The downside of invincibility is an innate lack of visibility- Anonymous.
Saturday was an all time low. The kind of lurch you fall into and absolutely everyone writes you off. The kind that makes it obvious you need a severe surgical procedure to even begin to contemplate fixing, the kind that leaves even your most loyal afficionados thinking twice. Such was the new level of rot Arsenal, and indeed Wenger slumped to on saturday. And as someone rightly pointed out, we’ve done plenty “minor surgeries” over the years. We’ve changed captains, players, owners, coaching staff. Only one factor has remained constant. Go figure.
I respect Arsene Wenger. He masterminded a revolution in the English Premier League. If he quits now when we are still just on the brink of going out of being a “top side”. Then he’ll always be remembered as the man who masterminded the invincibles, made Thierry Henry, Cesc Fabregas, Pires, Patrick Viera etc. He’ll be remembered as the genius who brought the “pass your opponents into submission” mentality to the Arsenal, the man who with his defiant and incessant utilization of teenagers in cup games lighted up the Carling cup. But that dear reader is ancient history. Change is the only constant thing in the world, even Fortune 500 companies force hostile takeovers when the current CEOs stop moving the company forward.
Below, in no particular order are 25 reasons why Arsene Wenger should resign (or be made to leave his post) as manager of Arsenal football club:
1. He started the socialism wage structure:
To those of you unfamiliar with it, the socialism structure is the structure where squad players earn weekly wages in the same range. No one earns too high, and no one earns too low. Arsenal have the 4th highest wage bill in the EPL, about 143million a year on wages. It’s less than 10million from what United fork out every year, even though our highest earning players are Podolski and Walcott who are on 100k/w, while United shell out 235k/w and 250k/w on RVP and Rooney respectively. So what makes up for the gulf in class? Socialism. Arsenal pays roughly the same amount to both sets of first team regulars as well as fringe players. Santos 60k/w, Squillaci 60k/w, Arshavin 80k/w, Chamakh 50k/w, United have Paul Scholes, Rafael da Silva and Tom Cleverly on 30k/w, 40k/w and 20k/w respectively. Wow you say? Also notice that the above named Arsenal players combined have less than 15 appearances in all competitions this season, while their United counteparts have at least 50. So why can’t we buy Cavani and Lewandowski? It is simply because we refuse to pay them top dollar, even though we can afford it. And why can’t we sell Chamakh and Squillaci as it seems they are content to collect their big, fat paychecks every week, by doing absolutely nothing? No one would match their current wage bills, so why not sit back and enjoy their pension? Looking at the big picture, there is no motivation to play well, afterall, your salary limit has a ceiling, no matter how well you play.
2. Because he runs Arsenal like it is an extended family rather than a business:
Have you ever considered that given their injury woes, Rosicky and Diaby would have been shipped up to some backwater club on a get paid if you play contract if they were at a different side besides Arsenal? AW is the only topside manager that builds his team around injury prone players. In Owen Hagreaves time at MUFC, I doubt if SAF put him towards any serious consideration when planning his squad, same goes for Darren Fletcher. But every season, we hear about what fine players Rosicky and Diaby are, then they play a combined 10 games and go back home (physio’s table). Leaving us having to play the same players week in, week out.
3. He started the RVP sale with a phone call:
It has recently been revealed that the move taking our former talisman, PFA player of the year and golden boot winner to the red side of Manchester started with an innocuous phone call. SAF was arrogant enough to inquire about our best player by calling our manager. If you think there is nothing wrong with this, try imagining if reverse was the case, if AW called SAF and said “Hey, I’m interested in Wayne Rooney”. Can you imagine what SAF’s reaction’ll have been?
4. Cos he has the final say on transfers and wages:
Wenger sometime in the last two month during the protracted Theo Walcott saga came out to say he wields the control over who gets signed, who doesn’t, how much is spent on those transfers, and how much wages those players earn. So he’s the reason why Arteta is slaving away in defensive midfield, the reason why we are a Giroud injury away from using Gervinho as a CF at some point between now and June.
5. Because he sincerely believes we have two ‘quality’ players per position:
If our starting trio in attack are Podolski, Giroud and Walcott, then who are the second players in that position? AOC (Walcott’s replacement who I like but is far from quality), Gervinho (Giroud’s replacement, who is by far the most technically inept winger in all 14 leagues in England), and Arshavin (who is the laziest atomic composition to have stepped out of Russia). So two quality players per position yeah? Hahaha.
