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Only the twattiest of internet twats would ever regard him as a hate figure.

What I don't understand is...we did win the FA Cup last year, and the year before that. And finished 4th then 3rd. Wenger's hardly taken us into mid-table, or worse. Clough got Forest relegated and he's still revered up there, all Wenger's done is gone too long without a trophy and we've dropped from 1st to 4th - in no small part due to the billionaires.

We were a bit spoilt by the first half of Wenger's reign but some people's take on how bad things are is way overboard. With our resources we should be pushing harder but the level of criticism he gets is somewhat out of proportion. Moyes showed us what a properly poor manager can do when let lose at a big club.
I had this debate with you before. Your response is fine if you were a yid or a Liverpool fan but not for us. We pay the highest season tickets in the land on the back of moving to a new stadium built to make us a European footballing powerhouse - Wenger was part of the team making these promises. Making fans pay to be on the season ticket waiting list, all desperate to get seats to watch this new era of greatness, Spuds & Scousers were never promised this, they cannot moan about 3rd or 4th places because they weren't doing better than that before a stadium move resulted in the highest ticket prices in Europe - we were.
There has been no new era greatness - we have gone backwards since our Highbury days, we have been lied to on a massive scale, the ambition of the club so clearly highlighted with Wenger's summer transfer activity.
He deserves ALL & MORE criticism that he gets, especially from the board but he is untouchable. He has been rewarded with a 400% increase in salary during a time when he has taken us backwards in football terms, becoming the least successful manager in the history of the Champions league in games to wins ratio. He is a major player in the "Great Emirates Fraud" that we have all witnessed over the past decade & the early success (which he has clearly shown he has no idea how to replicate) is a distant memory.