Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
Actually Jonas it's not a fact that the Villa and City games were influenced by refs, it's your opinion. Sure there were questionable decisions in both games but I don't think the decisions determined the result. We lost both games, it happens, everybody loses.

Do you honestly believe Arsene handled the Summer transfer window well? In my opinion he made a complete pigs ear of it and totally botched up signing a striker. He had the whole of the summer to address the centre forwards position...because effectively we have one centre forward at the club and still do. Arsene absolutely failed and has not excuses, he cannot hide behind valuations and such stuff. He was even told publicly what it would cost to buy 2 of his preferred striker options but baulked and walked away. Arsene did in fact jump around from deal to deal lowballing.

To make matters worse, the signing of Kallstrom has pretty much exposed the lack of planning we have in terms of player recruitment, Arsene even admitted he was aware of his injury problem, I mean does this not sound ridiculous to you? Why are we even entertaining the idea of signing crocked players? Kallstrom is no use to us!!!

One thing I do agree with is that he did well getting rid of all the deadwood in the summer, but removing deadwood doesn't equate to strenghtening your squad. Strengthening the squad would be upgrading/solving problem areas. Of course the Ozil and Flamini signings did improve Midfield, though by how much and whether these areas needed strenghtening is still up for debate.

I do agree we have made progress this season and appear to be more organised but one of the reasons I have raised concerns post Liverpool and probably why many others have is because of what looks like a lack of planning on our part when approaching these crucial games, one thing I will say about Arsene is he appears to be very reactive and not proactive in his approach, be it tactics, team selection or his player recruitment policy (if one exists). Nobody is saying we are all doomed and rubbish, legitimate concerns are being raised about our manager and the team, that's the way I see it anyway.


Some good points there.Some posters on here cant be honest and see the truth if theres anything negative in it.We all want things to be rosy and our team to be the best on and off the field but despite all the good Wenger has done for this club(most pre 2005)i cannot ignore the last 9 years and those flaws because of it.