Quote Originally Posted by Globalgunner View Post
If you re read your post the first paragraph says everything and nullifys everything you've said after. He won titles when he had better players than everyone else and still IMO he grossly underperformed with those players who should have won back to back titles, who should have at least reached a CL final and won it. Wenger was the weak link even then and a bertter manager woukld have achieved those landmarks.

fast forward to 2008, a team with less physique but arguably as much talent technically, again the same crappy collapse.

2014. A much worse team with a deteriorating, stuck in a rut manager. You tell me what the way forward is?. Wenger may not be an imbecile and clueless. but he is grossly inadequate when it comes to top line management and basically not fit for purpose. Like a sports car for a family of 5 or a station wagon entered at Le Mans. Sentiments apart, he should just leave. We've had enough of his indulgent idiosyncracies. He will never tire of making the same mistakes year after year, I am fed up of it.

Next season City, Chelsea will improve, Pool will make the CL money count, United look like dumping Moyes, We will stay the same as Wenger has won us the FA cup so lets stick with him an FA cup won on the back of 4 straight home draws.

We will probably have to rely on the Ebola virus decimating our oppositions squads to ensure our top 4 place, cos we sure as hell wont win the league
In this game if you stand still you invariably end up going backwards, what made Wenger special was his ability to identify burgeoning talent at a young age and turn potential into achievement. But the problem is that ability is null and void when other clubs became wise to it and employed vast scouting networks to create the Wenger model on a giant scale and that's why potential used to be 500k, and now it costs you 20 million. The same with his approach to dietary requirements and coaching at the time revolutionary but now seemingly self evident and rather old hat.
The stagnancy is not just there in the same results and performances year in, year out its evident in how little the back room staff has changed in 17 years, the problem with Wenger is that he feels a loyalty to these people who have served him well once but now are spent and isn't ruthless and calculating enough to go back to the drawing board. It's the same with players, he has wasted too much time on players who are either perennially injured or not good enough out of a sense of loyalty and in many respects this loyalty has never been paid back to him.
Wenger does not seem to want to change his approach and that's why I want him to go, but at the same time as I have consistently said I want him to go with our gratitude not our contempt ringing in his ears.