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I believe the squad we've got now has a chance to and we've shown we can finish the job in high pressure games, notably the big Cup games over the last 2 years but Utd at home was a positive sign this season too.

We should have challenged last year but our awful start gave us no chance. The FA Cup win gave Wenger a stay of execution and I, for one, am OK with that. But this year we have to properly challenge. The money is there for us to seriously compete now. The important thing this year was to not get off to a bad start and be out of it before we got going. For all our wobbles here and there we've also got some good league results, we went on that good run of 5 games, and no-one else has gone on a long, consistent run. So, for now, we're in touch. So long as that remains the case I'll believe we have a chance.

You're asking if we think we will win it under Wenger again and the answer to that is I don't know for sure until we do. Do I think we can though? Yes I do. And my point, before I got dragged down a cul-de-sac, was that none of us know for sure right now. If we did we wouldn't watch. There would be no point. The "last 10 years" argument is spurious. For most of that time we haven't had a squad good enough to compete, the new financial deals saw the signing of s different level of player. It's already yielded 2 trophies and a long enough league run to indicate we do have a squad good enough to compete over the course of a season. Doubts will remain till we actually do it but I believe we can.

If we fail to properly challenge because of the failure to sign properly in the summer or the annual injury pile up which cannot be just bad luck then Wenger should be sacked. But I, for one, will wait till it happens and despite the recent wobble it hasn't happened yet.
Fair enough. I hear what you are saying about none of us knowing but I'm of the opinion that we can't and won't win the league again with Wenger in charge due to his flawed approach.

I'd love to be proven wrong but I see no difference in his approach now to what I did 5 years ago. Sure he has improved the first XI and is more willing to splash on special players, but outside of that the same mistakes are being repeated and quite frankly he has no excuses now, he has absolutely nothing and nobody to hide behind.