6. Because he benched Walcott for the first 12 or so games of the season:
When Walcott was a mainstay on the bench beginning of this season, it was because of one of two reasons: One, it was his punishment for refusing to sign the contract. Two, he wasn’t good enough to merit the shirt. If it was the first, then what sense was there is benching one of your key players from last season in favor of a less effective one because he refuses to pen a contract? All it does is further worsen your relationship with the player, and worsen the overall quality of the first team squad. Walcott was less than 10months to the end of his contract, and he of course wasn’t short of suitors. Play him, let him prove his worth to merit the bump in pay he was asking for. If he signs, good. Everyone is happy. If he doesn’t, he’ll have turned some results your way, and you’ll have gotten a little value out of him. See what happened in the end, AOC and Gervinho got injured, Walcott played, did much better than the two of them combined, has scored 18 goals and got the salary he wanted in the first place. So where is the sense in benching him initially? None. And if he benched him because he thought Gervais was the better player, then he should be sacked for thinking exactly that.
7. Cos he signed JY Park.
In a last minute trolley dash after losing to United 8-2 beginning of last season. Wenger stole Monaco striker JY Park under the noses of Lille where he was due for a medical, for about 3million pounds, hooked him up on about 50k/w wages, played him in two Carling Cup games, and 6minutes of one league game. Why? He isn’t a player for the future, and you don’t consider him a player for now. So why was he signed? Maybe you think 3million isn’t a lot. But add his wages for a year which amounts to another 3million on thereabout, 6million wasted. Mata’s release clause before the first of August was 18million pounds. We bought AOC for 12million pounds. The difference??? 6million pounds.
8. Because he played Santos against Schalke 04.
Schalke 04 came to North London for a CL game earlier this season. Gibbs was injured. Now, Santos is the most useless LB you’ll find anywhere you check. He was up against the mobile Jefferson Farfan. I’ll have benched Santos, you will have benched Santos. We both would have shunted TV5 there. Wenger either didn’t know Santos was a waste, or he knew and didn’t care. Santos played Huntelaar onside for their first goal, and was was absent when Farfan swung in the cross for Affelay to tap home the second. All things being equal, we’ll have topped that group if we hadn’t lost that game. So the price of playing Santos in that game? We are playing Bayern tomorrow and not maybe Galatasaray (no disrespect meant).
9. He loaned out Djourou and Chamakh with no replacement.
Wenger decided to do something about the wage bill and send both Djourou and Chamakh on loan. A decent defender and well, our only other out-and-out striker. So we are one injury and one suspension away from playing the Squid at CB, and no matter how desperate we are for a goal, we have no known CF on the bench to call on. Fantastic work Arsene!
10. He thinks Walcott will make a good CF.
Okay, so he’s quick and can finish. Is that all there is to being a CF these days? Where is the height, the upper body strength and the physique? Where is the aerial ability? The hold up play with back to goal? Walcott will score against Reading and an out of sorts Newcastle from a CF’s position, because well, anyone with half a brain can do that. But against any sort of organized defence? Forget it. You need proof? Watch the Arsenal VS Man City game and laugh. Easiest game for Kompany this season.
11. Because he sold Alex Song.
14 goals in all competitions last season, from defensive midfield. 3 years left on his contract. Say all you may about Nasri and RVP heading into the last years of their contracts putting them in the power point of negotiations. But Song? With three years? Had absolutely no say in how that deal went. AW sold Song cos he wanted the 17million. And I know Song wasn’t the most disciplined of DMs, but do you think AW gave him specific instructions to stay back? No. I don’t. Do you know how many times stubborn defences got unlocked with lofted Song passes from deep? Henry’s winner against Leeds, RVP’s winner against Everton, RVP’s winner against Liverpool etc. Song brought a different dimension to our scoring game. The long ball from deep. Now Arteta isn’t that kind of player. Neither is Wilshere. Neither is Cazorla. They are all in the same mould. Meaning opposing teams no longer have to worry about a different dimension. Its always gonna be pass, pass, pass…
12. Because he sidelined Steve Bould:
First three games of the season, three clean sheets. Bould was getting the praise for the improved defensive performances from a normally Santa Claus like defence. AW’s ego snapped. No one was gonna get credit for his team. The word on the street say Bould has gotten sidelined since then. He’s given little or no time to work on the defense anymore. So what do you know? We are back to harvesting goals like there is an award for it. Imagine where we’ll be on the table now if we had conceeded say 10 less goals?
