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I think my point is I see no difference in his approach now to what I did 15 years ago. I don't think he's fundamentally changed. And we won titles then. It's arguable that football has changed and he's failed to keep up but a big factor in the last decade has been the billionaires. People keep saying that's an excuse but look at where the trophies have ended up. Obviously we'll never know but I reckon we'd have won a title or two in the last decade without them. Now we have the money to compete again and so far this season we are. I agree there are no excuses now, this year we have to properly challenge till the end. Nothing else is good enough. I've seen a few things which make me believe we can.
No, no, no and no.

There's a HUGE difference in his approach. His early teams were loaded with speed, power and fierce winners with that win at all costs mentality focused around a rock hard, in your face, never turn your back on the ball, back five. Then two vicious bastards in the middle feeding blinding counters from one end of the pitch to the opposition goal in seconds. It used to be fatal for the opposition to win a corner against us.

Then Wenger changed EVERYTHING and we've been second rate ever since, artificially elevated by some damn fine players like RvC who dragged the team up on their own. Wenger's vision, once Graham's back four expired, has been entertaining at times, less so for that dour period a few years back where he let the standards slide to the basement, but ultimately a flop. The fans know what we have been lacking for years, Vieira not being replaced for example. Wenger has had other ideas but none of those ideas have panned out. The change in tactics, the youth project, policies in the transfer windows - we always had a bit of money to spend but Wenger has spent it trying to prop up a philosophy that has failed for a decade. It's on him.