swipe right wrote:Wenger missed top four twice in 22 years. That’s 9% of the time. Once by a single point. Would you like to be judged on what you do 9% of the time or 91% of the time?
The only clubs that have won the league in Wengers 22 seasons are United, City, Chelsea and Leicester. With the exception of Leicester, don’t you think superior finances had a role to play? You think City went from being relegation fodder to the team to beat by superior management?
You ask why Wenger doesn’t have a new job in management. I’d ask the same for Mourinho. Why isn’t the 21st century’s most successful manager a shoe-in for the Bayern job or for the Arsenal job for that matter? This is a guy who won the premier league 3 times in the last 12 years. It’s because power today rests in the board room. Guys like Rummenigge and Snaheli will not allow other power centers. Hell, Snaheli isn’t allowing David O’Leary on the board. Talk about being insecure.
Of course Wenger was a diminished force. At 70 it’s time to retire not go seeking these crazy challenges. But the club never had a plan for that. It was a power grab by Gazidis and nothing more. How is it that you guys don’t see that?
Top 4 isn't success, so to look at how much he did or didn't miss out on top 4 isn't relevant, who actually values top 4, since when did coming 4th become a measuring stick, it's basically all about money and for us there was never any progression, we got top 4 then got hammered in the CL latter stages time and time again, it was basically all about money and the fans don't care about that.
The fact is for many years Wenger wasn't challenging for the major prizes, he was scraping into the top 4 and the cycle of qualifying getting through the group and getting thrashed time and time again continued, in fact in his whole time with us, despite so many opportunities he never managed to win a European trophy, you won't find many managers that have had so many opportunities and failed.
Finances play their part, but it's not the be all and end all, we have enough money as a club to bring the right players in and compete, Liverpool are doing it, they won the CL, were in the final the season before and are challenging for the league every season now, Leicester won it and now are flying high again, Chelsea have won it with various managers ad have won the CL and now only because of money. Money plays its part but in the end it's about having the right manager.
Mourinho has not worked for a year, but I think he made it clear he wanted a break, Wenger never took that stance, he always maintained there were plenty of options open to him and that he couldn't live with football in his day to day life, then low an behold 18 months later still with no job in management he takes a job unrelated to this.
It's neither here nor there however, Wenger was a spent force at management level, but in all truth we should have changed manager quite a few years ago, I do agree we never had a plan, but that sums up this club, it never does it just reacts to events around the time, there's no plan of any kind for the future when it comes to the manager or indeed transfers and that's why we fail.
Keeping Emery on is another sign of that, if we got rid now we could find a new manager and give him this season to get to know the squad and try to qualify for the CL and then be ready for the summer so that he can identify what he needs, thus allowing him to go into next season ready to go, instead we'll probably keep Emery, fall away and by the time we do get rid the club will be in a worse state than now.