13. Cos he’s lost his motivation edge.
That’s if he ever had it. From their exploits elsewhere it’s obvious that the likes of Henry, Viera, and co were self motivated. AW’s didn’t need to rouse them to the occassion cos they knew what what needed to be done, and more often than not did it. More often than not this season, there has been a distinct lack of motivation among the players, like they don’t know what is at stake. The only players that seem to give their all for the team are Jack Wilshere and Olivier Giroud. The former more evident. Face it, modern day footballers sometimes forget it’s a job. It probably has become too glamourous. I fear even if we bought Messi and Iniesta, they’ll become lukewarm in this set up. If Arsene can’t motivate, will it be too much to ask to find someone who can?
13. Our reputation has taken a monstrous bashing.
Yeah, yeah, he revolutionalized Arsenal. But who lost 8-2 to United? 4-1 to Chelsea? 4-0 to United in the FA Cup? 5-1 to Spurs in the Carling Cup? 4-1 to Barcelona and 4-0 to Milan in the Champions League? I can’t think of any “big team” that has been on the end of such houdings in the last 4 or so years. It’s time to stop making excuses.
14. He labelled Gervais as the best player at the AFCON.
Apart from the fact that I’m a Nigerian and this statement is as far from the truth as can be, it’s only the latest in a long line of Wenger PR garbage. He once said something about Walcott being better than Messi, or something along those lines. Misleading the populace, and making us look stupid. Imagine how an Englishman who didn’t see the AFCON will have felt about the standard of the Cup of Nations when Gervais missed that harder-to-score-than-to-miss chance on Saturday?
15. He has made the 4th place a trophy.
In the AGM late last year, Wenger proceeded to tell the stakeholders, and indeed the general public that finishing in the Champions League places is itself a trophy. Bewildering and absolutely shocking you say? Exactly my thoughts too. This is an insult on the pedigree of the club, the ego of its loyal fans, and a slap on the face of the loyals who pay probably the most exorbitant prices in all of Europe to go watch the team play. When you support a team like Everton, Tottenham, or maybe Newcastle, qualifying for the CL should be reason to pop champagne. But for Arsenal, it should be a given. I don’t think you’ll have heard Kenny Daglish or Brendan Rodgers make such fallacious statement, and it’ll be considered a bigger achievement for LFC if they make the CL this year. On closer scrutiny, how can qualifying for a trophy we’ve never won be a trophy in itself *confused*
16. He earns 140k/w (about 7.5million a year) and fails to inspire performance-wise based on an end-of-season analysis constantly:
What exactly is the club paying Wenger this much for? For allowing us slip into utter mediocrity, for paying immmensely useless players to sit on our bench or for selling our best players? Funny how Wenger’s socialism policy doesn’t apply to he himself. We offered RVP 135k/w as out final offer when AW himself is netting in 140k/w, is as ironious as could be. The fact that he earns more than Sir Alex Ferguson speaks volumes. He’s getting paid for winning nothing. He’s the highest paid manager in England for winning nothing. Where then is the motivation to win something.
17. Cos we are teethering on the edge:
For how long will we keep banking on Spurs to capitulate so we can make the top 4? Ask Liverpool FC, once you make it out of that exclusive league, it’s almost impossible to make it back in, even if you make it back, a guaranteed swift return is highly uncertain. We have a world class stadium, world class training and youth facilities, very good commercial deals, 100 plus million available for use, and we are slipping into mediocrity. Its like continually losing a race with a Lambo cos the driver you hired for it is drunk. Or rather has become drunk.
18. We’ve lost our identity.
I watched the games against Schalke 04, QPR, Norwich, and Aston Villa earlier this season and I was almost moved to tears. The passing was so slow and sterile, it physically hurt. Any backwater team can adopt the passing mentality. Even you the reader and I can pass the ball to each other constantly for 90mins. Where has the quick incisive passing, and killer off the ball movement? Our off the ball movement used to be so good, it was the campaign lead when EA Sports incoporated “Off the ball movement” into their FIFA game for the first time in ’05. It was a clip from a Pires-Henry goal. Now our strikers are so immobile, our supposedly technically gifted midfield can only shuffle it around. And of cos, Wenger is too either too arrogant or too ignorant to turn it around. We used to be behind Barcelona in the effective pass game before. Now Shaktar Donestk, Borrusia Dortmund, Bayern Munich, even Swansea are better at it. Remember Arsenal weren’t always a passing team, it is a Wenger thing. If we have to do away with this lacklustre passing, so be it. If we have to throw away the baby with the bathwater, so be it. History won’t remember that Inter parked the bus to win the 2010 Champions League.
