I Want Arsene To Stay On
I Want Arsene To Stay On If....
I Want Arsene To Go
Ive been Wenger In since as far back as January 11, but with these comments I dont know what to say.
But i'll try....what a self-pitying settling shyster.
David Hytner
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Wednesday 18 March 2015 18.32*GMT Last modified on Wednesday 18 March 2015 19.16*GMT
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Arsène Wenger was so distraught at the finality of Arsenal’s Champions League exit that he wondered whether it might have been better for the club to have dropped down into the Europa League and remained alive in European competition.
The manager offered the bleak and introspective comments in the wake of the last-16 second leg at Monaco, which Arsenal won 2-0 only to exit on away goals. It was the fifth season in succession that Wenger’s team had exited at this stage and, once again, the closing months of their season will be free of European football.
“Maybe it would be better not to advance from the group phase and play the Europa League than be eliminated right away in the last 16,” Wenger said. “We would have more chances to win a title.”
Wenger went on to say that if a club went “out after the group stages, you have no chances after to play again, like you do in the Europa League”.
If Arsenal had finished third, rather than second, in their Champions League group, they would have entered the Europa League and, possibly, fancied themselves to progress in the competition.
Wenger would never want to finish third instead of second in a Champions League group and here was evidence not only of his post-defeat angst but his habit of seeking a target for the frustration in such circumstances.
In the heat of the moment, he found himself alighting upon an unusual one – the second chance that defeated teams in Champions League groups are afforded. Wenger seemed to suggest that it was an unfair quirk that sides who finish third have the opportunity to prolong their European seasons, while teams like his own are finished when they lose.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/...-europa-league
The deluded one speaks again. What happened the last time we were in the Europa?. Wenger did what he always does, bottles it the moment the whole worlds eyes are on him. He cant win the Europa any more than the CL or the PL. #Specialist in failure.
He's desperate for success in Europe and no matter how many time he tries to play it off as if qualification for the competition is a good record, I suspect he also looks at the flip side of the coin and recognises the failure on each attempt. Sad times.
I feel sorry for him. He needs to really get his act together if he wants the CL title.
While his ability to get his teams into the CL every season is impresive, the fact that he has not yet won it (and hasnt looked like winning it) is a dreadful record and something that probably plays on his mind.Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
We have had better teams then the current one and have faced all sorts of teams in the knockouts from Bayern and Barcelona to Monaco and PSV yet we always fall short.
The side circa 2002-2004 really should have won a CL, it's one of the best club sides I've ever seen.
If he couldn't do it with that team he never will, sadly.
European football tends to be a lot more methodical and unfortunately I don't think he's ever really got to grips with that. The team of the Cesc era is about as strong as we've been in Europe and even they imploded at the crucial moments. Ironically the weakest domestic season we had also provided the strongest in Europe, getting to the final and all those clean sheets en route. Bit of an anomaly though when you look back.
Wayne Bridge
You used to be everything to me
Now you're tired of fighting
Wayne Bridge
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