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NO EXCUSES WENGER

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Alot of the team were rested mid-week...

Arguably first choice keeper and back 4
Cesc and first Choice front 2 played...

It wasn't terrible but it was a very, very AVERAGE performance...

Chelsea was a very good result for us but you make it a great result by wining your other games to capitalise on those 3 points!! We nearly blew it against Wigan and only deserved a draw today...

Should have given Wilshere at least 30 mins as Diaby and Denilson did nothing all game long

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posted Dec 14, 2008

WE HAVE NO BRIGHT FUTURE IF WE PLAY PLAYERS LIKE DENILSON, DIABY, BENDTNER, SONG AND EBOUE.
ALL THOSE PLAYERS ARE RUBBISH AND NONE OF THEM ARE EVEN GOOD ENOUGH TO GET INTO WEST BROMS STARTING LINE UP.

- Arsene Wenger should just stop wasting his time by waiting for these rubbish youngsters to develop.

WE MUST buy top quality players and i'm sure we can be as successful and win tropheys this season.

At the end of the season, IF we finish tropheyless, SACK WENGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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posted Dec 14, 2008

Arsene Wenger should just release most the youngsters but keep Vela, Ramsey and Wilshere.
Replace all those other wasted youngsters with top quality experienced match winners.


If you had to make a starting line up with players who on played for clubs in the top 4, how many arsenal players will there be??????

Cech
Bosingwa
Vidic
Ferdinand
Evra
Gerrard
Fabregas
Lampard
Ronaldo
Anelka
Torres

this says a lot about arsenals squad quality.
only fabregas can make it in that team.

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posted Dec 14, 2008

What about Clichy and Sagna was in the PFA team last year I think!.........Van Persie is no slouch either!

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posted Dec 14, 2008

Also we dont have the money of Man Utd, Chelsea or Liverpool........Man U had 4 players at the weekend in the team who cost over £25 Million each with 2 of those over £30 Million!...the paid £18 Million for Hargreaves and Carrick.......18 Million for Micheal Carrick....you want to get involved in that merry go round!

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posted Dec 15, 2008

Just because AW has served this club for 12 years does not qualify him another few years of managing what has now become a team of mediocrity.I do believe that he has lost his "shine"-maybe something to do with getting older and obstinate.

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posted Dec 15, 2008

It's not the players! How can you blame the players? They are only as good or as bad as their manager. Of course, we need some new players but it's not the players, it's the team. Arsenal don't play as a team anymore and when they do, they do what they have been taught to do, pass-pass-pass it into the net. There is no game-plan, no plan B. I feel sorry for some of the players, especially players like Eboue and Bendtner who deserve much better but Wenger plays them out of position (ok, maybe he didn't have a choice because of injuries, but whose fault was it not to cover those injuries by refusing to buy new players?!) or he puts them in at the deep end because others aren't playing well. I watched the game against Porto - shocking....it wasn't that we lost, it was the way we lost. Wenger then comes out with rubbish excuses like 'we were controlling the game until they scored.' Isn't that like saying we were winning / drawing the game until they won? Ridiculous. I wouldn't mind, but Porto weren't even very good on the night and we had about 2 shots on goal. And then, there is all the infighting and images left in my mind of Bendtner and Adebayor arguing on the pitch, etc. Is this the Arsenal we love? It's nothing to do with losing (well, a bit of that too of course), for me, it's more to do with the WAY we are as a team........when you start agreeing with your friends - who hate ARsenal - that we have a bunch of individual show-offs who don't play as a team, then you know you are in trouble. Even my girlfriend, who takes no interest in football, said to me during the Porto game 'it don't look like they know what they want to.' She was right. Wenger has lost his way - everybody can see that (except Wenger). I don't mind finishing mid-table (if must be) but PLEASE give us back some PRIDE!!!!

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posted Dec 15, 2008

Fickle support!
You loved it when everything was rosy in the garden and now there are some nettles and thorns you cry how bad the manager is(and we are 8 points off the top with 21 games to go)

We are not playing great at the moment granted but dont forget that we lost in the same fixture last year to Boro with a team that finished 4 points off the champions.

Yes we do need a more combative/defensive midfielder and Wenger is aware of that he has stated it more than once.

He has been looking for one since August but couldn't get the right man and some on here would be the first to jump on his back if he brought in any old harris just because he had "Defensive Midfielder"on his cv!
Some fans on here are making us sound like spoilt kids, Chelsea fans had to wait 50 yrs for there second title! Liverpool havent won it for 19yrs!
Some on here were also hailing Diaby on his first game back from injury now he is a pariah? and before the word deluded gets banded about I dont think Wenger is beyond making mistakes no man is,but you fans who call for his head............
Who would replace him that is availiable?

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posted Dec 15, 2008

thankudennis

Sorry but Wenger has to go. Remember there is
Abu Dhabi coming. They have more money than Chelski did. Remember how you guys hated Maureen? You will have to hate him even more when he takes over at City next season.

Stop deluding yourself. With this squad we are doomed.

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posted Dec 15, 2008

Again I ask mr pelvis,who would take over that would do more than Wenger?
Its not just about money Chelsea won nothing last season and they spent a truck load,Liverpoool spent a truck load and won nothing,there is no gurantee that all the money that Man City might spend will win them anything.Look at what happened to Leeds.

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posted Dec 17, 2008

Arsene Wenger has been nothing but amazing for Arsenal football club since his arrival and some Arsenal fans have very very short memories on here, unbeatable, doubles, trebles, champions league final ring any bells!!!

Yes I do agree Eboue, Song, Bendtner are very average players and really do not have any place in the squad

Wenger actually did try and buy alonso & ya ya toure in the summer, there was even talk of barry!!!

You really cannot comment on how wenger should nuture his young players like ramsey, wiltshire, vela - Wenger is the best in the business at doing that!!!!

We MUST remember our world class players rosicky, walcott and eduardo are all injured!! we have beat Man Utd and Chelsea and I bet we beat Liverpool too. I cant believe people on here are saying adebayor, v persie, diaby and denilson are bad players they are ace!!!!

However I do agree we need to strengthen the squad but dont hold your breath arsenal fans cause unless french, wenger will buy them, we all know how he works, he loves to balance the books

I understand how frustrated we all our but SUPPORT THE MANAGER AND THE CLUB!!!!!!

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