19. Cos his Project Youth failed
Flamini, Nasri, Cesc, RVP, Song, Denilson, Traore, etc. When other teams were assembling ready made players to lay assault on trophies, we were content to believe we were in the process of creating our own very own home grown beast. Our very own version of Barcelona. Youngsters which we’ll train and keep and watch them win trophies for the next 10 years. We were wrong. Some of the above never became above average players, one left because his original hometown club who are at the moment kicking the behind of the whole of Europe came calling, while the rest left because their ambition/lust of money became overwhelming. Nasri left after his first very good season, RVP left after his first full injury-free season, Song and Flamini hurt in a different kind of way because we, I watched these players when they were absolute wastes, when no one else would have taken them, they came good and they left. But I refuse to blame them, players in the end will be judged by what they win. I blame the man who couldn’t find the right blend of experience and youth to satisfy their ambitions from within.
20. Cos he dismantled the invincibles too early
Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Messi, Giggs, Scholes, Ferdinand, Rooney. The above are examples of players from two of the best clubs in the world whom have been at their clubs for at least 10 years. Every team needs a spine. Especially when you are not backed by an endless stream of oil money. The spine of Arsenal’s invinsibles were sold in less than 4 years. Henry, Viera, Pires, Gilberto, Lauren, Ashley Cole, Campbell, Bergkamp, Kanu, Parlour, Ljunberg etc were all gone by 08. No spine. No older head to help likes of Cesc and Flamini. Little wonder they always lost their way around February, March when the tough got going. How do you disassemble one of the best squads of all time that rapidly? How? Point that accusing finger at Wenger the seller.
21. Cos of his questionable signings
There was a time when the Arsenal scouts were doing a helluva job. They’ll spot a diamond in the rough, bring him to Arsene, and Arsene will make a very good player out of him. These days we are going neither the Arsenal way nor the City way. We are not buying good players on the cheap, we are not buying expensive players either. We are buying average/less than average players for good money. Gervinho, AOC, Santos, Kosclieny and Squillaci for example cost us 42million. And of the above only Koslieny and AOC are worth your tv time. Newcastle is buying all the good players in France which used to be Arsenal’s talent ground, our scouts are letting players like Michu go unnoticed, and Arsene is letting good players like Demba Ba go to Chelsea for a pittance. These days all we do is train players to be poached and scout players for others to sign.
22. Cos Wenger is playing us
Remember these comments “I’ll be busy in this transfer window”, “We were close to buying one more player”, “You cannot claim to be ambitious when you sell players like Cesc and Nasri” etc. I could to on and on. Wenger’s PR spin is the only thing that has remained top notch about him recently. The only problem is; more and more people are catching up to him. Wenger’s chase of David Villa was a ruse. A smokescreen to let you think they are working. Rather than chase a 31 year old David Villa whom he knew Barca were never gonna let go of, why not buy his younger version Adrian Lopez? At least they call him the new Villa in France? What happened to our interest in Zaha? And Diame? And M’Vila? And Yanga Mbiwa? And Demba Ba? PR people. All PR spin. Remember when it leaked we had bid 30million for an unknown player? Some people actually believed. The only players Wenger’ll bid 30m for are Messi, Ronaldo, Rooney and the likes. Players that he knows 30m won’t buy. Remember when United signed Berbatov for 30.75million in 08? BBC reported Arsenal bid 27.5 that same evening. PR people. Let’s bid for a player we can’t get, so they think we are working.
23. Cos he’s made us the laughing stock of the entire footballing world.
These days of social networking, those of us that support underperforming clubs have taken a lot of ridicule, some waaayyy over the top. It’s even gone over the top. Someone once told me on twitter that he’s sure I can’t be ambitious in real life cos I support the Arsenal. Disgusting yeah? Yeah blame him for being foolish. But blame Wenger too for giving him the reason to be foolish. Will he have said that to me 10 years ago? No. But then it is what it is. A friend of mine said on Saturday afternoon that she liked watching us play, that there was no pressure because Arsenal ALWAYS lose. I smiled. I was gonna reply the tweet after we must have won the Blackburn game, but alas, we lost. So no reply. You just need to hear the things money loving scum like Nasri and Ashley Cole say about us all the time. And it seems Mourinho just feels the need to take a dig at Arsenal whenever the controversy around him isn’t up to the usual standard in Spain. Do I blame him? No I don’t. Hell the last time we beat a quality European side in Europe was 2008, when we ousted Milan. So do you blame them all for the riducule. No. I blame Wenger.
