28 Feb 2018 16:27:22
I use to be on the waiting list but i am no longer on it. If i was still on it and was offered a season ticket i would not take up the option why Wenger is manager. If we were struggling and we had a different manager i would probably renew, but with Wenger its a no no. Its his arrogance to the situation they we are in. He clearly in my opinion doesn't feel we SUPPORTERS have anything to moan about. Its like he is saying to the board you haven't got the nuts to sack me (WHICH IS PROBABLY TRUE ) When he first came and revolutionised us on and off the pitch i thought he was great as a manager even though i never persoonally warmed to him. I felt when George Graham was the boss when we lost he felt our pain as well. When i started going over the Arsenal in 64 Billy Wright was manager, then Bertie Mee and managers then weren't in the media spotlight then as they are now but you could be on there level so to speak. I remember one season going over Highbury about April time against Wimbledon drawing 1-1 and it was awful bloody dire and George came out and said so the next day, but about 5/ 6 weeks later we were in Copenhagen giving it everything against Parma aand winning the Cup Winners Cup 1-0.What i am saying is that even though we played some dreadful stuff under George i can recall some great times (the league cup semi final at the lane, Anfield89,Beating Liverpool at Wembley Rushie scoring first then winning 2-1,Linnegans last gasp winner at Wembley,90/ 91 season winning the league and losing one league game all season) as 6trophies in 9 yrs indicates . With Wenger some great, great moments, fantastic achievments. but as his reign goes on i am only thinking of mess we are in and a managers who in my opinion has no respect for us supporters. I know George done wrong taking the bung but is Wenger any better taking 9 million a year then blaming everyone and everything apart from himself for the position we find ourselves in. Sorry for the ramble folks.
28 Feb 2018 16:47:09
Top post mate.
Whilst I don't agree with managers slagging off individual players, I have no problem with a manager barating the team as a whole.
Wenger wraps them in cotton wool, on and off the pitch.
28 Feb 2018 17:11:42
Top post mate
Well done.
28 Feb 2018 17:18:32
Post of the season in my opinion mate, brilliant.
All I would say is I don't think Arsene is as arrogant as he seems to come across at times.
I think it's more a case of if he stops and has a serious honest look at himself his squad and the situation at the club he would lose all his confidence in himself and his current ability in the modern game.
Arsene Wenger needs football and he needs to be at a top club and in the limelight and consider himself there because he is still good enough
I think it's more dependency than arrogance because without football and being right in the thick of it I'm not sure Arsene could ever find happiness in his life.
It's not a reason for him to continue as our manager but it does explain his reluctance to accept the reality of his own and his teams inability in the modern game.
28 Feb 2018 18:00:24
Wenger is a fully paid up narcisist.
28 Feb 2018 18:21:02
In my opinion Steve you've understandably got the man wrong.
Some of the most arrogant people I've met are also the most insecure who to the outside world a mystery as to why they have such a high opinion of themselves but if you take the time to get to know them it becomes pretty obvious it's themselves they are trying to convince.
It doesn't make them any better at what they do and isn't a reason to back them but it does explain why they are the way they are.
Arsene isn't a bad bloke in my opinion mate he's just become a spent force who can't accept he isn't as good as he once was at whst he does simply because without football he's not sure who he is or what to do with himself.
28 Feb 2018 18:57:41
Gunner he is never wrong, can't be told, doesn't think people are right about him and can't see his faults, because he has none according to him.
28 Feb 2018 19:45:16
He's been put on a pedestal by us all Arsenal fans and football fans all over this country Europe and probably the world over, he's made football and Arsenal his life and that's got to be difficult to give up and admit you've no longer got whaf it takes.
We've seen in players on the way out who at their hight were humble and shy but become arrogant and live on the past on thier way the way down.
Some superstar singers who were once the hottest act on the planet but time catches up with but they simply can't give it up and end up being remembered for how they ended up rather than thier Superstar past.
Pual McCartney is a good example? Best band half best song writing duo ever but still trys to remain relevant in today's music world and now people talk of him in less than a complementary way, he was brilliant but he isn't now but he still wants to be and that's the problem.