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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/03/16/the-arsene-wenger-referendum-should-he-stay-as-arsenal-manager/
Jonathan Liew: (Wenger should) Stay
No. Of course not. Are you absolutely nuts? You can see why Arsenal fans are desperate for a change: no fan in their 20s or younger can really remember a time before Wenger, and at a time when Pep Guardiolas and Jurgen Klopps are flying around the shop, there’s always a lascivious curiosity about the other futures you might have had, let alone the other futures that present themselves now.
It’s a very, very bad idea. Don’t do it. Deep down – and I’m speaking to the vast majority of Arsenal fans here – you love Wenger. Admit it. You love him really. You love his style, his charm, his sense of humour, his principles, his Renaissance fixation with beauty. You love the cheeky little glint in his eye when you’re winning, you love the way every defeat cuts him even deeper than it cuts you. You love that he shoved Jose Mourinho. You love that he’s not Jose Mourinho.But this doesn’t have to be a decision taken on sentiment – although, frankly, there are far worse things you can base a decision on. Arsenal, more than any club in the… world, probably? – is Wenger’s club. Everything from the beds at the hotels where they stay on away trips, to the length of the grass on the training pitches, to the food they serve in the canteen, is tailored to his preference. There are 11-year-old kids in the academy who are being coached to play football exactly the way Wenger wants. You can sack Wenger in an instant, but it’ll take years before you actually get rid of him.
If you genuinely want shot of him, it needs to be a managed transition over a number of years. Slowly roll out the rug from under his shoes. Start by bulking up your contacts in European football, both agents and coaches. Work out how you’re going to do transfer deals without him. Take back the youth academy, bring in one or two younger executives on the football side. Then, just as he spots what’s happening and starts to kick up a fuss, make a naked appeal to his ego: to his shock and surprise, you unveil a giant statue of him outside the Emirates, in front of the newly-renamed Arsène Wenger stand on the newly-renamed Wenger Road. As you do that, slip an arm around his shoulder and tell him he has a job for life at the club, but you’re appointing Roger Schmidt on a three-year contract.
The Alex Ferguson parallel is flawed for a number of reasons, but Wenger’s not exactly Brian Clough either. He’s not going to get Arsenal relegated any time soon. He’s not even going to finish fifth any time soon. I’m not going to patronise Arsenal fans by telling them they should be happy with fourth place, but make a clean break with Wenger now and you invite nothing less than total and lasting unhappiness. And really, isn’t that what it’s all about? Win or lose, Arsenal make you happy. And Wenger, loath as you may be to admit, makes you happy too.
Prime_Evil wrote:welp we lost what a surprise , but it was only 1-0, plus it could be 1-1 if the referee had called penalty on Lahm for stopping the ball with his arm but whatever.
RollsRoyce wrote:Prime_Evil wrote:welp we lost what a surprise , but it was only 1-0, plus it could be 1-1 if the referee had called penalty on Lahm for stopping the ball with his arm but whatever.
Except that it wasnt a penalty -However it could have been 1-1 anyway