Originally Posted by
Niall_Quinn
I like Wenger as a human being and I agree with mostly everything he says. Not being silly here, his views on football and how it should be played and how the game should be governed with a level playing field in mind are principles I can get behind no trouble at all. He's right in all of this.
He also shows ridiculous loyalty to his players, treats them like family members. It's hard to criticise a boss who gives a fuck about his employees, because so few do.
Unfortunately he's an anachronism pitched into one of the deepest cesspits known to mankind - the world of modern football. Whether we like it or not, that's where we are, that's what we are dealing with. It's a shady world of human rights abusers, Mafioso and assorted criminals and individuals of ill repute. Look at FIFA, look at UEFA, look at our own FA. Look at the pack of hacks that surround the game, the agents, Neymar's mother, Anleka's brother. All these people stink. And they are running things. And ruining them. No wonder Wenger is pissed. Yes he loves the game and he finds money crude and vulgar and in this I agree with him too.
But he wants a job in football management and here's where the problems starts. It's not his place to use Arsenal as a vehicle for his crusade. When all is said and done the fans don't give a shit about anything except winning and they'll see that happen at any cost. We know this because of the ludicrous ticket prices, the obnoxious marketing practices (such as 3 new kits every year), the blind eye that gets turned when and Abramovich or a Usmanov buys up a big chunk of the game. Wenger is a lone voice in the wilderness and nobody really wants to see his vision of the game materialise, or maybe some do but nobody is prepared to do what it takes to make that happen. We're all just rolling on with the foul and corrupted version of the game, it's the next result that's paramount, the most extreme form of short-termism imaginable. And so Wenger is incompatible with the game in its current state. Of course in the ideal world he's dead right not to spend £70mill on Benzema, a journeyman by comparison to the great strikers of the past. But he's also dead wrong because we're about as far as we can get from an ideal world.
We want to compete for the title even if it means involving ourselves in a sport that allows the likes of Abramovich or those horrendous Arab cocksuckers to hold court. We can ignore that but we can't ignore Wenger's admirable but out of touch beliefs. Because it's the next win that's important no matter how it is achieved. Like politics, the people get what they deserve.
Wenger has to go and we need a horrible, superficial, immoral, idealistically retarded fuck to replace him. Then we'll win.
I get frustrated with him because if he were to just compromise a little bit, on just a few things, he could well get the better of the hateful Mourinho types. Then again, I'm asking him to get a little bit pregnant, aren't I? Something I suppose he sees as the one inch that leads to a mile of ruin.
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I still want him sacked though....................
