Poor tactics, stubborn, lack of spending.. In Arsene we trust?

I didn’t want to post straight after the game as some of you always say that my posts are just a knee jerk reaction.

But now i have had time to think about the game I have to say that the Arsenal fans who STILL have faith in wenger are ether to stupid to see the light or just as stubborn as Wenger.

Poor tactics - this 4-5-1 is clearly not working vs the better teams.If you are going to play with only one striker, he has got to be strong and able to holed the ball up and link the play. And also able to compete with the physical side of the game.

Who has Wenger been using ( Eduardo and Arshavin ) 2 of the smallest, weakest players you can find. And TBH both players have been made to look shit. You cant blame the players. Blame the manager for picking this crap.

Wenger didn’t sign a striker to play this role so why not go back 2 a 4-4-2?

Lack of signings - Wenger can bang on about how he nearly signed a player on deadline day and how he almost signed David Villa all he wants. The sad fact is that he had ALL last summer to address this problems. He had the money from the sales of Adebayor and Toure, ask 90% of fans or people who know something about the game if Arsenal were short of a few players to win the league and they would all say the same things. Need a keeper, A ball winner in midfield and a striker. We all knew that before the start of the season. Come the Jan transfer window were are in a fantastic position to fight for the title as both the chavs and Man utd have dropped points. We are top after a win vs Bolton but like me alot of fans still wanted Wenger to strengthen the team with maybe 2 signings to really give us a boost to kick on and win the league. The signings didn’t come and now 3 games on we are in danger of dropping out of the top 3 into 4th.

Playing players in their wrong position – How many times have we seen Eduardo and Nic on the wings, or Arshavin as a lone striker? its the square pegs in round holes debate again.

2 much faith in poor players - We all knew that Almunia was not good enough to be our long term number one keeper. Sometimes a keeper wins you a game by making match winning saves, Just like Cech did this weekend. Its seems like everytime Almunia has a shot on target it a goal. When was the last time he make a decent save of note? Denilson was never going to be good enough to cover for Song. We all knew that we needed one more DM player at the start of the season….

How many more things do you want?

I said before the Villa, Man Utd, Chavs and Liverpool games that to win the title we needed to take 9 pts from 12 pts, at the mo its 1pt from 9.. Just shows that we are not good enough to win the league. And if we lose to Liverpool? Then what?  From 1st to 4th in 4 games

People can blame players like Almunia and Denilson all they want…the only person to blame is Wenger.

He is living off the glory days (before 2005) this needs to change. The in arsene we trust banner must now come down.

Wenger Out, Mourinho In

Sign the petition to get Wenger sacked  ( HERE )

Sinbad

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  1. redordead says:

    Wenger have a “Napoleon Complex” and will only buy or play players that are shorter than himself.

  2. mo says:

    you know what, there would have been a time where i would have called you being plastic but im starting to doubt wenger now after these poor results.

  3. solinvictus says:

    Mourinho????

  4. Sam says:

    You are a f@@king dick head pull your head out your arse we never gonna win the league it’s all about money untill the grounds paid off get used to it were lucky to have wenger lookk at what oneil redknapp and man city Liverpool have spent to fight for fourth stop being a c@&t

  5. BigL says:

    as always i agree with what you say. the only thing i disagree with is with Mourinho

    I vote for Pep Guardiola. similar football, Mourinho would probably want a billion pound transfer budget and his chosen one attitude would drive me crazy

  6. sebjob says:

    oh, shut up already. For calling yourself a supporter you do not do a lot of supporting. It is alright to be constructive critical to the processes within the club, but your repeated critic is nothing close to constructive at all

  7. AfriX says:

    Right on Sinbad, crap players produce crap no matter how motivated they are. Wenger has become crap, he needs to take a sabatical away from Arsenal!

  8. benny says:

    We will see those things until Arsenal pay all debts, It’s an strategy from Wenger and Arsenal Board to play in CHL and to pay debts. To play with unknown and young players instaed of buying them with highest price. We saw this almost 5 years in a row. In summer I think that Wenger will buy a replacement for Fabregas and eventually will sign a goalkeeper. From last games I saw that even Clichy or Sagna might be sold, but Wenger have players to replace them.. Wenger also will sign Chamakh for free , in june. So, in this way I see Arsenal playing, only if Kroenke will buy all shares and becomes owner.

