Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

[Özim]

I'm more interested in why the club feels the need to constantly rehash the same statements about our activity in the market, are they being questioned on it by the media?

Yeah, agree with you and others, same as always with us, nothing has changed.

Lazyness and they know that enough fans will buy it to fill the stadium, that's all they care about, Wenger and co are ruining this club IMO.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

My concern is that the statements of Gazidis seem to make it clear that we should not expect massive change in our outlay or the way we do business in general even if Wenger goes

[Özim]

My concern is that the statements of Gazidis seem to make it clear that we should not expect massive change in our outlay or the way we do business in general even if Wenger goes

Wenger isn't going, not in the medium term anyway.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Wenger isn't going, not in the medium term anyway.

Depends what you mean by medium term, even if he doesn't go next season....i don't expect him to be around more than two seasons after that

[Özim]

Depends what you mean by medium term, even if he doesn't go next season....i don't expect him to be around more than two seasons after that

He'll be here for the next 4 years I reckon, could be more now that he's got no life.

[selassie]

Wenger isn't going, not in the medium term anyway.

What scares me just as much is if Wenger moves upstairs once he's gone. Can you imagine him in some kind of DOF role?!

[Kano]

Wenger isn't a manager the board can 'touch' given what he's achieved in the past, his standing in the club and given the fact that they rely on him for everything football wise. They couldn't have been luckier to find a manager that thinks about the wider aspects of the club, someone that fits perfectly with how they like to run things.

They won't change their approach at all because they will be able to set the parameters of how the next manager will work from the off and have full control over the situation. There will be little change in our approach until Kroenke and Usmanov leave but that will not happen anytime soon.

[Özim]

What scares me just as much is if Wenger moves upstairs once he's gone. Can you imagine him in some kind of DOF role?!

A horrible prospect, he needs to leave and have nothing to do with the club ever again.

[Özim]

Wenger isn't a manager the board can 'touch' given what he's achieved in the past, his standing in the club and given the fact that they rely on him for everything football wise. They couldn't have been luckier to find a manager that thinks about the wider aspects of the club, someone that fits perfectly with how they like to run things.

They won't change their approach at all because they will be able to set the parameters of how the next manager will work from the off and have full control over the situation. There will be little change in our approach until Kroenke and Usmanov leave but that will not happen anytime soon.

That will very much reduce the list of prospective managers because most decent managers want to do things their way, they certainly will want to stamp their authority on the team and move away from the Wenger philosophy so that they can achieve success.

A manager when he comes in also has certain requirements that need to be met.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

He'll be here for the next 4 years I reckon, could be more now that he's got no life.

And you're someone who never lets get negativity get in the way of the facts

The contract offer that was leaked took him up to his 70th year (2019), how many managers realistically go on much past 70?

Ferguson and Bobby Robson were 71, Guy Roux was 69

And i genuinely don't think he has decided whether he stays with us beyond this season. I accept that the ultimate decision is his when that shouldn't be the case...but in reality at 67 a man who doesn't appear to be massively motivated by money is it going to be worth it for him to stay if the atmosphere at the Emirates continues to sour.