i don't see how anyone could do a better job as the team isn't that great and there aren't really any better managers available.
This is such an incredibly common thing to hear on the subject, for years, and is abjectly stupid.
Wenger isn't a good manager anymore by any measure at all, thus, there are LOADS of better managers around.
Dragging a team spending anything from 30-50% more than the people below them for the majority of the past 8 years isn't difficult, in fact its easy, not least when you have Cesc, RVP, and a few others left over from the days he used to use his brain still.
Every single game for years Wenger has made simple mistakes, he's failed to learn from a single mistake in a decade(even when we were winning things he failed to learn from simple tactical mistakes).
AS for cash available, we've got 10's of millions a year being wasted on trash players wages, stop buying trash players, stop wasting money, have buttloads of cash for spending on other players, not difficult. Arsenal have plenty of cash, however thanks to Wenger there will be a 3-4 year lag between getting rid of him, and being able to spend that money, this is why I said YEARS ago that every year he stays screws us for longer as he loads the squad with ineptitude on big contracts(for the level of player they are).
Does it not worry anyone that Utd, Chelsea and City all have players on over 200K a week, Arsenal don't have a single player on over 100k, thats 5 mil a year difference right there on a single player, yet Utd only spent 20mil more than us in wages last year?
Wenger is the reason Arsenal haven't been remotely close to a league title in the last 8 years, not the reason we scrape 4th. As Utd are showing, vs 40mil higher wage spending City, and for most seasons anything up to what 60-70mil higher spending Chelsea... yet beating them to the title. X amount gets you in the race, most of the rest is wasted, Arsenal are in the ball park of spending to be top four and should be competing for titles, reason we aren't is the trash Wenger spends on, crap team picking, crap subs, zero tactical awareness.
I mean, can anyone name multiple games, Barca, Real, Bayern, City, Chelsea, Utd have gone into a tough game with a gameplan, stick 3 guys marking one player, go ultra defence and attack for 10 mins, play a new formation, play cb's as DM's to target a player, some kind of tactical plan. I can't think of a single time Arsenal have done this, let alone effectively, basically in Wengers time with Arsenal. He's utterly tactically unaware. I think there aren't a whole lot of managers who would do worse while spending what Wenger does on wages.
We refused to offer 100k a week to get Mata... and a year or two later, are giving the same wage to desparately hang on to Cesc, noo wait, RVP, no... oh yes, god damned Walcott......................
Wenger is NOT the guy who took over at Arsenal, he's a different manager to the one who managed up to 2004 or so, his tactics changed, his mentality changed, the type of player he's gone for his changed, his coaching, assistent manager, defensive coaches, have all changed and we've done nothing since.... the new way Wenger tries to win simply doesn't work, has never been successful and he shows zero sign of going back to the way things were when he won.
I still maintain to a large degree that, he came into football when big money was new and a lot of the english game was barely semi professional, he turned the team into athletes with a few stars to beat a lot of teams, not tactically, but being fitter, faster, and fantastic on the break, through our successful years we could counter attack like no other team in the world. Today, every team, even the bottom three.. of the championship, are athlete's, its all professional, everyones fast, that edge we had has completely gone and Wenger's got nothing else behind that basic idea.
Sorry one other idea, at Monaco he turned Henry, a successful striker into an unsuccessful winger, at Arsenal he made him a striker again, one player this has worked for under Wenger, EVER. Yet his master plan for every attacking player he buys is, buy striker, play on wing, thinks he'll get Henry. Its failed 20 times to the one success, which was actually undoing the mistake he made in the first place. Thats Wenger, get some athlete's, push strikers onto the wing, because it worked, ONCE for one player, ever, thats basically his entire managerial playbook for success, it hasn't worked in almost 15 years since Henry, yet its still his only plan for success..... its pathetic.
