Quote Originally Posted by WES View Post
Jaysus GG, I had forgotten all about him, I try to put those Arsenal years out of my mind

It's an interesting point though about when you realised that Wenger had lost it and was no longer the answer. Not sure there was a watershed moment for me. It was the depression of watching the same pattern every year, the same hopes, the same approach, the same failures year after year after year.

Mind you, I do seem to recall thinking the failure to replace Almunia one year was the last straw
In GK terms, once we'd got my beloved Sir Chez after the Almunia years, it was ditching him for the Chav reject just for smoking a fag after a defeat. TA got banged up for drink driving and he wasn't forced out.

The one that did my brother's head in was when, with all our midget no.10s, Mascherano at DM would be perfect but AW refused as he only wanted to pay 12 mil, not the 13m the Scousers wanted.

His final year, after all the frugality was mad, too. 50m on Laca when he was no upgrade on Olly G. Could have sold Alexis for 55m but didn't then swapped him for Mhikky in winter when he bought Auba.

Had he cashed in on Alexis, the fans would have moaned. But then, we could have spent that 55m on Auba in the winter, kept Olly G who was a much better plan B and would still have had the 50m we saved by not buying Laca to buy a top drawer winger who'd be happy to play with Ozil and Auba.

But those years you want to forget did have the JW Norwich goal. And most clubs would have been happy with regular CL footy, a few FA cups and goals like that won.