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wenger was part of the problem....covering for these suck holes all these years while picking up his £7mil a year paycheck
A simple A4 piece of paper saying Kronke out would be my choice. Get as many fans as possible to lift it up at the same time. Anyone could print it out, its cheap and simple to do.
With Kronke's businesses having a crucial point this year with the LA stadium due to be completed it is the most likely since he took over that he would consider a decent offer. He paid just over £1bn for Arsenal. Dangote is the most likely buyer but Usmanov might still be interested. The LA stadium hit massive cost increases, but at least some of it was to other businesses that Kronke owns so he's probably made a packet from that.
Dangote has apparently been hit by delays and cost increases on his businesses so might be a bit less likely to bid and Usmanov might not want to go back to Arsenal considering how he was treated by the current board. So finding a buyer who would pay what Kronke would need to consider selling mght not be easy. Maybe I'll start a crowdfunding page.
Wow you guys really are hurting!
People knock Wenger but it goes to show how well he did with limited funds and it seems he was forced into selling on the clubs better players!
comment by IanWrightWrightWright (U12750)
posted 4 hours, 29 minutes ago
wenger was part of the problem....covering for these suck holes all these years while picking up his £7mil a year paycheck
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Whilst keeping us top 4 and relevant. Now we are exactly where we belong in the table
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by IanWrightWrightWright (U12750)
posted 4 hours, 29 minutes ago
wenger was part of the problem....covering for these suck holes all these years while picking up his £7mil a year paycheck
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Whilst keeping us top 4 and relevant. Now we are exactly where we belong in the table
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We were never relevant. We were making up the numbers in the CL and continuously getting battered in the last 16. We were only going one way leading to where we are now. The only reason we finished top 4 is because the likes of spurs and l’pool were in transition. As soon as they got their acts together we were out of it. We had some of the worst hammerings in our history during Wenger’s last tenure. The guy lost the plot and his signings were atrocious and we are still suffering.
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
First of all, no amount of increasingly theatrical fan protest is going to "drive Kroenke out".
He's paid good money and will have to be bought out. £2 billion at the very least. 62,217 shares @£30,000 a pop (when I last checked) = £1.9 billion.
Secondly, (and most importantly), it's plainly obvious that anyone with access to the £2bn+ required to even warrant a coffee date with Kroenke will prefer to sit pretty and wait for the situation at the club to deteroriate, and hopefully knock the price down by a few hundred million quid. I know that's what I'd do. ....
In all honesty, Kroenke will only leave on his own terms.The vast bulk of his shares were bought at almost a third of the most recently traded price. He could take a 30-40% haircut in the share price and still be in the black.
The only thing we can hope for, if he ever does, is that he ends up going for a straight purchase. Our worst nightmare would be to jump into the willing arms of another "Glazer" who would buy the club with borrowed money and saddle the club with the debt.
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 4 hours ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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You can't reason with him unfortunately, the guy's a broken record.
Need other ways to protes. Don't buy tickets or go to the match. If you're a season ticket holder, protest outside the stadium and watch the match on your phones. The TV crew will pick up an empty stadium. Many other things that could be done, but if it isn't unified, then there is little point to it.
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
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You are easily still the dumbest poster on this forum
Wenger stayed at least 7 years too long. His greed and demagoguery are a big part of the reason we are in this mess.
Wenger gone was the right decision. We were already in decline. Wenger was the right scapegoat who believe in the whole selfsustain philosophy that Kroenke given out. It can work like we see Leicester doing well with their budget. If Leicester can stay there every year is the question.
It's not all about money but it works when you want to be playing among the elite of Europe.
For me we need to get rid of the Yankee. Otherwise we will further behind.
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
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It’s because many of those fans wanted us to be better than top 4, partly due to the club telling us that what they wanted to push for. If we were a properly run club maybe we should have replaced wenger while we were still comfortable top 4, we could have replaced him with a top manager like Klopp back then.