  9. benny says:

    Belive me guys, there is no way of sacking Wenger. Arsenal Board and Wenger are eating in the same vessel.

  10. BigL says:

    thats not what the board or the accounts show

  11. goonerali says:

    i think most people give you a bashing sinbad which is unfair because you are passionate and you love the club.I have to say i agree 100% with what you say.You feel the exact way i do so im glad somone feels like i do.When i express my views people call me a plastic and why because i want my team to do well

  12. gooner_b11 says:

    TAKE NOTE WENGER….. football is like boxing! you can box/play going forwards or you can box/play going backwards, just because the other team is going backwards doesn’t mean you’re winning the fight, you can be knocked out on the counter because you came forward with your chin out and NO DEFENCE!….but we outplayed them is what some of you akb’s will say, i’ll say shots on target and the score at the top of screen will tell you who’s really winning the match (WE ONLY HAD 2SHOTS ON TARGET), and the post match comments are just getting embarrassing now, and the neglect to teach defence is glaringly obvious now…more so than the personnel he hasn’t purchased over the years….you’re only as good as your last season and wenger’s had five, repetitively making the same mistakes again and again and now the team he created in his own image is doing the same. In 10years we’ve gone from the best defence in the premiership and one of the best in the world to a team who easily conceade more than 30 a season every season, and in 6years gone from a the worlds best counter attacking team (BAR NONE!) to a team now susceptible to counters. as far as i’m concearned with all of this evidence and the comments of domestic cups not being better than 3rd, me and this stubborn man aren’t pulling the same direction any more, and i’m not going anyway as i’ve been a gooner since 86. HE NEEDS TO GO!

  13. Sinbad says:

    Thank you mate

  14. bryan says:

    when you look at the run in of all the teams this was a great chance for us to win this He knew we where short up front in november and has done nothing, so frustating.

  15. gooner_b11 says:

    the words winning is a habit and not winning is also a habit come to mind, you don’t throw away fa cup games for the sake of it…..3days of rest doesn’t do a damn thing to a teams inability to play when they’re winning like stoke he did the same thing 2years ago when we were storming the league, and threw the united fa cup game, we spiralled out of the race some weeks later…..the board doesn’t make that decision….he does! and then come out saying “i don’t consider the united game a game that did it” WAKE UP GOONERS

  16. BigL says:

    indeed, a plastic fan is someone who’ll just sit back and take it up the arse and beg for more, whereas a real fan wants the best for the team and questions why we fail.

    On the bright side, many of these plastic fans will bugger off to support France or where ever Wenger ends up next

  17. goonerali says:

    the thing that gets me really mad is wenger comes out and says we were very very very close.Thats even worse why tell us that arsene you trying to rub it in.Its blatently obvious who we need to sign but wenger is so stubborn he wont come out of his stupid ways.If there is no money to spend why dont he just tell us that.

  18. gooner_b11 says:

    i know this supporting arsenal thing is a marriage and you have good times and bad times, but like our football over the years, just because your former ugly wife has become more prettier over the years doesn’t mean you’ll start to take a load of shit from her, don’t be afriad of change….i love my fellow gooners, i love this club, but can’t stand this team

  19. sebjob says:

    take a rational approach and look at Liverpool, Manure, Chelskji, Spurs and City, not to mention Real Madrid, see how much money they have spent and rate the success of those purchases…Heargraves, Berbatov, Anderson, Aquilaini (though early), Robinho, Schevchenko etc. Money does not imply success.

    What did they say in the first years of Ferguson? “You cant win the league with kids”.

    Though I think there is no sense in visiting this site again, because this is not about rationale…it is about emotions of frustrated supporters

  20. sebjob says:

    in that case, George Graham is available. Good old days hm…at least then we will get rid of those youth

  21. Sebastian says:

    can we have abit of calm please?

    nothing hurts me more than being embarrassed by our closest rivals, but lets take a step back a minute.

    Wenger has made mistakes, and deep down, i think he knows that. for whatever reason, he didnt buy a striker, but in all honesty, who are you going to buy??

    I feel we missed out badly on signing Given, best £8mil you’d ever spend, and i agree that players such as Diaby (altho he can play very well on occasion), Walcott, Gallas, Almunia and above all Denilson are not good enough to play for Arsenal. However, Arsene hates losing even more than we do, and although i do believe that 3 league titles and 4 FA Cups in 13 years is not nearly enough, he is the man for the job.

