At least tell me you could see the potential defensive injury crisis after failing to sign another established CB. You can’t be that blind.Originally Posted by Letters
At least tell me you could see the potential defensive injury crisis after failing to sign another established CB. You can’t be that blind.
It is an extraordinary season because THIS year we were told we would compete on & off the pitch. Our finances meant we could spend big. We bought Sanchez, excellent - but then made the annual Wenger catastrophe by not buying a DM & better defensive cover.
It is not acceptable for someone on Wenger wage & with his experience to make these errors every year especially when you cannot blame finances. It is gross negligence.
You cannot say "its just another turd sandwich" when you gave the chef money for smoked salmon.
Hmm...it's debatable whether this team is much worse than previous teams, in fact this is probably our strongest squad for quite some time excusing the lack of quality and depth at the back, that's Wenger's problem, he chose to go into the season with gaping holes in Central Defence.
Money is no longer an issue, you said it yourself, the arguments are now firmly placed on Wenger's head, he's unable to deliver, PERIOD! He has everything he needs now...no time to hide behind FFP or Chelsea or City, it's all there for him to succeed!
I'm not at all surprised that Fans are frustrated, after promising so much post FA Cup win we have delivered so little, in fact we have gone backwards even though he has spent a load of money in the wrong areas?! Same old...same old...
Our poor form is a combination of many things and the fact that we went into the season so badly equipped has pretty much left us in this position.
Wenger keeps telling us the defence is the problem, too right it is, it's a Defence he created and then dismantled depth way...it's mindblowing.
Yep, also the fact that Wenger has failed to address DM or Striker position, how many windows does he need to rectify these positions?
He didn't want to kill Chambers.
Although he's doing a pretty good job of killing him anyway. The kid wouldn't even be playing this much if he was still at Southampton because it's obvious he's not ready.
Thrown under a bus by a careless manager.
If the chef is shit, no matter how good the ingredients are and how much he has to spend on them, the result is still going to be a dogs dinner...so no not extraordinary at all.
Interesting. I'd forgotten how crap we were two years ago at the start of the season. That was the season though when Van Persie had just left - who had dragged us kicking and screaming into the top 4 almost single handedly the previous season. Last summer we'd ended on a high with the FA Cup win and while we lost a bit of depth in defence we signed some decent players and one outstanding one in Sanchez, we didn't lose any real superstars (arguably because we don't have any, but still). I don't think there was any reason to think we'd be quite this crap this year.
To sum up where we are with Wenger, this morning a colleague of mine ( who is a Utd fan ) said " After that 1st half, the problem for you lot is that if you had Stoke again next Saturday it could & probably would happen again".
We can have all the in depth discussions we like on this board but even those that don't give a shit about us know the simple truth.
Yes, but would he still be in a job?
Personally speaking I envisaged us eventually dropping away as you can't keep being complacent and keep getting away with it year after year, eventually it catches up with you.
If you don't try and progress the likelyness is eventually you'll be overtaken by teams who are trying to.
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