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BlinkyBear

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Shit performance all round really. Ozil has been ok, Monreal fine going forward, but other than that it's almost as if Weng has sent them out scared to lose. We look devoid of ideas and positionally all over the place. How they scored two like that I've no idea. Awful half. 

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The Fox

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55 minutes ago, Charliemouse said:

Don't you even dare think about it :)

 

Oh yeah I can really see Levy entertaining that one...

 

It's true though. I mean on an individual level how many Spurs players get into the Arsenal team? Arguably just Alderweireld and Kane. But look how much better they function as a unit.

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6 hours ago, davidcotton said:

Mourinho?

 

If it wasn't for the manner of his combustion this season, I'd say that he would be the answer. Trying to find the perfect successor to Ferguson was a mess, as much as Van Gaal hasn't been ideal, it's clear that a massively experienced manager won't get intimidated into respecting a legacy. Hoofing it to Fellaini cost Moyes his job, Van Gaal does that and worse and has got away with it for longer because he doesn't give a fuck that isn't "the way". Mourinho for two years, then Bergkamp/(Insert Other Artisan Here) would have been my preferred option.

 

If he'd left Chelsea as he left Real Madrid, doing OK but not at the top and having to go due to relationships, I'd say go for it. Leaving because he picked a fight with a popular physio...It's just embarrassing. Ignoring him, I don't know who else is around. Simeone would fit with not getting overburdened with respect, but I'm not sure he'd get trophies in the process. 

 

If I was in charge, I'd fire Wenger today though, honestly. If we'd bought any top level player, in any position, either in the summer or even better in January we'd have won the league. That was literally all it would have taken. Even if he broke his leg three weeks after the window closed, it would have given a surge of "we're actually going for this" and that would have been enough. Instead we bought a guy who apparently is trusted less than bloody Flamini because he might help us get fourth in 4 years.

 

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The Fox

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Honestly can't believe any Arsenal fan would want that prick at the club. I just find that completely barmy.

 

If you want us to play like snide bastards with godawful football that gets results, hire Simeone. At least he hasn't spent a decade making personal attacks on our current manager.

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I'd take Mourinho in a heartbeat.  He's a winner unlike Wenger who's a joke.  I'd much rather win ugly than bottle it & lose when it matters in an annoyingly regular frequency.

 

You seem to forget that we won ugly for many years under George Graham which brought us enormous success.  We've even got a song about it!  "One nil to the Arsenal".  You always knew that when we went 1-0 up we would shut the back door and grind out a win.  We have been incapable to grafting for about 12 years because the squad is full of spineless players who don't have a winning mentality and who are led by a has-been who's nothing more than a front-man for the board.

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I don't have anything against winning ugly, or pragmatic results-based football. Like I said, if that's what you want then get Simeone in. But if you're hoping to convince me that we should hire a sociopathic cunt who has made repeated unprovoked personal attacks on Arsenal's longest-serving and most successful manager of all time, I'm afraid it won't work. I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

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Cappuccino Kid

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Arseblog nails it:

 

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It will now take something of a miracle to win this title. I can’t see it happening. Obviously, OBVIOUSLY, I hope it happens, but realistically I don’t believe it will. I don’t believe a team that plays like that yesterday can be champions, and I don’t think a manager who presides over a performance like that can guide this team to the top of the table at the end of May.

 

It then raises the question as to what happens if we don’t win this title. What should happen, I think, is that Arsenal Football Club look at this underachievement this season and make a decision that this inability to challenge – especially now that the financial shackles are off – is repetitive and chronic, and find a new man to take charge.

I say that, by the way, as somebody who likes and respects Arsene Wenger a great deal, and can’t abide the abuse, but if he can’t win the title this year, I don’t think he can win it again. Making that decision won’t be easy, in fact I think it could be the start of a hugely tumultuous period for the club, as we’ve seen elsewhere when the legacy manager finally makes way.

 

That’s what should happen, but what will happen is a very different thing. What will happen is nothing. 

 

I love Arsene Wenger, and not only because he brought us tremendous success in the early years of his reign, but also because I genuinely think he was the right man for the job in those years when finances were tight. He is a decent, moral man who cares for the football club he works at more than he cares for this own cv, and that is incredibly rare in top level football.

 

But - barring a miraculous turnaround in the next couple of months - surely we're at the end of the road. When you see the same problems manifested across entirely different squads, you have to look at the common factor, and that is Arsene Wenger. At some point the club is going to have to confront life without him, and that difficult process is being delayed to no real benefit. There's no shame in the fact that he can't work wonders at Arsenal the way it once did - stay in a job long enough, and such inertia is almost impossible to avoid. But this team -  and this club - should be achieving more, and sadly we can only do that with someone else.

 

But not Mourinho, obviously. Good Christ, no.

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11 minutes ago, The Fox said:

I don't have anything against winning ugly, or pragmatic results-based football. Like I said, if that's what you want then get Simeone in. But if you're hoping to convince me that we should hire a sociopathic cunt who has made repeated unprovoked personal attacks on Arsenal's longest-serving and most successful manager of all time, I'm afraid it won't work. I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

 

All his comments about Wenger have been true though!  "Specialist in failure" was my personal favourite. 

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