The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[bananaking21]

LurkerJ said:

bananaking21 said:

yes, he is good at it. because his job is apperantly to achieve mediocre results, at best case scenario. the board at arsenal are just as bad Wenger, because they only care about profits by reaching the Champions League. only to get knocked out at the first knock out stage. 

he isnt bloody good at being a successfull manager, he is bloody good at failing at it. 

not to the big clubs it isnt. 

Arsenal hasn't had big stars in their team until Ozil and Sanchez. You could argue that they should be winning now but not before that, unless you go back to the time when they had Henry and Dennis Bergkamp. In between, expectations weren't as high. Finishing in the top 4 was great giving the extremely young talent he had to work with. Imo, Arsenal needs a better striker to do better in all competitions. 

Don't forget the business side of things, Man U, for example, is £380m in debt. Arsenal isn't.

they didnt have any talent because they refused to buy. they could have opted to buy big stars after they reached the 2006 CL Final, Arsenal were a big team then. but it was wengers decision to focus on young players, its fantastic how people claim he is a great coach, when his decisions and managment dragged down expectations from winning major trophies, to being happy finishing at 4th.