LeftfootlegendGooner wrote:Bendtners Drinking Buddy wrote:Arsene will, (rightly imo), be judged at the end of the season - that is fact.
Personally, im more of the opinion he should go at the end of the season, i just hope he leaves with his head held high because he deserves it as the greatest manager for this club will see in our lifetime, maybe ever.
He deserves stick, the team isnt good enough and he is making strange decisions all over the place - i dont need to go into it all.....i accept critiscm for him..but not the personal stuff - the man deserves respect - he gets none from the media. Steweart Robson is a massive, massive bitter prick.
Everybody sticks the boot in to Arsenal, everyone fucking loves it when we are down -
id love it if manage to throw some eggs in their faces......but i doubt it......
Is that you Mr Keegan
Seriously you are saying that no other manager in the world in the next 5o years (60/70 for some of the younger posters on here) can achieve what Wenger has?
That is a Massive call.
And in my opinion he has only done slightly better than GG (in a lot longer time) and had HC not died suddenly we wouldn't even consider him our best ever manager, not even near it.
I think Arsene has done a great job up until 2008 since when he has got worse with every season and being the best paid manager in PL and 4th in the world it's not anywhere near good enough now.
Nobody in their right mind is going to deny that Wenger was a top top manager for the first half of his reign. And if he'd walked away in 2006, he would have been remembered unconditionally as a legend and probably our best ever manager. Or in 2008. Or even in 2010, he would have had pretty much no blemish on his record when his achievements were viewed as a whole. Because he's dragged it out so long then to be blunt half of his reign was fantastic, and the other half has been one protracted disappointment. In time he will be remembered solely for his legendary achievements, but certainly in the short- to medium-term after he leaves many fans will fairly remain bitter towards what the club has become under him.
Stewart Robson is a bitter bloke and clearly has an agenda, but reality is he knows far more about the goings-on inside the club than you or I, or any ITKs out there. He may be an angry man but I highly doubt that he comes on TV and just brazenly makes up lies about the club, and tbh the more I know about what goes on in the club the happier I am. The one thing our club has undeniably lacked in the last few years is transparency.
As for respect, well it's a two-way street. I will always hugely and unquestionably respect his achievements in the Highbury era, I will always respect the man he was, his innovation and his desire. But I will no longer hold him in high esteem and respect given his constant tantrums on the touchline, his constant misleading and lying to the fans, his pig-headed arrogance that has seen us slide further and further, and his clear belief that the fans have no right to voice any opinion as they haven't managed for 3 decades. Particularly when he's taking home the salary he does, and particularly in light of the fact that we are about as far a cry from the pride, professionalism and class that Arsenal always stood for as any club in the PL right now.
