realistic new manager

[Niall_Quinn]

You see, that's where we hit that metaphorical brick wall straight away. In what Universe would Arsenal's board take on a manager who wants to spend lavish amounts of money on players?

Did Mourinho spend lavish amounts when he was at Porto? Is it right to say his success is based only on his transfer budget or is it better to say that wealthy clubs approached him because he proved himself to be a great manager? Should he have refused the budgets at Chelsea and Madrid in order to preserve some saintly stature? That sounds more like Wenger and look where he is and look at the state of our team. Mourinho was a winner before he had the cash.

[Niall_Quinn]

If Wenger has a big say, it'll probably be Claude Puel, Dragan Stojkovic or Remi Garde.

Wenger has failed and failed in a spectacular fashion. Why should he have any say in who the next manager is? Wouldn't it be likely he'd choose somebody that shares his beliefs and has compatible methods? His failed beliefs and his failed methods? It would be a disaster if we ended up with Wenger MkII because we'd have to listen to all the shit about giving the guy time, waiting until he'd had a chance to bring in his own team, giving him a grace period of a couple of years to get things right. When all the while we know what Wenger's methods produce - nothing, in fact less than nothing. It's not enough for us to lose now, we are being humiliated in the process. As fans it would fall on us to do everything in our power to prevent this scenario.

We need a total break from Wenger's way. The obstacle to that will be the board. They'll want somebody who puts the finances first and treats the team as an afterthought. This is why I reiterate, the target of the fans should be the board, not Wenger. If we can't get rid of this board then nothing will change at this club regardless of the manager we get. Except perhaps for one exception, Jose Mourinho. He's the one guy I believe could expose the board and smoke them into the open. Then we would know for sure, was it the board that destroyed this club, was it Wenger or was it both? Would our board ever let Mourinho through the door? No way. Not unless they are forced. The fans should sing "Mourinho" at every game and whenever an alternative is mentioned it should be "Fuck off Alternative!"

Oh and a 30 minute burst of "Sack the board" every game should be compulsory. Every blog, every tweet, every message on every message board, "Sack the board!" Put the cunts under intense pressure so the only way to alleviate it would be to get Maureen in here no matter how much it costs. Then the guy can go to work removing the snouts of the filthy swine from the trough and forcing them to look back down at the pitch where there's murder going on.

Can't understand why it's all about Wenger. He's incidental to this. He's failed he should be out, that's the simple part of the solution. Winning the war with the board is the hard part. So far they must be laughing their bloated arses off as Wenger takes all the flak for their insane greed and neglect. That needs to change doesn't it?

[Daniele]

Ok he did with Inter but with Madrid the fee were fair tbh. Oezil 15 mil, Khedira and Sahin (each was near 10 mil), all in euro. Good business imo.

And Moronho won treble with Inter which justified his spending, all jolly good for Inter imo.

Coentrao 30 million pounds!!!

[Xhaka Can’t]

Tbh Mr Blobby will do at this moment.

Joe Kinnear?

[Niall_Quinn]

Joe Kinnear?

Roy Kinnear?

[Dog Toffee]

We're 2 poor results away (within the next 5 games) from being in a serious relegation dogfight.

So the season now ends in a about a month?

[Ernesto]

So the season now ends in a about a month?

At what point, in that statement, did I say that? Besides, if I'm being pedantic, when the season ends and you're relegated, do you still say you're in a relegation dogfight?

If we're going to have the same attitude as Leeds or Newcastle that we're "too good to go down", then so be it. I know to throw a little more caution to the wind.

[latewinner]

dumbfounded by the amount of people who want benitez? utter shite excuse for a top manager, proved time and time again.

regardless of what we currently think of wenger, internationally he is considered among the top 5 managers in the world, and we would need to replace him with someone else in that list.

we're currently facing a 'are we still a big club' crises, and employing a manager of benitez, moyes, o'niel's caliber is NOT the way forward.

That's utter bullshit

[Kaiser]

Benitez is still a great manager IMO. Shame how he was caricatured by the press. Efforts with Valencia and Liverpool prove that. But doubts remain regarding his transfer market nous.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Benitez is still a great manager IMO. Shame how he was caricatured by the press. Efforts with Valencia and Liverpool prove that. But doubts remain regarding his transfer market nous.

This, would not be a bad thing if we got him. if he spent money. If People believe we'd get rid of wenger and bring in Jose M or Hiddink they have another thing coming tbh.


For me Guardiola would be the perfect man come end of the season if he left barca. But we'd have to be realistic and say right now the best we'd get is ancellotti tbh.