This is what a lot of fans don't understand.
Wenger has to get us to fourth each year and to the knock out stages of the CL afterwards. Which he does. Doing better in any competition would require more spending on wages and transfer fees than we could recuperate back by any extra prize / tv money, from where we usually get to compared to winning.
What happened when we were in danger of missing out? He DID splash out for Arshavin.
However other fan issues are right. The guy is tactically poor, a lot of players aren't used to the best of their abilities, we seemingly keep playing a formation we do worse in. Our first team gets injured a lot and he at the end of the day is also responsible for the back ups. Which are ****.
What are you talking about, doing better would require more money, then how did we win before? Utd have always spent along the same amount they have spent in the past several years, probably more, or less wasted anyway, yet they won things. Chelsea haven't got half the depth in squad we do.
This idea we have to spend money is totally rubbish. It boils down to this, every single person on earth except Wenger and Diaby realise we would have played better today if Diaby had not played. THere you go, we played 10 vs 11 instead of 11 vs 11, for no reason at all. Ramsey has played several games already, he's match fit, why not play him. Earlier this season Vela's been fit, infact he's been fit for the best part of 3 years, and he's refused to use him.
We have a squad Wenger built for 4-4-2, and he plays them in a 4-5-1 with an extra one or two rubbish players in midfield who MAKE THE TEAM WORSE.
Sorry but ANY manager can get this squad playing better, ok not any, but theres dozens out there who could. Arsenal have probably the best squad in the league.
Valencia/Arshavin, Nani/Nasri if you have to, then we've got Rosicky, Theo, Eboue, Bendtner who can play the wing who are all way ahead of Egghead, Bebe. Song, Diaby, Denilson are rubbish, any worse than Fletcher, Carrick, Gibson, no, we've got Fabregas, Wilshire, Ramsey in the middle aswell, Utd have Scholes, who while fantastic when fit last season has been no where near as good this season.
Utd spend more, but Fergie of late has wasted a vast portion of it. Chelsea spend more, they've wasted even more money, they've got an incredibly weak squad for the cost of it, painfully weak.
Both those have a better defence than us, keeping Gallas and not getting Kos/Squillaci would have SAVED us money, spending £5k to send Vermaelen to the specialist two days after he did his achilles would probably have seen him back 3 months ago. Chamakh, huge waste of 4mil.
Sorry but the money argument is rubbish, if it was valid we'd never have won a title or a cup under "early Wenger" as we'll call that old guy who used to be in charge.
When I look at the tactics, the formation, the starting line up, the subs, the motivation everything, Wenger made mistakes or got them flat out wrong against Brum, Utd, Barca..... those decisions have cost us 3 cups, against one rubbish team, one team who was in poor form and Barca who weren't playing well till we decided to show up with two injured players, a retard, and a few jokers at the back.
Honest to god, what manager do you think would have played Diaby against Barca, or after that shocking performance against UTd in our last big shot at a cup/title this year? I can't think of ANY other manager that utterly stupid.
As for stubborn, is Wenger really stubborn, if you go and look up footage of the way we played against ANYONE 6 years ago, vs games against the top 6 this season, its really the same football, not even close. The problem is Wenger did use to be stubborn, it was all out attack or nothing, and we won things, that is NOT what we play anymore, its not even close, since he changed we've won nothing and not come close except in the mickey mouse cup no other top teams try hard in.
