Nejch wrote:I don't think I've ever been as genuinely sad about Arsenal as I was after today. Not because the trophy means that much or because we'll be missing out on the CL - we aren't good enough for CL anyway.
It just feels like a culmination of the decline years in the making. The final nail in the coffin. The point at which no one can fool themselves anymore - the club is in ruins. It's unrecognizable.
I'm curious about something: do you think this is our low point from which we'll start to build ourselves back, Liverpool style? Or will we settle in mediocrity or even fall back further? I genuinely don't know and the uncertainty is gut wrenching.
We all knew there would be tough years ahead after Wenger has left, but everyone knew the pains we'd go through were a price we'd have to pay to reinvent ourselves if we wanted to reach for the highest honors again. There is however no guarantee that we're bouncing back and we might just be settling in mediocrity - or regressing even further.
What do you think?
Excellent post.
I'm so used to us being this bad it didn't hurt but it was defiantly a seminal moment at the final whistle after the Villarreal game as our season ended.
Best served with great irony that the manager we needed to 'bounce back' we had sacked 17-18 moths ago just prevented us from getting to the Europa Final with a inferior team.
This year we have nothing whatsoever to paper over the long worn cracks we have seen within the foundations of our club. Our incompetence and mediocrity is fully naked to the world and now we face the reality of a struggle just to keep who we have and a important search for a competent manager.
Did i mention we have soulless, arrogant pieces of horse manure who own and run this club.
I ignored all sport and highlights until I got home after seeing a mate across town, I've been pretty social all weekend to be honest as in these dark this this is all that matters, but maybe the silver lining is all football is terrible, dull, boring, lifeless and people are turning off even if your team is doing well. However I'm still a gooner for life and yes, our team is in very serious trouble. We have become the very filth down the road we used to mock but entering the level they were in the 90's and 00's.
This is probably the biggest summer ever in 30 years for this club. if we get it wrong as we have for countless years now. just look at Schalke, they remind me too much of us. They were in the champions league in 2018/19, relegated 2 seasons later.
This is our level until a full scale clear out of the owner, incompetent board and club executives and manager happen for a start.