Match reaction vs Pool

[JonasTC]

You seem to have an excuse for all our bad results, if we lose to City and Villa it's because of the ref, sure there are bad decisions but we didn't lose because of the ref (that's a cop out) we lost because they played better than us and we conceded 6 against City and 3 against Villa. If we lose to Man U it's because they're champions despite them losing to all and sundry this season.

Noone said all our players our sh*t, but the points about Wenger are very valid, who in their right minds goes into the season with the forwards we have, given that one is rarely played up front and is injury prone, one wanted out, one is a kid and was signed injured and has been every since and the other has not proved himself to be top class.

Unfortunately he's limiting our development due to his management style, both in terms of adequately strengthening the team/squad, tactics and motivating his players.

People expect us to make the most of what we have and after 8 years it's not unreasonable, who wants to keep seeing a side who collapse when it matters because their manager is unable to install the right mentality and refuses to sign the right players?

Ozil is a quality player no doubt, but he's played in the wrong system and looks pretty unhappy at the moment, he was voted best player in Germany mainly based on his performances for Real where he created a hatful of chances, for us he's found it tough, but it's his first season and he plays in a team that move the ball forward at snails pace, when he likes to run with the ball and create in fast moving attacks.

We've done well this season, but in the last few months we've been scraping wins with pretty poor performances and have only got away with it due to playing teams unable to take advantage of our very sluggish performances.

Now we're reaching crunch time and once again we seem to be coming unstuck (we're fortunate we'll be meeting one of the worst Man U sides in recent history on Wednesday, a team we still managed to lose to somehow), it remains to be seen whether it will continue, but the safe money would be that come March we'll fail to pick up the necessary points and get knocked out of the CL as we always have done, it's down to mentality, preparation and studying the opposition (or a lack of studying in our case). People have had their concerns over the last couple of months but have pretty much kept quiet as we've been winning, even though if we're honest it's been poor but after this beating their entitled to vent their frustrations without being called "brats" as you call them (how patronising can you be?).

The trick is to learn from your previous experiences, Wenger never seems to and therein lies the problem.

But zim, the villa and city games were heavily influenced by the ref, its not an excuse, its a fact. If the output had been the same with a proper ref, remains to be seen.

He went after Higuain, but to be fair, i think 35m is to much aswell when somebody tells him that he could get Suarez for 40m, when that didnt happend, Higuain was already sold. But to be fair, at that time i dont think Suarez was worth more than 40 either, he had only had one good season for Liverpool and had big disciplinary problems, looking back we should probably just had rasised our offer, but it always easy to look back and wish you had done differently. This is not football manager, it takes time to negotiate and so on, so you cant just jump around from deal to deal, when one dont work out.

He got rid of death weight, didnt sell any of our good players and added a world class player, i would say thats strengthing our squad and the results tells us the same, come january he got rid of more deathweight, but didnt strength because there was no proper deals out there (feel free to prove me wrong). This summer we'll get rid of even more deathweight and probably the biggest clown this club ever had (Bendtner) and therefor Wenger will 100% add a quality striker and probably even throw silly money after it, if everything goes wrong.

Zim come on, you dont believe that he actually got those awards for just being good in last season? Messi werent in the best-11 and his last season was crazy

Utd scraped wins for years, its what champions do, they play shit at times and still win.

I would say Wenger have shown this season that he have learned from previous experiences, just because he didnt throw silly money after a bad/decent player in january, doesnt mean everything is the same old. City couldnt even get what they wanted and they're willing to throw silly money at everything.

I dont think everything is a walk on roses, but i do believe that we're close to having a championship team and it seems like we're working hard towards it. In past transfer windows and so on, there's been some factors that sadly have worked against us and therefor we've been handling the transfer window with little bit the handbrake on. This summer there is non, absolute nothing that can work against us, we have the money, we only have 1 striker left, who's not good enough to get us the goals we need, there is quality strikers available out there, etc. by then IF he doesnt add a top striker (and a proper holding midfielder aswell), i will probably be joining the Wenger-Out Express, but until that, i'll be supporting this team with as much positivy as possible.