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.
Gunner Rob wrote:I have said it before and will say it again - the season ticket holders keep Wenger in a job.
If you don't renew he will go.
And if you do renew then can you please boo him now and again.
Thanks
If you don't renew the season tickets will get snapped up by people in the ten year odd waiting list so the same amount of season tickets will still be sold. the stadium will still be full whether we are finishing in 4th or 14th and the board certainly know that!
Ok so on we go
But this is why each year is groundhog day
I think he craves total control so much, he clips every players wings before they sign, so within the team, player power can never develop within the team.
At Chelsea you have player power, some say its bad, however having a core of players with an almost equal power to the manager is healthy. It creates dialect, fosters ideas and leads both manager and players to challenge themselves through challenging each other.
We have too many personality lacking losers who simply cannot challenge Wenger's methods. I posted the other day about how Chelsea made a CL final with Avram Grant in charge, and won a CL with Di Matteo, and as much as I loathe them, it was their 'player power' that was managing the team. We dont have any of that, we dont have a core of players who can self-manage the team.
Rather than promote this culture within the team, Wenger simply signs yes men. As he is a control freak and is overly sensitive to criticism. If be brought in bigger players who had achieved success elsewhere, he loses his absolute control.
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This is why Wonga keeps players way past the end of their 'proper' career or keeps below average players and also why he always gives them improved contracts.
You'll see no 'Chelsea' like mutiny by the players, wanting their manager out, no players going to the media with any bad words. He's a clever man is Wonga, give these young men too much money and no accountability, plenty of playing time and it equals 'easy rich life'. He'll even fly them up to Norwich rather than drive for an hour and a half!! Everyone at the club must dread a new manager coming in because they know they would be out the door, hence no-one wants change, particularly Wonga.
Wonga is a measured greedy man, he ensures Kranky is kept happy by not spending money and he keeps players happy by overpaying extortionately and giving them chance after chance when they have proven they are not good enough. What a happy ship Arsenal FC are!!
He said he might have quit if Hull beat us in the Cup final two years ago. Now I reckon losing the league to Leicester or Tottenham would be a bigger blow. I really do hold hope that he quits.
He must realise he isnt going to get some grand send off by winning the league or CL. Its simple really, and he must know, that if he cant win this league, he wont win it ever.
We all know he is semi-delusional and has unrealistic expectations of the quality of some of our players (his sheer belief we could match Barcelona is crazy). But surely there is still some realism and pragmatism inside him, that guides him to quit.
in the media LVG has been getting so much abuse this season and plenty of calls for him to be sacked etc but why is it our own specialist in failure never gets this treatment??
if we dont win our next 2 games then the league title is over and if Leicester or Spurs win from here then I honestly can't see how Wenger can survive. if he does survive then the biggest problem at the club is not him but Kroenke for keeping him in a job
Brilliant, why not show we are up for the fight right after kick off at Old Trafford?
A team that has to keep 'bouncing back' is a team that is not successful. 'Bouncing back' simply means you lost your last game. Wenger recently said we had 'good bounce back ability'. Which basically means we lose enough games a season where we get the chance to bounce back.
Every time we have a sh.. result, the likes of Wenger, Theo, Giroud ect talk about needing to 'respond'. Call me captain obvious, but why not play with intensity and tenacity in the first place to avoid the sh.. result?????????????????????????? Then you wont have to 'respond'.
Gunner Rob wrote:in the media LVG has been getting so much abuse this season and plenty of calls for him to be sacked etc but why is it our own specialist in failure never gets this treatment??
It's because AW has done a masterful job of reconditioning our fanbase (and the media) into thinking that merely top four is success for Arsenal; whereas Man Utd fans won't buy into such nonsense and wish to continue challenging for major silverware.
