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mcdowell42 wrote:According to Goal, Arsene Wenger held talks with the board and is requesting that David Dein be brought back to the club.
Wenger enjoyed his time at Arsenal while he had his best friend Dein with him but things changed after Dein left. Seven years without a trophy, big players leaving Arsenal and no good replacement for them.
According to Goal, Wenger wants to sign good players and feels he can only do that with Dein with him.
We only hope to see how that works but I would really love it if David Dein comes back provided he has not lost his magic
I see it all now, so it's because Dein isn't by his side that he now signs shit like Chamakh, Giroud, Park, Squillachi and Gervinho...
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mcdowell42 wrote:According to Goal, Arsene Wenger held talks with the board and is requesting that David Dein be brought back to the club.
Wenger enjoyed his time at Arsenal while he had his best friend Dein with him but things changed after Dein left. Seven years without a trophy, big players leaving Arsenal and no good replacement for them.
According to Goal, Wenger wants to sign good players and feels he can only do that with Dein with him.
We only hope to see how that works but I would really love it if David Dein comes back provided he has not lost his magic
I see it all now, so it's because Dein isn't by his side that he ow nsigns shit like Chamakh, Giroud, Park, Squillachi and Gervinho...
Would love to see DD return and would love to see PV4, TA and the great Dennis Bergkamp return but I would sacrifice all of them if it meant ensuring that wenger was fcuked out of our club and never allowed to return
Watching that clip from his press conference today is like watching the last few days of a mental dictator trying to move non-existent armies. It's like the last days of Hitler and Ceausescu mixed with a bit of Robert Mugabe and Idi Armin. Soon he'll start throwing people out of press conferences and proclaiming himself the last king of Islington.
Someone please give this lunatic his P45 to stop any further embarrassment.
AW: "I won four times the FA Cup, who has won it more? Give me one name".
Well, alright then (as you asked so nicely): Alex Ferguson's won it five times. So will you shut up now?
Every new failure is met with a statistic from the past. When we came outside the top two for the first time (in 2006), he said how well we'd done to be in those positions for so many years. When we lost to Blackburn in the FA Cup, he said how well we'd done not to have lost to lower league opposition since 1997. When challenged on the defeat, he quotes cup wins from as far back as 15 years ago so as not to have to explain the defeat.
Coming up next, when we fail to qualify for the CL, will be the, "But look how well we'd done to have qualified for the past 15 years".
Wenger is officially yesterday's man. The mugs at the shit new stadium he built us may be willing to live in the past, but the rest of us aren't. And the media tell us we need to show him some respect - well, he can go fuck himself. Where's the respect for us?
In the Bayern press conference today the bird toward the end of the interview very calmly tried to ask "is the hunger for trophies still there?" And he just went berserk. She did eventually get her question out which was great as it made Wenker look like the muppet that he is!
Supagoon wrote:Instead he destroyed his legacy, and will be shown as another example of an intelligent man succubing to incredible levels of arrogance. An archetypal dictator.
If we were ridiculously lucky, and actually won the CL .....(it's still actually possible, Liverpool were a shit side when they fluked it. Chelski were also shit apart from bus parking abilities...
would people think that AW is still a great manager? Or would they judge him on the past eight years of abject failure?
Just watched the press conference, what a sad state of affairs.
He really has just lost the plot. None of the questions were particularly unreasonable but as soon as anyone said something he didn't like he just had go and didn't answer. Like many others on here he drives me mad with his lack of tactics, socialist wage policy etc and I desparately want him out but most of all it just makes me sad that it is ending like this for someone who bought so much to the club.
Won't someone section the man, he's a danger to the community
My old dear is the wrong end of 50, shes been a psychiatric nurse for 38 years and she thinks hes got a mental illness, says she works with people like him every day. I think he needs to go and see a quack.
olgitgooner wrote:I just had a totally irrational thought......
If we were ridiculously lucky, and actually won the CL .....(it's still actually possible, Liverpool were a shit side when they fluked it. Chelski were also shit apart from bus parking abilities...
would people think that AW is still a great manager? Or would they judge him on the past eight years of abject failure?
You have to be able to stop goals going in to win the European cup. Yes luck comes into it but have have to have a solid base ie. keeper defenders and a knowledge of how to defend, we have none of these therefore we will not win this competition
"We live in a democracy of experts and opinions, but we have to live with that and show we have the mental strength to deal with any opinion. There are a lot of experts who are not necessarily always right.
"What is important is not what people say. It is what happens on the pitch."
And it's exactly on that basis why you and the team are being asked these 'difficult' questions!! If things were going better on the pitch the critics and other 'experts' wouldn't have the ammunition to throw at you.
My old dear is the wrong end of 50, shes been a psychiatric nurse for 38 years and she thinks hes got a mental illness, says she works with people like him every day. I think he needs to go and see a quack.
This has been mentioned to me a few times now by folks of the older generation, they have often seen signs of early senility in friends & family of Wenger's age & even younger. You just have to compare him with Ferguson who is around 10 years older & still sharp as ever. Wenger is getting old before his time.
The club must have annual medical examinations of all staff & monitor health issues, or do they bother?