Wenger did a pretty good job in the emirates era, but it became clear we were falling behind bit by bit and we needed a new direction and new ideas. If wenger were still here we’d probably be higher in the table but like 6th, which isn’t good enough. The clubs lack of organisation, leadership and Vision have caused this mess
comment by ubad9jagooner .Ramsey : don't get the hype ! (U7978)
posted 59 seconds ago
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
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You are easily still the dumbest poster on this forum
Wenger stayed at least 7 years too long. His greed and demagoguery are a big part of the reason we are in this mess.
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Surely if Wenger was so poor for finishing 2nd or 3rd and winning 3 trophies in his last 5 years then even an average manager would have turned us into title winners right?
Please tell me what part of our current situation is Wengers fault when even in his worst 50 games he performed far better than a manager who won trophies with PSG and Sevilla
True stupidity is regurgitating generic sound bites like you. True spinelessness is failing to admit you were wrong so you still try to blame Wenger alll this time later. What other teams fans fly a plane for their best ever manager calling for his head after finishing 2nd 😂
If there is such a thing as karma then what set of fans are more worthy of seeing their team completely and utterly decline into midtable mediocrity like we have. Booing own players, taking 77 banners to stadium to oust our most successful manager, flying planes with Wenger out, AFTV the list goes on
comment by A Catalyst For Change (U7080)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
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It’s because many of those fans wanted us to be better than top 4, partly due to the club telling us that what they wanted to push for. If we were a properly run club maybe we should have replaced wenger while we were still comfortable top 4, we could have replaced him with a top manager like Klopp back then.
Wenger did a pretty good job in the emirates era, but it became clear we were falling behind bit by bit and we needed a new direction and new ideas. If wenger were still here we’d probably be higher in the table but like 6th, which isn’t good enough. The clubs lack of organisation, leadership and Vision have caused this mess
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My argument through that time was that we should not over look what Wenger was achieving without matching the spending of the clubs above us. My argument was that unless we invested heavily in key areas we would never challenge for the title. Which part of what I said was wrong in hindsight?
The leader of the Black Scarfe movement was not wearing a black scarfe
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 38 minutes ago
comment by A Catalyst For Change (U7080)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
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It’s because many of those fans wanted us to be better than top 4, partly due to the club telling us that what they wanted to push for. If we were a properly run club maybe we should have replaced wenger while we were still comfortable top 4, we could have replaced him with a top manager like Klopp back then.
Wenger did a pretty good job in the emirates era, but it became clear we were falling behind bit by bit and we needed a new direction and new ideas. If wenger were still here we’d probably be higher in the table but like 6th, which isn’t good enough. The clubs lack of organisation, leadership and Vision have caused this mess
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My argument through that time was that we should not over look what Wenger was achieving without matching the spending of the clubs above us. My argument was that unless we invested heavily in key areas we would never challenge for the title. Which part of what I said was wrong in hindsight?
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We did though. Just bought very poorly. Ozil, Alexis, Xhaka and Mustafi were all in the top 20 most expensive signings ever when they were signed. Cech was around 6th most expensive keeper when he was signed.
We were spending far more than many teams around us.
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 9 hours, 35 minutes ago
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 38 minutes ago
comment by A Catalyst For Change (U7080)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It’s because many of those fans wanted us to be better than top 4, partly due to the club telling us that what they wanted to push for. If we were a properly run club maybe we should have replaced wenger while we were still comfortable top 4, we could have replaced him with a top manager like Klopp back then.
Wenger did a pretty good job in the emirates era, but it became clear we were falling behind bit by bit and we needed a new direction and new ideas. If wenger were still here we’d probably be higher in the table but like 6th, which isn’t good enough. The clubs lack of organisation, leadership and Vision have caused this mess
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My argument through that time was that we should not over look what Wenger was achieving without matching the spending of the clubs above us. My argument was that unless we invested heavily in key areas we would never challenge for the title. Which part of what I said was wrong in hindsight?
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We did though. Just bought very poorly. Ozil, Alexis, Xhaka and Mustafi were all in the top 20 most expensive signings ever when they were signed. Cech was around 6th most expensive keeper when he was signed.
