Wenger's future, possible extension and possible... departure?

[Letters]

A simple question for Letters:
would you be happy for Arsenal`s next 10 years to mirror the last 10 years?.
If yes, then obviously you are soft in the head
if no, then WTF are you constantly going on about?

That isn't a fair comparison because we didn't have the resources we do now for all of the last 10 years.
The answer is obviously not, I wouldn't be happy with that.
I'm not "constantly" going on about anything, I just think the lamenting on here about how terrible things are is a little out of proportion to the reality.
Fun fact: It's perfectly possible to think that and also think that Wenger should be sacked.
As I've said elsewhere, if he wins the Europa and then leaves I think overall it will have been a decent season, I don't think either will happen though...

[Özim]

Not being funny but the FA Cup is a measure of precisely nothing, it's nice to win and all that as an additional trophy but as a standalone prize it's low priority and nothing amazing, would rather we'd challenged properly for the league than won the FA Cup personally.

It's a cup top teams want to win if they've won something else, but these days winning just the FA Cup doesn't signify a good season. To use that as a measure of anything is frankly ridiculous, it doesn't have the prestige it had a decade ago.

Frankly I'd sacrifice all 3 cup wins to be where Liverpool and Spurs are in terms of building a team capable of challenging.

[Letters]

Frankly I'd sacrifice all 3 cup wins to be where Liverpool and Spurs are in terms of building a team capable of challenging.

Bull.
Shit.

For years when we weren't winning trophies but occasionally flirted with a challenge you were whining that we weren't winning trophies.

[selassie]

Bull.
Shit.

For years when we weren't winning trophies but occasionally flirted with a challenge you were whining that we weren't winning trophies.

What's funny about what Zim said? He is right...both Liverpool and to a slightly lesser extent the Spuds have built squads that are more equipped than ours to challenge for the title.

They have better first XI's and squads than us in addition to much better managers.

They are both bonafide top 4 teams now, we aren't.

[Letters]

What's funny about what Zim said? He is right...both Liverpool and to a slightly lesser extent the Spuds have built squads that are more equipped than ours to challenge for the title.

They have better first XI's and squads than us in addition to much better managers.

They are both bonafide top 4 teams now, we aren't.

I'm laughing at the idea that he would swap places. For years we were a top 4 and he sneered about just being top 4 and not winning trophies, which is exactly what Spurs and Livepool have done of late.

[Marc Overmars]

This season is likely to be the first time Liverpool have qualified for the CL in consecutive seasons for the best part of a decade. For Spurs it’s only going to their 4th time ever.

They are at the start of their journey. Once upon a time we had hope too before 8 years of winning nothing and pretending 4th was a trophy sucked the life out of all of us.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

What we need to be where Spurs and Liverpool are is a managerial change which is what we all want anyway. I wouldn't necessarily swap squads though..... If by saying swap with Spurs or Liverpool we mean have a different manager then sure....

I don't particularly care about being first place loser in the league or Spurs being knocked out by Juventus in the CL when they should have gone through, particularly after the event. Both Liverpool and Spurs still have not won anything recently.

Each year we make poor decisions and that proves to be of consequence. We could have kept Woiech, signed Kante instead of Xhaka and changed for a manger who is serious about defensive coaching, drilling and strategy and I think defensively we'd already be transformed.

[Özim]

I'm laughing at the idea that he would swap places. For years we were a top 4 and he sneered about just being top 4 and not winning trophies, which is exactly what Spurs and Livepool have done of late.

It's not just about top 4, I still sneer at that, it's building a team capable of potentially challenging, that's what Spurs and Liverpool seem to be doing, not settling for coming 4th with no ambition to do better like we pretty much did.

I resent this clb for being such a bunch of losers with no ambition, for years all they've cared about is getting into the top 4, not to improve, or try to win the CL, simply get more money in the bank, so yes top 4 is for losers if you just settle for that every single season without ever being serious about improving of challenging for the big prizes.

Neither Spurs or Liverpool look at it that way, they want to win the big prizes, even if they don't succeed you can see they have ambitions to.

[Letters]

Neither Spurs or Liverpool look at it that way, they want to win the big prizes, even if they don't succeed you can see they have ambitions to.

I actually agree with that to be fair.
It's clear our board aren't that fussed so long as the money keeps rolling in.
And to be fair although Spurs and Liverpool are overall in a better place than us right now it has taken them a lot of failures to get there and neither have challenged that seriously.
Spurs flirted with a title challenge the last 2 seasons but I never quite felt they were up to it and so it proved in the end. Liverpool have been nowhere.

[Özim]

Bull.
Shit.

For years when we weren't winning trophies but occasionally flirted with a challenge you were whining that we weren't winning trophies.

We never challenged properly, always fell away when it mattered, never believed we were in with a genuine chance. I'm still complaining we're not winning, winning the FA Cup doesn't mean a lot as a stand alone trophy.

I'd rather have a team who are going somewhere, play good football and that you feel has a chance of upsetting the odds and winning one of the big prizes at some point than a team with no bottle who collapse whenever they get within a mile of one of the big prizes but a domestic cup instead.