ag6789 wrote:Wenger was great because he would have couple of bad results followed by a strong of victories. He used to say ' it was most critical to arrest the third loss'.
Even if Klopp loses three - four in a row, all his past glories will go out of the window. People will dig out every little shortcomings during his past and will scrutinize.
Wenger had a clear vision during the rebuild days. He knew that 20 wins would more or less ensure a top-4 finish. He talked about being consistent against the sides out of the top-8 as a minimum for a UCL berth. We usually notched up 20-25 wins from 05/06 until 16/17. The exceptions were 06/07 when we had only 19 wins and 10/11 - 19 wins again.
The most number of wins came in 07/08 and 13/14—two seasons where we were closest to the title: 24 wins each.
Even in 16/17, we won 23 games. We won more games than City and Liverpool did that season, but we lost an awful amount of games (10).
On an average, 20 wins ensures top-4 ninety five percent of the time.
Additionally, as you started, he knew how to put the handbrakes on to stop a string of bad results. Every season, we'd have a run of 9-10 games where we'd look like world beaters. It was the lack of consistency that killed our titles hopes.
We actually won more games in 11/12 after Fabregas and Nasri left than we did in the season prior.