Salibatelli wrote:Goonerz wrote:Salibatelli wrote:Fans didn’t make the club do anything, since when have they done anything the fans want.
They chose to do it.
Were you in a coma during the Ozil contract saga from 2016-2018?
Or in another coma during the Auba contract renewal in 2020?
Or in 2017-18 when wenger was sacked?
Fans pressure on the club was immense during all those episodes..
For Auba and Ozil we constantly heard statements or comments like “Pay him whatever he wants or we will else we will do such and such to the club to show them our displeasure etc….”
With wenger it was “We are tired of him, please get rid of him”. The toxicity around the club was fever pitch. Fans boycotting games, protests etc..
So in my opinion our fanbase pressure and say absolutely played a massive role in all those 3 big decisions.
They didn’t want to lose Ozil for nothing and at the time we’d already lost Sanchez for almost nothing.
As for Wenger, he lasted years and they got rid once we came 6th.
Fans have little or no power unless they stay saying in huge numbers which the fans never did, Arsenals demonstrations were so muted you could hardly call them that, Arsenal fans have never had a stomach for it, hence why the owners pretty much do as they wish.
We re-signed Auba because he was scoring a hatful and we didn’t want to lose him for peanuts and have to spend millions to replace him.
According to the man himself:
Arsène Wenger said he had to step down as Arsenal manager because fan protests over his position portrayed the club negatively around the world.
Speaking for the first time since announcing he would leave the club at the end of the season, the Frenchman said the “Wenger Out” campaign waged by part of the club’s support effectively made his position untenable.