we all hope that, he's going nowhereOriginally Posted by AFC Leveller
As long as he wants to stay and as long as Kroenke is the majority shareholder he is the manager
we all hope that, he's going nowhere
As long as he wants to stay and as long as Kroenke is the majority shareholder he is the manager
Yep, that's the sad reality. That article was a good read too Herb, nice find.
it's from the Arsenal fanzine which sells outside the Emirates on match days, their twitter page is always worth a look at
He sounds like he knows whats hes talking about and the Gazidis/Chips thing is interesting as well.
Wenger is untouchable from all angles and as i said all along, even though i want him gone, he will stay and not care one bit about what others think.
http://arsenalist.com/f/2016-17/arse...ighlights.html
for those who missed the MOTD analysis. What the fuck is xhaka doing on the 2nd goal? watching the play and walking back with no care in the world.
A good read. The whole Gazidis thing is what we've been speculating about on here. It could all be bullshit but this isn’t the first time Gazidis’ name has popped up when it comes to being at odds with Wenger. When we signed Arshavin, rumour floating around during that period was that Gazdis had convinced Wenger to stump up the cash.
The last minute panic buys during that summer, where we sold Cesc and Nasri, was supposed to be down to Gazidis. Wenger admitted he was at some sort of conference or something on deadline day, an odd omission from the boss. Not sure why he’d distance himself like that but speculation grew that Gazidis was behind pushing for some of the deals. Looking back, I remember Wenger saying ‘we can’t convince people you’re a big club’ if we sold Nasri and Cesc. Not sure who that comment was directed at but I’m guessing someone at Board level was saying it makes no sense to let them walk for free if we can convince them to stay.
I’ve already mentioned the statement Gazidis made after closing the sponsorship deals. He cleared the fog surrounding our transfer dealings and made it clear that we could afford star players and the sort of club we should be. The comments about us being able to compete with Bayern keeps coming back around. That’s his doing. Also, the statement on that mobile billboard used for the protest abut Wenger being accountable to the fans goes back to what I’ve said about Gazidis pushing the pressure back on to Wenger.
The infrastructure changes with Gazidis appointing Jonker was an interesting one. Jonker has since walked away but he’s moved on to a managerial role with his old club Wolfsburg. I remember Le Grove saying Jonker could have been Wenger’s replacement. The fact that he’s moved from a youth coaching role and into first team management suggests there could have been some truth in that. Word at the time was that it was Gazidis who appointed Jonker and Wenger didn’t really play a part. Jonker being undermined by Wenger and not being allowed to appoint Henry as coach with Wenger vetoing the move raised eyebrows for me at the time. If Josh Kroenke is really interested in Henry taking over as coach and Henry making no secret of his desire to return to Arsenal, I get the feeling Wenger may have felt threatened. All speculation of course but what else have we got here?
1st goal as well. Why is he so far forward? He's having a shocking season. Absolute shit but I take solace in hearing on Arsenal Fan TV recently that he had a shocker of a debut season in Germany but got better after.
I think he is a good player and his range of passing is exceptional but he is obviously not getting coached properly and that comes down to the manager. Can the manager not see from the sidelines that his DCM is out of position? does he not analyses games and tell his players where they went wrong? its all a big mess.
Wenger also admitted that Xhaka cant tackle, which begs the question, why did he buy a DCM who cant do the main element of job?
The only negative aspect i would add to that is that Gazidis made himself look bloody silly about five years ago when he tried to get a sponsorship deal done with a Russian telecoms company without doing any research and it turned out that Usmanov was a major share holder of this company.
That's a gaff and I'm sure there are a few other things he's done that I wouldn't approve of but that doesn't really relate to his relationship with Wenger and what we think may be going on.
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