How Good Is Wenger?

[Seymour Butts]

Gaah! He makes my head spin, he really does.

We've had a £9m net spend on transfers over the last 10 years, built a new stadium and paid off a lot of the debt, continually asset stripped and prioritised profit over ambition, bought a load of mediocre players and paid them far too much and yet...he's done it again. Top 4 trophy every single year. This year it really looked like it was game over but a brilliant run over the last couple of months and he's done it again. Top 4 secured. More points than last year, far fewer goals conceded and only 2 fewer league goals scored than last year despite selling the PL's best striker.

No trophies again of course and 8 trophyless years for a club of our stature isn't good enough. But to finish top 4 every year despite some of the money other clubs are throwing around to try and achieve it, it's pretty impressive.

Will we push on now some of the financial restraints have apparently been eased? Do we trust Wenger to make the right signings any more? Would someone else do better? Plenty of other managers would do worse.

I am not sure there are many other managers that could have achieved the level of consitency and have delivered what he has to the club as a whole. He has changed the face of AFC in terms of ground, training, brand. Having said that he needs to change and adapt.

I think that next season will be absolutely key. He needs to stay true to his word and use the end of the season as a springboard, change his philosophy, sign some real quality and really mount a challenge. If he makes the right additions next year really could be the best chance we have of getting back to the top - Rafa, Mancini and Fergie all gone..............no better opportunity than that

[Globalgunner]

If you like your seasons here on to look exactly like the ones of the last 5 years. Then Wenger`s your man. Mind boggling purchases, unbelievable tactics, criminal substitutions. Insipid capitulations in the cups. Yep. Wenger it is. Good thing about Wenger is he will help the worlds population by exponentially increasing the suicide rate amongst Arsenal fans, so he is not completely useless.

[Marc Overmars]

I am not sure there are many other managers that could have achieved the level of consitency and have delivered what he has to the club as a whole. He has changed the face of AFC in terms of ground, training, brand. Having said that he needs to change and adapt.

I think that next season will be absolutely key. He needs to stay true to his word and use the end of the season as a springboard, change his philosophy, sign some real quality and really mount a challenge. If he makes the right additions next year really could be the best chance we have of getting back to the top - Rafa, Mancini and Fergie all gone..............no better opportunity than that

I do think we have a good platform for success but I'm not banking on unrest at other clubs for it to happen. United will always be mentally strong enough to compete, City will spend a truck load and changing managers has never stopped Chelsea outperforming us.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Wenger seems to have taken it upon himself to be Atlas holding up the globe that is Arsenal, and no doubt whilst he obviously buckles under the strain he hasn't dropped the ball so to speak.

The club make North Korea seem transparent and open, so it's hard to judge the man fully without getting a real sense of what goes on at the club. I think the money is there to spend in terms of transfer fees, i think the problem is that he knows he has to get rid of players off the wage bill before he can sign anyone....and 2013 a lot of player's contracts are up so that should help exponentially....my worry is that players like Bendtner and Chamakh are still in contract until 2014 and they are never going to lower their wage demands in order to play for a smaller club.
We can blame Wenger for that but even assuming he was solely responsible for contract negotiations (which i highly doubt) it's only endemic of the modern game.

[Globalgunner]

Socialism is not the norm in the modern game. It is a notion conjured upo solely in Wengers mind, where it is quite okay to piss other peoples hard earned down the drain while delivering the bare minimum in return

[Ollie the Optimist]

Arsenal 2010/11 season: With Cesc, Nasri; 68 pts. Last season: With RVP, Song; 70 pts. This season, with this squad: 73 pts #OneArseneWenger

Just saw this on twitter. Didn't realise we had improved each year with a worse squad the the year before

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Socialism is not the norm in the modern game. It is a notion conjured upo solely in Wengers mind, where it is quite okay to piss other peoples hard earned down the drain while delivering the bare minimum in return

What's socialism got to do with the wage bill, the state of the wage bill is quite the opposite of socialism it shows the worst excesses of capitalism.