20 Mar 2016 12:55:35
Wenger is vilified even for the smallest transgressions, by our own fan base. its hypocritical to bang on about how he missed out on Kante and Mahrex, when fans constantly complain about not enough marquee signings.
people were just complaining about Elneny being an unknown, last season it was complaints about le Coq being recalled. Wenger is a victim of his own own failures but sometimes i think it just gets ridiculous, it has turned into a witch hunt.
20 Mar 2016 13:00:00
You always get judged on your signings success and expectation, when you are successful you get praised, when not, the opposite, he's not immune or different to any other manager and that's life.
20 Mar 2016 13:13:15
The main complaints i read about elneny was he was too little too late and it has took wenger 10 weeks to trust him, a bit late for what was needed this season. We needed instant impact when he came in but for whatever reason was not ready to play, which has proved another faux pas.
20 Mar 2016 13:14:46
Wenger had to recall coq, there was no one left to play.
20 Mar 2016 17:19:32
I must admit I do have some sympathy for Arsene on being expected to pick up every player picked up from no where who turns out to brilliant, if he got it wrong so did a lot of others too
For every Mahrez and Kante there's 50 players of the same level before they arrive in England we never hear of again and 100s of vardys who never make the bench in the football league let alone premier league, its Arsene pretending every player who turns out brilliant was on his radar that makes me laugh like Ranaldo who tells a very different version to Arsene about how close he ever got to being an Arsenal player.
As for Elneny I had no idea if he was any good or not and neither did anyone else on here because none of us had ever heard of him, my beef was when people kept saying he should go straight in the team and how exciting a signing he was :-) I found that very desperate about someone they'd never see play or even heard of last December.
Having seen Elneny play a few times I'd now say he's OK, a bit raw and needs more time to adjust to the premier league and the Arsene way of playing but so far he's doing ok but still nowhere near as well as people are talking up.