A Massive 87% Of Arsenal Fans Want Arsene Wenger To Leave

Yesterday I posted an online poll asking a simple question – do you want Arsene Wenger to leave Arsenal? The response, in the wake of the shambolic display against Manchester United, was unsurprising.

87% of Arsenal fans wanted him to leave the club. The comments section wasn’t much better, with the vast majority of Arsenal supporters leaving a scathing review of his time at the club over the last 6 or 7 seasons – many citing the fact that he’s too stubborn, gotten stale and makes the same old mistakes, time and time again.

I love Arsene Wenger, but it’s ridiculous to think anyone can manage forever. There is a culture within the club that believes that without Arsene Wenger, we are nothing. But surely the opposite is true? We are Arsenal Football Club, not Arsene FC.

He has his own ideologies and methods, and that’s fine. But to think that Arsene Wenger is all high and mighty and never makes mistakes would be naive. He is human and even the greatest managers end up failing eventually. Look at Brian Clough for example when he was at Nottingham Forest.

We’ve had 9 years since the FA Cup win in 2005 and since then won one trophy. That is not good enough for a team like Arsenal and the most frustrating thing is he makes the same old mistakes, season after season. It is a vicious circle and we’re forever condemned to be in a world where we finish 4th.

But is 4th place everything?

We’ve had almost a decade of mediocrity and for some fans that’s not enough. For others it’s just getting boring and tedious and for me anyway, it’s just pointless. If you gave me the option to have 4th place for the next 10 seasons, or have an up or down 10 years like Liverpool had in the 2000’s (where they struggled to get into the Top 4 consistently, but won things like the FA Cup and Champions League) I think I would take the topsy-turvy 10 years. At least there’s some variety in the there, some excitement.

4th place every year is dull, boring and a waste of money quite frankly. Yes, we don’t know what the future would hold without Arsene Wenger but isn’t that life? Times change and you cannot keep saying that without Arsene Wenger we would be in big trouble – that is a very narrow-minded view. Life is about risks and at the moment, we’ve settled.

It’s almost like being married to someone who is boring and doesn’t excite you. It’s the same old rigmarole every single day. But with Arsene Wenger, things are actually on a downward spiral.

And I just can’t take anymore.

 

23 thoughts on “A Massive 87% Of Arsenal Fans Want Arsene Wenger To Leave

      • Of course I didn’t. I was responding to your headline that implied you had polled ALL Arsenal fans.
        Naturally people don’t like to see Arsenal not picking up the results some of their play deserves. But lumping recent results to the trophy-less years doesn’t help. The former implies a lack of understanding of the financial restraints, and how Wenger managed to get the team to punch above its weight for that period. The latter implies that people are short-termist’s that just want change, no matter who takes over.
        Having just signed a 3 year deal, and most ‘top’ managers are tied to their current position out of choice, it is unlikely that the board are going to do anything either?
        Despite the number of injuries, and the disappointing results, and lying in 8th spot, we are only 2 points off 4th place??
        We are, for the next 36 hours at least, still in the Champions League, and as the holders of the FA Cup, still in that, and although it will take a miracle to knock Chelsea off the top of the league, we are mathematically still in the race …
        and yet people would happily throw out the manager that delivered the ‘Invincible’ era, for who? Souness? Hoddle? They are both theoretically available?
        Or does it make more sense to support the team, as the players are suffering these results too, and sign up a manager who has integrity, like Klopp, not available until 2016 because he wants to see out his 10 years at Dortmund. Or even an double axis of ex-players Henry and Bergkamp, both steeped in the Arsenal tradition? Or shall we just hire someone this mid-season, sack them in June, hire someone else, and have a revolving door of failed managers?
        Was that part of the poll in question, or was it just a straight ‘In’ or ‘Out’?

         
  1. Of course you are going to get a result like that on this website, you are anti-Wenger and most pro-Wenger readers would have left after realising that the true split is probably closer to 50-50.

    Actually probably slightly in favour of Wenger staying really I would think.

     
        • Right…

          So you speculate that the split is 50-50…

          Then you speculate that people who like Arsene Wenger don’t read this website…

          Fucking hell, you’re just randomly making up useless drivel based on no evidence whatsoever.

           
    • If the true figure is 50-50 then 50% of fans are either blind or stupid. Are you seriously happy that the sum total of our success is our 4th place challenge every year, if so then I question whether you are a fan of Arsenal or a fan of Arsene.

