I think it could be the opposite. If someone comes in and does well straight away we can all move on. We’d all be a lot happier if we started doing as well as we could and should be doing and all the negativity surrounding the clubwould dissipate.
If we have three years of struggling under a new manager I think people would continue to be resentful of the fact that Wenger took us backwards in the last few years of his reign and I think a lot of people would be bitter and never forgive him.
I honestly don’t think all of us will be able to forget the negative side of his reign for at least 10 years which is why I was serious about giving him one when he dies. I mean there have been fans who have completely hated him for years and how do you get past that? If he had a statue tomorrow people would piss on it. van Persie could never get a statue because of how much he ended up being hated and no other “legend” I can recall has ever had so much hatred as Wenger. He’s a tainted legend and I think the taint can wear off but no time soon.
George Graham for example, I don’t think anyone really remembers / cares about his terrible final season and dodgy sacking because it was so long ago and now everyone just cares about what he did do right and I’m sure Wenger will be the same eventually.
If he dies in 20 years we’ll all be like “oh shit”, then we’ll read through his obituary and come across “Wenger was the most successful Arsenal manager of all time, winning three league titles and seven FA cups and went unbeaten for the entire 2003-04 season” and we’ll want to cry.
I know of people that despise him so much and it’s really not all talk in some of these cases, should be something kicked into the long grass for at least a decade and then ideally coinciding with a period of future success
The problem is Wenger is the face of modern Arsenal.
He saw the transition from Highbury to the Emirates. The one jigsaw in the missing piece was David Dein. He would have been the steadying voice in Wenger`s ear.
GG , gave this club , English football the greatest night EVER . He also laid down the footings for AW tenure .
I was home and away for GG reign and he never once was the subject to the poison Wenger is getting now .
I was driving when it was announced on TalkSPORT that Dein has left . Wrighty was co presenter on the show and he said it was the biggest loss for Arsenal and it would leave the club in trouble.
Wrighty was and still is god
Another hatchet job on Big Weng in the Sun today, apparently he goes to eat in restaurants alone around where he lives in London as he doesn’t have any friends
Of course he should. But delay the placement until he has retired from football. Otherwise the bad feelings of the mugs who slag him off will be taken out on it
Just spoke to someone who was at the AGM, Lee Dixon really didn’t hold back with the criticism, wow. 88% of supporters want him out. Ex-players of varying importance from Dixon, Wright and Keown through to Stewart Robson all laying into him to varying degrees. His position is actually untenable, how the hell is he still here
If this is true, perhaps we can buy him a statue to take with him to restaurants as, “his friend.”
It will be ideal, Wenger can talk as long as he wants, and his friend won’t disagree with anything he says.
Wenger was our greatest manager but stayed 5-10 years too long which destroyed his legacy. Taking a 17m compensation package at the end when the club desperately needed the money for the team instead was the final nail in the coffin for his reputation. So no statue.
He did a lot for our club, let’s not forget that. I’m sure he’ll get a statue, just not yet. There is still a lot of negative feeling towards Wenger – the statue would probably get defaced. In 10 years or whatever then maybe.
You’re right he did. Unfortunately he did a lot of damage at the end and left us in a parlous state on the back of it. Although I’m very critical of Kroenke as villain number 1 in all this mess, I do think Wenger was also instrumental in a lot of terrible decisions Xhaka when Kante was on sale, Mustafi, taking Mkhitaryan in on a huge wedge, the new Ozil mega contract etc etc.
I do place Wenger and his end of tenure arrogance as villain number 2 and I do think that if he’d done his job well we’d be in much less of a mess now and probably still in the CL.