Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
Wenger has thrown players in at the deep end on numerous occasions. He almost destroyed Coquelin chucking him into that humiliation against Utd a few years back. He's thrown the likes of Sanogo into Europe. He's no stranger to it. But for some reason he thinks Flamini and Ramsey work as a midfield pair. Nobody else in the world thinks that - only Wenger. And that's enough to know it's time for him to go. His judgement is shot to hell, he can't spot the obvious stuff any more. He can't see that Mertesacker is a huge liability. He can't see that taking Giroud off when Walcott has been playing so badly effectively reduced us to 9. He can't figure out that then playing Ozil as the striker rather than Theo is insane - he thinks that's perfectly rational. He couldn't reason that Campbell was one of our hardest workers and would have benefited from Alexis coming on as soon as we went down to 10. Alexis is the IDEAL player for that, he's worth 2 men with his work rate. It escapes him that the whole reason for Theo to be playing is for his pace and the tippy tappy game leaves Theo with fuck all to do except be offside waiting for a pass that never comes. He didn't spot the midfield clusterfuck against Liverpool and Stoke so therefore didn't feel the need to make a change going in against Matic, Cuntegas and Mikel. He didn't feel the need to get off his arse and stamp his authority when Ramsey and Flamini were wandering all over the place neglecting their primary responsibilities. I could keep going with this until every aspect of the game is covered. Because the manager got absolutely everything wrong today. Everything. It's 100% his fault. So therefore, you can in fact blame him.

I don't blame the players today. I blame some of them in general for not having worked hard enough all season. But you could have thrown any ten out there and minus any sort of tactics and the crazed formation Wenger settled on it was near on impossible for any player to make sense of it. You have eleven guys all over the place, all with freedom to wander as if we are the finished Barcelona. There's no way Ramsey can be charging up the pitch like that leaving huge gaps unless Wenger has sanctioned it. Wenger has seen something that isn't there, like a guy in a padded cell working out the woes of his imaginary world. He's lost the plot, probably from years of focusing on the money instead of the team. And in that respect his bosses are to blame too. Obviously that must be what they want. But for the sake of what happens on the pitch Wenger has to go now and it would be such a bonus if he'd take that board with him too.

No chance though. 2019 they say. No wonder, they are raking it in. Top gate receipts in all football, trumping Barca and Utd. Now we know what that stadium move was really all about. Yes indeed, we are now competing with the top sides in Europe. Not on the pitch maybe, but where it really counts for the senior people at this club (including Wenger) the balance sheet.

They need to go. And this isn't a reaction to today. That's what I thought before the first ball of the season was kicked and that's what some have thought for years. They were absolutely right then just as they remain right today, because the entire balance of the evidence is right there for all to see and judge.

2019? You could weep.
I can see where you are coming from . I agree it was a mistake to take out Campbell who is playing so well instead of walcott who has been so awfull . But we needed a goal and Walcott is more likely to score in a big game than Campbell who has yet to score in a big game for us . Another thing , we created a few chances but didn't take them away . Was that Wenger's fault as well ? I am not defending him at all but I want us to reflect on the game with no emotion .