Where is your proof of that? And even if he was being forced to do such, why hasn't he taken a stand instead of tarnishing his reputation beyond repair at this point, therby destroying what could have been an enviable legacy?Originally Posted by Grebbo
Be gone with your apologist drivel before someone drops a house on you, sir.
Regardless of what is happening behind the scenes there is still no excuse for his record. We've been knocked out of the two cups by lower division teams. That has nothing to do with our transfer policy and you also have to question his attitude when it comes to these cups. What he says in about 4th place and the cups is bad enough and it has an effect on the players as well.
Didn't think we could have a more embarrassing season than the 10/11 season. I was wrong.
Pound for pound the worst team in the country we are so I'm not surprised by the result. I said through my minion on the match thread Blackburn were favourites. I hate being right
Know nothing bit the scoreline. Don't even know who scored. Whose mistake was it?Arsčne Wenger faced the media after the FA Cup fifth-round defeat to Blackburn Rovers on Saturday. This is what he had to say:
on any regrets over team selection…
No. We had 11 international players on the pitch at the start of the game. When we made the changes we were at 0-0.
on the performance…
We had a lot of the ball and [Blackburn] defended well. I believe we had 70 per cent of the ball, we had 16 shots at goal, they only had one shot at goal. For us it's a typical cup game where it's important not to concede and keep a clean sheet and I think we made a massive mistake on the goal. In a game like that it was down [to us] to keep a clean sheet and score in the final 15 minutes.
on the mistake on the goal…
I do not want to go too much into detail but I believe we were really guilty on the goal.
Offensively we lacked ruthlessness and calm in front of goal. We didn't make enough of our corners
on losing to Bradford and now Blackburn…
If you look at the Premier League teams who went out against lower-league sides you will see it happened to many of them. We were not good enough to win the game, it is as simple as that.
on whether that is acceptable…
Not one defeat is acceptable. You are in this job to win every single game.
on the reaction of the fans…
I can understand it. You do not want your fans to be happy when you lose at home to Blackburn when the team has one shot at goal.
on where this defeat ranks…
It is very painful and very disappointing to lose a game like that. What is important now is to focus on the next one.
on missing out on two trophies…
Of course it is disappointing. It is very difficult to accept but it happened and we had enough chances to win, but we didn't. Offensively we lacked ruthlessness and calm in front of goal. We didn't make enough of our corners, and we were vulnerable on one mistake.
It is important to focus on our next game and it is a good opportunity to show that we have character and are men who can fight for each other
on how difficult this season has been…
The season is not over. For you maybe, not for me.
on facing Bayern Munich yet…
I think it is important to focus on our next game and it is a good opportunity to show that we have character and are men who can fight for each other. That is all you can do. You take a distance in terms of what people say and show how strong and good you are in the next game.
on lifting the team…
It is not difficult at all. It is our job. If we feel sorry for ourselves we would be completely wrong. We have a massive game on Tuesday night and we have to show that we some response in the team.
on the reaction to the defeat…
I leave all the headlines and the definite thinking to you. Football is much more unpredictable than that and I believe that 16 years without losing against a lower-league team, no one has done it so that means now up until now the record has been quite good. It is very disappointing that the two [defeats] have happened in the same season but I prepared these two in the same way that did in the 16 years before. If you lose a game people will be very unhappy, I am as well don't worry.
Just seen the highlights. We are awful. Defending for the goal was pathetic. Ches
Walcott who is a lazy bastard and is too good to cover back, the defence as always (no explanation needed for them, just think back to any of their fuck ups), Ches who is rapidly turning out to be a failed prospect - a dreadful palm out right into the heart of the box. he's done it before, like so many of our players he doesn't learn from his mistakes. Basically, these guys might say they give a fuck but watching them fuck up game after game tells the real story.
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Completely correct on the selling policy. Of course no manager would want to sell his best players, that's just logical. And that's why our team is so shit now. However. Wenger is heavily to blame for this defeat because it's so evident he doesn't give a shit about the domestic cups. That must surely filter through to a bunch of already lazy and complacent players who are in the main just here to take the money. From top to bottom, nobody at the club gives a fuck about the fans - not that I can see anyway. Maybe Jack but let's wait to see who he's playing for in 3 years time. The cups are important to fans maybe, we used to be the FA Cup kings FFS. But our views count for shit with the club - we're nowhere in the scheme of things. The board, the manager, the players have their own various agendas and the fans are only considered in terms of arses on seats, shirts on backs and Sky TV subscriptions. Money. Pay up and go fuck yourself - that's the attitude.
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Get rid of that sleaze ball Kroenke, get in a new proactive, progressive board then by all means get rid of Wenger
Getting rid now really wldnt change much
"what it means to be human - to be featherless, two-legged, linguistically conscious creatures
born between urine and faeces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.."
The board don't pick the team. I think it's fair to assume that. Neither do they fail to address the tactical naivety we show game after game, the failure to address basic defending mistakes which shouldn't be repeated as frequently as we see with one of the most supported and successful clubs in London. These are the things Wenger simply has to take responsibility for, it's what he is paid 7 million a year to sort out ffs.
Is it really that much to ask for? A manager who can manage a team?
Whilst it's true the board are responsible for allowing this acceptance of underachievement, it's difficult to look beyond the manager when the team struggle in even the most straight-forward looking fixtures.
Any new manager is going to be a gamble but I can't see how Wenger being in charge is giving us the best chance of success anymore. The team have ability which they display sporadically but half of the time they look horrifically stale, like a shell of the team they could potentially be. You have to ask why the manager rarely seems to get a response from his players, what is he constantly failing to convey to them?
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