Arsène Wenger: Same Old Class

[scytheavatar]

Appointing someone without experience as DoF is the worst thing we could do right now, imo. This is no time to be experimenting. We need a stable hand to restructure the club.

Any DoF with qualification and success in the transfer market is not going to join us to become a Yes man for Wenger...... it is still unclear what the heck Gazidis wants our DoF to do and how he will work with Wenger.

 

[GUNNERS4L1FE]

The players deserve jack ****. Nice of them to show up the last month or so.

 

[field442]

oh classic 1-2 players we need i think we need more Arséne and please stop keeping faith on s**te players if you stay.

He says it every year. He'll probably sign three or four, half of which won't be good enough. We will struggle to sign a striker at which point he'll tell us in August Sanchez can play as a striker, he scored 24 league goals last season. He'll then play Giroud or Welbeck up front for most of the season.

 

[Garrincha]

Would be more beneficial to just improve our scouting team than a true DoF. No justification for signing Xhaka with no clear partner for our formation or not finding a better striker than Lucas.

 

[Toast]

Any DoF with qualification and success in the transfer market is not going to join us to become a Yes man for Wenger...... it is still unclear what the heck Gazidis wants our DoF to do and how he will work with Wenger.

And that's exactly the problem. The board doesn't want Wenger to go, Wenger won't work with anyone who outranks him and could overrule him (e.g. a DoF) and no good DoF will join us if they're not clearly going to outrank everybody else on football matters.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

He trust players like Walcott,Ramsey,Gibbs etc.All in club for a very long time.How he can't see that they are not quality for Arsenal ?

that's his faults really he don't want to learn nobody going to go far with Walcott Gibbs Coqulien Welbeck Giroud in your squad.

 

[KROENKE SUCKS]

Glad to see which posters are Kroenke's paid hacks coming out to

He trust players like Walcott,Ramsey,Gibbs etc.All in club for a very long time.How he can't see that they are not quality for Arsenal ?

He "trusts" Walcott and Gibbs because they are the best we have available. He tried to replace Walcott with Vardy but our negotiating team ****ed up as usual. Gibbs is there because we aren't going to bust a hump and replace him with real quality and we still need a backup left back.

Ramsey's great but injuries and our ever changing system asking different things of him have screwed him up a little, although 343 does seem to finally get the best out of him again.

 

[Toast]

Would be more beneficial to just improve our scouting team than a true DoF. No justification for signing Xhaka with no clear partner for our formation or not finding a better striker than Lucas.

It's all tied together though. We currently don't really have someone to deal with matters such as setting up an effective scouting network, setting out academy goals, dealing with player valuation and negotiations and making improvements to all these areas etc etc. It all falls vaguely under Gazidis/Wenger's remit but it's a recipe for disaster. We need a clear structure and imo that starts with getting a DoF who outranks everybody on the footballing side of things.

 

[Batman]

Glad to see which posters are Kroenke's paid hacks coming out to


He "trusts" Walcott and Gibbs because they are the best we have available. He tried to replace Walcott with Vardy but our negotiating team ****ed up as usual. Gibbs is there because we aren't going to bust a hump and replace him with real quality and we still need a backup left back.

Ramsey's great but injuries and our ever changing system asking different things of him have screwed him up a little, although 343 does seem to finally get the best out of him again.

Nobody even knows who you are "New Member". How did our negotiating team f*ck up when Vardy didn't want to come? Every bit of what you posted is utter nonsense.

 

[Toast]

Glad to see which posters are Kroenke's paid hacks coming out to

**** me, you're a paranoid one.

 

[ChefMan21]

One or two players... Pfft... Never heard anything so stupid in my life. We're 18 points off first, haven't looked like winning the EPL for years, and every other club will strengthen more than us (particularly those in the Champions League plus Man Utd, who will be able to spend more and on better players too). This guy is a complete you know what.

