Jack Wilshere and our future midfield

[IBK]

The fact they won't give me the job? As for other clubs, pretty sure those clubs won't just settle for 4th every season to be honest, 4th would be seen as a stepping stone to more and after 10 years I doubt very much any manager would have lasted 9 years at any other big club.

Not all clubs think money is the be all and end all.

Hmmm - difference between us and the likes of Sp*ds and Newcastle is that they try as hard as they can (intermittently in M'castles' case) but can't make the leap to where we are. They might have aspirations, but for them its a dream rather than our reality.

[Özim]

Find me another manager who finds finishing top 4 every year 'not too hard to do' while spending so little, in net terms, in the transfer market.
The way some people talk on here it's like any idiot could do what Wenger's done.

I don't care about finishing top for and making up the numbers in the CL, I prefer the FA Cup and thus I don't really rate the achievement that highly.

[Özim]

Won't give you the job? Why not? They currently have a bumbling, clueless fool in charge who is robbing them every year. Surely they'll take anyone just to get rid of him? The job is really easy, pays £7mill a year, give it a shot. They can only say no but you definitely won't get it if you don't apply.

Yeah like you're going to get a 7 million a year job at a big club just like that. Only the best coaches get paid that, those that deliver success.

[Özim]

Hmmm - difference between us and the likes of Sp*ds and Newcastle is that they try as hard as they can (intermittently in M'castles' case) but can't make the leap to where we are. They might have aspirations, but for them its a dream rather than our reality.

I agree with this, but you also feel it they did get top 4 this wouldn't be the limit of their ambition. Was it last season or the one before they were talking about the title?

[Niall_Quinn]

Yeah like you're going to get a 7 million a year job at a big club just like that. Only the best coaches get paid that, those that deliver success.

Well Wenger manages it and he's a total mong. Are you saying you can't compete against total mongs?

[Niall_Quinn]

I agree with this, but you also feel it they did get top 4 this wouldn't be the limit of their ambition. Was it last season or the one before they were talking about the title?

So if they actually did manage to achieve what Wenger has achieved they definitely wouldn't be as shit as Wenger?

[Özim]

Well Wenger manages it and he's a total mong. Are you saying you can't compete against total mongs?

Yeah he does get it, but you won't find another coach who doesn't win for as long who does, he's the exception and that's only because the clubs number 1 interest is cash.

[Özim]

So if they actually did manage to achieve what Wenger has achieved they definitely wouldn't be as shit as Wenger?

I didn't say that, I said if they got top 4 this wouldn't be the limit of their ambition, they'd probably invest more to try and win the title or some trophies, it's called progression, you reach your first goal and then move onto the next.

We settle for top 4, if we get better it's a bonus not a necessity, but top 4 is a great achievement and we're happy with that.

[Letters]

I don't care about finishing top for and making up the numbers in the CL, I prefer the FA Cup and thus I don't really rate the achievement that highly.

Pretty much everyone in football does though, clubs are falling over themselves to get up there. I'd rather win the FA Cup than finish top 4 too by the way but unfortunately finishing top 4, qualifying for the CL and the resulting money and prestige is extremely important. I seriously doubt we'd have signed Ozil if we weren't in the CL.

I agree it shouldn't be like that but that's modern football. To finish top 4 for as many years as we have, especially during the stadium move and the rise of the billionaire backed clubs, is a remarkable achievement.

[Letters]

I agree with this, but you also feel it they did get top 4 this wouldn't be the limit of their ambition. Was it last season or the one before they were talking about the title?

How did that turn out?