The situation is crazy at the moment, it's not *just* three games into the season, this has been building for years. I think every single season since 2005 we've been saying next year is our year, next year is our year but it never happens. We came close to winning the title I think it was 2006 and ever since then we've been a shadow of our former selves.
Looking at the teams today the interesting stat was they both had an average age of 22, Man Utd have gone about it exactly the right way, you keep your spine of experienced players and you supplement them with youngsters who can grow into a starting place and who can learn off the old, wise heads. The way we have been doing it for the past 5 or 6 years in absolutely NOT the way to do it, sell your best players, don't replace them with equal quality, sign 15 year olds who might be good someday, possibly, maybe, it's pathetic. Sure Fergie has overspent in my opinion on a couple of his summer signings but to get players who are proven in this league you have to spend over the odds. Wenger needs somebody to tell him straight, our policy isn't working, if anything we're just becoming a feeder club for other clubs around us which considering we're Arsenal Football Club is a ridiculous position to be in.
On the pitch today we should have had the likes of Henry, Ljungberg, Vieira, Gallas, they could have been the spine and while they may be past it in terms of physicality they are still very much with it mentally, only then do you add some youngsters around them. Who are our players learning off exactly? Who is Gibbs learning from? Who are our central midfielders learning from now that Fabregas is gone? Who are our defenders learning from because whoever it is they need to be shot. The way the back four defended today was absolutely shocking to say the least. How many times did Djourou leave Jenkinson in no mans land with his ridiculous attempts to play the offside trap? Also how many times was Jenkinson up at the Man Utd corner flag, he's a ****ing right back, stay in your position, show a bit of defensive discipline.
We could talk about the negative points of today's game forever, and it isn't just todays result which has annoyed so many of us, it's the results for the past 5 years, we've given Wenger ridiculous amounts of patience and even though he has done some very good work for us in the past, it was exactly that... in the past and we need to move on with ourselves. Our rivals aren't living in 2003/2004 anymore and neither should we be.
We DESPERATELY need to switch tactics, this tippy tappy rubbish just isn't working, I'm not saying let's go all Big Sam or anything but seriously, sometimes someone just needs to hit a long ball, sometimes somebody just needs to hoof it out of our box instead of making a tappy little 5 yard pass, sometimes players just need to man the **** up, take some responsibility and step up to the plate, but how are they meant to do that when they've got nobody to learn off apart from other 19 year olds and day after day they're being trained by Wenger who has clearly completely lost the plot.
I said I'd give him until the end of the season, at this rate we'll be languishing in the relegation zone, we've become an absolute joke and the rest of the league is laughing at us. We need a completely new core to the side, we need to add some experienced heads, we need to alter our system to make the best use of our players, in no world is RVP a lone striker and in no world should Walcott be played out wide where he's useless. The thing is it's become clear that Wenger needs someone to line up some transfer targets for him because we're crying out for defensive and central additions to the squad and he's off signing another 5 striker wingers.
Something needs to be done urgently and I'm fast losing my patience with the man, like I said he's done some amazing things for the club, things that the fans will be eternally grateful for, but that was in the past and this is the present.
