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Why is Kroenke now the man to blame? Why would he make our players
Play like a pile of ****.
If I am not mistaken we have made some rather large transfers in the past few years.
The team is being badly managed that's why it's annoying as they are capable of much more. It's like they've replaced with dopplegangers
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Obviously, he is trying to save money on win bonuses. Shrood, imo.
I think the team is actually very well managed; it's just that it's a poor* team the manager has put together.
*Not so good as we'd like.
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All teams have periods of bad form. Some much worse than ours. See Chelsea and United this season.
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As a wild and carefree gambling type, Rich, have you considered a cheeky pound on a
Leicester, Spurs, West Ham and Southampton top four?
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Those three clubs have all won the league recently though
![Oh well](images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif)
And if this discussion isn't about winning the league, then what is it about.
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Our recent form is almost relegation standard..... and considering
we were top of the table when we started our downward spiral it is more obvious than some others..... Man U have been fairly average all season rather than having a dodgy spell.
I still think we will finish outside the top 4
:wave: :wave: AW
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Chelsea who sacked their manager and United who will sack their manager in the summer.
City who have, despite huge success, have decided to upgrade their manager from an affable engineer to the shiniest there is.
This is generally how football rolls now at the very top level which is where we strive to be.
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Nicely done.
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If we do finish outside the top four then I think he'll have to go. However, I suspect that we'll
pick up form at some point as we always inevitably do after a bad run.
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Finishing 3rd or 4th will not mitigate for the failure this season has been.
The coupling of the complete collapse of the other media styled big 4, our main rivals for the League title, and our new found belief and winning mentality borne from successive cup wins, triumphs which we were lead to believe showed once and for all the turning of a corner in terms of mentality, the stepping stones to real success.
It was as if the big clubs decided to take a year off for the old man, stood back and said here you go mate, one more before retirement.
However nobody worked the theory as far as the group of players who have demonstrated they are not good enough or that they are not managed in a way which produces the best results from their many combined talents.
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My concern is that we don't have the money to buy a squad of the standard
of City and Chelsea. United can and are in the process of doing this. That leaves us with the fourth most resources in the league, unless we choose to develop youngsters that become superstars.
While you have a point in that the competition has been lax this season, I don't think we can say that it's been a failure if we come 3rd. In fact, City/Chelsea/United fans should be angrier than ours because they have underachieved by a greater amount.
I am not against change, I'm merely suggesting that we may find ourselves in a situation where we have to forsake Champions League football for a few years as it has been shown than a change of a manager that has been there for a long time isn't always a simple transition.
Anyway, Wenger will go if he wants. If he wants to stay then he will. Whether you like it or not, that's how it is.
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But surely the financial fairplay rules ironed all that out for us
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We probably do have the money.
What we don’t have is possibly the manager who will manage the overall project of net spend, or possibly a board who will not sanction that level of spend.
I add the latter for balance as I appreciate a lot of people see Kroenke / Gazidis as being the root of whatever our issues are .
For the record I do expect him to be in charge in August and with one season left on his current deal I can understand why he would be.
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Potentially we'll see more willingness to spend given the new TV deals that come into force. However
spending isn't always the answer as I'm sure you can understand.
My argument is that at the moment we have a manager who, at the end of the season, delivers results that meet or slightly exceed our expectations (our par position is 4th, given the resources available). Remove him and how likely are we to find a manager that exceeds them consistently?
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The new TV deal will replace the money we will lose for dropping out of the CL.
Unless there is a bizzare U-turn of form, of course, and we manage to sneak 4th or 3rd.
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We will finish 3rd or 4th. Or if we beat Everton we can dream again.
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The same thing happening again and again is not my expectation.
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Well then perhaps you should consider managing your expectations? The available evidence suggests
that if we finish 3rd or higher we have achieved more than we arguably should have, given the resources our rivals can swamp us with.
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It's nothing to do with money, in any case. The two best strikers in the
division this season each cost less than my daughter's mobile telephone bill.
Incidentally, one of these players has two dogs, Brady and Wilson. Can you guess which one :-|
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This "resources" rubbish. Football has never been just about money
This season is an abject failure, our points per game, our goalscoring record and the constant falling apart at some stage during the season are not due to our resources. It is due to a manager who refuses to spend the money we do have available, and also went down the route of overpaying bang average players which made them unsellable (Denilson, Almunia and NB to name but 3).
He has should go at the end of the season (probably won't) and let us try a different approach
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You are drawing a simplistic direct correlation between amounts available and willingness to spend.
There was money to spend last summer yet AW saw fit to only sign one player, a magnificent signing to be fair but a slightly fortuitous one that played into our hands.
I think there is a logical argument for player strengthening right down the middle of the team – defence, midfield, striker. Now I don’t mean bostonbrians, I mean top players to come in and play and at the same time “kill” the career of certain others, to use the phrase we all love to reference.
Mis-management essentially.
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But the world will end P
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I guessed it was the ex-Arsenal boy, naming them after Liam and Bob.
And so it is. Though one of his followers thinks they are named after Septic Footballers :-|
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Neil Young @Neil_Young76 24 Oct 2014
@hkane28 are they named after Tom Brady and Russell Wilson??
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