We were spending far more than many teams around us.
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There is no doubt we bought poorly but look at the volume of "world class" bracket players we bought vs City United and Liverpool. That being said Ozil Mustafi and xhaka were particularly poor signings in hindsight. Remember Wenger wanted Mbappe, that's the type of player we would go for if we had a board willing to spend
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 3 minutes ago
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There is no doubt we bought poorly but look at the volume of "world class" bracket players we bought vs City United and Liverpool. That being said Ozil Mustafi and xhaka were particularly poor signings in hindsight. Remember Wenger wanted Mbappe, that's the type of player we would go for if we had a board willing to spend
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Wenger did not want Mbappe because he was well outside our range. PSG had already agreed c£150m for him. He wanted Lemar who was valued at £90m but our bid was turned down.
Wenger often does this. He has missed out on C.Ronaldo, Trez, Suarez, Higuain, Benzema, Ibra etc. after they have worked out elsewhere but doesn't ever talk abt why he never closed the deals or of those he also wanted but have failed elsewhere.
The truth is its questionable whether Wenger alone was that astute on transfers. He certainly was formidable when he was partnered with David Dein. But without his counsel Wenger's successes were very few.
Have Liverpool bought many "world class" players? Coutinho was an £8m Inter flop, Suarez wasnt being touched by any top team when at Ajax. Mane was at Southampton, Salah was doing well at Roma bit not spoken about as being world class.
They were all players in the same, or less, price range we were spending in 2-5 years ago.
Granted, selling of them for 20 times the price they paid helped them buy VvD and Allison.
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posted on 15/12/19
wenger was part of the problem....covering for these suck holes all these years while picking up his £7mil a year paycheck
posted on 15/12/19
A simple A4 piece of paper saying Kronke out would be my choice. Get as many fans as possible to lift it up at the same time. Anyone could print it out, its cheap and simple to do.
With Kronke's businesses having a crucial point this year with the LA stadium due to be completed it is the most likely since he took over that he would consider a decent offer. He paid just over £1bn for Arsenal. Dangote is the most likely buyer but Usmanov might still be interested. The LA stadium hit massive cost increases, but at least some of it was to other businesses that Kronke owns so he's probably made a packet from that.
Dangote has apparently been hit by delays and cost increases on his businesses so might be a bit less likely to bid and Usmanov might not want to go back to Arsenal considering how he was treated by the current board. So finding a buyer who would pay what Kronke would need to consider selling mght not be easy. Maybe I'll start a crowdfunding page.
posted on 15/12/19
Wow you guys really are hurting!
People knock Wenger but it goes to show how well he did with limited funds and it seems he was forced into selling on the clubs better players!
posted on 16/12/19
comment by IanWrightWrightWright (U12750)
posted 4 hours, 29 minutes ago
wenger was part of the problem....covering for these suck holes all these years while picking up his £7mil a year paycheck
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Whilst keeping us top 4 and relevant. Now we are exactly where we belong in the table
posted on 16/12/19
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by IanWrightWrightWright (U12750)
posted 4 hours, 29 minutes ago
wenger was part of the problem....covering for these suck holes all these years while picking up his £7mil a year paycheck
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Whilst keeping us top 4 and relevant. Now we are exactly where we belong in the table
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We were never relevant. We were making up the numbers in the CL and continuously getting battered in the last 16. We were only going one way leading to where we are now. The only reason we finished top 4 is because the likes of spurs and l’pool were in transition. As soon as they got their acts together we were out of it. We had some of the worst hammerings in our history during Wenger’s last tenure. The guy lost the plot and his signings were atrocious and we are still suffering.
posted on 16/12/19
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
posted on 16/12/19
First of all, no amount of increasingly theatrical fan protest is going to "drive Kroenke out".
He's paid good money and will have to be bought out. £2 billion at the very least. 62,217 shares @£30,000 a pop (when I last checked) = £1.9 billion.
