What is this guy's problem ?? I have been singing his praises the last few seasons, defending him to anyone who uttered bad words but I am disgusted with what he is now doing. It is madness to buy players, rushing through deals, not giving the players a pre season workout at the club they will be playing at. Wenger has had plenty of time to buy the players we need, instead he is penny pinching for no apparent reason. Players need to adjust to new surroundings when they join a new league/new club, these are important times so why is Wenger dilly dallying ? The squad we have is pathetic, it really is, I am sick of the sight and sound of some of them. Last season Wenger should've seen that half the squad are simply NOT GOOD ENOUGH, so why hasn't he sold them ? Why hasn't he brought players in that we need ? Why does he continue to bury his head in the sand like a clueless buffoon. The guy is making me sick. We charge the most to watch our club and the club have the audacity to raise prices too. WE buy in youth, develop them then are surprised they want to leave because the club are showing NO AMBITION WHATSOEVER ! Our football is tiresome and predictable, we make the same mistakes over and over and DO NOT LEARN. Why are Eboue, Bendtner, Vela, Squilacci, Almunia, Diaby, Denilson, Traore still with us ? Walcott is a speed merchant with no footballing brain. Gibbs is defensively naive. then Wenger adds insult to injury buy making paltry bids for players. We had the paltry bids for Schwarzer last season and this season it's the Everton defender whats his name. He paid c£10m for Koscielny but won't bid that for Samba who is a defender's defender ! I want to boycott Arsenal as a sign of disgust to let them know that .. I aint having it ! Then bitch slap Wenger. Who's with me ????
You have no idea what's being done behind the scenes, this isn't PES or Pro Evo where deals are done in a week! Why not wait another month and then criticise if we haven't bought anyone?
Because in another month we could have lost EPL games to two of our biggest rivals and been knocked out of the CL!
I doubt we'll be knocked out of the CL to be honest, I think we should be OK against the possible opponents we can get, even Rubin Kazan.
I love the early arsenal bashing, as I remember you pushed utd all the way until march,yet people want wenger out. A few minor tweaks is needed and your be there again, Its strange how he hasn't picked up a centre back. However Arsenal have little to fear, a fit ramsey, wiltshire will be getting better after a full season. if we come above them , happy days
It's really starting to frustrate me now. We NEED some new blood, especially in defense. It has become blindingly obvious that certain players are NOT GOOD ENOUGH, Squillaci being the best example. I mean seriously, how many more times does he need to gift the opposition a goal before Wenger gets rid of this perpetual **** up? Wenger said in June that the transfer dealing would be done towards the end of July, it's now August and still bugger all! People can cite the Cesc saga as a reason for not recruiting in midfield but in defense there is no obstacle preventing us from signing Cahill, Samba or Jagielka. We all want a good price but how long does it take to negotiate and re-negotiate before we arrive a take-it-or-leave it figure that Wenger should agree to in order to acquire necessary reinforcements for a decent title challenge? We have huge games at the start of the season and we need a complete squad right at the start of it. In two weeks time, if we haven't made the necessary defensive recruitments then Wenger will have lost all of my faith. Rant over.
Honest opinion Wenger is, despite his averageness in the transfer market (as shown by the players mentioned in the OP) good at midfield and attack However he struggles at goalkeeping and defence. Hence his success at Arsenal is based upon inherited goalkeepers and defence. Once they leave/retire, he finds it hard to buy adequate replacements.
Fair comment Colonel By what he and the management have been saying, it appears they may have realised this. Hopefully this will translate in bringing in the right players and instituting more than adequate defensive tactics. On that latter count, I find the retention of Pat Rice mystifying.........
'Walcott is a speed merchant with no footballing brain. Gibbs is defensively naive' Walcott last season got 13 goals from the wings. You need some sort of 'footballing brain' in order to make runs and be in the right place to get the goals he did from where he plays. If you actually Walcott instead of taking in the rubbish the media feed you then you can see Walcott making great runs from out to in which either Van Persie or Fabregas spot and play him in. In order for him to do that he must think about when to time the runs therefore the thing about him not having a 'football brain' is utter drivel.
Not sure what Wengers ultimate goal is but it sure isn't winning anything other than the Carling and possibly FA cup this season. A poster said we pushed Manure all the way, no we didn't. It was down to poor season from manure and Chelsea that allowed us to reach 1st/2nd spots temporarily. Our final 4th position was a fair reflection of how good we are. However, that too will be under threat from a resurgent Liverpool team and possibly Spurs.
I suppose no team gets through an entire season without a difficult spell, however brief that might be. Utd and Chelsea had theirs. Ours sadly was at the wrong time and lasted too long. If you evened the year out and omitted parts of that extraordinarily bad end to our season, we would then have made the top two or three quite easily, In fact just by re-scoring the games which we should not have drawn or lost we would be easily vying with Utd. However, it's forever in the record books that it didn't turn out better for us. I think it could have been avoided and that is where this close season is so important for Arsenal. The manner of the three draws in the past five friendly matches doesn't give one much confidence so I hope Arsene is working on changes because if he fails again, the pressure for him to go may be just too great, which would be a sad way to end what has been a special era for us.
The thing is most fans have got to the end of their tether. Wenger's reluctance to address our obvious weaknesses is turning the fans against him. The self sustaining model is great but to really be the best financial risks have to be taken. Had we added 2-3 Top Class players last Summer we would have won the league and no doubt re-couped the money spent.
Agreed. Sometimes this management team has a very short term outlook and the manager himself is stubborn as anything!!! You were right about David Dein yesterday> We definitely miss his presence.
Cahill, Samba or Jagielka. We all want a good price but how long does it take to negotiate and re-negotiate before we arrive a take-it-or-leave it figure that Wenger should agree to in order to acquire necessary reinforcements for a decent title challenge? ========= Why should Wenger spend £20 million plus on these players? He tried for Cahill, was given a take it or leave it joke price so moved to the next one, Samba. The same happened so he moved to Jagielka. The same is happening so he will move to Dann. What you seem to want is us to bow down to the first club we talk to and pay ridiculous prices. Apart from Sunderland, Man City and Liverpool, no team has really done a lot in the transfer market. Man Utd have just replaced the retired van der Sar with de Gea, Scholes with Young and O'Shea with Jones, whilst also losing a couple of others players. Spurs have done nothing yet, despite being in a greater need than us. Chelsea haven't done a lot, barring a couple of youngsters, despite losing Essien for a long period. Teams like Aston Villa have done nothing, Everton the same. Everyone of us would have loved a few signings to come in on July 1st to solve all our issues. Sadly football isn't like that. Clubs want to hold onto their players, or at least get as much money as possible.
I feel your pain. The only signing we've made so far is Brad Friedel. At least you've got a decent enough player in Gervnho... Our strikeforce is screaming out for some extra class as the misfiring Crouch and Defoe are the current first choice, but nothing has been done yet. All I can do is hope for another van der Vaart type signing this season.
Although I have always defended Wenger in the past, if we do not sign any more players (or not sign adequate ones) and drop out of the top 4 next season then I will be calling for him to go.
