NZgunner
03-01-2014, 08:47 PM
I remember all the good times from the late 1990s, and boy they were good - you were the man to reinvigorate my club, and you did it in style. Thank you.
But I also remember the glorious days of George and the magical night at Anfield in 1989, and his awkward fall from grace a few years later - so I know that the club is always bigger than the manager.
Jose Mourinho is a boorish, classless c*nt, but his snipe that you have become a specialist in failure caused a huge reaction in large part because many of us know it is true - we just didn't like hearing an outsider say it.
As this year's title challenge (a generous way to describe something that has effectively ended at the beginning of March) evaporates before our eyes (the false dawn of a good mid-season run, entirely off the back of relatively easy fixtures - just look at our remianing games compared with Chelsea's), and we dig in for another struggle for the top 4, surely you can see that you aren't the man for us any more - my club deserves better than you can offer.
Your persistence with Arteta as the primary DM (especially in the last 2 seasons), the one dimensional flat track bully of Giroud up front, and the cringeworthy emasculation and demoralisation of Mezut Ozil are all damning indictments of your inability to build a genuine title challenging team.
I haven't seen another Arsenal manager be so unsuccessful for so long, and I grit my teeth at the twisted logic of success being CL qualification - this season, I'd rather finish 5th, 6th or 7th than 4th.
A definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result - and this is what top 4 has become for Arsenal. We expect it to be the stepping stone for future success, but it hasn't, year after year after year. Liverpool have shown what a club with similar resources to ours can do without CL (or even EL) football - 4th place finishes are a mirage when you have no chance of winning the competition you qualify for.
For the sake of my club, please leave us Arsene - and don't hang around to influence the environment for your successor. I want a younger and more dynamic man like Roberto Martinez to take my team forwards - I don't want you and your stubborn old ideas to hold us back any more.
But I also remember the glorious days of George and the magical night at Anfield in 1989, and his awkward fall from grace a few years later - so I know that the club is always bigger than the manager.
Jose Mourinho is a boorish, classless c*nt, but his snipe that you have become a specialist in failure caused a huge reaction in large part because many of us know it is true - we just didn't like hearing an outsider say it.
As this year's title challenge (a generous way to describe something that has effectively ended at the beginning of March) evaporates before our eyes (the false dawn of a good mid-season run, entirely off the back of relatively easy fixtures - just look at our remianing games compared with Chelsea's), and we dig in for another struggle for the top 4, surely you can see that you aren't the man for us any more - my club deserves better than you can offer.
Your persistence with Arteta as the primary DM (especially in the last 2 seasons), the one dimensional flat track bully of Giroud up front, and the cringeworthy emasculation and demoralisation of Mezut Ozil are all damning indictments of your inability to build a genuine title challenging team.
I haven't seen another Arsenal manager be so unsuccessful for so long, and I grit my teeth at the twisted logic of success being CL qualification - this season, I'd rather finish 5th, 6th or 7th than 4th.
A definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result - and this is what top 4 has become for Arsenal. We expect it to be the stepping stone for future success, but it hasn't, year after year after year. Liverpool have shown what a club with similar resources to ours can do without CL (or even EL) football - 4th place finishes are a mirage when you have no chance of winning the competition you qualify for.
For the sake of my club, please leave us Arsene - and don't hang around to influence the environment for your successor. I want a younger and more dynamic man like Roberto Martinez to take my team forwards - I don't want you and your stubborn old ideas to hold us back any more.