    We will win the league, eventually, but please stop being stupid and use your brains for a minute, dont slag off the bloke that has done so much for this club, no manager is perfect.

    Fergie has won many titles, but at what cost? he has spend multi millions of players that are dog sh*t, cos he can afford to. we dont work that way at arsenal. when the stadium is paid off, we will be so far ahead of everyone else, just wait and see. i want success now like the rest of you, but i will definately still say “in arsene we trust”.

    come on you gooners.

  22. MistaKen says:

    I am gutted because I believe the Premier League needs Wenger to succeed to show that a team can win it by playing beautiful football. I still believe in Wenger’s football style but I don’t believe he know that we need a quality goalie, quality powerful center mid and a quality striker to make it work. I am also gutted for Wenger because I believe he was instrumental in bringing us a great stadium within our budget. I am convinced now though that Wenger has become too powerful at Arsenal and this has clouded his judgment. It pains me to say it but if there is a better manager available we should get him and replace Wenger.

  23. goonerali says:

    Wenger since 2005 has gone downhill,hes sold players and failed to replace them.Up untill 2005 wenger was a true great a fantastic manager and somewhere deep down inside there probably still is a great manager but over the last few years hes lost the plot gretly.from 2005 we have finished 3rd once and a number of 4th placed finishes.Apart from the 207/2008 season we have been miles behind man united and chelsea.Why do us fans have to suffer whilst man u and chelsea win countless trophies?.Everyone knows who weve needed for ages now but wenger is so stubborn and has failed to identify this.Wenger thinks just becaus he won all the trophies in the past he can do whatever he likes.I was reading a blog by chris kamara on sky sports and he said if wenger was in charge at barcelona or real madrid and went 2 yrs without a trophy he would be sacked.Its to comfortable for wenger there needs to be pressure on him by the board,but the board are just too nice there not bothered about winning trophies only bothered about making profits.As far as players like almunia denilson etc i dont blame them i blame wenger for not adressing these areas and spending money.Do we have money to spend? because something tells me we dont.

  24. sebjob says:

    dont think so, we have hugely talented keepers and with Almunia’s willingness to coach the youngsters as opposed to Lehmann’s attitude. Schezny is doing brilliant in league 1, he is a one of a kind talent. Economy there is still the higbury development which is looking like a success, the Queensland road dev. is starting soon but has problem with permit as to cooperation with neighbours and a wall to block rats to enter their gardens, while the subway station has to be developed before expanding the capacity of the stadium. The finance records look positive though, and they say they were touched by recession in regards to the highbury dev. but still looks like profit. Your point being young talents, and looking at new training ground and double youth winning squad it indeed looks positive. Afobe and Aneke just refused Barca. Ramsey and Wilshere coming through

  25. Ben says:

    There is some merit to discussion. Let’s be honest if Drogba, Rooney , Torres were injured for most of season a replacement would have been bought. We had FOUR strikers out and yet he wouldnt buy. THe formation works with class up front VP is class. Wenger should have bought we could have won the league. I feel really deflated he is a great manager but has a blind spot about this.

  26. jd says:

    How can you possibly say that Gallas is not good enough to play for Arsenal? He is the best defender at the club by a mile. Gallas is too easy a target for people like you because he used to play for Chelsea and is a dissenting voice at the club. He’s earned that right because he has proven year after year that he’s is one of the most talented defenders in the world.

  27. ChrissyG says:

    lay off wenger! the bloke has and always will have arsenal in his best interest whether things come off or not. how many people in football these days, players and managers would hav stayed so loyal to a foreign club with the limited resourses he has had?? we have been blessed with CL football for the last decade, a feet that many other ‘big’ clubs in the league could only dream of and having spent multiples of what we have? yes it is a frustrating time but to start a petition to get wenger sacked, come on that is the most disrespectful thing i have heard/seen in 28 years! i often call other fans fickle but i should be looking closer to home

  28. gooner_b11 says:

    Sebastian you’re still looking at wenger with eyes from the past, fergie and wenger when he was on point showed you it takes 3years to re-build a team, you identify the leaders in your old squad and you keep them in the present squad to teach the new guys how to become winners, there’s a reason why scholes, giggs and alike still remain, to show the future, this is how we do things AT THIS CLUB, our heritage was sold, instead of identifying the players who had something to pass on regardless of their legs LIKE pires, LIKE edu, Like Vieira and keeping keown and winterburn for defensive coaches we let em all go……on top of that we only challenege for 2trophies a year….2trophies that are VERY hard to reach, you must learn to walk before you fly, win the league cup……win the fa cup and move on from there! this is not the same man now, who walked into the club in 96

  29. ChrissyG says:

    jd, spot on mate gallas i one of a number of players that should be praised for his attitude and proferssionalism, after losing the captainsy he has grown and showd what a world class player he always has been. panics sometime but f**k me name me a defender who doesnt!