Secondly, (and most importantly), it's plainly obvious that anyone with access to the £2bn+ required to even warrant a coffee date with Kroenke will prefer to sit pretty and wait for the situation at the club to deteroriate, and hopefully knock the price down by a few hundred million quid. I know that's what I'd do. ....
In all honesty, Kroenke will only leave on his own terms.The vast bulk of his shares were bought at almost a third of the most recently traded price. He could take a 30-40% haircut in the share price and still be in the black.
The only thing we can hope for, if he ever does, is that he ends up going for a straight purchase. Our worst nightmare would be to jump into the willing arms of another "Glazer" who would buy the club with borrowed money and saddle the club with the debt.
posted on 16/12/19
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 4 hours ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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You can't reason with him unfortunately, the guy's a broken record.
posted on 16/12/19
Need other ways to protes. Don't buy tickets or go to the match. If you're a season ticket holder, protest outside the stadium and watch the match on your phones. The TV crew will pick up an empty stadium. Many other things that could be done, but if it isn't unified, then there is little point to it.
posted on 16/12/19
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
posted on 16/12/19
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
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You are easily still the dumbest poster on this forum
Wenger stayed at least 7 years too long. His greed and demagoguery are a big part of the reason we are in this mess.
posted on 16/12/19
Wenger gone was the right decision. We were already in decline. Wenger was the right scapegoat who believe in the whole selfsustain philosophy that Kroenke given out. It can work like we see Leicester doing well with their budget. If Leicester can stay there every year is the question.
It's not all about money but it works when you want to be playing among the elite of Europe.
For me we need to get rid of the Yankee. Otherwise we will further behind.
posted on 16/12/19
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It’s because many of those fans wanted us to be better than top 4, partly due to the club telling us that what they wanted to push for. If we were a properly run club maybe we should have replaced wenger while we were still comfortable top 4, we could have replaced him with a top manager like Klopp back then.
Wenger did a pretty good job in the emirates era, but it became clear we were falling behind bit by bit and we needed a new direction and new ideas. If wenger were still here we’d probably be higher in the table but like 6th, which isn’t good enough. The clubs lack of organisation, leadership and Vision have caused this mess
posted on 16/12/19
comment by ubad9jagooner .Ramsey : don't get the hype ! (U7978)
posted 59 seconds ago
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You are easily still the dumbest poster on this forum
Wenger stayed at least 7 years too long. His greed and demagoguery are a big part of the reason we are in this mess.
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Surely if Wenger was so poor for finishing 2nd or 3rd and winning 3 trophies in his last 5 years then even an average manager would have turned us into title winners right?
Please tell me what part of our current situation is Wengers fault when even in his worst 50 games he performed far better than a manager who won trophies with PSG and Sevilla
True stupidity is regurgitating generic sound bites like you. True spinelessness is failing to admit you were wrong so you still try to blame Wenger alll this time later. What other teams fans fly a plane for their best ever manager calling for his head after finishing 2nd 😂
If there is such a thing as karma then what set of fans are more worthy of seeing their team completely and utterly decline into midtable mediocrity like we have. Booing own players, taking 77 banners to stadium to oust our most successful manager, flying planes with Wenger out, AFTV the list goes on
posted on 16/12/19
comment by A Catalyst For Change (U7080)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
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It’s because many of those fans wanted us to be better than top 4, partly due to the club telling us that what they wanted to push for. If we were a properly run club maybe we should have replaced wenger while we were still comfortable top 4, we could have replaced him with a top manager like Klopp back then.
Wenger did a pretty good job in the emirates era, but it became clear we were falling behind bit by bit and we needed a new direction and new ideas. If wenger were still here we’d probably be higher in the table but like 6th, which isn’t good enough. The clubs lack of organisation, leadership and Vision have caused this mess
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My argument through that time was that we should not over look what Wenger was achieving without matching the spending of the clubs above us. My argument was that unless we invested heavily in key areas we would never challenge for the title. Which part of what I said was wrong in hindsight?
posted on 16/12/19
The leader of the Black Scarfe movement was not wearing a black scarfe
posted on 16/12/19
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 38 minutes ago
comment by A Catalyst For Change (U7080)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
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It’s because many of those fans wanted us to be better than top 4, partly due to the club telling us that what they wanted to push for. If we were a properly run club maybe we should have replaced wenger while we were still comfortable top 4, we could have replaced him with a top manager like Klopp back then.
