Wenger Referendum IV

[Ernesto]

I don't really take much into what Wenger says post-match. To be honest, I haven't done for a while. The last time I waited for his statement was after we lost at Old Trafford after we'd lost our 49-game unbeaten run there.

Since then, it's all been pretty generic stuff. And let's be fair, who can blame him? If you're a manager, in any walk of life, whatever you say, you're gonna be held accountable for it. Yes, even Wenger, even with the supreme level of comfort he has. If he says his players were shit, the board will ask him why he said that. If he complains that he doesn't have the resources to sign the players, again he'll be called up for it. It's all a smokescreen. And he deflects attention well. Where English managers will fall into journalist traps, this wily old fox, with English not even being his first language, won't.

The one aspect I don't like is his patronising demeanour towards fans. I began losing love for him when he couldn't answer a simple question about adebayor not being able to mark at the far post leading to Man united's goal in the CL a few years back. He got annoyed. That's where the "us and them" attitude began. Today, he acknowledged that the fans will play a part in dictating whether he stays or goes. A sad moment, but I don't think he's paying lip service to what the Wenger Out fans want, either

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Wenger out fans are most likely the majority

The vociferous ones at games are the ones who have had to dirty their hands and put up with abuse in order to highlight discontent

[Bumble]

i think its quite a good ploy for Wenger say fans reaction will have an effect on his decision. I think he thinks he still has plenty of support in the stands and as long as win games at home... people will show support and that will be vindication for him. It just embarrassing that the manager decides whether he stays or goes and not performances, the board, the owner.

[Letters]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/...20170309123714

[Xhaka Can’t]

[Coney]

http://newsthump.com/2017/03/09/piss...arsene-wenger/

[selassie]

http://newsthump.com/2017/03/09/piss...arsene-wenger/

[Penguin]

Wenger:

"I feel all right, I feel very strong, very motivated, ready to give my best," he said, when asked how he felt compared to Enrique, who had said he will be tired by the end of his tenure at Barcelona.

"It just sums it up that two weeks ago he (Enrique) was an idiot and everyone said 'You have to leave', so he said, 'Okay, I go'.

"Today he is a hero. That sums up the job. In fact I made an equation because I am a mathematical fan that I will give you one day.

"It's not the right moment (to share it). I am sure you will enjoy it. It is an equation about a manager's job. I made a formula."

Wenger watched record-breaking Barcelona comeback and admitted even he was left perplexed as to how the Catalan giants pulled it off.

"I watched Barcelona. It was quite poor!" he joked. "I stayed there (watching it) because it is interesting on a psychological front to see how they respond, I wanted to see how Barcelona finished the game and in fact they had half given up.

"I looked more at it from a tactical point of view, what is going on mentally in the head of the players. At the end of the game even when you have been so long in football you sit there and think, 'How could this happen?'."

I made a formula! I made a fucking formula!

[Niall_Quinn]

Wenger:



I made a formula! I made a fucking formula!

OMFG

And I assume his formula is telling him he's doing a great job and needs to stay?

I looked more at it from a tactical point of view, what is going on mentally in the head of the players.

Is this a translation thing or does he really think tactics are what goes on mentally in the head of the players? No wonder we don't have any tactics then.

[Marc Overmars]

"In the last nine years only once have we been the worst performing English club in the Champions League."

What about being the best?

Unless being the least worst is something to take pride in.