Obviously Wenger wants to win and lack of success (on the field) is a disappointment but how would Wenger view these barren year when he calls it a day? *Will he be proud that he stuck to his principals? *Will he blame the Man City, Chelsea, etcs for changing the playing field? *Would he regret not being boulder and gambling on more players and better quality players? *Would he feel he should have delegated more of the responsibility? We won't know until he leaves and even then might never know but the reason i bring it up is I question how he feels about the past few years when he seemingly could have done more. The socialist wage structure has lost us current and prospective players The failure to address the deficines in the back four is mind boggling!! Today is January 26th and still no players added to what has been an season where we have the LOWEST points total in Wenger's reign!! We know you pay more before the final 48 hours but why gamble for the sake of a few million?!?!? We did that with Cahill, Schwarzer and Samba and who knows what impact those signings could have made to us
With great pride, he revolutionised our club and the whole English game with it. He has been the most successful manager in Arsenal's history
Even though he's clearly lost his marbles, he still is our greatest ever manager. As Piskie said, he single handedly revolutionised the english game. I know we've had some rough years, but he did bring us our best spell too.
Not to be a broken record, but this doesn't actually exist. The wage structure is more of an apple shape than one dimensional, though if you take the youth players and staff into the equation it's more of a poorly-built pyramid. As for Wenger, he can look back at his career with great pride. Arsenal fans should do similarly. He's also entitled to blame City and Chelsea for making his life harder through artificial means, though to be honest all they did was slightly shake up the problematic meritocracy that exists in European football by gaining their money through pure luck.
he will be remembered as one of the greatest managers in history and also one that woke English teams up on how to play football and be professional. His legacy is not just an Arsenal one.
I didn't say how will "he" be remembered. I said how will he look back on it. Don't disagree he'd look back on the early years with justified pride but would he just blank out the past 8 years?? Would he not feel that he failed to build on his early achievements? No one has commented yet how they feel he'd remember the later stage of his career and that was the point of my post. As an ambitious man and football manager would he feel he did the best he could, blame changes and restrictions beyond his control, or did he make some key mistakes and misjudgments? Not trying to be inflammatory just started wonder with all the disappointment we've felt as fans, presuming the board have loved the financial results how does the man in charge reflect on this?
Why bother to comment? Most football forums are based on speculation, discussion and helping to debate the issues posed by the original poster I wasn't expecting one of Wengers associates to come on here and tell us exactly how he feels
Ok then I'll speculate. I think Wenger will look back on his career with great pride, as I mentioned in the first comment
1996-2006: With great pride. 2006-2011 (The Cesc era): Some pride because he kept us in the top four when our spending was restricted. But, there should also be regret because we should have a trophy or two with the players we had in terms of talent. 2011-13: A lot of disappointment.
I think he'll have regrets, as he's already said. But I think overall, he will see it with a lot of pride.
And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain My friend I'll say it clear I'll state my case of which I'm certain I've lived a life that's full I traveled each and every highway And more, much more than this I did it my way Regrets I've had a few But then again too few to mention I did what I had to do And saw it through without exemption I planned each charted course Each careful step along the byway And more, much more than this I did it my way
He may be our most succesful manager but in my view our greatest ever manager is Herbert Chapman.Chapman took Arsenal from nobodies to possibly the greatest team in the world
What a lucky man Cym is. Got to see Arsenal under the management of our two greatest managers ever, Chapman and Wenger.
