Caporegime
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- 18 Oct 2002
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Who could replace Wenger from 98-2004 without being much worse, no one, who could replace the current Wenger and do better... dozens of managers. Wenger has been completely useless for years in the transfer market but on the pitch, tactically, substitutions, training methods/injury problems.
Seriously I'll go back to the crap cup final we threw away because Wenger insisted on playing a injury carrying Cesc against a highly physical Stoke the game before, which lost us Cesc for the final. That is 100% down to Wenger, he was 100% wrong, very few managers would have thrown away their best player who was carrying an injury on Stoke of all teams, but realistically any game a week before their first final in years. It was nothing short of COMPLETE incompetence, the result, the consequences could be seen a million miles off, I said it before the game, during the game and after Cesc went off injured.
Again in regards to the board.... which memeber of the board would look at giving Diaby a new contract as a good idea, either to save money, or keep a player around Wenger didn't want? THe only explanation is that Wenger wants to keep him, and Wenger keeps banging on in press conferences about how brilliant he is "he plays for France, he's obviously a great player" when asked about Diaby.... yeah because every international player is brilliant, no managers make mistakes, Heskey really was the best striker England could choose, and Crouch.
If it was JUST a few signings and a few mistakes in the transfer market you could begin to maybe question if the board was at fault, when everything at the club is wrong, and Wenger is unquestionably in charge of 90% of those things, blaming anyone but Wenger is ridiculous. Are the board in charge of overtraining the team, keeping the crap players around for years, refusing to change his tactics or methods in a decade while the rest of the world moved on, poor subs, inanely stupid choices like risking Cesc a week before a final.
There is precisely no reason to believe Wenger wasn't behind both the Suarez and Cabaye bid, and there is little reason to believe Mancini wasn't behind most of City's buys, he threw his toys out the pram and played a weekend team and insisted on big purchases last minute, maybe the team went out and bought who they could. Personally I think we've already seen that both Mancini isn't particularly good and that the new manager has the team playing far more effectively, getting more out of the players he has by playing the right formation and squad to suit the players.