       
  2. “We’ve had almost a decade of mediocrity and for some fans that’s not enough. For others it’s just getting boring and tedious and for me anyway, it’s just pointless. If you gave me the option to have 4th place for the next 10 seasons, or have an up or down 10 years like Liverpool had in the 2000?s (where they struggled to get into the Top 4 consistently, but won things like the FA Cup and Champions League) I think I would take the topsy-turvy 10 years. At least there’s some variety in the there, some excitement.”

    SUMS IT UP PERFECTLY!!! HE HAS KILLED HOPE WHICH IS THE HEART OF A FOOTBALL FAN!!!

     
    • I could not agree more with your comment!

      As you say it would be really pleasant to WIN the big games against the top sides and finish mid table occasionally but get into the top two or three as well instead of losing to them so often!
      Topsy turvey and excitement is a scenario that Arsene just cannot provide.

       
  3. I have been a Gooner for the best part of 50 years and supported the club loyally through good times and bad(particularly the past eight years!).
    I had always thought that Wenger was a very intelligent man but his seemingly utter inability or unwillingness to put in place good defensive tactics and replace the likes of Vermaelen,Sagna and Clichy with tall,physically strong,technically adept defenders the like of which illuminated the Invincibles and the squads between the mid-late 90s up to 2006 does not indicate intelligent thought.
    It may be unpalatable to many? Arsenal fans that I have for the past few years looked back with much yearning to the days of that tactical master George Graham(even though he was a forward) and even to the old one nil victories his teams were(in)famous for.
    What also puzzles me greatly is what Steve Bould’s role is supposed to be,and particularly,how much-if any-Wenger liaises with him or pays much or any attention to what Bould puts forward?
    Could Wenger not be asked to take a seat on the board plus persuading that intractable lot to invite Usmanov and his multi millions to join them? Surely that would satisfy the proud Wenger and go most if not all to assuage his hurt pride and allow a new manager(as near as possible to Koemann)to buy the TOP defenders we need so much.

     
  4. Hey guys very soon we will not be able to attract any of the top players around,as an Arsenal fan I was very offended by what Vincent Kompany said sometime ago regarding the possibility of him joining Arsenal FC,but I then realized that he had a point…Look I’m really sorry to say what I’m about to say, but Arsene Wenger has to go…

     
  5. I agree 100% with this article, so many Arsenal fans are afraid to take a risk …so accept Wenger’s mediocre mentality , ” Finishing 4th is like winning a trophy. ”
    To paraphrase Churchill , ” the only think to fear is fear itself”
    Sooner or later Wenger would leave. Now is as a time as any to make a change. We need some fresh ideas, there are some good managers out there.
    I always to remind GOoners that very few them knew Wenger , before he came to England. Arsene was known in France as a good manager, but he won the league once there, his club Monaco was always in the top 5.
    What I am trying to explain is that Wenger’s early success and winning of trophies were unusual for him. Having been an admire and observer of Wenger’s teams for many years, I suspect that he is more interested in the process, in playing philosophy than the end result.

     
  6. U guys should 4get arguing, wat we are talking about is now is who will support Arsene Wenger 2 stay and who will support Arsene Wenger 2 live. I from me am one of De person that want Arsene Wenger 2 live, becus if De engine is old he should be replace Arsene Wenger has done well @ Arsenal I owe him 4 that. But he should be replace now becus he don tire dat is why all this is happening 2 us this season

     
  7. Its time for Arsene Wenger to gracefully go. He has done ALL he can for the club and we are grateful and mindful of that. But time is up and he CAN’T offer anything else that will elevate the club.

    The longer he stays will ONLY undue all the right things he initially stood for and achieved at the club. So YES, I say PLEASE Arsene, with ALL due respect, don’t step down and remain at the club like Sir Alex Ferguson but rather leave ALTOGETHER.

     
  8. In my previous comment on here I mentioned three former players that I believe we missed very much. However, I regret that I omitted Alex Song the player I believe was responsible for a great deal of the success we had with him in he side. Song had the invaluable presence and skill to be as effective in defence as in attack and Wenger has never replaced him.

     
  9. I think his ideology was right for his time and his tactics we’re spot on against yesteryears style of play. The game has changed and moved on and unfortunately Wenger hasn’t!

     
  10. Dortmund next,defeat then Wba defeat or draw then Southampton defeat then surely he will have to walk ???? Not even the most arrogant dictator can stay beyond such a poor bunch of results.

     
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