Leaving it a bit late.
Perhaps ozil and Sanchez are waiting to see how this pans out. Not if he stays or goes but want to see who will be the new manager of Wenger goes.
I think it might be the last season for Wenger if this is the case.
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Leaving it a bit late.
Perhaps ozil and Sanchez are waiting to see how this pans out. Not if he stays or goes but want to see who will be the new manager of Wenger goes.
I think it might be the last season for Wenger if this is the case.
Yes, his last one (the one he is currently working to).Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Or one around 2002.
I know LA will correct me.
I'm not sure actually - has always been in the last year of the contract though. I suspect the new one is complete and just waiting a signature. Probably not much negotiating to be doneQuote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I tend to agree it’s a done deal though a few (informed?) sites and if you will “blogs” seem less so. Perhaps they were each time in the past also just I would not have paid any attention.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I suspect timing is key here, we need to be riding on the crest of a string of impressive results for the announcement in an way of almost defending the appointment.
Announcing another 3 years in the aftermath of a defeat at Stamford Bridge or a European exit to Munchen less easy to sell.
Let's just hope he ****s off, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I don't mind if he stays. I try not to get frustrated anymore. It would be odd to see Arsenal without Wenger in charge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
But I am curious to see what a fresh approach would bring to the club. Any new manager would bring in new players but I am curious to see what a different manager could get out of this current squard.
I was thinking about what Wenger has done whilst in the shower this morning. I was thinking of the first Arsenal side I knew, under Bertie Mee and Don Howe. Universally derided as boring because, well, they were. Once we'd scored a goal the opposition might as well have gone home, the game was going to finish 1-0 to The Arsenal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
The first Arsenal team I watched was under Terry O'Neill and Don Howe. This side played as follows: Jennings rolled the ball out to Rice. He squared it to O'Leary. On it went to Young. He passed sideways to Nelson, who knocked it back to Jennings. After 5 or 6 minutes of this the crowd would become restless, so Jennings hoofed it up to Stapleton. At some point during the 90 minutes Stapleton would get his head on something and we'd score. Then usually win 1-0. It was incredibly dull.
Still, along came George Graham who treated us to some exciting, expansive football, until he had a Moscow-induced breakdown and turned us into a team of defensive thuggery. A lot of that time was spent watrching absolute mince.
Rioch wasn't any sort of radical but at least tried to play a little; then along came Arsene, to turn our game into a sort of art form.
We were known as Boring Arsenal for a good 50 years, and for good reason. I'm scared of what might happen when Arsene leaves. We might get a Mourinho-type dullard. :-(
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Originally Posted by Sir C
Indeed, who knows. But therein lies the excitement.
Change should be embraced. Bring it on.
In summary, Wenger out.
Hold on, who the fúck is Terry O'Neill?Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I'm fúcking senile.
A photographer - this might be what you were really thinking about in the shower this morningQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
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What were we like to watch under Billy Wright, la?Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Entertainingly ****, really - relied heavily on Joe Baker. Nothing like as good as Chapman's team. Wright outQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Just checked, we must've been rubbish:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
"Arsenal were unable to improve on their seventh in Wright's first season in charge, and their form gradually declined. Wright won only 38.46% of his matches in charge, the lowest rate for any post-war Arsenal manager (caretaker managers excepted). After a poor 1965–66 season – where Arsenal finished 14th and were knocked out of the FA Cup by Blackburn Rovers (who finished bottom of the First Division) — Wright was dismissed by the Arsenal board in the summer of 1966.
Football writer Brian Glanville, discussing Billy Wright's time at Arsenal, wrote: "he had neither the guile nor the authority to make things work and he reacted almost childishly to criticism"."
They would mix it up, tbf.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Sometimes O'Leary would pass back to Jennings.
His grand-daughter was not very entertaining on the Arsenal podcast I heard her on. Dour, negative, somewhat aloof and uninterested. All the same, she didn't deserve the online abuse/bantz that Marve gave her.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
:hehe: It also struck me what a bunch of double hard bástards they were. I suppose every team was in those days, but a standard challenge from Nelson, Young, Rice or Talbot would be treated as a police matter these days, and Price and Stapleton weren't averse to a knee-high assault if required. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Thank God we sacked him then. Wenger in!Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Bit like now then? Wenger out!Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
They'll have to announce something at some stage, won't they, regardless of any results?Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Do you have a successor in mind?Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Not his fault - Baker's done nothing for years. Not even breathed since 2003Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Storey and Simpson weren't shy of getting in and around the opposition either. Putting down a marker to let them know they were there and so on. Willie Young was in a league of his own, though, ISTR. He rarely seemed interested in the ball at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Like Newcastle under KeeganQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Goalllls !
Paul Allen does not like this :hehe: :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Willie Young made him cry