Quote Originally Posted by HCZ View Post
I’d turn that around and say how many managers would have come to Arsenal built the team in the way he did and enjoyed the success he did between say 1996 and 2004.

Not a great manager tactically but the fact remained is he took players that weren’t making it at other clubs and improved them, and in the process broke all kinds of records.
Fair point, my point was mainly about his management ability, which IMO isn't that great, yes he achieved great success and we played amazing football, but as NQ alluded to it's circumstances, that's not to say he doesn't deserve credit as he achieved what he did, but for me it just shows we shouldn't have kept him on and given him a free ride for anywhere near as long as he has had it and he certainly shouldn't have been rated as highly as he was, it's taken over a decade to change that sentiment for a lot of people.

Lack of ambition from the club IMO, most other top clubs would have chopped him and got someone else in to move us forward and try and win us the CL, the CL was the holy grail for Ferguson and eventually he won it by sheer desire and making the right changes, Wenger has never done that, he was content with what he had.