Yes, there are greater tacticians such as Mourinho etc. and Taggart's achievements cannot be over-estimated altho aided by huge financial superiority over everyone else until RA changed the balance of power which these rules are trying to redress, but AW for me is still the best all-rounder and couldn't have arrived at a better time to transform the club and it's profile as the Prem became the world's most watched league due in no small to him directly, make us a established CL club and then to steady the ship in the most tumultuous financial times that football has ever known!
AW always was playing the long game and while I'm sure not even he or us wanted to go so long without silverware I simply am not as critical as some on here because what he is trying to do regarding the team with the academy as it's bedrock is worth doing and what he and the board have already done off the pitch means you have to takes steps back in order to move forward!
Also, does everyone on here that are beginning to or have in fact a long time ago, lost faith in AW or the board or both just choose to ignore the absolutely stupendous amounts of money spent by Chavski that even had Ferguson with his then seemingly bottomless pockets worried instantly and he was subesquently thoroughly vindicated and now City too has him moaning again as he realises that their massive gate and merchandising machine no longer provide the financial superiority that he used against others including us when he broke about 10 British and world transfer records in the space of as many years at least one of which still stands today!
AW and the board have a huge responsibilty with the wellbeing of the club and everything it's means to the community in their hands and I find it hard to criticise them for not taking risks with it, that's not to say I don't, I think all Gooners are suffering a bit of frustration lately! But if you take stock you realise that some of that is purely as a result of coming down off the heady days of the Invincibles etc, and I honestly would not swap places with any other club in the Prem!
The only other club I envy is ManU, the club we love to hate and us vs them is still Sky's top of the bill fixture in the Prem, they have a history, an impressive core fanbase and a trophy haul to die for but even they have now been sullied by massive corporate debt and unsold season tickets due to the Glazer affair and altho Chelsea have unbelieveable resources off the pitch and are currently awesome on it they have ZERO class and City are a joke, so fuck that happenin to Arsenal, bought titles are MEANINGLESS and I just hope it doesn't happen to us in my lifetime!
So anyway to end, I know it pisses the more pessimistic members off when they hear, "oh you want us to be the new Leeds eh, very smart" but what about L'pool??? they didn't take unwarranted risks, everything about that club should be better than ours, their history and trophy haul is better than ours, their fanbase is bigger than ours, in Stanley Park and a submissive local council they have a readymade site for a brand new super-stadium without the logistical nightmare that our board had to navigate and yet their fans must be in complete and utter despair, bedlam in the boardroom, a debt that has long since gone toxic, no stadium, no Premiership EVER
a woeful team being carried by the only 3 decent players at the club possibly whittled down to just one as Pepe Reina becomes the saviour, with Torres looking a shadow of his former self and Gerrard looking resigned to his fate - and to add insult to injury their hated rivals will probably in terms of trophies soon disappear over the horizon never to be caught again!
This board and/or manager is handicapping us and our hopes of success every single fcuking season by selling more than we buy, refusing to strengthen key area's with quality players and by gambling on too many unproven players 
) take advantage of the rising share prices to sell quite a few to his american buddy in a move that can not be just swept away with an innocent excuse.
We now find ourselves comparing, unfavourably, this squad with a team that was largely built pre wenger and that is also an arguement by those of us critics.......wenger built this club up to previously unseen heights but is now rapidly dragging the club down to the level in which he found it all those years ago and I firmly believe that as long as he remains in charge the outlook will not change 