Wenger did a pretty good job in the emirates era, but it became clear we were falling behind bit by bit and we needed a new direction and new ideas. If wenger were still here we’d probably be higher in the table but like 6th, which isn’t good enough. The clubs lack of organisation, leadership and Vision have caused this mess
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My argument through that time was that we should not over look what Wenger was achieving without matching the spending of the clubs above us. My argument was that unless we invested heavily in key areas we would never challenge for the title. Which part of what I said was wrong in hindsight?
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We did though. Just bought very poorly. Ozil, Alexis, Xhaka and Mustafi were all in the top 20 most expensive signings ever when they were signed. Cech was around 6th most expensive keeper when he was signed.
We were spending far more than many teams around us.
posted on 16/12/19
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 9 hours, 35 minutes ago
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 38 minutes ago
comment by A Catalyst For Change (U7080)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Godfather keeps forgetting we lost our top 4 place under Wenger.
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Yes and therefore it was time for him to go in his last season. You morons were calling for his head for years when we were finishing second and third. How do you feel about that decision now? We are now a mid table team
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It’s because many of those fans wanted us to be better than top 4, partly due to the club telling us that what they wanted to push for. If we were a properly run club maybe we should have replaced wenger while we were still comfortable top 4, we could have replaced him with a top manager like Klopp back then.
Wenger did a pretty good job in the emirates era, but it became clear we were falling behind bit by bit and we needed a new direction and new ideas. If wenger were still here we’d probably be higher in the table but like 6th, which isn’t good enough. The clubs lack of organisation, leadership and Vision have caused this mess
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My argument through that time was that we should not over look what Wenger was achieving without matching the spending of the clubs above us. My argument was that unless we invested heavily in key areas we would never challenge for the title. Which part of what I said was wrong in hindsight?
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We did though. Just bought very poorly. Ozil, Alexis, Xhaka and Mustafi were all in the top 20 most expensive signings ever when they were signed. Cech was around 6th most expensive keeper when he was signed.
We were spending far more than many teams around us.
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There is no doubt we bought poorly but look at the volume of "world class" bracket players we bought vs City United and Liverpool. That being said Ozil Mustafi and xhaka were particularly poor signings in hindsight. Remember Wenger wanted Mbappe, that's the type of player we would go for if we had a board willing to spend
posted on 16/12/19
comment by The One (U22189)
posted 3 minutes ago
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There is no doubt we bought poorly but look at the volume of "world class" bracket players we bought vs City United and Liverpool. That being said Ozil Mustafi and xhaka were particularly poor signings in hindsight. Remember Wenger wanted Mbappe, that's the type of player we would go for if we had a board willing to spend
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Wenger did not want Mbappe because he was well outside our range. PSG had already agreed c£150m for him. He wanted Lemar who was valued at £90m but our bid was turned down.
Wenger often does this. He has missed out on C.Ronaldo, Trez, Suarez, Higuain, Benzema, Ibra etc. after they have worked out elsewhere but doesn't ever talk abt why he never closed the deals or of those he also wanted but have failed elsewhere.
The truth is its questionable whether Wenger alone was that astute on transfers. He certainly was formidable when he was partnered with David Dein. But without his counsel Wenger's successes were very few.
posted on 16/12/19
Have Liverpool bought many "world class" players? Coutinho was an £8m Inter flop, Suarez wasnt being touched by any top team when at Ajax. Mane was at Southampton, Salah was doing well at Roma bit not spoken about as being world class.
They were all players in the same, or less, price range we were spending in 2-5 years ago.
Granted, selling of them for 20 times the price they paid helped them buy VvD and Allison.
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