treatment of Rioch was also compounded by the behaviour of Wright who publically treated Rioch with contempt and there were rumours that Wright even complained directly to Rioch's bosses about him.
Wenger didn't ride on anyone's success, he built on it beyond anyone's dreams to create a team that simply blew people's minds away delivering the type of success and football no one alive today has ever seen before at Arsenal.
But that was back in the day when he did innovative things such as invest in top top quality players. I don't see him ever doing that again, and just as football moved on past GG who demonstrated an inability to change, so it now has to Wenger.
Feeling that way in no way undermines the respect I have and how grateful I am of what GG and AW did for our Club, but both of them stayed on too long. I hope against hope that Wenger calls it a day.
Only just watching MOTD.
Bar RVP and Rooney, that Man Utd team is bloody average. But they're still able to push for the title.
One of the biggest problems i see is that wenger cant change the tactics or the team personell when the situation dictates.Fergie wasnt frightened to sub rafael after 30 min even though the player was angry and hurt by it.He did it for the good of the team .This is something wenger wouldnt do for fear of upsetting the player.He even waited till the usual 70th min before bringing off santos even though he knew he was a liability.These arent the decisions of a tactical genius more of a man who cant deviate from a set plan.