Arsenal - A 'Broken' Club

[Marc Overmars]

Well, I agree. And this is why I've lost it with Wenger. I genuinely don't think many other managers in the world could have kept the ship so steady and kept us in the top 4 during the stadium move. We were possibly an Eduardo leg break away from winning the title in 2008 and I honestly think had the billionaires not stuck their beaks in Wenger's record would look far more impressive. But the shackles have come off now financially, we signed Ozil and then Sanchez, won a couple of trophies. All we need to do was keep that going, build momentum. Wenger has always been guilty of this, resting on his laurels when we needed to push on. And that's why I have come to the conclusion he should go. But come on, we did finish 2nd last year. Somewhat fortuitously but still, it's not a slow, sad decline a la Clough who ended up taking Forest down in the end. With our board I'm not convinced that changing manager is a silver bullet. At least Wenger cares how we do, he may not be able to do anything about it but our failings clearly hurt him. They don't hurt the board one bit, the money keeps rolling in and they couldn't give a monkeys. People like that and Sky are the real enemies of football as a sport.

I'm sure he cares but I don't think disappointment hurts him (or the squad for that matter) as much as it should. If he was really hurt then he wouldn't be so passive in the transfer market, that's not a question of him being able to do anything about it, it's a choice he makes because he wants to operate in a certain way, he won't allow anything to compromise that.

I could never imagine Mourinho, Pep, Klopp and other top mangers being so passive after underachievement.