Quote Originally Posted by Globalgunner View Post
Wenger is at fault for believing his own myth and not constantly striving to improve himself. He believed that Chelsea and Uniteds millions were a caveat that would protect him from criticism as the fans would continue to buy the bull that we simply cannot compete. (This btw is not true, an exceptional manager can beat them on the pitch w/o having to match them financially). The fact is he will not bea able to beat them consistently but at least muster enough skill and talent to do it on a consistent enough basis to win an occasional title and and a frequent cup of some sort. What we have seen however is that Wenger is not an exceptional manager anymore and City has emerged to squeeze his options even more. Moreover clubs like Spuds Everton and Liverpool have shown that by boxing clever you can get close to the big spenders while only spending a 3rd of their totals

Fans can see through his mind tricks because it all plays out on the pitch. Exasperating player purchases and team gutting player sales. the club has become no more than an indulgence for Wenger. NQ and other can wail all they want about the board, but the truth is the board is no longer a financial yoke on our necks. Nobody on the board own any significant shares anymore except SK and Usmanov so they are not reaping any great dividends anymore. The great payout was in 2010 when eveybody sold to Kroenke, since then our money has gone mostly on players wages to absolute dross. We only make dividends when we sell players.

Significantly the better players that leave are mostly not sold against their will, they leave because their ambitions are no longer being met at Arsenal. Who wants to hang around to be a pawn in Wenger`s flights of fantasy?. A man who is constantly waiting for vindication, who thinks that if he can just win 1 CL. It will justify every garbage season of implosion that has gone before. He wont win the CL because you need at least 3 exceptional players in a team with another 8-12 good players to do this. even Chelsea who fluked it last year have this combination and would have won it 2ce if Drogba was not an Ass and Terry a slipshod mong. A team need to be led by a purposeful manager who sees the game with utmost clarity not one who believes that each failure is simply a combination of bad luck and misfortune.

We have been badly managed by Wenger for several years now. Yes he has done well for us early on and we would not be the club we are with global recognition if he had not made the early star signings like Henry Pires et al, but even then a better manager would IMO have done greater things with these talents. He has taken advantage of our appreciation to entwine himself indistinguishably from the club. To a point where the club and he are essentially the same thing. This is the man who is now being portrayed as a VICTIM?. He craves and gets absolute control and after getting it should he be absolved from the crap team we now see before us. The club has been more than appreciative by paying him way beyond his peers or his talents. He simply needs to go. I have no doubt that even invisible Sam will see that he will gain nothing by keeping Wenger after this year and possibly will risk the essence and status of the club worldwide. Fans are disgruntled ALL OVER THE WORLD, not just on the stands. The advertisers know this too. Another calamitous year will not help our prospects when all those deals come up for renewal in a year or so. But imagine what those companies will think if Pep is acknowledged as taking over.

At least we wont be having a manager less astute than those currently at Swansea, Norwich and Bradford.
You might classify statements of the obvious as wailing but the fact remains, there has been zero investment on the pitch. That's the reality. There has been impressive investment off the pitch that has strengthened the bottom line in financial terms but all those players that have been sold is the net result of decisions that could only have been taken at the most senior levels. That's not to confirm Wenger has been against these policies, maybe he has, maybe he hasn't. We don't know. But if we're talking about players (conveniently) leaving to pursue higher ambitions then it comes back to the lack of investment again. How would those ambitions be realistically achieved? By having better players. You can't do that with net zero investment. This has been the dominant factor in our slide from contenders to also-rans. Wenger's tactics don't help but by your own argument having better players might even have remedied these problems to a degree, as you very unfairly suggest was the case in the past. I suspect you weren't saying this at the time.

I still don't understand why people talk about dividends. The previous board didn't need dividends to cash in handsomely, did they? Nor will Kroenke when his turn arrives. Return on investment doesn't have to be delivered in the form of dividends.