Fuck off Percy! Arsene is the greatest manager in our history and for that reason should be allowed to continue with his project, unquestioned. We must put our trust in him because there is no other manager in the world who could do what he has done on such a small budget, in such difficult economic times.Percy Dalton wrote:I agree that this thread has got unnecessarily abusive but I would suggest this ill feeling is a very clear sign of the dissatisfaction with Wenger.
Wenger came to the club with two clear targets to acheive, To modernise the football club as a whole and to bring success to the team and the fans.
He quite obviously acheived both of these goals in his early days and he will always be remembered and congratulated on this.
However, there is no more modernisation of the club to be done and has not been for some years. Since Wenger changed the clubs methods and processes enough time has elapsed that most other 'major'clubs have looked at the model and have followed suit. That is how much time has passed.
That now only leaves Wenger one goal and that is to bring silverware to the club. For the last five years he has failed to do this and compounded this failure with the use of frankly laughable, shocking, contradicting and derisory excuses.
Unfortunately some of the excuses used to defend Wenger by the Arsene Knows movement are equally as laughable. I see that Arsene is being defended with claims that a CL quarter final is something to be celebrated. It is often said that nobody remembers the beaten finalist in any competition but some of us want to trumpet the acheivements of losing a quarter final? I totally understand that we cannot win every pot, every season but out of a possible twenty trophies available to the first team over the last five years we have won nothing.
So to summarise, our manager, with one specific goal, has failed to deliver any credible silverware over the past five seasons. In what other line of work would such perfomance be tolerated yet alone celebrated?
Five years ago Arsene was a god to us all but with hindsight it is very easy to spot the deteoriation in his leadership. The scandal of losing Pires over a two year contract and subsequently offering the exact same to Silvestre. The failure to replace genuinely outstanding players with those of the same quality instead relying on the development of skilled youngsters whose progress cannot be guaranteed. The change of policy that saw technically fantastic players with the required physical attributes for the English game with ones of the same skill but who can be easliy bullied and regarded as a soft touch.
Put simply, split Wenger's reign into to eras. Pre 2005 versus post 2005. Can anyone seriously say the two are comparable? There is a thread on here asking what part of Arsenal's history would you like to be transformed to? In the future, how many will answer the golden years of 2005 to 2010?
I see that some of us are labelled spoilt, incorrectly. Questioning how Invincibles are turned into also rans and yet still heralded as great is a justified concern. Nobody is spitting the dummy over one lean year or one shock FA Cup defeat but we are complaining about what is now a sustained period of failure which could have ben avoided if a more progressive approach was taken by Wenger.
The man himself told us to judge him in May and he was. Wenger being the god he is to some was even given the benefit of doubt in May that yet another obvious failure would be rectified in the summer. It has not.
How many chances do you give one person, on a tidy £6 million a year, to deliver the aims for which he is ultimately employed?
Just look at the money Benitez spent at liverpool and the money squandered by the likes of s***s over the last ten years.
Arsenal have competed and remained solvent thanks to Mr Wenger. And what would clubs like bolton, birmingham, leeds utd etc not give to be able to compete and have a realistic chance of winning the treble at the outset of every season
We have a wonderful committed, talented squad full of desire and ability
I and I am fully confident that they and Mr Wenger will bring the glory days back to Arsenal.
So be careful what you wish for Percy as it might just come true

There just thought I would say that on behalf of our AKBs.
