Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
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.
Well said.

Whilst most of us agree that his time is at an end, it still disgusts me the vitriol, shit and internet spew being showered on him.

How can you call yourself a fan of a club, when your first priority is to slag off anything and everything about us?

Yes Wenger needs to go. Yes, he is guilty of stagnating. But he has also, lets not forget, kept us from slipping into a different part of the table, using the very strengths we praised him for in his early tenure.

Time for a fresh face to build on the solid foundations. But I can't tell you how nausiating it is to be associated with the filth who sit behind their keyboards throwing turds, with such little knowledge of football to back it up. Opinion is one thing. Being able to articulate it is another. And if you have nothing positive to say, just fuck off will ya.