  30. lucky says:

    you the problems some fans are just to blind to see the fact that arsene is loosing it…when ur child go wrong spank him…pamperin him wouldnt help him…i cant believe some fans dont see anything wrong in wengers idealogy..

  31. MistaKen says:

    We do have money to spend goonnerali, Wenger just wont spend it because his judgment of how to fix the problem is clouded. He thinks he is Arsenal.
    Nobody wants Wenger to succeed more than me but I fear that come next transfer window he will not buy proven quality.

  32. nellsonone says:

    Whats up :) ……..
    as a true gunner & newcomer to newsnow :) every bad result brings the same “I’m alan hanson’s unborn child bulls**t” arsene’s a genius & has prob spent less than the top 8 clubs in the prem…. I say prob because i’m not goin to opta, but the list of players he’s brought & bought from a young age is ridiculous….. Fab, song, clichy, ramsey, viera, cole, anelka + looks like theres a lot more comin through + if they dont come through they’ll cost 1-3 mill to buy, so you so called fans keep disrespectin while us true fans keep smilin at the true situation our club is in : [ ] 1 love

  33. gooner_b11 says:

    and everybody lets stop blaming our lack of signings for the reason this is happening it’s not the be all and end all of our problems even if we had a huntelaar…..a dzeko…a chamakh yesterday, what would it have done, with the crosses coming in from sagna and clichy….NOTHING! it won’t make them cross any better, a new keeper ALTHO WE NEED ONE it wouldn’t help clichy or denilson defend any better……MORE COACHING ON OUR INDEFICIENCIES WILL, a new defensive coach, to teach them how to handle counter attacks instead of running back in cris-crosses giving the drogba space for the 2nd, more crossing sessions, more set piece coaching defensively and offensively…….more video tape sessions watching the opposition

  34. buzz says:

    does anyone have any good ideas to raise our transfer kitty , i think they should charge us £5 for a piss and £10 for a shit then we could give all our teenagers 100K cars , walcot could have a 6ft bodygaurd to help keep him upright almunia could give up his waiters job and will still have 100 million over for wenger to buy some more schoolboys

  35. mojo says:

    OMG..ok…I agree we need a goalie, a ball-winner and a striker but to say we should get rid of Arsene is total CRAP DUDE!!!!

  36. gooner_b11 says:

    ChrissyG! did it ever occur to you it’s also in Wengers best interests to stay with THIS foreign club, no team in the world would pay him 5million a year to produce failure, this real madrid came calling last summer, that wasn’t just loyalty that kept him in this job, it was STABILITY for himself….at this club, he’s not judged by the powers that be, at any other club, he would be…..Real? he wouldn’t even see out the year to make the 5mil, he’d be out attempting project youth

  37. BigL says:

    is is just me or has the tide well and truely turned?

  38. Omgyiyja says:

    All of your points are reactionary and inflammatory.

    It’s clear to most football entusiasts that Arsenal’s problems stem from a lack of defensive ability (especially at defending set-pieces and the counter-attack). This is the reason Man Utd disassemble them almost everytime they play against one another and why Chelsea can manhandle a 2-0 victory while playing the “lesser” football.

    Forget the below-par Denilson, the problems are with Clichy!!!, Almunia, Gallas and Vermaelen (Sagna somewhat excluded but not fully). While this is partly Wenger’s fault, the pitter-patter mentality from members of the team doesn’t help.

    Also, would you complain about David Villa as a lone striker based on his physical attributes as opposed to scoring or chancemaking record?

  39. stonroy says:

    I would never want to see Mourinho at our club. NEVER EVER NEVER.

