Are the doubters wrong about Wenger?

[Bumble]

Arsenal are the 11th best paid sports team in the World. 9 places above Liverpool. Yet 10 points behind. Liverpool refused to sell their best player in the summer and now they are on the verge of winning the league. I really hope the board look at that and think perhaps had we kept Fabregas, Nasri, RvP etc for an extra season then know knows.

We finish where we should finish, Arsenal might not spend big in terms of net transfer fees but doesnt mean we dont spend big on wages. I wouldnt say Wenger has overachieved, consistency is difficult but with the CL as it is, it is easier to keep the others at bay when all football is about is playing CL football.

Next season I think will be more difficult, Liverpool would have the CL money to spend and also having won the league players will look to gravitate there. The Chavs and Citeh will buy a quality striker (chavs) and quality defender (citeh). United will bring in a good manager with a large warchest. So if we dont invest properly then we are only a long term injury to Ramsey away from struggling.

[Kano]

A few weeks back Wenger promised a full and frank investigation into why our injury record is so bad.

The question that occurred to me was:

If the investigation concludes that it is Arsene's training methods, his selection policy, his style of play, his loyalty to injury prone players, basically any of the keystones of his philosophy, is causing the problem, does he have it in him to change?

Beyond tweaking, radically, I have my doubts.

The other question that occurs is: why wasn't this full and frank investigation carried out 4 years ago?

It was 2/3 years ago and we're here yet again. Nothing has been learnt it seems or as you say, he cannot change enough to make a discernible difference.

[Power n Glory]

In the 2008 season where we collapsed it was the same problem. RVP, Rosicky and Eduardo picked up injuries, Hleb, Fabs and Adebayor started to lose form because of the amount of games they were playing and we didn't do what was necessary in January to ease the burden off an already stretched squad challenging for the title. It's deja vu.

[Globalgunner]

Please don't crticise Mr Wenger or question his methods. Or point out his deficiencies. You may upset some people. If not for Maccy, this place would long have been rechristened "the imaginarium of Dr Arsene". Devotees only allowed.

Hail Wenger beloved of the creator...sent down to lead us to the promised land......sometime in the year 2025 or thereabouts.

[Özil's Panoramic View]

No doubt whatsoever that our season has been adversely affected by injuries, but to be totally honest, I started to fear our season would turn out as it has now after we went to Old Trafford first half of the season, full strength and still lacked bottle.

That game kinda showed that we were still incapable of winning high pressure games, especially against the supposed big teams. Robbed us of our little momentum and belief, and we just never looked comfortable in the other big fixtures from that point on.

[Letters]

Please don't crticise Mr Wenger or question his methods. Or point out his deficiencies. You may upset some people. If not for Maccy, this place would long have been rechristened "the imaginarium of Dr Arsene". Devotees only allowed.

Hail Wenger beloved of the creator...sent down to lead us to the promised land......sometime in the year 2025 or thereabouts.

What the piss are you talking about?

[Özim]

To be fair i don't think there is anyone on this board who views Wenger as deity like anymore, i think your so stultified in your hatred for the man i think you perceive anyone willing to say anything positive about him as a knee bender.

That's blatantly not true, there's a number of people who won't hear a bad word said about him without reacting with a reason as to why he' great.

[Özim]

I didn't say they were....although i believe John Henry will probably have enough clout to allow them to cover their losses, but even if they win the league they need to hold an investigation as to how much value for money they are getting in the signings they have made....so much wastage.

John Henry made some American club successful again, so he has a record of bringing back success, I don't think Liverpool have anything to worry about.

[Globalgunner]

No doubt whatsoever that our season has been adversely affected by injuries, but to be totally honest, I started to fear our season would turn out as it has now after we went to Old Trafford first half of the season, full strength and still lacked bottle.

That game kinda showed that we were still incapable of winning high pressure games, especially against the supposed big teams. Robbed us of our little momentum and belief, and we just never looked comfortable in the other big fixtures from that point on.

Agreed but we always knew beating United has been Wengers biggest psychological hurdle, now he has added all other teams except seemingly the spuds, where good old fashioned hatred and the facts that the spuds refuse to use tactics against us always work in our favour ( if we remain the way we are and Totts get a manager who isnt a former player or a bellend like AVB or Redknapp, they will start getting the upper hand, as it is they always get carried away by the occasion)

For me the Everton game at home was the start of our downward spiral. We collapsed again in that game when we needed to inflict damage on them, but Wenger was in the middle of his "I want to defend all the time" phase. It was a bad result at the time, many of us said so.

[Letters]

That's blatantly not true, there's a number of people who won't hear a bad word said about him without reacting with a reason as to why he' great.

So you keep saying. Still waiting for that PM