24. Cos he lost to Bradford and Blackburn.
In recent years, we’ve been dumped out of the domestic cups by teams of our ilk. Chelsea, United, City etc. Recently, its been the likes of Birmigham and Sunderland. At least they were in the same league as us. This season. Bradford of the League two and Blackburn of the Championship have been our conquerors. Good Lord. We can’t beat the best, and when lady luck smiles on us and gives us favorable draws, we walk on to the pitch and expect the other side to cave in just because we turned up. Enough is Enough.
25. Cos he hasn’t won any trophy in 8 years.
The elephant in the room. Let’s be honest, no one will care if we sold our best players, or if we concede a billion goals, if we had won say 3 trophies in 8 years. When things aren’t going your way, even your most compliant policies get scrutinized. We don’t care about the past. That’s ancient history. This is his 17th year in charge, and 8 of those years have been trophyless, so that’s half of his Arsenal career that has gone barren. Shall we stick with Wenger for another 10 years when we shall no doubt be a relegation threatened team? By no means! Chelsea sacked an FA cup and Champions League winning coach, Madrid have sacked league winning coaches because they didn’t do well in the Champions League, SAF wouldn’t be in charge of United now if he had gone three barren years in the last 20. And here we are clinging to a man whose last trophy was almost a decade ago. There is no sentiment in football. Wenger is tarnishing his legacy. They say leave when the ovation is loudest, if you don’t do that the next best time to leave is when the murmurs and grumbles become heard. To leave when you start getting stoned in the street isn’t beffitting of a man of Monseiur Wenger’s status. Agreed a new coach might make not things better, maybe he’ll totally ruin the club, and maybe then we’ll appreciate what we had, afterall Ivan the terrible, and Stan the semi-blind still hold the reins. But we’ll take our chances. Enough is enough.
In Arsene We Rust.
Long Live the Arsenal.
Obisesan ‘Mastermind’ Adedamola
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interesting article but most of these points don’t hold water. I’m a ManU fan and i cud follnw ur analogy with 25reasons y Ferguson shud be sacked. While i’m a big fan of Wenger (i actually like him), i dnt tink he shud be sacked cos of his past achievements and he shud be made to sit up by the board.. You want him sacked bt the board remains in place? Whats stopping whoever comes in as the new coach from following the same steps of wenger (as dictated by the board)
25 reasons why Fergie shld be sacked….??????? really !!?? come on!!!
25 reasons why fergie should be sacked?? Really? Pls let’s hear it…..
I agree with Tobi. Wenger may need to go, but many of the reasons given here contradict themselves, none more heinous than the one about keeping Diaby and Rosicky but selling Van Persie, who was in the exact same shape as the other two only two years ago. However, I feel his number one undoing is that he’s become too much of a father-figure. As for the spend/no-spend, I don’t think anyone in the world will willingly handicap himself. This story will come out soon enough. Perhaps there’s a connection between this and what he’s paid. But I’m me and this is what I think.
Good job Brother, I never thought we could have up to 25 reasons but here we are and I think there are still more for example Wenger told the press after the Blackburn game – ‘Don’t abuse my players’. I remember a certain game afterwhich Mourinho told the press – ‘Its a pity we’re allowed only 3 subs, I wanted to change 7 of my players’. The fact that the man continues to trust the likes of Diaby to deliver week in week out and the fact that he refuses to say what is needed to be said when it is needed are two more reasons.