  40. IVE says:

    You sad bastrad. call yourself supporters , you mean you only support when you are winning .
    Fact , we lost Robin
    Fact no one want to sell in Janruary
    Fact the team lack discipline
    FACT WE WILL RULE THE WORLD .
    Fact – Supporters support the team through the good times and the bad .
    UP THE ARSENAL

  41. Sebastian says:

    the point about Gallas wasnt really the point i was making…

  42. gooner_b11 says:

    BigL none of us want this……but you knew from last summer, alot of people said i’ll give him another year to turn this around, hoping he’d learn from the arshavin situation last jan, and spend….he hasn’t, same mistake again, some people have had enough of the excuses and the spin and moaning.

    and some others who said give him another year are saying again give him another year again lol, it can’t go on

  43. MistaKen says:

    I am gutted because I love Arsen and I believe in his style of football. I am gutted because I don’t believe Arsen realises how close we are – just 2 or three key palayers – to being a GREAT team. I am gutted because I am not convinced Arsen will but proven quality. Most of all I am gutted because I don’t want the dumb presenters at Talk Shite to be proven right.

  44. Maciek says:

    Hello!

    Many Arsenal fans claim that when Wenger finally retires or will be sacked, we are finished as a Club. I tend to disagree. There is many managers available, and they are quality ones( Hiddink for example) and our financial situation is good enough to persuade any top manger to come here.

    We all know, Wenger won’t be sacked. He will go when his contract expires( knowing our unambitious board of directors, they will extend his contract till 2015-16).
    But there is an even bigger problem-our unambitious board and many average players who don’t give a f**k.
    Clownunia, Fabianski, Clichy, Silvestre, Djourou,Denislon,Walcott, Vela, Eduardo and even Nasri are just NOT GOOD ENOUGH. They need to be sold.

    We do have many quality players but they are sorrounded by many crap players. I feel sorry for Fabregas, WillyG, Vermy, Arshavin because they know we need quality, and they know that they don’t win a trophy with Wenger in charge.

    His “project youth” has failed. We have too many overpaid primadonnas, who don’t care about our great CLUB. They are mercenaries, but just an average ones. We have 2nd highest wage bill in the Premier League. We pay milions of pounds to extend contracts for Denilson and Almunia, YET we can’t spend 25 milion pounds to sign Dzeko or any other quality striker WHO CAN SCORE.

    We are a joke at the moment.
    -A joke keeper,
    -no proper cd( Adams or Cambpell type),
    - no world clas cdm,
    - no typical wingers in our team,
    -no striker.I will say it once again-NO STRIKER. NO QUALITY STRIKER.

    Why move to a great stadium and earn 3milion per match, when we don’t even spend this money on proper players. Why extend contracts with average players who are just not good enough?

    WHY REWARD FAILURE? WHY.

    Take carte and sorry for my long post. It just the fact……..that I LOVE this CLUB so much.

  45. Fredwest says:

    Sinbad yet again you speak for many of us. If only the board had the nuts to sack him

  46. gooner_b11 says:

    yeah…..there are managers out there, many dutch top coaches would take this job, hiddink, rijkaard etc and they’d continue to play football, lauren blanc even a new french tactician with fresh ideas, and he’s be able to teach defence…..could bring gourcuff and chamakh with him?…who knows

    but yeah i am ready for change

  47. paul says:

    first you criticize AW for playing Eduardo at striker and then you criticize AW for playing Eduardo on the wing. so where is AW supposed play Eduardo then?

  48. BigL says:

    dude don’t get me wrong, I thought Wenger should have went sometime ago. His stubbornness ultimately lead to Henry wanting to leave, it was around that point when I started to wonder what the hell he was doing and why he wouldn’t buy replacements.

    What I meant by the tide turing is, normally Sinbad makes a post and gets innundated with AKBs spouting rubbish. Since the Man U defeat they seem to have vanished. Even other blogs are questioning Wengers tactics.

    It’s good to see people starting to wake up.

    100% behind Arsenal. 0% behind Wenger

  49. nickoman says:

    sell almunia fabianski clichy sagna djourou silvestre song denilson bendtner none of these players are Arsenal class.
    Bring back the old Arsenal values wear suits to away games no african players wearing african wrist bands. start bringing in players with the Arsenal mentality and stop misleading the fans .Arsene i have lost patience with you and the board who hide behind yiu like cowards. you have more transfer window to do all this or you will lose the majority of the fans.What Wenger does well he is the best at but he has many weaknesses which are hindering our progress. deluded new age gooners time to wake up

  50. nickoman says:

    one more transfer window – typing error

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