Swale_Gooner1985 wrote:He is right in what he says, in the sense of people not looking at the bigger picture. What he is saying is that people make knee jerk reactions based on one performance. for example at the start of last season Chelsea won almost all their opening 6 or 7 games, scoring so many goals, and pundits were saying how Chelsea would win the league easily and how they were miles ahead of everyone. In actual fact things changed and they turned out to have a poor spell which wrecked their season, finishing third in the end!
Another example is Gareth Bale, after that hat-trick against Inter people were literally saying he was the best in the World...on one performance! has he continued to set the world alight? No!
People make judgements so quickly when in football especially, things can change so quickly!
I dont think people need to apologise for making assumptions, but i do understand what Wenger is saying.
Thats my take on it anyway
Errrr sorry but with all due respect, what the bloody hell are you on about? How is Wenger in any method correct? He is ARSENAL manager. He intimated that HE was owed some sort of apology. How does he have a point? Since the examples you provided related exclusively to Chelsea, Gareth Bale etc.
Here are some facts for you
- Slating a manager who has been incompetent for seven years is not knee-jerk. It is long overdue.
- Slating a manager who continues to beat his own tactical ineptitude season after season is not knee-jerk. It is long overdue
- Hammering a manager for being the first in history to throw a 4 goal lead is not knee-jerk. There's a reason it had never happened in PL history!
- Losing a match EIGHT TWO means you should be sacked, IF you are managing a big club. No big club ever ever permits any manager to lose 8-2 to a so-called title rival and get away with it. This is one situation where you are permitted to be knee-jerk. He should have been sacked after that.
- Why is it that Wenger apologists always feel the need to 'interpret' what Wenger says? I'm not having a pop at you mate but you seemed to be going to great lengths to try and say 'I think Arsene means'...what he is saying is quite clear. No interpretation needed. He is saying HE is owed an apology, and intimating that he is right. This pathetic comment comes weeks after losing 8-2.
- The pundits have been saying since 2005 that Arsenal were a spent force with no ambition and that they'd win nothing and lose their best performers. So tell me....were they 'knee jerk' about that one too then? Or has time proven them to be 100% correct, and Wenger 100% retarded?
People have not rushed to judgment with Wenger. What they have done, is watch a once highly competent manager overnight become an arrogant tosser who has believed his own press and hype so much, that he felt infallible. He has used a club to stimulate his ego and he's failed. The more he fails, the more entrenched he becomes. The media don't get many things right but Wenger's impending failure was so fucking obvious that every single media outlet called it spot on. That's how obvious it was Wenger was finished as an elite manager years ago.
Elite managers win things. Losers are content with second place for the next twenty years. Wenger is talking absolute shit.
He owes the Arsenal fans thousands of apologies, and he should be made to pay the 6.5% price rise equivalent (is that not £2 and a bit mil) out of his own pocket. If wages in football are such an outrage then perhaps this c**t should take his own advice and not pay himself more than Guardiola, Ferguson and Hiddink - ALL superior managers to him.