With their last minute winner against Marseille in the Champions League, the Arsenal manager said that his team had “taken a little step forward”. Wenger also commented that “we’re a team that has to continue to grow and have lost only once in six matches. We are slowly getting there.” Come on Wenger; enough of the excuses.
You’re walking on thin ice already and you’ve been at the club for fifteen years now. At first, he was a very impressive manager. For the first few years of his reign in charge of one of the most popular teams in England, Wenger was the top dog against Man United in several of their fixtures. Wining trophy after trophy, Wenger’s reputation couldn’t be any better.
Fast forward to 2011 and it’s a different picture altogether. Although the team is in a healthy financial state, this will only please some fans for a while longer. Every fan has their breaking point. A team like Arsenal should be competing for the title year in, year out. Instead, they languished behind in fourth place last season with eight losses. They didn’t fair too well in the FA Cup with a Sixth round loss and were beaten by Birmingham in the League Cup.
With no trophies since the FA Cup in 2004/05, what other league manager would have survived for this long? If Wenger is good with figures, then he should be hired by Arsenal FC as an accountant or a financial consultant and not be the one at the helm of the ship. There is bound to be a manager out there who would be willing to clear up the mess which has been left behind by Wenger. If you are an Arsenal fan, ask yourself one question; are you entirely happy with the performance of your team?
Answers on a postcard please.
