I'm a competitive person. Hate losing. If I'm not winning, I will find ways to change the methods I play with to ensure I will win.
Yet, at Arsenal, we seem to have accepted a losing mentality and that everything is rosy as long as we finish in the top four and finish above Tottenham. The Board does not give a shit about the latter. They are merely puppets employed to run the club as a play thing for a billionaire in Texas. Arsenal Football Club is his Doll house. And because it's his doll house, he's not gonna abandon it or sell it. So the Board and Kroenke, even though they are part of the problem, we will just have to accept them for the time being.
Our focus should be on the third leg of the stool, Arsene Wenger. It was amazing to see the plane with the Wenger Out banner fly out today. Funnily enough, the Wenger In plane flew longer and I reckon was trying to make a point. Not sure what that point was for that banner. What has Wenger exactly done for me to trust him anymore? Has he addressed the issues he so much talks about? We haven't got leaders on the pitch, has he signed one? We haven't got a solid defence in our team for years, has he resolved this issue? We have not got a striker who can guarantee you 20+ league goals every year, has we bought one yet? Nothing, No, No, No and NO. We have made the same mistakes year in year out, season after season, for the last 5 years at least.
I don't like to see us lose. I'd never wish for us to lose. I knew people who were fans of Man Utd and they went to a similar phase with David Moyes and LvG. When they said I hope we lose tonight just because it gets us closer to the manager getting sacked, I looked at them disappointed. But now I see their club with new manager, improving the squad, it burns my heart. Simply because, we should be doing the same. A modern football manager has a life of 5 years at a club, max. Anything more than that, he's overstayed. We looked completely clueless today. That third West brom goal? My god shocking defending. These are professional players we are talking about. Basic defending skills that you need to be a pro footballer. We can blame the players for poor positioning, but the coaching staff and manager will need to be held responsible too. They are the ones that drill the players for defensive positioning on the training pitch. Analyse patterns and prepare for set piece scenarios. It''s almost as if they were not drilled properly.
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| Pic: SkySports. Seriously, are we all here to watch someone practice heading into the goal? |
However, I do not believe that to be the case. It's feels like the players have lost faith in the manager. He cannot motivate them anymore. The players cannot make their voice heard, because of the whole support Arsene Wenger PR. They have to pretend all is rosy while Wenger takes his merry time to decide what he wishes to do. It almost, dare I suggest, players deliberately sabotaging results to prove a point to Wenger and showing the world that they are not happy with him.
In any case, it should not be Wenger's decision anymore. That time as come and gone for him. Yes he's been at the club for 21 years and yes the sentiment would say he deserves to leave on his own terms, But that sentiment is moral when he has achieved success. You would grant him that sentiment if he chose to leave after the Invincible period. Not after 13 years of abject failures. I'm sorry, I am being harsh. I'll excuse him the first 6 years of his 13 year failure. The last 5 years does not warrant him that sentiment. He is an EMPLOYEE of the club. Nothing more just an employee. An employee who has been handsomely paid a good part of £8m a year for achieving absolutely nothing in terms of success and not held accountable and responsible for his failures. Easy ride.
Wenger after the press conference said, he has made his decision and we will know very soon. What is that even suppose to mean? It's almost as if he is acting arrogantly to suggest who are we to even question him and his authority. To be honest, he looked absolutely clueless and has no idea how to rectify the situation. By his own admission, we play the same system. Every team know how we play now because there is no plan B. His tactics are if you score one, we will score 2. Problem is that we concede more than 1 and even bigger problem is that we cannot score more than 1. Everything unravels in front of him on match day and he is too busy fumbling with his zipper.
But the time has come for the Board to grow a pair. Ivan Gazidis, if you are reading this (chances are that are not reading this) Act now. Show the fans's you're worth your £3m a year. Grow a pair and call Wenger out. Grow a pair and make a statement of intent. Announce on Wenger's behalf that he is done as the manager and give the club to a young manager with new and fresh ideas. Listen to the fans and stop Arsenal FC snowballing into mediocrity.
It is ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB and NOT ARSENE FOOTBALL CLUB.
#NoNewContract #WengerOUT
