Different Season, Same Result
Wenger’s stubbornness is hindering Arsenal
Well well well, here I am again. Despite looking forward to watching my team play after a boring International break I’m here wishing the break had gone on a little longer now after viewing that pathetic display.
I have the utmost respect for Arsene Wenger and all he’s done for the club, but it needs to be accepted that he just cannot take us to the next level.
Unfortunately the board more or less admitted at the AGM meeting that they’re spineless and what Wenger says goes.
We’re so predictable it hurts. Hit us on the break, park the bus and you get a result. Yes you do that to most top teams but it will nearly always be executed against us in particular.
The referee had a forgettable performance, there’s no doubt about that but it’s the same culprits costing us points again, Per Mertesacker and Mathieu Flamini.
Even when Flamini was tugged he still had more control of the ball than Mohamed Diame, yet he just stopped and expected the whistle to blow while Hull went and equalised. Someone of his experience should really be dealing with that situation then having a moan at the ref later.
I didn’t just want a new defender because we need more depth there; I wanted a competent one so we can gradually phase Mertesacker out of the team. He’s been solid for a while but his lack of pace is a massive hindrance as we can’t press high up because of the protection he needs.
Then one of the situations he’s supposed be adept in, he got beaten in the air by Abel Hernandez. He’s pushing 30 now anyway and why we didn’t get another younger defender is beyond me.
Mertesacker was beaten in the air as Hull took the lead
Flamini and Mertesacker coincidentally occupy the two positions we needed to improve in the summer but, as always, Arsene Wenger ignores that and chooses to risk seeing us get by.
The man has unfortunately lost his hunger and brains, his stubbornness is unbelievable, how he has neglected the need for a proper midfield powerhouse since Alex Song left is a joke. Having to play Nacho Monreal at centre-back is also laughable.
This 4-3-3 formation just hasn’t worked at all, not only have we been getting poor results but we’ve produced our most drab football in years. He just ignorantly refuses to change it and we’ll continue to suffer for it.
In terms of player performances, Alexis Sanchez is looking like the real deal and combines well with Danny Welbeck. Jack Wilshere seems sharp. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had a day to forget but should’ve started wide right. Hector Bellerin coped well too.
We have all the potential to challenge any team in the world but we need a couple of tweaks. A few key additions and a new head coach.
Ignore key positions in the market, lose all big games away, struggle with injuries whilst not even having the depth to deal with it, then finally develop a decent run-in to gloriously snatch fourth, then get told it’s the springboard to bigger and better things the following season.
Then repeat the process.
Subomi Oguntoyinbo
I am Subomi. An Arsenal supporter throughout my lifetime currently in my early 20’s. I am a graduate of West London’s Met Film School and an aspiring screenwriter. I do like to write about various topics that interest me and that tends to swing towards matters concerning Arsenal, it’s a passion of mine.
I was born and raised in North London, moved out to Essex but I am now back in North London for university of course.
Subo, you need to have a lion heart to be n Arsenal supporter. I have never seen a Man that lacks ambition like Wenger in my life. He thinks the rest of Premier league teams will be waiting for him to always come through with his thoughts and patters before he wakes up from his slumber. Mourinho has studied the man, to the extent that he has no respect for him because of his behavior. Wenger has brought untold pain and heartbreak to millions of supporters of Arsenal around the globe. Repeating the same process every year and expecting a different result is a definition of madness. Arsenal board and Wenger have made themselves the laughing stock of the football world. It breaks my heart as a supporter, but it is painful to admit, that with Wenger in charge, the club will never win the EPL again. He is dam-right stupid.
The big german may be able to read the game but he is a liability. In a one on one he is easily
beaten. Goals have resulted from this.
Wenger better get a more mobile cf not some cumbersome guy.If not the gunners
will further retard.
Stop complaining and do what man utd fans did to moyes, fly a banner with the word wenger and kroenke out!!
yes! enough of bitter-painful complait,there is only one solution,fly different banners at the emirate calling for resignation of both kroeke and stubborn wenger.
Lets just get behind our team arsenal fans. most of u moaning like children who dont get what they want for christmas is just depressing me now. The season is long. Lets just encourage our boys and get behind them. Negativity will only backfire on the pitch imo. Be adults not children ffs
When I read this, I thought I had written it myself.