Ivan Merc
Ed’s note - For obvious reasons the vast majority of foreign Gooners cannot join the from the East Stand of the old Highbury Stadium protest tomorrow evening. A significant Russian Gooner community, arsenal-blog.com, has approved the submission of this article by one of their members, Ivan Merc, as evidence of their support for this action.
Finally, maybe several years later then required, the majority of Gooners realize where the problem is.
No matter who are the players, Arsenal will never win the league or European Cup under Arsene Wenger. And will never even really compete. Even if we buy Messi and Ronaldo together with Buffon and Chiellini, Arsenal will be fighting for a Champions League place.
This new Arsenal’s DNA was implemented by Arsene Wenger. And this is why the Arsenal Football Club must get rid of Arsene Wenger.
The “Invincibles” were destroyed after Paris, the “incubator project” was embarked upon and finished five years later - the day after the 8-2 Old Trafford disaster. The club dived into the panic buying, but the architect of disaster was allowed to continue. Today we are harvesting the results.
Other whimsies were embarked on – the Arsenal way, Special values, British core - and the result is:
Arsenal with the 5th or 6th largest budget in the world has been transformed from genuine contenders to also-runners at best. For the last 13 years Arsenal in April and May have spent ZERO days in first position in the Premier League.
Arsene Wenger has brought us huge humiliations every year – 2:8, 0:4, 1:5, 0:6, etc.
Arsene Wenger has trolled Gooners by playing Sanogo from the start against Bayern; by giving Walcott the captain’s armband against Chelsea; not starting Sanchez at Liverpool; by refusing to rectify obvious team weaknesses; by keeping for years flops like Diaby, Denilson, Fabianski, Bendtner, Ramsey etc; by bidding £40 milion plus £1 for Luis Suarez; by many famous comments like “you didn’t work even one day in football” or “you haven’t made 50000 substitutions”.
“Specialist in masochism”? I think “Specialist in sadism” is more appropriate.
Today Arsenal games bring no emotions, but apathy, because everybody knows the season will be finished as one more title challenge fails and Groundhog Day continues.
Arsene Wenger has got unprecedented power, accountable to nobody and establishes his own standards of success.
Arsene Wenger has got a top-salary (which even exceeds club’s mortgage interest payments for the new stadium) for mediocre results. And nobody at the club is allowed to get more money than manager. This so called “socialist wage structure” is obviously became a huge barrier for attracting top players.
But the only top player bought by Wenger in last 13 years is now on the way out due to the team's imbecility to compete at the top level.
Arsene Wenger is no longer capable of forming a winning team as he no longer has enough knowledge in the transfer market and for tactical, medical and mental team preparation. He just doesn’t know how to complete and prepare the team for title contention in the current reality.
The “good past” was 13 years ago. The last 13 years covered the way from “Wizard” to “Specialist in Sadism” over Arsenal supporters.
Arsene Wenger is Arsenal’s day before yesterday!
Arsenal without Arsene!
Wenger Out!
Ed’s note – It should be remembered that The Gooner and onlinegooner.com exist to provide an open platform for views across the Arsenal spectrum. Individuals have their opinions, but the fact is that we don't get too many contributions in favour of the way things are at the club these days. When we do, we publish them.
