This "Wenger doesn't know how to motivate players" bullshit is bullshit.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

It's a hard balance, on one hand the players don't look like they are putting 100% on the field, they look leaderless and disorganised...on the other hand this is the poorest Arsenal team in terms of quality for twenty years and I think it would be hard for any manager to markedly improve our league standing

[Özim]

Wenger has never been a motivator, when we've needed a result badly when we've been under pressure we've never come out of the blocks with all guns blazing. Seeing your team come out closing down every opposition player and chasing every ball when a match starts shows they are up for it, all we seem to do is start games like we always do, without a care in the world.

If you're playing superior opposition, you've got to make it as hard as you can for them tactically, close them down to give them as little space as possible to play and try to force mistakes.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I don't agree with that there are times even now when the team fights its nuts off to get a result but it happens more often of late on a less frequent basis

[selassie]

Wenger's team selection should tell us all we need to know about his indecisiveness towards certain members of the team. That said, whoever we have available are no match for the "Bayern's" of this world.

I think we have a multitude of problems that have all been covered in this thread, I do believe Wenger struggles to motivate the players or at least get into their heads. I also feel his achilles heel is still drilling a team tactically.

We keep on hearing about "warchests" and "significant funds" being made available to Wenger this summer but I really do not trust him with money anymore, he risk buys way more than he should and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

[Marc Overmars]

It's easy to fight when you're chasing a game, that seems to happen a lot now and more often than not it's too little too late. We don't really have the same control over games like we used to, god knows why our first half performances have been so pathetic this year.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Well I more mean in games like Sunderland where things went against us and we battled it out

[Kano]

It's easy to fight when you're chasing a game, that seems to happen a lot now and more often than not it's too little too late. We don't really have the same control over games like we used to, god knows why our first half performances have been so pathetic this year.

scared and nervous. enough players have said so themselves. it reflects in our play. inhibited and a complete lack of self belief.

[AKBapologist]

Wenger signed them. Some are so-called replacements for our best players whom Wenger sold. If our best 11 are shite then its down to our manager.

They're a bunch of bargain basement shite afiak. Outside of the English market, player valuation seems to be more accurate than ever, which is bad for us because it means outside of end of contract deals, we'll get what we pay for. And given that the £30mill mega signings of old are now £60mill. But then again, undrilled zonal marking, overly optimistic appraisals of player fitness, selling to buy, selling and failing to replace, thread bare senior squad numbers, no natural wingers, basic shit that's completely unforgivable.

[Fist of Lehmann]

scared and nervous. enough players have said so themselves. it reflects in our play. inhibited and a complete lack of self belief.

Confidence comes from winning, winning from confidence.

Fear comes from fucking up over and over, fucking up comes from fear.

It's a virtuous/vicious circle. How do you break a circle? First of all you stop losing.

That's if your main problem is 'confidence' or 'de-motivation' and not 'quality'.

[Kano]

how did the circle start and who is to blame?

this is goonersweb. ain't a thing without a scapegoat.