theHotHead wrote:Arsene Nose wrote:EliteKiller wrote:Said it before but it's worth repeating ....
Wonger inherited a club with the mindset 'they will not score' ... our mantra was '1-0 to The Arsenal' ... players would metaphorically 'die' to wear the shirt .... we were undisputed top dog in London
into that mindset came Lauren - Campbell - Toure - Cole and the Invincibles were created ....
BUT
the Invincibles failed to kick on, the tinkering began and by 2008 we were into the era of tippy-tappy ....
the Tippy Tappy era ended with no real success and we started the long slow decent to mid-table ....
Wonger will leave the club with the mindset 'meh' ... our mantra is 'win or bust' ... players now worry about their 'social media image' whilst doing pretty much what they want on the pitch .... we are no longer top dog in London
Sure in 25 years the game's changed, but you don't get this shite at Dippers, Spuds, City ..... a football club needs an identity what's ours?
That's Wonger's failure right there ... rode his luck but ultimately wasn't capable in the modern game ... nice guys get fecked' the trouble is he's fecked us right along with him, and we didn't get 8m a year for the privilege ..... our club The Arsenal lost it's way, lost it's identity, and lost it's connection to us the fans, it will take years to regain our superiority in London, if that's even possible, so if you credit Wonger for the good times, then you have to blame Wonger for the state we are now in .... he's a decade past his sell-by date, it's killing us .....
Rolling on the floor laughing at your take on history.
Not sure what you find funny about the post, it looks pretty spot on to me
It's not.
Wenger of today =/= Wenger of until 2006.
No English club had gone an entire season unbeaten for over a century before Wenger. Without the support of Sky money or FA pandering to ManU, whose premier commander-in-chief has a whopping 2 CLs in 26+ years as manager of the second or arguably the biggest club in world, Arsenal managed to rock the foundation of English football. "Poor" Wenger has only 1 CL final to show for. Meanwhile, GOAT manager of GOAT club with GOAT resources has 2 CLs in 26 appearances. Meh.
If we hadn't moved to the Emirates and utilized our resources in strengthening, we would have won the UCL - whether in 2006, 2007, or 2008.
It's convenient to apply revisionism when it comes to Wenger. Nothing changes the fact that the man was way ahead of the game in his initial years at Arsenal. It doesn't help that Arsenal administration since David Dein left has been clueless. It's become "cool" to shit on Wenger's accomplishments at Arsenal. That is as farther from the truth as anything.
There is only ONE manager in PL history who has won the PL without buying it and it's one Arsene Wenger. Well, hello Gooners, we went an entire season unbeaten!
- Arsenal would have been where Everton are today without Wenger, yes.
- Arsenal should have sacked Wenger during the summer of 2011, yes.
Wenger was the best manager in the world at one point. It's the fault of whoever runs our club that they let him overstay his welcome.
The whole revising of history to suit today's sensibility is in poor taste.