Quote Originally Posted by Gervinho's Forehead View Post
But honestly it's how bad the relationship with Wenger has become, that I and many others are question the whole of his tenure. These are sad times we're in.

I do think the question of him riding on the success or Graham and Rioch is valid one, for the team he inherited.
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.