Issue 1) How much of that do you think is solely down to Wenger and how much do you think is down to the board? Our transfer market dabblings have been pretty poor in the past but are improving.
I never said that he hasn't spent money, I meant that he has spent it on the transfers of poor quality players in addition to their wages. Lets look at the forwards we have: Olivier Giroud, Podolski and Walcott, Park chu Yung, Bendtner, Sanogo. Only three of those are good enough in my opinion, and it's worth remembering that Walcott and Podolski mostly play on the wings when fit anyway. So that leaves us with one actual striker, which is just not good enough to win most competitions. That is not a problem by the board in my eyes.
Issue 2) Granted we have to improve the defensive tactics when attacking but passing the ball sideways is certainly not they way Arsenal play. It doesn't always get results but it is the envy of many clubs and admired by most neutrals.
I would say except for the first thirty minutes of the Napoli Game, against most of the big teams over the past two seasons passing the ball sideways has certainly been how we have played. In addition to this, I believe you are saying it doesn't matter if we lose matches, as long as we are playing pretty football? No one has ever won a trophy for playing pretty football, but only for getting the results they need. I could do without hundreds of pointless passes every game if it meant winning something.
Ah of course, he is only the most succesfull manager in the clubs history. Tell me this, if Wenger were to go, who is there that could replace him and do a better job?
Jupp Heynckes (former Bayern Munich manager). He was unfairly given the boot by Munich to make way for Pep Guardiola, and I'm sure he would jump at the chance to manage a club with the resources we have at our disposal, as well as starting out with the core of a decent squad. All he would need to change is shifting some of the useless dross we have at the moment and begin to replace them with good quality backup players. That is something Wenger has been failing to do for a long time now, and that is definitlety his fault, not the boards.
Oh, and on the most successful manager in the clubs history part, people aren't great forever, people lose their 'talent' at some point or another. I mean, some people regard pele as te greatest footballer of all time, but I would be amazed if he was even half as good now as he was in his playing days. Just because Wenger has won us a lot in the the past, doesn't excuse him from year after year of repeated mistakes that should no longer be an issue.
Maybe you could? You obviously seem to know a lot more about this than either he or the Arsenal board does.
That's just silly. Obviously I couldn't do that and you know I couldn't as well as I do. What I am doing is questioning why these same issues are not being resolved year after year, but some people seem happy dwindling along fighting with Spurs for fourth place, rather than actually competing for anything
Maybe my comments yesterday were a little too much but I was in a bad mood after losing once again to Chelsea. I hope we batter Liverpool this weekend, but I will be very surprised if we come out of November at the top of the table still. We haven't played any of the leagues top competitors in the PL yet, so I'm not entirely sure we are as good as people are making us out to be.
