Match Reaction - Arsenal 1-2 Watford - Wenger Out

[Munchies]

Very thoughtful of the hotel in Barcelona to personalise my room
https://twitter.com/DeejayDt/

The banner could make a return tonight

[KSE Comedy Club]

Petit has also been disrespecting Wenger now, saying he should step aside.

I mean how disgusting, just like those silly Arsenal fans

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...-a6933821.html

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/1862/pre...oogle.co.uk%2F

[Power n Glory]

And therein lies the issue with the manager. '98 to 2005 - of course we moved forward as a football team. 2005 to now any forward progress has been limited to the balance sheet. Seems almost as though the manager can no longer tell the difference.

What's more disturbing about that quote is the lack of humility. He's taking full credit for where we are. If that's the case and bringing this back to the ownership argument, why does it matter about ownership? If we find a manager with a vision for the club but doesn't deviate so far away from the self sustaining model, shouldn't we be able to find our feet again?

[Power n Glory]

Petit has also been disrespecting Wenger now, saying he should step aside.

I mean how disgusting, just like those silly Arsenal fans

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...-a6933821.html

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/1862/pre...oogle.co.uk%2F

But I don't agree with the Director of Football idea. What good will he be? He'll need to step away from the club fully for a few years so the new manager has freedom.

[GP]

I disagree with Petit. A former player shouldn't be the manager and Wenger shouldn't be the DoF.

We need a fresh approach but we need someone with experience.

[Letters]

There's nothing wrong with having an ex-player as manager - Graham was and he did pretty well - but they shouldn't be manager because they were an ex-Arsenal player.
Being an Arsenal legend as a player is no guarantee of being a good manager, in fact the reverse often applies.

[Power n Glory]

Petit means ex Arsenal players and I think it would be a huge mistake to go that route.

[Niall_Quinn]

All we need is a caretaker manager until the summer. An extremely simple thing to do, there must be hundreds of potential candidates. The "who could replace him" fallback is nothing more than a last resort delaying tactic. Hiddink is doing the job down the road right now, the chavs having sacked their manager because he fucked up big time, just like ours has done, again, predictably. I'd put Bould in charge for the rest of the season. Considering the current manager couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery an old pro like Bould could at least get the basics right and stop the rot. Or even Cech could do it. Plenty of options, all that's missing is the will but that has been the problem all along.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I see no reason for a caretaker manager, it will literally have no impact one way or the other as to how things pan out this season.

A successor should be sought by the board between now and the end of the season but to take over at the end of the season.

But then again we all know that won't happen and he will only go before 2017 (arguably 2019) if he chooses to go himself

[Niall_Quinn]

I see no reason for a caretaker manager, it will literally have no impact one way or the other as to how things pan out this season.

A successor should be sought by the board between now and the end of the season but to take over at the end of the season.

But then again we all know that won't happen and he will only go before 2017 (arguably 2019) if he chooses to go himself

The caretaker manager makes the process real. Which top manager is going to hang around waiting for us to make an unlikely decision in the summer? They'll be able to go with the "but who is there" excuse. And Bould could at least organise the team. Our results would pick up - I'd bet money on it. True, we aren't winning it now, no matter who could come in, but it might make a few players reconsider their options if stuff like shape, tactics, defending, shooting made a comeback at the club. What could it hurt?