A few weeks ago i had to turn off watching Arsenal against Norwich in the last 10 mins because I was so certain that the the performance was so spineless and lacking in any imagination, passion or fight or creativity. For the first time i knew that nothing was going to change during that game where we could change the likely outcome. Today i was hoping and not really believing that anything might happen. I have sat through the last 7 years of watching the Arsenal live and on tv and see us deteriorate. We go a step forward and two steps backwards. I thought this year with Steve Bould that finally Wenger had a challenge to his 'control' and maybe a bit more emphasis on defence might serve us well. The past few weeks show that the people that we rely on are just not serving us well enough. In my job if i kept on making the same mistakes (it would only have to happen once) and i would not be there next year! Am i wrong to question what is going on? our away support is magnificient and everyone wants the best but when for the upteenth time you are called correct instead of Wenger (i said take off Wilshire about 50 mins in because i knew he would be sent off!) Wenger insists on thinking he knows better and Fergie makes the right call with Cleverley? Wenger has always talked about mental strength but i find that i do not see that and it is an illusion. His speech after the result tells us that this man is swimming in a delusional world and am i wrong or a plastic to question where his expertise lies? When did we last turn the tables and beat a decent team in the league or cup? I am a season ticket holder and take my son/s with me to the Emirates. I feel i deserve some decent response?
posted on 3/11/12
How can Gunners be paying the highest prices in World Football?
How can they be so far behind the other top clubs in terms of commercial incomes when they have been at the Emirates since what 2005 and playing CL football for so many years? Surely sponsors would be queuing up if they genuinely believed the club was moving forward
Basically years after the stadium move they still behind the times. The additional money generated by the stadium is merely making up the difference others are gaining in commercial deals....and it's the fans who are suffering by paying for it!
The club then tries to arrogantly claim it has a business model all clubs should try to copy and aren't we the best run football club and all this rubbish. The idiots are insulting the intelligence of the fans
posted on 3/11/12
On a steady downward slide. It is about the way that Fergie and other managers get their teams to play in their image.What is Wenger's 'image' for the team? How do you square that by playing someone like Ramsey on the right today? Just how many times have you watched Arsenal play and seen them under the cosh and thought 'Wenger. Do something because they are going to score'. They score and THEN Wenger tries to change it? Just how many times. I have never managed a team but i just find that Wenger does not change a game or look at the opposition. He is myopic.
posted on 3/11/12
Tell me about a 'business model' whereby players of the quality of Edu, Flamini, Nasri and now Theo can leave on a free? What kind of organisation is that that continues to not tie in players and makes the same mistakes again and again and again? I am just asking for answers. I love and want Arsenal to be what we were.
posted on 3/11/12
Nasri never left on a free
posted on 3/11/12
You're right however we continue to lose players rather than attract top players. The move to the Emirates was based on us being a big player in the European market and to increase our spending power. Since we have moved to the Emirates (and now it is at least 5 years), where is the ability to attract the top players?
posted on 3/11/12
The OP has a point.
posted on 3/11/12
Wenger earns a reported £140k a week
Why do the club insist on continually mess the top players about with their contracts yet pay someone that has failed to deliver for 7 years and counting a amazing amount of money?
Is it really economic and good business sense to continually lose your best players for the sake of a million quid here and there on the wages then going out and spending tens of millions trying to replace them?
How any manager on wages like Wenger's can talk about financial prudence and stability whilst every top players goes and he pockets £140k a week is genuinely massively insulting to the fans
posted on 3/11/12
Wenger has succeeded in bringing money to the board and misery to the fans. What makes him content is that teams competing with us for the CL spot are not sitting up and do not put him under any pressure.So he gets away with most bad decisions he makes. I still wonder why people still say In .Wenger We Trust".He is not doing anything to earn that trust. I think he has lost it and we need new ideas.
posted on 3/11/12
Punjabigooner
posted on 4/11/12
Punjabgooner, it's all about the money in most respects in today's Premier league. There is a direct correlation between how the Premier league has become a mega money business over the past years and the failure of Arsenal to deliver anything especially when they took on the project of building the Emirates.