Wengeritis is Rampant, with Wenger NOT Pushing Arsenal Forward

When will it end?

How long will Arsenal fans continue down a very similar road that's not really leading to any new and greater pastures. The match against Liverpool, which was a big one and at their cribb again proved how Wenger doesn't even CONSIDER having an alternative plan....even when the match is not going in his team's favor.


I already ranted on my video review as to how incredibly mind-boggling it was that Wenger would start with Ramsey on the wing ahead of one of the best wingers in the league. That in itself is just so odd that I'm not sure if there are any words to fully illustrate what a nonsensical move that was. My focus is really on Wenger the man and his current mentality and how that is really harming Arsenal more than any good it may be doing the club.

When a manager puts his team out, of course he wants them to play in his style that they have trained on time and time again during practice. So when the referee blows his whistle, the manager is looking to see that everyone is fulfilling the roles that they have been taught during all those weeks of training. But there are times when that strategy may not necessarily be working for you. So you are given a choice just like Morpheus with the red and blue pill, to either carry on with the same tactic you have worked in the hopes your team will somehow turn it around or you actually make an adjustment in order to combat your opponent and get yourself in the game. The best managers use the latter option. Those that use the former have incredible teams with incredible players that they know more or less will get it done. Just like with Pep and Barcelona, he knew that as long as he had Messi on the pitch, he could stick with his philosophy and they would have a very good chance of pulling out a win.


I cannot remember the last time that I actually saw Wenger come out of his technical area and start shouting orders at his players and make adjustments. I really don't think I can recall when he made a substitution that would change the shape of the team and the manner in which they would play. Arsene has fallen into this strange vortex of giving his players a set of rules and NO MATTER WHAT, even if they are getting outplayed and their rear-ends handed to them on a steaming player, they will stick by that philosophy. This would work if Arsenal had the best players in the world, but surely Wenger must know that he does not have most gifted bunch in the world. There are some very good players like the OX who for some reason is not good enough to start a game like Liverpool. But they are not of the level in which they can doggedly stick to one philosophy and expect to win a league title like that.



As I was watching Arsenal throughout the Liverpool game, I was just shaking my head and cursing to myself.
Arsenal just kept on playing in the same manner, playing the same balls, being as open as two grand-canyons and there was no sense of structure, or trying to tighten things up or perhaps changing the way in which they attacked. Liverpool seemed to just have more of an unpredictable way of how they came forward as opposed to Arsenal who just seemed far too obvious. The worst thing is that this has been going on for the last four or five years and it has not yet yielded a league win. Not that they have been close in previous years and just fallen short, they have been well off the top prize which again begs the question...for a team that once finished a season unbeaten and have won numerous trophies in England, why the HELL wouldn't the manager try and make changes to get them back to the top?!











So many fans have called for Wenger to leave, but once they get a good win, then all is forgotten...until they have another bad loss. There needs to be one united and definite voice. If Arsenal want to just continue to just be a team that is always respectable and just participates in the league and Champions League, then Wenger is definitely the right man for the job and he should stay at the club for life. If Arsenal want to move forward and realistically challenge Chelsea and City for the title and try and make an impact in the Champions League, then managers like De Boer and Laudrup have to be looked at as these are the next generation of tacticians who understand today's game. Wenger, I'm afraid, may be out of touch and we all know that adage of the older you are, the more stubborn you get. I am no way near up in years as Wenger, but I already feel that I am more adamant of being stuck in my own ways the older I get. Wenger is not going to change, and the more people force him to alter his ways the more passionately he will stick by what he feels is the right direction that he's taking Arsenal in.


Arsenal fans...I want ONE consistent voice. It's getting annoying with all the flip-flopping and change of attitude based on short-term success. If you guys want to get back to being the best team in the Premier League, then Wenger has to move on and someone with new, fresh and radical ideas that can get the best out a very talented football team in Arsenal will be needed in order for this to all come to fruition. But we all know how this story ends, there will be highs and lows, calls for Wenger to leave, banners, and maybe some dude trying to climb through Wenger's bathroom window when he brushes his teeth. At the end of it all, Wenger will be manager next season and the cycle will continue yet again.



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