THE WENGER THREAD

As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
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mcdowell42
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DB10GOONER wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 4:33 pm
mcdowell42 wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 3:56 pm
Arsenal Till I Die wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 3:54 pm
mcdowell42 wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 2:04 pm
rumours on Twitter that the clear-out of his backroom staff has started,banfield and Gerry Peyton look like they are gone.plus some guy called Sal Bibbo

Another rumour from same reliable source :lol:.,Freddy coming in as U-23s coach.
@DarrenArsenal1:
Need to clarify earlier tweet. Sal Bibbo has NOT been released, he will discuss a role under new structure and may/may not stay (deleted earlier tweet)

:barscarf: :lol:

Didn't even know we had a Sal Bibbo :lol:
Had that once. Antibiotics cleared it right up. Didn't half fucking itch for a while though... :wink:
Don't think I've ever meet your wife :lol:

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mcdowell42 wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 4:54 pm
DB10GOONER wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 4:33 pm
mcdowell42 wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 3:56 pm
Arsenal Till I Die wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 3:54 pm
mcdowell42 wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 2:04 pm
rumours on Twitter that the clear-out of his backroom staff has started,banfield and Gerry Peyton look like they are gone.plus some guy called Sal Bibbo

Another rumour from same reliable source :lol:.,Freddy coming in as U-23s coach.
@DarrenArsenal1:
Need to clarify earlier tweet. Sal Bibbo has NOT been released, he will discuss a role under new structure and may/may not stay (deleted earlier tweet)

:barscarf: :lol:

Didn't even know we had a Sal Bibbo :lol:
Had that once. Antibiotics cleared it right up. Didn't half fucking itch for a while though... :wink:
Don't think I've ever meet your wife :lol:
Well, there's always one :lol:

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mcdowell42 wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 2:04 pm
rumours on Twitter that the clear-out of his backroom staff has started,banfield and Gerry Peyton look like they are gone.plus some guy called Sal Bibbo

Another rumour from same reliable source :lol:.,Freddy coming in as U-23s coach.
Surely Mr Anonymous Boro Primorac has already got his coat....?

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SteveO 35 wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 6:46 pm
mcdowell42 wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 2:04 pm
rumours on Twitter that the clear-out of his backroom staff has started,banfield and Gerry Peyton look like they are gone.plus some guy called Sal Bibbo

Another rumour from same reliable source :lol:.,Freddy coming in as U-23s coach.
Surely Mr Anonymous Boro Primorac has already got his coat....?
Was thinking of this guy earlier, he's on 3 million a year or so for what :|

He surely must be out the door :?

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SteveO 35 wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 6:46 pm
mcdowell42 wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 2:04 pm
rumours on Twitter that the clear-out of his backroom staff has started,banfield and Gerry Peyton look like they are gone.plus some guy called Sal Bibbo

Another rumour from same reliable source :lol:.,Freddy coming in as U-23s coach.
Surely Mr Anonymous Boro Primorac has already got his coat....?
They are on a right clear out at the club, all gone bar bould and Lehman

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We are into the second last day .

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I was 22 when Wenger became Arsenal manager.

If somehow I had been told then that 22 years later he would still be the manager, I would have assumed it would have meant 22 years of achievements.

Instead it was because Wenger was a freak. An egotistal hypocrite, who manipulated his way to longevity. He was destructive and divisive. Infuriating, dishonest, disingenuous, patronising, ungrateful, deluded and as a football manager/coach ... very very ordinary.

Back when I was 22 I ''knew'' that I would still be going to Highbury when I was an old man ... just like my granddad. In my opinion it is because of Wenger, that this will not happen.

I thank him for nothing! I wish he had never come!

Fuck the memories, they are soured and they came at a price.

Maybe in time I will enjoy the early Wenger years again but at this moment they are suffocated by negative memories of frustration, fans fighting each other, being bored out of my mind watch Arsenal games ... and worst of all actually wanting Arsenal to lose.

Tomorrow will be the last morning we wake up with this fraud in charge. Then he'll be gone. Waking up on a Monday morning will never have felt so good. But what a waste of time the last 12 years at The Emirates have been.

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Clash wrote:
Sat May 12, 2018 12:14 pm
I was 22 when Wenger became Arsenal manager.

If somehow I had been told then that 22 years later he would still be the manager, I would have assumed it would have meant 22 years of achievements.

Instead it was because Wenger was a freak. An egotistal hypocrite, who manipulated his way to longevity. He was destructive and divisive. Infuriating, dishonest, disingenuous, patronising, ungrateful, deluded and as a football manager/coach ... very very ordinary.

Back when I was 22 I ''knew'' that I would still be going to Highbury when I was an old man ... just like my granddad. In my opinion it is because of Wenger, that this will not happen.

I thank him for nothing! I wish he had never come!

Fuck the memories, they are soured and they came at a price.

Maybe in time I will enjoy the early Wenger years again but at this moment they are suffocated by negative memories of frustration, fans fighting each other, being bored out of my mind watch Arsenal games ... and worst of all actually wanting Arsenal to lose.

