Crisis? What Crisis?

[Letters]

Are we in crisis? Awlful first day of the season but two good wins since.
Yes, they've been against sides we 'should' be beating but you've still got to beat them and this time last year we had 2 league draws and zero goals, both of those games were sides we 'should' be beating too.

IMO our first XI is pretty strong, not title contenders but definitely top 4 material. The real concern is the squad depth, or lack thereof, and we really needed a marquee signing this summer to give us a lift and it hasn't happened.

If we win on Sunday a lot of the feelgood factor will be back.
If we don't then it'll be all round of course.

It seems a bit early to be taking about a crisis though.

[Niall_Quinn]

We are in year 9 of the crisis, the crisis being a total absence of sporting ambition.

[GP]

Nah, people are only saying it's a crisis because they've been brainwashed by the media.

[Letters]

Zimm called it something like "8 years of averageness" in another thread. That's a massive over-statement. We've had at least one serious title challenge in that time.
But if you're going to crow about new financial power then you want to be putting your money where your mouth is. And they haven't.
The squad does seem worryingly thin but I'm not sure we're in crisis. We'll know in a few months I guess.

[Marc Overmars]

There's no crisis but the fans are right to wonder just what the hell has gone on this summer in the transfer market. It's infuriating because a dip into that fortune we have could result in a marked improvement from us this season. At the moment it just seems like we're doing to the bare minimum again in order secure the 4th place trophy.

The Villa game exacerbated things but even if we won that I'd still be clamouring for signings because the squad is not good enough and it needs bolstering to give everyone a lift.

Still, a week to go and we'll probably sign some players, so lets see what happens.

[Cripps_orig]

It's not a crisis.

It's the repetition of the same old shit every season.

It's the killing of any hope we had at the end of last season after a dcentish end.

[hobson's choice]

It may not be crisis stage at this point, but every year that goes by, it's getting worse.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Nah.

Us in 2010 was a crisis. Coventry are in a crisis. Rangers and Portsmouth were in crisis.

Yours is stagnation. Stagnation and inevitability. Stagnation at a high level, but stagnation nonetheless. It looks more and more likely someone like Spurs will overtake you and you will finish outside the top 4, but that's been said for so many years it has lost any meaning. Not many would be surprised, or even unhappy if this turned out to be Wenger's last season in charge. And in many ways that's quite sad...

[hobson's choice]

I'm really at the point, where I think Wenger is scared to attempt to really succeed. He'd rather have the bar set low, so 4th place is seen as some kind of accomplishment.

[Marc Overmars]

I'm really at the point, where I think Wenger is scared to attempt to really succeed. He'd rather have the bar set low, so 4th place is seen as some kind of accomplishment.

If he spends heavily and fails we're out of excuses. Or more pertinently, he's out of excuses.