^ goods posts from you two, certainly better than the constant Wenger bashing we usually hear.
I say he should be given a go at the PL without Europe, but at the end of the day, if the fans are properly divided, it's hard to see a way out for him. If everyone could get behind the club like Leicester last season, have no Europe and just concentrate on the league, i still believe the squad can do it.
Really? The end of the season is when it gets really busy. The tough months when you are involved in europe come when you have carling/fa cup games and sometimes replays throw off the schedule then extra euro games late in the season, this results in a bunch of rescheduled games happening. Arsenal haven't been in that situation for some time, we don't get past Feb in europe.
At any stage Wenger can choose to prioritise the league and hasn't done so one year yet.
The atmosphere hasn't had an effect because nothing on the field has changed in the past 5 years, 10 years really, same mistakes, same tactics, same type of players he favour, same lacking mentality, same lacking leadership. How can you blame it on the past couple of years when nothing has changed in far far longer than that?
Also the current trend is for guys like Trusty to blame Kroenke. Here's a hint, again, he takes basically no money out of the club. Owners who want to take the money out of the club.... do, those who don't.... don't. How you can blame Kroenke when the fans have consistently backed Wenger and given the board no reason and no real option to fire Wenger. When the majority of fans are happy with giving Wenger another contract then firing him would be the thing that angered the fans. The fans have lapped this up and made excuse after excuse. Oh, he had less money because of the stadium, oh, his best players have to be sold every year, blah blah blah. None of this is true, we've increased spending every year since the move, Wenger chooses a huge wage budget rather than a huge transfer kitty. Wenger chooses to give players who never play 60-80k a week rather than getting shot of the useless players and spending that money on new players instead. How long did we keep Diaby, or Rosicky around doing next to nothing? The idea that they might magically get over their injuries?
Wenger changed, not Kroenke, not the board's management style, not the finances available to the manager(negatively, that is, the amount Wenger can spend has pretty much tripled at this point and Wenger spends that). Rather than link to articles about what Kroenke has done to other clubs and how other clubs fans hate him... why not actually say specifically what he's done wrong at Arsenal, because pointing to someone else hating him for something he did elsewhere is absolutely not proof that he's doing the same things with Arsenal.
Actually look up our publicly available financial records, look at where the cash is going, look what has happened to the wage bill, look at debt repayments, look at how much cash is in the Arsenal account that wenger refuses to use and that the board do not take money out of(though they are absolutely entitled to do so if they want).
Lastly who cares if the squad can given less games and huge support... win the league, we're paying 70-80% more in wages than Spurs, the entire reason to have a better paid larger squad is to cope with more games. If you have a 190mil a year wage budget and can ONLY compete in one competition, then you're failing. LIkewise if we're focusing too much on europe and not enough on the league, how are the team so damn bad in the round of 16 every year?
