• Arsefan101

  Can I cry now?

• JAT

  Too soon, Dev! Too soon

• azharie

  this team is weak and shit. why arsene is so damn shit stubborn and never learn shit. sorry for the angry comment.

• Kiki

  I don’t know what to say or do right now.

• derk

  Wenger is an economist or has a degree in economics or some such shit. If you
  look at the way he always talks up the stats (apparently Legohead was one of the
  best midfielders in Engerland because his pass completion stats were so high –
  never mind that 99% of his passes were fucking useless 5 yard sideways passes
  )
  and if you look at the way we play tippy tappy you can see that Wenger’s
  obsession with stats is choking us to death.

  We make so many pointless
  little passes of 5 and 10 yards sideways, backwards and sideways again between
  players under no pressure and very seldom pick out the defence-splitting
  decisive pass. It’s like we are trying to accumulate enough pass-completed stats
  for Wenger to point at in press conferences…

  “We had 70% possession, and made 525 passes, but were
  a leetle unlucky, maybe 21% unlucky in the final third… blah blah blah”

  He is obsessed with stats, with numbers. He’s obsessed with quantity to
  the detriment of quality, like all economists.

• pary

  winning trophies is EVERYTHING – that is, if the intention is to remain a Big
  Club. If Arsenal were a small club (no offence, but let’s say Fulham) then
  staying in PL would be enough, and qualifying for CL would be remarkable. But we
  are not Fulham, we are Arsenal. It’s the same for ALL Big Clubs. By definition:
  a Big CLub is one with a cabinetful of trophies, a chestful of medals. Many may
  have been won in the recent past (like Arsenal) or in the more distant past
  (like Everton, Villa) but without them they would not have the history, the
  tradition, the following and fanbase which constitute a Big Club. That is why
  the regime’s tightwad financial policy is a policy of mediocrity, suited to a
  small club, not Arsenal.

• worldofarsenal

  The answer is to buy. We won’t get anywhere with this group. I don’t know how we got to this stage and the problem is, I don’t think Arsene does either.

• fredrick

  Wenger has created a squad with so few genuine threatening options
  that he has been left with little choice but to tire his players out.
  Mikel Arteta and Santi Cazorla in particular look knackered, and if
  they’re spent 14 games into the league season then it is Wenger’s fault –
  it is responsibility to either ensure they have more rest or that
  they’re fit enough in the first place. It seems like Wenger is running
  out of excuses.

  Stability is often regarded as a virtue in football, an idea that I
  have my doubts about, not least because with stability can often come
  stagnation. Wenger’s tactical approach is evidence of this – in the 16
  years he has been at the club, with the odd variation he has basically
  used two formations; the 4-4-2 that served him well in the early years,
  and then the 4-2-3-1 implemented to get the best out of Cesc Fabregas.
  The best long-serving managers adapt and change, the most obvious
  example being Sir Alex Ferguson, who (perhaps under influence from
  various assistants) has experimented with just about every system going
  in recent years. There was talk that Wenger was toying with a 3-5-2 last
  month (something that, with the players in their squad, does make some
  sense), but this has yet to appear on the pitch.

  What Wenger traditionally does well seems to be disappearing too.
  ArseBlog, another excellent Gooner fan site, made the point that Michu,
  the man who won Saturday’s game for Swansea, is exactly the sort of
  signing that Wenger used to make – cheap, a little under the radar but
  hugely effective. Admittedly, ‘under the radar’ is more difficult to
  achieve than it was even ten years ago, but the point remains.

  Wenger seems to be a manager relying on tomorrow for everything to
  come good. His reliance on youth is perhaps the best example of this,
  but if you wanted one player to sum it all up, then I give you Abou
  Diaby. While clearly a fine player, Diaby has only made nine league
  appearances (five starts) in the past season and a half, and yet still
  Wenger talks about how good the team will be once he returns. A more
  ruthless manager would have cut his losses and discarded Diaby long ago,
  instead of living for the day when he’ll be fit forever. Tomorrow
  doesn’t seem to be coming any quicker.

  One of the reasons he has to rely on tomorrow is that his best
  players keep leaving. And one thing that should be noted is that none of
  Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie have
  taken their decisions lightly. All have an emotional connection to both
  Wenger and Arsenal, but all, having considered the cold facts, chose to
  leave. They did so because they had a better chance of real success
  elsewhere.

  And then perhaps we arrive at the thing that could actually do for
  Wenger. The problem with placing so much emphasis on qualifying for the
  Champions League is that if they no longer manage it, then he’s left
  with little to back himself up. This is Arsenal’s worst start to a
  season since he arrived, and the prospect of them finishing outside the
  top four is very real. What then? Wenger will have lost his best
  defence, and Arsenal will be without a vital source of money. While
  Wenger did turn things around last season, something’s definitely
  seriously awry this time. If, at the end of the season, Wenger has not
  achieved his stated goal, it must surely be time.

