New manager

[IBK]

Firstly: No-one thinks the 3 away results against the top 3 are acceptable.
Secondly: This has not been a regular thing over the last few years. I looked back at our results going back quite a few years and the 8-2 was the only other real humping we've had. There have been other poor results, sure, but not real freak result spankings like we've had this year.

The last two years we've limped into 4th on the last day. This year we've been right up there in the title race till yesterday. I never saw the title as the benchmark for us this year and despite yesterday's debacle we're still 9 points better off than we were at this stage last year. Plus we're in the FA Cup Semi-final and with the other 3 sides left we really should win it.

There has been progress. Maybe not as much as some people would have liked but for every humping there have been plenty of good results this year, results we weren't getting over the last couple of years, which have shown some improvement.

There are too many internet warriors on here playing FIFA (or whatever) and thinking they have the first clue about how transfers work and how we could have got this player or that. Yes, we clearly needed a top striker and maybe we did put too many eggs in the Suarez basket but you can't just go to the supermarket and get top players to order. You can if you're Chelsea or City and can throw money around like it's going out of fashion but otherwise it's not that simple to get players in who would genuinely improve us. Spurs were lauded all summer for how well they'd done in the transfer market and I thought they'd done good business but what has been the result? They signed some good players but they didn't sign any great players, they sold one to fund their splurge. Once again they're left with no trophies and despite their comeback today they're still a point worse off than they were at this stage last year.

For years we've all been moaning, with some justification, about the direction the club is taking and the lack of trophies. This year we've signed Özil and tried to sign Suarez. It's the most ambition we've shown in the transfer market for a long time. It's not enough but it's a start. And we should get the monkey off our back by winning the FA Cup. If we don't then fine, Wenger out. If we can't beat the teams that are left when it matters then I'll agree Wenger should go. If we do though then it will surely give the squad a much needed shot in the arm and with the new commercial deals we are well equipped to compete in the transfer market. The club will finally be heading in the right direction, IMO that is not the time to be changing manager with all the disruption that could cause.

Letters. I get where you are coming from. But progress is measured against the teams around and above you. Given the benefits that Wenger has enjoyed - not losing his best player (for once); a marquee signing; a proper familiar defence...not to mention Manure in crisis; City - Scum with new managers springing surprise dropped points, the raw truth is that Wenger hasn't given even critical but loyal fans like me enough - even with an FA Cup win that would owe a fair amount to good fortune.

[Munchies]

^^ Exactly

[Xhaka Can’t]

^^ Exactly

Shit, we just missed out on seeing who won the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

For years we've all been moaning, with some justification, about the direction the club is taking and the lack of trophies. This year we've signed Özil and tried to sign Suarez. It's the most ambition we've shown in the transfer market for a long time. It's not enough but it's a start. And we should get the monkey off our back by winning the FA Cup. If we don't then fine, Wenger out. If we can't beat the teams that are left when it matters then I'll agree Wenger should go. If we do though then it will surely give the squad a much needed shot in the arm and with the new commercial deals we are well equipped to compete in the transfer market. The club will finally be heading in the right direction, IMO that is not the time to be changing manager with all the disruption that could cause.

Spot on.

[GP]

Shit, we just missed out on seeing who won the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

It was Matt Every.

[Letters]

even with an FA Cup win that would owe a fair amount to good fortune.

Drawing Spurs in the 3rd round then Liverpool then Everton?
All at home, granted, but while we've avoided City and Chelsea we've still had to beat 3 of the top 6.
We've earned our place in the semi-final.

[LDG]

Drawing Spurs in the 3rd round then Liverpool then Everton?
All at home, granted, but while we've avoided City and Chelsea we've still had to beat 3 of the top 6.
We've earned our place in the semi-final.

Yeah, but we got all the luck in every match.

When anybody else does anything, they never get any luck.

The difference is they earn their luck. We just get given it without deserving it.

Jeez. Of course we have earnt our place in the semi. To suggest otherwise is a bit internet.

[AFC Leveller]

I remember when Wenger (2010 i think) said we were "3% away from world domination".

[AFC Leveller]

He says its "puzzling" the way we capitulated the other day. Really Arsene, are you surprised that your team, for the third time in a smany months, taken areal beating by one of their supposed rivals?

[selassie]

He says its "puzzling" the way we capitulated the other day. Really Arsene, are you surprised that your team, for the third time in a smany months, taken areal beating by one of their supposed rivals?

Yeah it's quite worrying the way he seems confused we keep getting beaten like this by our rivals. Maybe it's the preparation or lack of it? you know it might be something quite straight forward like that and not some absurd "algorithm" the laptop churns out.