 

[kofigunner]

Typical Wenger conundrum. We switch to 3 at the back and we win 8 out of 9 games(?). Question is, why didn't we try something earlier when we were in a funk and dropping points left right and center. I still think this is a good time to make the break with Wenger. I know he'd prefer to go out at the top, but this is a good time with all the negativity swirling around. Make a clean break and rebuild. Time to give someone else an opportunity.

 

[4R5Emaniac]

I'm not going to address rest of his comments about love for Arsenal and loyalty etc since its not right to kick a man when he's down. But saying the team is strong, needs to stay together and few changes are required he must be out of his mind.

We MUST go all the way in the market and get rid of every under performing, not good enough and unreliable player we have however we can. Tell them immediately to find a new club or they won't be part of the first team. Doing both is absolutely crucial and specially a big opportunity given most of their contracts are running out. This is the time.

 

[Notorious Big]

Glad to see which posters are Kroenke's paid hacks coming out to


He "trusts" Walcott and Gibbs because they are the best we have available. He tried to replace Walcott with Vardy but our negotiating team ****ed up as usual. Gibbs is there because we aren't going to bust a hump and replace him with real quality and we still need a backup left back.

Ramsey's great but injuries and our ever changing system asking different things of him have screwed him up a little, although 343 does seem to finally get the best out of him again.

I wrote that they are in Arsenal for long period.He couldn't find changes for them all this time ? Bullshit.I know that Walcott had some good spells with during some time in Arsenal but i can't remember some good performance by him for ages.Limited player.So is Gibbs.

Agree that Ramsey has talent but one good season since 2008 isn't good at all,a lot of injuries,a lot of average season isn't enough.

 

[scytheavatar]

Would be more beneficial to just improve our scouting team than a true DoF. No justification for signing Xhaka with no clear partner for our formation or not finding a better striker than Lucas.

A true DoF does more than scout for players. The DoF WILL have the loudest voice in deciding who will take over from Wenger, heck he might be in the situation next season when he has to tell Kroenke "Wenger is a fraud, sack him now. I know who we can get that will do a better job than him". Can you imagine Pires or Overmars saying that?

 

[KROENKE SUCKS]

Nobody even knows who you are "New Member". How did our negotiating team f*ck up when Vardy didn't want to come? Every bit of what you posted is utter nonsense.

He isn't the first player to turn us down is he? Funny how many players turn us down. Sounds like the negotiating team can't sell the club to our targets.

 

[Preacher]

Wenger's comments after the game I wish mental strength to almost all of us.

 

[field442]

Wenger's comments after the game I wish mental strength to almost all of us.

In a sense he's got a point. The squad is probably one or two additions away from being able to challenge for the league, just not with him managing it. Until he realises that the squad will always be "one or two" players away, as he likes to tell us every summer.

 

[Notorious Big]

In a sense he's got a point. The squad is probably one or two additions away from being able to challenge for the league, just not with him managing it. Until he realises that the squad will always be "one or two" players away, as he likes to tell us every summer.

That's like you give Ferrari to blind man.

 

[KROENKE SUCKS]

I wrote that they are in Arsenal for long period.He couldn't find changes for them all this time ? Bullshit.I know that Walcott had some good spells with during some time in Arsenal but i can't remember some good performance by him for ages.Limited player.So is Gibbs.

Agree that Ramsey has talent but one good season since 2008 isn't good at all,a lot of injuries,a lot of average season isn't enough.

Its just how difficult the market has become. Barca, Bayern, Real, et al are willing to bid large sums for even 18 year old starlets. The days where you can pick up Anelka for 900k are gone, see what United paid for Martial. Whats worse is they horde all this talent and destroy a large number of ones who don't come good, effectively shrinking the pool for thrifty shoppers like Uncle Stan.

Add in the money in the premiership in general and the pool of clubs we compete with increases. All of a sudden even smaller clubs like Tottenham have a couple of quid to spend. Even if these clubs aren't directly competing with us, they succeed in increasing wage levels across the board which leaves penny pinchers like us hoarding subpar talent to make up squad numbers.