  Finally, if you want to be really reductive about it, he hasn’t won a
  trophy since 2005. For a club like Arsenal, that’s not good enough.

• Syahkoala

  i think we need to come to terms that, we SUCK! My gooner mates Ludin and Ah Yie
  are being disillusioned by Wenger into thinking that we’re world
  beaters! that’s a fart and a half! blimey, we can’t even beat a League 2
  side (no disrespect to Bradford). I kiss my arsenal watch daily, but now i just feel like dumping it. FML.

• yemi

  Very true, sad but very true

• yemi

  i started crying years ago

• yemi

  Wish, pray, hope for better days…… They are not here yet tho!

• yemi

  What i hate most is the fact that some people still try to justify the loss by saying bradford won their 3 previous matches by penalties or the won 9 of the last 9 penalties they were involved in (not sure of the stat).

  That is bull crap! why should it get to penalties in the first place?

  Celsea, city, united, spurs would have beaten that bradford team comfortably by as much as 4 goals or more….

  This is pathetic and appaling and i am crestfallen, heartbroken, ashamed and embarrassed by the result.

  We scored a lot of goals but conceded too many, wenger shores up the defense and sells off the attack. where is the sense in that? now we are conceding fewer goals but we are not scoring either…….

  Out sleek midfield is gone, we can no longer hold on to possession. we sold off song and put arteta in DM postion.

  If wenger doesn’t spend big dis january (which i doubt), then i will finally agree that he has lost the plot.

  Do you see any player in that team that can motivate the guys? we seem to be ending players careers these days. or groom and sell. chamack was doing well, santos, park chu , arshavin, even arteta in everton, now they look like shadows……

  Permit my ranting because i am actully confuse with the whole setup.

• derk

  I have a recurring nightmare, a dreadful dream which wakes me in a cold
  sweat: STANLEY IS IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL! It’s been almost an article of faith
  with me that as soon as Stanley saw a healthy profit, he would sell off his
  shares and depart like a thief in the night. I am not so sure any more. Far from
  it. For the greatest enigma of all hidden in the smokescreen surrounding the
  Emirates is Stanley himself. Actually, not just here, but over there, too. What
  motivates him? Nobody knows. He is a business man whose business is sports
  franchises – and yet he claims he has never taken a cent out of any of them.
  This seventeen years after acquiring his first? If not profit, then perhaps
  glory? No evidence of that, not a scrap – the trophy record of his sports
  outfits is mediocre to say the least. Publicity, personal profile? On the
  contrary, he’s almost as reclusive as Howard Hughes. A move onto the political
  stage eventually? Not a chance, who would vote for him. Expensive toys for him
  to play with? But he doesn’t play with them, his henchmen do. So it must be
  profit, right? And that’s when my nightmare starts up: LONG TERM profit. Heaven
  help us!

• worldofarsenal

  It’s a tough period for all of us – the question is – does Arsene realise it or not?
  Is he hurting just as much as we are?

  The problem is of course, he was responsible for bringing the likes of Chamakh, , Gervinho etc to the club – so when they are not performaning or clearly rubbish, what do you do about it? You have to point the finger at the manager, don’t you?

• worldofarsenal

  Faith in Arsene until the end of the season?

• lernerr

  I honestly feel that the fact Wenger STILL has not resigned from his position
  shows how selfish and arrogant he really is. I completely understand that the
  board feel like they cannot sack him. The man has done wonders for the club.
  Saking the man would be completely and utterly dis-respectful. Therefore, it is
  his responsibility to take that upon himself. All I ever hear is how much Wenger
  loves Arsenal. How he has Arsenal in his heart etc etc. Well then, if he really
  does love Arsenal as much as people claim, then he will step down and allow this
  club to appoint someone else. The reason he won’t resign is down to his
  arrogance and self-centreness. The man is being paid an absolute fortune. A
  FORTUNE. He always said that if the time ever came that he honestly believed
  that he could no longer do the job, he would step down. That was obviously a
  lie.

• lernerr

  arsene said he the cash for two players in the window, do people really
  think that all our trouble can be solved with two players?

  Theo’s going, Diabys perma injured, Chamakh is probably going or if not
  is next to useless as is Gervinho. Arshavin looks like he’s going and
  again if not arsene won’t pick him anyway for some reason.

  That’s without the players that are in the team and don’t look interested like podolski.

  It needs a complete overhaul And I just don’t see arsene or the board
  have the appetite for that, something is wrong at the club when we have
  so many decent players under performing week in week out and adding
  maybe one or two more average players to the mix whilst losing probably
  another 2 or 3 just can’t see it making a huge difference.

  It wasn’t about losing at Bradford that was worrying that can happen to
  any club and has in the past, the worrying thing was not shot in target
  until the 70 minute and its been the lack of chances up front most of
  the season that is going to kill us.

  And our answer is to play Gervinho at center forward and leave Ramsey to
  get slaughtered on the wing when the poor kid is already suffering from
  confidence issues. Frightening stuff it really is..

• kiki

  Aye, faith in ARSENAL!

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