Bonkers! What’s this really? You want him to compete with the sheik and the russian while kroenke is the owner? Lol. Ask yourself when this rot started . It was when that LIL Russian came to the league. Then the sheik came with billions. why was he able to compete with sir Alex when the transfer market was normal. He runs arsenal like aan extended family really? Sir Alex has fletcher and Anderson in that squad Ur point? And to think he wanted to sell RVP is funnier ever heard of Gazidiz? So sir alex( that u used as the reference point) sold Tevez to city? Tell me please. It’s normal to bench Walcott when that was going on its what any normal top manager ‘ll do please! He signed JY park ? That’s a point sir Alex signed to abi to replace smicheal . Nothing wrong with the sale of Alex song it was time for him to move apparently for tactical reasons to accommodate more technical midfielders lo sidelined Steve Bould ? Common we shouldn’t be doing this eho’s the assistant manager? What crazy source is that. Smh!!!! . He lost his motivation edge? Sometimes last season we were in mistake obscurity several points behind spurs and there was no way back guess what happened we ended up 3rd! Above spurs and the russian and that’s not motivation? Did he give the players beams 2 chop or wah? For them to do that. What reputation? Arsenal is still one of the biggest teams in Europe. man Utd lost 1-6 to their city rivals in old tractors imagine spurs battering us like that. When they were contesting the league with pool same man Utd lost 1-4 to pool @ old traffird Ur point? What identity u’re pointing to bad matches which ‘ll always happen to every team in the world. How about the great attacking matches like Westham or Newcastle or spurs ? I’m sure you forgot his project youth didn’t fail the players are good we couldn’t keep hold to the, cos of greed we simply don’t have enough money our owner worthy wah like a billion? Sure city spent more than that already you need to understand that is simply not his fault if he did it at Madrid or man Utd he’ll keep hold to them you thinkit’s not sad for him you think he wanted to sell them it’s simply ,only that’s modern day football for you the ugly truth. He’s netting paid cos he’s spdoing a great job. You have to blame the board for preferring dividnends to trophies and not investing in the squad. Not Arsene NO! We don’t have a sugar daddy that is the plain truth dismantled the invincibles really? Sir Alex helped hi, to assemble it abi? Mtsheew . There’s time for everything dd manutd dissemble the 08 UCL winning team early? No heagreaves, Tevez or Ronaldo anymore your point? Bro football has changed these days you scout a Ayer then city or Chelsea come in to buy! That’s reality for you we can’t compete with them. So Newcastle are doing better or what?or we’d have paid na more than the Russian? Kroenke can’t pay a stripper more than Agra common! No point at all. We signed Cazorla and you’re talking Michu really. Cazorla was one of the best in Spain courted by Madrid when he was in Villarreal and helped start the Malaga revolution and u’re talking Michu it’s disappointing really. Playing you? That’s how to become a manager 101 every manager does that with signings Fergie and Mou everybody no point with that point at all, made you a laughing stock? How you should be proud. I’m sure it’s fans of sugar daddy clubs that are laughing yea Smh and u care ? Really u care? You want to compete with them ? Even spurs and liverpoolare spending more and we re better than them and you think you can compete with Madrid or cited or what, cited didn’t make it out of the group stage of the UCL again this season I can imagine if that was Arsene all hell will be let loose! Smh and you’re the laughing stock? Yes he lost to Bradford and Blackburn that happens in football Madrid list 4-0 to alcorcom they lost to Granada this season man Utd lost to Norwich crystal pa
Ace in the past no Fergie out posters burnley sef. Haba na 2day? He hasn’t won a trophy in 8 years. Smh KK won the carling cup last season and he was sacked wanna knw why? Lool you have no idea how important you premier league positron at the end of the season is. If he leaves we might win a meagre carling cup and become the newliverpool and get lost in mod table obscurity I’m sure you’d love that he’s been managing this team for years you think it ‘s just easy to brining jugen klopp and perform magic? Lol. In 15 years we’ve. It ended below a team that spent less,
come on!!!! i’d pick fletcher over almost everyone in Aresne’s midfield.. (save J.W and Santi) he’s a battler.. for pete’s sake. jes what Arsenal Lack. Ando’ Is not half as bad as u make him sound.. he’s been injured the whole time.
@dondekojo….I don’t understand why u refuse to accept the fact that a change must happen at arsenal. Leaving all the statistics about Players and wages and the rest. You guys have not won any trophy in 8 years…isn’t that something to be worried about? ….Its a fair enough article,even though I don’t really knw the truth about some facts and I dnt support the ‘extended family’ stuff…But there were some major points there I support. I am a manchester united Fan..by the way.
@kayode you hav a strong point I wonder why anyone will willingly handicap himself.
Hmmm I’m seeing things a lil differently after reading this comment , touche. And by the way, lovely article Damola.
lmao… Nice article.. but honestly speaking, i dont think Arsene’s this bad.. he might be a little deluded and all but, with a review of his wage structure.. a competent defensive coach one or two combative players and a little bit of luck.. He’ll turn things around. P.S all the great sides take a hiding every now and then. Madrid 5-0, Man-Utd 6-1, Buyern 5-2(iThink), Chelsea 5-2 it happens all the time really.
We used to have some of the best players in the world. Now we dont. It really is that simple. AW has created this top 4 ‘trophy’. It’ll be a dark day for him when he doesn’t ‘win’ it.