Wenger Referendum IV

[Özim]

We're not a small club. But we aren't a big name any more either. We're rich, but that's a benefit enjoyed by the few and not the many. We used to be noted for our football but even that's gone. The Arsenal in Keown's mind is all based on the past. Modern Arsenal is a shadow of the club he played for.

Yup, we're not a big club in any sense other than financially, haven't won a top honour for over a decade, we're a car crash in transfer market and will struggle to attract top talent now as we're widely seen as also rans abroad and our football is rubbish.

To go from what we were 13 years ago to this requires a level of incompetence it's hard to comprehend, unrecognisable from those days when we were the envy of every fan, now we're just a joke to every fan instead, an objec tof derision.

[Niall_Quinn]

Alexis could hardly have done more in his time here. He even had a strop at the lack of ambition displayed at this club and the club thanked him by trying to assassinate him in the media. Even today Wenger is "warning" players that refuse to sign up for more of his antics. The real sin here is that Wenger has had two world class talents at his disposal plus a mountain of cash and all he's achieved is making the club smaller. Net result will be our two most vital players walking out the door and Wenger sticking around, once again as the highest earner.

[Niall_Quinn]

Greatest plastic of all time? Or a pragmatist in tune with the cynicism of the modern game? There's so much wrong with this article it leaves you breathless. But maybe football is so wrong now that this article has become right. It always happens when money takes centre stage. Up becomes down. In the end though, these are your modern day "fans". Pity football for what it has become.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/...arsene-wenger/

[Niall_Quinn]

One of the comments in response to that article sums it up nicely.

I just don't think you quite understand what it is about following a football team, Mr. Reilly- one thing it surely is not is treating it as a switch to Waitrose from M&S because their Malbec is so much nicer, and a pound cheaper.

[Marc Overmars]

Stopped reading after the first line:

I had 20 good years supporting Manchester United but now I follow Arsenal,

Clearly someone who doesn't understand anything about football.

[Niall_Quinn]

Stopped reading after the first line:



Clearly someone who doesn't understand anything about football.

It gets a lot worse.

[Xhaka Can’t]

It gets a lot worse.

I couldn't go much further.

A couple of paragraphs in, I genuinely came to the conclusion that the assembled words were coming together to form one of the worst articles ever composed.

It certainly is the 'sporting' piece I almost read.

[Penguin]

If we lost Alexis and Ozil, which world class player would even consider joining us? We're the jokes of Europe. At best we'll get a couple of up and coming players looking to use us as a stepping stone for their big dream move. We can't attract players of equal standard.

That will suit Wenger because he'll have a ready made excuse that nobody was available. His first instinct isn't to build a title winning team, it's to cover his own arse in case he fails. Mourinho was right, he really is a specialist in failure.

[GP]

You know when you start saying things like 'Mourinho was right' that you've lost your grip on reality.

[Penguin]

I threw up a little in my mouth while I typed that...