Tomorrow will be the last morning we wake up with this fraud in charge. Then he'll be gone. Waking up on a Monday morning will never have felt so good. But what a waste of time the last 12 years at The Emirates have been.
Well said...I feel the same. When I can bear to look at him I see him, the real him, the man you described in your post. And it's the press, the way they have allowed him to behave, who are the reason the world hasn't seen the man behind the mask. If they had held his feet to the fire on a few occasions that nasty, disdainful, sneering, caricature of a manager would have shown his spiteful face.

I cannot believe that for the past year I have actually wanted us to lose because I wanted him to feel some discomfort, so he could maybe feel a fraction of the hurt he has inflicted on us. That and the fact that I see this Arsenal team as the walking, talking embodiment of their manager.

I too wish he had never come....I hope after tomorrow never to hear or see him again.

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xisstential wrote:
Sat May 12, 2018 12:35 pm
Clash wrote:
Sat May 12, 2018 12:14 pm
I was 22 when Wenger became Arsenal manager.

If somehow I had been told then that 22 years later he would still be the manager, I would have assumed it would have meant 22 years of achievements.

Instead it was because Wenger was a freak. An egotistal hypocrite, who manipulated his way to longevity. He was destructive and divisive. Infuriating, dishonest, disingenuous, patronising, ungrateful, deluded and as a football manager/coach ... very very ordinary.

Back when I was 22 I ''knew'' that I would still be going to Highbury when I was an old man ... just like my granddad. In my opinion it is because of Wenger, that this will not happen.

I thank him for nothing! I wish he had never come!

Fuck the memories, they are soured and they came at a price.

Maybe in time I will enjoy the early Wenger years again but at this moment they are suffocated by negative memories of frustration, fans fighting each other, being bored out of my mind watch Arsenal games ... and worst of all actually wanting Arsenal to lose.

Tomorrow will be the last morning we wake up with this fraud in charge. Then he'll be gone. Waking up on a Monday morning will never have felt so good. But what a waste of time the last 12 years at The Emirates have been.
Well said...I feel the same. When I can bear to look at him I see him, the real him, the man you described in your post. And it's the press, the way they have allowed him to behave, who are the reason the world hasn't seen the man behind the mask. If they had held his feet to the fire on a few occasions that nasty, disdainful, sneering, caricature of a manager would have shown his spiteful face.

I cannot believe that for the past year I have actually wanted us to lose because I wanted him to feel some discomfort, so he could maybe feel a fraction of the hurt he has inflicted on us. That and the fact that I see this Arsenal team as the walking, talking embodiment of their manager.

I too wish he had never come....I hope after tomorrow never to hear or see him again.


Agree 100% with both of you. Even disregarding his incontrovertible failings as a football manager, he is a narcissistic egomaniac, who has spent the last decade on a mission of greedy, self preservation. To do so, he has lied, deceived, spun and deflected.

As existential says, make no mistake about it, on the odd occasion that someone put him on the spot, his faux gentlemanly and professorial mask soon slipped, to reveal a nasty and spiteful character. Cross him (by revealing some home truths) and you were finished. He has all the cowardly attributes of a tin pot dictator. I don't buy the bullshit about his loving The Arsenal, he loves himself, power and wealth.

As Clash says, it's destroying my love for my Club and actually wanting us to lose, just to see him gone, that I can neither forgive or forget. I honestly don't know at this point, whether I'll ever feel that old passion, even once he's history.

For me, the memory of his early years counts for nothing when set beside his tenure since 2006. I've deliberately avoided the love in and the nausea inducing "thanks" of the last couple of weeks. He deserves nothing but a kick up the arse as he walks out the door for the last time.

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23 hours to go. yeeee haaaaa :barscarf:

edit. bollix, your clock is wrong, or my settings are. :D

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My last Saturday night under his reign.... :shock: :barscarf:

This must be what Paris felt like the night before the Allies rolled in to liberate it from ze Germans... :wink:

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Clash wrote:
Sat May 12, 2018 12:14 pm
I was 22 when Wenger became Arsenal manager.

If somehow I had been told then that 22 years later he would still be the manager, I would have assumed it would have meant 22 years of achievements.

Instead it was because Wenger was a freak. An egotistal hypocrite, who manipulated his way to longevity. He was destructive and divisive. Infuriating, dishonest, disingenuous, patronising, ungrateful, deluded and as a football manager/coach ... very very ordinary.

Back when I was 22 I ''knew'' that I would still be going to Highbury when I was an old man ... just like my granddad. In my opinion it is because of Wenger, that this will not happen.

I thank him for nothing! I wish he had never come!

Fuck the memories, they are soured and they came at a price.

Maybe in time I will enjoy the early Wenger years again but at this moment they are suffocated by negative memories of frustration, fans fighting each other, being bored out of my mind watch Arsenal games ... and worst of all actually wanting Arsenal to lose.

Tomorrow will be the last morning we wake up with this fraud in charge. Then he'll be gone. Waking up on a Monday morning will never have felt so good. But what a waste of time the last 12 years at The Emirates have been.
Waste of time is absolutely spot on. That prick has fucked so much up for so many years that it's fucking horrific to think back over the last 14 years. He's been a shit manager for years and I can't even be bothered to think about him in any way other than fucking off.

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This is the day, this is the day.....You would have to be very successful to be a manager in the Premier League for 22 years...you would think.

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Hurry up 4.50pm :barscarf:

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Only one Arsene Wenger one Arsene Wenger.

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