Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
Well I am of the opinion that we will only go so far with Wenger in charge and I think we are pretty much at that level now. Wenger for me is far too rigid in every area of his management style to move this team forward.

IMO Our lack of progress has nothing to do with lack of money and the moneybags clubs ahead of us. It's all to do with Wenger and his flawed methods in regards to building the squad and his flawed tactical approach to the big games.

He may not be incompetent I'll give you that, but he certainly isn't a progressive pragmatic manager with the right ideas to move this team forward.

When we replace him we should be aiming for a top class manager with a proven record on delivering, we should identify where wenger is going wrong and I think we all know where and we should be looking at bringing in a manager who has a track record of delivering success and getting the very best out of players. We have a fairly decent squad now, we need someone who can come in, organise them and take them to the next level, I accept we need investment in areas but we are not a million miles away, not with a top level manager in charge. Wenger is not that man, that much is clear.
I agree with pretty much all of that apart from the bit in bold, I'd say it's a bit of both.
IMO we should be ahead of where we are but I don't think we'll ever have it easy while the billionaire-fueled clubs are allowed to run riot.
Since they got going the only team who have managed to wrest the title from their grubby paws is Utd under Fergie - IMO he's the GOAT, that last season they had no right to win it with that squad. Since he left they've not looked close to winning the title again.

Wenger needs to have a better team than everyone else in order to win the title - he's not someone who can make a team more than the sum of its parts. So I can't see us winning the title under him again. But I don't think there are many managers out there who could win the title for us in the current climate. Not saying there aren't any, but some of the managers touted as successors on here have not consistently delivered.