People have been saying the same thing since the end of the 2008 season when the wheels came off. Whether its a collapse in the last 3 months, a November / December slump or the pathetic starts to last season and this, the bloke always looks gaunt and gets all niggly with the Press. All the while the Board keep rewarding him for making them money he'll be more than happy picking up his 7m a year, safe in the knowledge that probably 80% of the fans still want him in the job. A couple of jeers and some knobheads in the press winding him up won't change a thing1989 wrote:Yeah he's feeling the heat for the first time in his tenure and he's finding it extremely tough to deal with. He's squirming under pressure and you can see it in his recent comments and overall behavior. Wenger is a bottler, he won't stay too long if this keeps up mark my words.
I hope you're right Rodders, our season looks like it will be over in January following that cup draw, that might see him walk, though as someone else said on this thread, he might see see the season out and leave the mess for someone else to clear up. I expect him to have one last desperate throw of the dice with a couple of panic buys in January, which will ultimately fail, but add another couple of french or african second raters to the payroll.rodders999 wrote:As I've said it's turned simple now. Anyone who is pro Wenger is anti Arsenal. Absolutely convinced he'd done for. Dead. Man. Walking.SteveO 35 wrote:Any news on his new contract yet ?
Very well put and bang on the moneyI think Arsene’s time is coming to an end. Even if we do make the top four this season, it won’t be enough. Even if we win a cup, it won’t change a thing. We’re getting away with dated methods at the moment. The simple fact is, Arsene Wenger has forgotten how to win. If he goes, there’s no reason we can’t make a decent appointment. There’s no reason we have to go through what Liverpool are suffering with. There’s no reason the Arsenal story shouldn’t move to the next, more successful, more wealthy level.
People are scared of change, I think that’s a weak attitude to take. Be scared of stagnating. Be scared of failing consistently every year. Be scared of accepting mediocrity. Football and sport are about progress. We’re not progressing. We won’t progress under Arsene Wenger. He’s killed himself by failing to adapt to the modern game. Mourinho took coaching to a new level, that shock to the system took Fergie to a new level, but it left Wenger looking more and more antiquated. It’s time for a new man to take us forward. That change won’t happen now, but I think there’s a high chance it could at the end of the season.
“Why would Guardiola come here? If Wenger goes we won’t be getting a top tier manager.”
Absolute bollocks We are the 3rd biggest club in English history, we are the 6th best club by UEFA coefficient, we are in the most exciting league in the world and the quickest growing league in the world, the biggest city in europe, we pay enormous wages to our manager, have one of europes best stadiums and would be a huge challenge.See your post is one of the reasons we are struggling, Wenger has managed to convince fans that we are some fucking shitty little mid table club who are grateful to finish 4th.Absolutely ridiculous.
I was convinced it was going to be Gervinho's head. And by "convinced" obviously I mean "hoping." But of course you'd probably need a shipping container rather than a box for that.northbank123 wrote:WHEN we finally get rid of him we need to undergo a de-Wengerfication, exactly like Germany had to undergo a de-Nazification after WWII.
Every single quote on the walls inside the ground alluding to his philosophy need to be scrubbed thoroughly, we need to start learning how to defend from square 1 (even if it means extra training every day for a month on set pieces), somebody needs to get every single Academy player together and put the fear of God into them so that we don't end up with people like Frimpong that play a few LC games and think they're the dog's bollocks, players like Chamakh who are staying on bloated contracts need to be called in and given a dressing down and made to train with the Youth until they work out their priorities. On a Monday morning the players need to be sat down with clips of mistakes in that weekend's game, asked why they took that particular decision and then discuss how it should have been dealt with and work on it in training if needs be. It would also be nice to see the players wearing blazers to the games again too, and to have a manager who won't refuse to shake hands if we get beaten and won't spend 90 mins berating the fourth official.
And above all we need to stop this culture of celebrating mediocrity. I'd love the new manager to come in to training, gather the players round a big cardboard box with tinsel on it and ask Vermaelen to open it and tell everybody what's inside. When he replies confusedly "nothing, boss", he'd say that's fucking right because that's what this club has won in the last x years - fuck all - and that's just not right.
And if the new manager so much as enquires about the balance sheet, his body parts should be removed in the following order: tongue, hands, eyes, cock.
Its Up 4 Grabs Now wrote:I was convinced it was going to be Gervinho's head.northbank123 wrote:I'd love the new manager to come in to training, gather the players round a big cardboard box with tinsel on it and ask Vermaelen to open it and tell everybody what's inside.
As you said, it would have to be more like an aeroplane hangar than a cardboard box to fit his head in.g88ner wrote:Its Up 4 Grabs Now wrote:I was convinced it was going to be Gervinho's head.northbank123 wrote:I'd love the new manager to come in to training, gather the players round a big cardboard box with tinsel on it and ask Vermaelen to open it and tell everybody what's inside.
). The other teams competing for it just are that bit more shit than us over a full 38 games. Stoke, West Brom, Swansea, Everton - none of them will be in the top 5 in May. The only ones I think might push us again this year are the Mousers and the scum. The Mousers will spend in January and the scum (as much as it sickens me to admit) have a pretty decent squad 
. But then it's down to "can Rodgers and AVB push them that bit further"? I'm not convinced, but maybe they can... 
