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The-Pilgrim":3874ohpx said:I've heard that they want Adams to take over .
I hope they do so that he goes out on a high. Yes, he's stayed too long, but he's done well for the club. The rumour mill was Patrick Viera as a replacement but he's not on Betfair's odds:The-Pilgrim":4dwirl8j said:I've heard that they want Adams to take over
He's probably left it 2/3 seasons too long but it would be typical for them to now win the Europa League.
Keepitgreen":qoz98x47 said:I hope they do so that he goes out on a high. Yes, he's stayed too long, but he's done well for the club. The rumour mill was Patrick Viera as a replacement but he's not on Betfair's odds:The-Pilgrim":qoz98x47 said:I've heard that they want Adams to take over
He's probably left it 2/3 seasons too long but it would be typical for them to now win the Europa League.
6/1 Carlo Ancelotti
7/1 Thomas Tuchel
8/1 Massimiliano Allegri
8/1 Brendan Rodgers
8/1 Mikel Arteta
8/1 Joachim Low
10/1 Thierry Henry
10/1 Lucien Favre
14/1 Diego Simeone
14/1 Rafael Benitez
16/1 Sean Dyche
16/1 Leonardo Jardim
Metal_Green_Mickey":2xxppxbo said:Doesn't this signal the end of an era in football?
Surely we wont see another top flite manager in English football being with a club as long as Ferguson or Wenger were.
You might say, and some Arsenal fans do on their various social media sites, it has been coming and infact has still taken far too long for him to leave. Yet in the grand scheme of things its hard to picture football quite being the same again.
For when Raneri was sacked, the following year after leading Leiciester to an unforseen miracle in winning a premier league title, I think football showed how the modern day owners and football fans are. Its a cut and thrust business and a lack of impatience now goes from the boardroom to the stands. Yes they could have been getting relegated, but they just had the best and most wonderful experience they are ever likely to witness as a football club in their life time and sometimes there needs to be some kind of loyalty.
Yes, you can say that perhaps Arsenal football club, and their board especially, have stood by their man albeit it because of financial reasoning's. Yet in a season there are only ever 3 domestic trophies you can win its very difficult to stay on top and play a good brand of football as Utd are now finding out under Mourinho. This is what top flite football fans seem to forget. Of course its now exciting for Arsenal fans to think of the possibilites of a new manager coming into the club but at the same time if the club dont spend the amounts of money like Man City/Utd Chelsea etc.... then how on earth can you expect a new manager to compete. He might perform better but without the vast hundreds of millions they will be left watching those clubs march on beyond them still.
Maybe the penny will drop. As yes for all his tactical defishcies Wenger has shown in the past years I think the real issue is the lack of spending power he had to endure which meant players like Van Persie left because of a lack of ambition he saw at the club and then he single handly helped their rivals and Ferguson win his last/their Premier league title.
Sad today for football because even if your not a Gooner, which I am not, you still can admire the brand of football he created and looking back it was a special what he did initially with Arsenal and to be honest it feels weird he is leaving because it feel he has always been around and suddenly its another part of english football now consigned to the history books. Makes me feel old.
Ham Green":3hokk303 said:Given where Arsenal were under Houston and then Rioch (a middling team relying solely on a temperamental striker, barely able to sell out Highbury), and where they are now, there's no doubt that Wenger will be seen as the greatest thing to happen at Arsenal since Herbert Chapman. The arguing about Wenger's stubbornness will pale into insignificance when we're all in our dotage. When we look back over our lives at some of the classic football teams we have seen, only the most bitter, die-hard Spurs fan could ignore Arsenal of 1997 to 2004.
The vitriol shown towards Wenger today has been appalling and if it's true that football fans get the manager they deserve then I hope Arsenal appoint Barry Fry. A lot of entitled, bitter people seem to "support" (there aren't enough quotation marks in the world sometimes) the Gunners. Most of them will be old enough to remember the Arsenal of the mid-seventies to late eighties when they usually finished mid-table, developed a reputation for playing terrible football and barely won anything. Wenger has won seven FA Cups, three of them in the last four years, so while the trophy haul isn't exactly what Arsenal fans wanted, it's a darn sight better than it used to be. Win three more matches in the Europa League and it'll get even better, and they'll have a place back among the elite where they tirelessly remind us they permanently belong. As if 1960-1988 never happened.
Sod 'em, ungrateful nincompoops. You don't know what you've got til it's gone. God help the next manager.