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I don't disagree about Wenger's weaknesses, but he's always had those. It didn't stop us winning titles back in the day. And the next guy, he'll just have different weaknesses. It sounded like a bad day at the office all round on Saturday. Those happen to every team. We can't afford too many though, it's the first really bad league result for ages so let's see how we react. If we have a nightmare few weeks which sees us fall out of the title race then I'll probably catch ZD too. Hopefully not the Stage 3 Brain Death kind though.
All managers may have weaknesses but if you are managing a team with title aspirations you cannot have the weakness of not spending the right money on quality players in areas of need. The next manager may not for example be great on the training ground but you get good coaches in for that, as long as he identifies a style of play that wins games & makes sure we have the best players possible including cover to play that style. Previous years have shown the weaknesses of players like Giroud & Mertesacker, so you have to deal with it in the transfer market - Wenger constantly fails to do so. A non-league manager walking into Arsenal last year would have known we needed cover for Coq, another quality CB & a proven goalscorer. Without these, points will be dropped along the way due to injuries, suspensions & strikers not taking their fair share of chances.
Saturday proved that Arteta shouldn't be anywhere near an Arsenal shirt - its not a biased reaction from Saturday, you will find posts from me & many others saying exactly the same over the past few years. You will note how many times posters on here say about how unlucky we were with missed chances etc. Missed chances aren't unlucky when you have as many as we do - its poor finishing from strikers simply not good enough.
At the same time Campbell was missing a sitter from 5 yards on Sat, West Brom were bringing Berahinho on, Vardy was banging in his 10th successive goal - there were players out there who can score goals - we decided we didnt need them. Players like Schneiderlein were available to give us options to Coq but we decided Arteta & Flamini are good enough. These are very basic errors that are unbelievable errors from a man of Wengers suppposed football knowledge.
We lost Saturday due to Arteta being a shit alternative to Coq & our strikers not taking chances, This is not bad luck - its bad management & there will be plenty more games like it this year. These games ultimately cost us the chance to compete & its the same every year.