Can we win the Premier League again under Wenger ?

[Maestro]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...rsenal-6118271


The bastard winds me up so much, sometimes, but we have a legendary manager ....maybe not as successful trophy-wise as some of his contemporaries, but Wenger is a cool cat with a lot of class. His almost dictatorial obsession with shaping a philosophy and identity for this club has put something in place that we will thank him later for.

We are ready for the next stage with or without him, but make no mistake ...he's mostly the reason why we're "ready for that next stage", we're on the map and looking ready to go. He has a month to pick up a couple of good signings and I hope he does, to give us a chance to challenge strongly this season.

It is time for Wenger to step down, and most of us agree on that but there is also a significant number who are happy for him to stay, and a some who are willing to support him if strengthened and strongly challenged. I don't hate Wenger, I just hate some of the decisions he makes and their subsequent consequences. Fact is he's here for a little while yet, so whilst he's here I am going to support him and the team positively, because you know what I think I really like and respect Wenger as a true legend and visionary for us, classy with it as well. I think and agree with that the club is in a good place to step up, he knows it and even he's starting to think of a future away from the club and maybe football altogether ...... who knows?

[Dein-machine]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...rsenal-6118271


The bastard winds me up so much, sometimes, but we have a legendary manager ....maybe not as successful trophy-wise as some of his contemporaries, but Wenger is a cool cat with a lot of class. His almost dictatorial obsession with shaping a philosophy and identity for this club has put something in place that we will thank him later for.

We are ready for the next stage with or without him, but make no mistake ...he's mostly the reason why we're "ready for that next stage", we're on the map and looking ready to go. He has a month to pick up a couple of good signings and I hope he does, to give us a chance to challenge strongly this season.

It is time for Wenger to step down, and most of us agree on that but there is also a significant number who are happy for him to stay, and a some who are willing to support him if strengthened and strongly challenged. I don't hate Wenger, I just hate some of the decisions he makes and their subsequent consequences. Fact is he's here for a little while yet, so whilst he's here I am going to support him and the team positively, because you know what I think I really like and respect Wenger as a true legend and visionary for us, classy with it as well. I think and agree with that the club is in a good place to step up, he knows it and even he's starting to think of a future away from the club and maybe football altogether ...... who knows?

- whether you for or against him staying I feel this probably sums up the feelings of most of us on here. For me its a shame, the areas where he has been poor ie spending that bit extra to buy proven quality, addressing the glaring issues in the team as opposed to sticking with players that were so obviously too weak & lack of tactical nous in the bigger games - I think he will look back one day & realise he got those things horribly wrong far too often,
You want somebody to say to him - "Look Arsene, the job you have done here over the years has put this football club in a fantastic position, you took on Man U in the early years with all their money & gave them as good as we got, you've given us Champions league football every year, even with others seemingly having an endless pot of money. Now, thanks to you, we're in a position to really have a go at these guys by spending the necessary money - you had 10 tough years of austerity, now go & treat yourself & the Arsenal fans to a few special players that we take us to the next level"

[Niall_Quinn]

Of course now that UEFA has buckled to the Arab shysters and FFP has been tossed into the shitter, even if we do spend a few quid and push on, the filthy oil swine in gypoland and the thieving Russian hoodlum in chavland can chuck even more cash around to re-establish the gap. Hard to go up against criminals who are immune and expect to come out on top. That's not to say we shouldn't try. We should never underestimate the comedic returns on watching pretend clubs like the chavs and gypos burning up money to finish a few points ahead while playing anti-football. Might not be a title but it's a decent enough consolation.

[selassie]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...rsenal-6118271


The bastard winds me up so much, sometimes, but we have a legendary manager ....maybe not as successful trophy-wise as some of his contemporaries, but Wenger is a cool cat with a lot of class. His almost dictatorial obsession with shaping a philosophy and identity for this club has put something in place that we will thank him later for.

We are ready for the next stage with or without him, but make no mistake ...he's mostly the reason why we're "ready for that next stage", we're on the map and looking ready to go. He has a month to pick up a couple of good signings and I hope he does, to give us a chance to challenge strongly this season.

It is time for Wenger to step down, and most of us agree on that but there is also a significant number who are happy for him to stay, and a some who are willing to support him if strengthened and strongly challenged. I don't hate Wenger, I just hate some of the decisions he makes and their subsequent consequences. Fact is he's here for a little while yet, so whilst he's here I am going to support him and the team positively, because you know what I think I really like and respect Wenger as a true legend and visionary for us, classy with it as well. I think and agree with that the club is in a good place to step up, he knows it and even he's starting to think of a future away from the club and maybe football altogether ...... who knows?

Especially the part in bold, that is what infuriates me about Wenger.

[fakeyank]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...is-season.html

Trophy is coming home boys

[Letters]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...is-season.html

Trophy is coming home boys

I don't think we'll be miles away, if we could sign a top striker we'd have a great chance but the level of striker that would significantly improve us doesn't grow on trees.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Fascinating debate.

On Mourinho's managerial abilities, he's not a manager who willingly goes with anything but a lethal forward line. If he managed AFC....heaven help us & forbid.......he would not allow any significant reliance on Giroud and Welbeck to win him anything major.

If we aren't going to win the league by scoring the most goals, we're going to need a pretty tight unit all around.

But in any case do I think we can win the league under Wenger again? Yes I do. It is pretty unlikely at this present moment in time though....

[Özim]

I don't think we'll be miles away, if we could sign a top striker we'd have a great chance but the level of striker that would significantly improve us doesn't grow on trees.

They never do, except nearly every top club seems to be able to find them except us.

As someone once said, you make transfers happen you don't sit there and wait for someone to fall on your lap.

[Kano]

Whatever the failings of Wenger, anyone with their head screwed on will have to back him on quietening down this £200m in the bank story.

If Arsenal wanted to buy any player in the world they could. Not even taking this noise into consideration, we have the assets to secure the necessary capital whatever happens. So the point being made is an empty one. There is absolutely no verification to what The Lord of Peckham is saying here, he is just providing another media stick to beat Wenger with. And let's face it, that isn't really needed as we all have our own.

We may well have £200m in 'the bank' but at what stage and what else are those funds committed to? I can only imagine a handful of businesses having that sort of money sitting dormant in their transactional account. If his statement is true, everyone can access the annual accounts so his words are hardly revelatory if anyone cared to look.

And the question has to be asked, how did he come to be talking to The Daily Mail? Did he approach or was it gutter media sniffing for a story in a deathly quiet transfer window? This is DMG Media FFS, since when did they get the benefit of the doubt? How many people would normally take the word of our directors as read? And this 'working class hero' only wants to pipe up when it comes to counting the stacks of money taken from fans pockets so he can boast aloud to the press. Go stroke your repugnant ego off somewhere else you leeching Tory cunt.

[Globalgunner]

The Director chap said nothing we and the world didnt know already. Weve been bandying the 200m thing on these pages for more than a year. Again, which other manager in world football would be trying to put a director of his club back in his place?. None, none at all. the 200m is surplus money that we have been accruing over the last 10 years. It didnt just materialise last year weith the new TV deal. It isnt for salaries or paying the debt. Its money that could have been spent on players but wasnt. Wenger is the one who should STFU and start improving the team.