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Well back in the day were many fans calling for Wenger when he came in? Or were Man U fans calling for Fergie back in the 80s? A manager doesn't need to be out of a job or a big name to be a target! I would love to see The Special One and that could happen, although Spurs will be after him too!
My problem with Wenger is that he refuses to admit that his way of doing things is wrong, and he is still saying the sky is pink and not blue!
IF he said that he is happy for us to be a top 8 club, and that we would always look to raise more cash than we spend fair enough. But he is deluded to think we can still go for trophies with the squad we have. He thinks his transfer strategy is sound. He ballsed up big time - he should of planned on Nasri and Cesc going and not resorted to panic buying on deadline day.
Managers will always get things wrong - the trick is to make a mistake and learn from it. Wenger is making the same mistakes all the time, maybe its ego, but he thinks he can do no wrong yet the club is in a state. Who do we have that the other big clubs would want? RVP obviously, Ox, Wilshire certainly,maybe Vermaelen and keeper but thats it. Players like Gervinho, Rosicky, Djorou,Park would not even get into the likes of Newcastle!!!
We have been declining over the years, he is doing the same thing so we will continue to decline. If you are happy with that, fine, but I want to see our manager getting some basics right first. I see no evidence to suggest we can be an established top 4 club like we were so would it harm to change?
But Wenger and Fergie are pretty rare finds, whilst they've escalated clubs to huge success hundreds of managers have been and gone with nothing remarkable to speak of. It's not realistic to expect us to just pluck some nobody off the street and have them return us to the success of 8ish years ago. If we use that tactic we might go through 5 or 10 managers before we get anybody approaching the skill that a top flight club requires to succeed.
If you look at our squad and consider the extent of the injuries we've suffered - almost solely to our defensive line which can only compound the devastation they've caused - and compare it with other teams in the league we're actually far weaker than an awful lot of them yet we're holding the 4th spot despite having no where near the 4th strongest team. Compare us with Chelsea's team which is massively under achieving for the talent they have, and Liverpool who similarly are under performing with greater players than we have and his achievement looks a little less terrible. That's not a complete defence of him though, since he's allowed the team to deteriorate from a league topping side to one that is only good enough for mid-table obscurity but he's only partly culpable for the lack of spending as it's the club and owners money he'd be spending and they can instruct or prevent that from happening.
My point is I can only think of one guy that could manage our club who has any sort of record for us to expect a reasonable performance from and that's Mourinho and he isn't exactly freely available although there has been speculation over his future. Anyone else would be a monumental risk and how do you judge their performance? It's not like we can spend £100m in the transfer window with a new manager and suddenly expect to win, that sort of overhaul takes time and there will be bumps and failings along the way. All this calling for Wenger's sacking just seems very ill-conceived and short sighted. I'm not saying he's perfect, the best manager for us, or that he isn't responsible, at least in part, for our decline over recent years, it's just that I don't see any feasible alternative that doesn't represent an unprecedented risk that couldn't leave us drastically worse off than we already are.