starmandb wrote:The Mountain that Rides wrote:Let's not forget we finished 5th in Bruce Rioch's last full season in charge. Even Rioch could probably have won titles if we'd kept throwing money at the team, as long as he made the right signings. All we needed from Wenger was advice on who to sign, like with Bergkamp supposedly.
This is revisionist bollocks
Wenger extended a defence that was starting to leak towards the end of george graham and built a totally different team that won the title in 2004
Wenger was that good and was the right man for the job in the first 12 years
He probably deserved the next 3 years to put things right on the back of how he had began
The fact that he should have been sacked 6 years and 3 months ago does not diminish those early years
The decision should have been taken out of his hands
He should have been sacked and ancelotti instated when he was in london and did not want to leave
A decorated player and coach who knew the league
We had Brady here at the time
A bridge between Italian football and steeped in the history of arsenal since boyhood
But our gutless board stuck with the status quo
That is revisionist bollocks you mean. The defence underperformed when the club was in turmoil? How surprising! Look at how much money Wenger spent back then, he basically bought the title much like Dalglish did at Blackburn a year before he arrived.
Then once we got in the CL we had too much money for anyone, but United to compete with us, so we were the only ones who could benefit when United f***ked up. Then as soon as the CL places get expanded the titles dry up.
Wenger was always a fraud, which is why he couldn't adapt yet Fergie could despite being older.
Notice how my explanation actually fits the facts, unlike yours.
