Losmeister wrote:wenger out, getting 4th is mediocre...
i tolya... be careful of what you wish for....
I hated this shit when the pundits were saying it as if we were Charlton ousting Curbishly or Stoke sacking Pulis, not that I'm saying you mean the same thing. The whole 'be careful what you wish for' was such a trite and hackneyed cliche as if Wenger leaving would precipitate some sort of cataclysmic downturn. What no one in the spoken or written media would acknowledge (or even realise at the very least) was that this downturn was already here.
A 5th place with no CL followed up by 6th place. We were already going downhill which is why a change is needed. The world and his dog knew this should have been done years earlier but for some reason, no one will say it.
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oh well... you guys bitched and moaned and i tolya that you didnt know what the hell it was to root for a team that was truly poor... and this is just the 2nd year of it....the taste doesnt get better[/quote]
It wasn't just the 2nd year though. How many teams in the Premier League have conceded 8 goals in a game? Arsenal lost 8-0 to Loughborough in 1896 but seriously, how many? Thrown in a recent half dozen against Chelsea and a couple of Anfield hammerings while we're at it. Of course we're not truly poor, but if you are the 3rd most successful team in the country (built over a century not a decade of oil lubing) and have both a turnover and wage bill that are among the highest in your own league, then those thumpings should not be happening. And no top team, who should be careful what they wish for, should ever, ever have to face Bayern Munich with Yaya Sanogo in the team. Yet we did.
So the decline was already there. Years of poor recruitment, combined with horrible luck in the property slump as well as the injury list , followed by a lack of testicular fortitude when it came to hard boardroom level decisions all topped off by the real and probably unresolvable calamity to let Kroenke anywhere hear the club.
We aren't paying the price for sacking Wenger, we're paying the exact price the dippers did when they decided that the best way to recapture the glory of the 80s was to sign players like Dicks, Ruddock, Picnic and Harkness. Roy Evans as manager. To stay on top, you get what is better than you already have. We couldn't/didn't do that. Not with Denilson, Senderos, Gervinho or Chamakh.
Now, as Bob Wilson described 1953-1968 in the Centenary video (yep, I had it on VHS like an old fart), we're set for a spell in the doldrums. Arteta's (or whoever) job shouldn't be to get us in the Champions League, but to actually stop us from being a perennial Everton-esque halfway irrelevance. Might be too big for him.
