Do you still want Wenger as Arsenal manager?

[Marc Overmars]

I am starting to think there is something going on above Wenger, I just don't understand how we can be so tentative and unambitious in the transfer market. However Wenger also needs to cut out this crap about super quality and not being able to find better than what we have.

There has to be a happy medium in there somewhere, we're not some hard up club and judging by the shite served up on the pitch this year, players like, say Scott Dann are not beneath us and wouldn't cost the earth either. It's time to start acting like a proper football club who consistently strive to improve.

[Coney]

I am starting to think there is something going on above Wenger, I just don't understand how we can be so tentative and unambitious in the transfer market. However Wenger also needs to cut out this crap about super quality and not being able to find better than what we have.

I'm pretty sure that the board is involved - I have mentioned this before, based initially on the Ashley Cole saga when he hinted about the board not doing what he wanted, though he only mentioned it the once - I think he did not mean to reveal anything. He says what he does, knowing it is not the real story because he does not believe in washing the dirty linen in public and I respect that. His comments about quality and so on are a cover to avoid answering questions which would force him to reveal the backroom issues. The idea some seem to have that he does not understand what is wrong with the team is ridiculous - he knows what we need, just that there is a reason he can't get what he wants. What the reason is can't be known for certain but I don't believe it is because he won't pay a specific price. That article today suggesting the board are balking at the wages that the top players command has such a ring of truth about it and matches their pitch on the Ashley Cole saga - seems to be the same issue again.

[Power n Glory]

Wenger acts on his beliefs and convictions. I find it hard to back him because he's the type of guy to play crap players like Denilson all season and despite the performances on the pitch, he'll back the player, talk him up, point to the stats and keep playing the little bugger until the wheels fall off. He firmly believed in what he's doing.

He's consistent with his beliefs and that follows through to the press conferences and the situation we are seeing now. Nobody was forcing him to play Denilson, he just believed he was making the right decision. Right now, nobody is forcing him to sign young players, he just believes this is the right way to go.

[GP]

I'm pretty sure that the board is involved - I have mentioned this before, based initially on the Ashley Cole saga when he hinted about the board not doing what he wanted, though he only mentioned it the once - I think he did not mean to reveal anything. He says what he does, knowing it is not the real story because he does not believe in washing the dirty linen in public and I respect that. His comments about quality and so on are a cover to avoid answering questions which would force him to reveal the backroom issues. The idea some seem to have that he does not understand what is wrong with the team is ridiculous - he knows what we need, just that there is a reason he can't get what he wants. What the reason is can't be known for certain but I don't believe it is because he won't pay a specific price. That article today suggesting the board are balking at the wages that the top players command has such a ring of truth about it and matches their pitch on the Ashley Cole saga - seems to be the same issue again.

Yep, good post.

[AKBapologist]

Lots of cognitive dissidence and selectivity based on prejudges of the manager here. You say he's this because he's said this, then ignore something else he's done or said in the past because it doesnt fit your arguments.

Another thing is back before city and chavs got involved, what we spent relative to everyone else was massive. AW had no problem with it then, he says he has no problem with it now so why all this "he an ideologue" crap that has no barings on reality?

[Cripps_orig]

No.

[Master Splinter]

Not enough calling Wenger a cunt in this thread.

[fakeyank]

I think you look at things in far too simplistic a manner. You want the easy answer, in fact we all do. I want Wenger to go because if he does, THEN we may start getting to the root of our problems. It may even be for the best for him. He said something that resonated with me, that made me think about how much he loves the club and how much he invested in it.

I fucking hate that I want him out, but I think it has to happen. And for you to refer to him as a cunt, well that is just sickening, and I'm sorry, but that speaks volumes about how fickle you are and says nothing about Wenger the man, to me.

I may be fickle but I do know that AW is not the right person for the job. I dont know what he said that resonated so much with some of you but facts are facts! We have had story after story saying how much profits we have had and how Arsene can spend a good amount on players.

Forget spending.. may be we are broke beyond belief.. MAY BE there was a hacking of AFC holdings and all our money was taken but that doesnt excuse the sorry nature of his tactics or player selection...
- Why is Bendtner played on the right? Why was Eduardo played on the wings?
- Why did he not play Arshavin in a cup game to teach the other ppl they could win without him?
- Why do we have Squillaci?
- Its apparent that we get bullied off the ball in set pieces yet we continue without our midget policy.. why?
- Why has our football gone from fast attacking to slow paced tippy tappy?
- Why did he let go of Senior players who couldve been valuable in the dressing room?

Above questions are not related to money but what he has done with the football team and I am sorry, he has failed. As for how much he loves Arsenal, even Judas (if he is real) would love Arsenal if he is paid 6 mill quid a year. You n I love it coz we are retarded or because we find a connection with this team.

[-Xs-]

Not enough calling Wenger a cunt in this thread.

People are still in the waiting period... Wait till we fail to qualify for chimps league footy...

[fakeyank]

People are still in the waiting period... Wait till we fail to qualify for chimps league footy...

I sure hope we dont qualify. No point making the numbers. Hopefully that will lead to AW getting sacked or him changing his ways (highly unlikely)