Wildly inaccurate. He was fired.
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Why are Arsenal the only club that you hear about having wage bill limitations every year.
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It’s astonishing isn’t it? FFP has seem to hurt us a lot more than the bigger spending clubs 
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Wenger left behind a world class club which Emery should be proud to be associated with & work his ass off to maintain that status.
With a terribly unbalanced squad full of shit players on high wages that no one wants
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I am sorry I thought we had a great bunch of players who were stifled by Wenger and needed a new challenge & manager to get the best out of them.
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I agree the club is in a better state with a marginally better league position, but we have been drifting downwards for several seasons and Wenger has presided over that.
The seasons before Graham left, he had won the FA Cup. the League Cup, and got to two European Cup Winners Cup finals, winning one of them.
I also agree that the drinking and drug culture within the club had got out of hand and I know this as players like Adams and Parlour were regular diners near where I’m from, but although it was bad, it wasn’t unique.
There were plenty of other players from other clubs, including Man U, who had similar problems.
I have never doubted Wenger’s genius in turning this round and turning those same players into winners but the players that Graham left were far better than the players Wenger has left Emery.
Apart from Aubameyang and Ozil, and possibly Ramsey, how many of our other players would get in the first teams of any of our rivals?
Our defenders and defensive players are the worst group I can remember at the club and that has to be down to Wenger.
Like you say, our league position is better than when Graham left, but I think the group of players Wenger has left for Emery, is no where near the quality Wenger had when he first came here.
For me Wenger was the best and most innovative manager in the PL, while we were at Highbury, but in his last few seasons his position, compared to other rival managers in the PL, was reflected by his league position, and wasn’t about to change.
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Propaganda.
One is already gone 
, but now we should win every game until we face Liverpool in november.
naaaaaaaaaaah we will fucking trounce livepool…
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i really hope we are moving away from that socialist wage structure now though i hope it isnt something the club is going to continue to go now that wenger has left it is an absolute fucking waste of money. When you have the likes of Jenkinson that is on about £50k a week and hasnt kicked a ball for us in forever on a long contract you know you are being fucking stupid with our resources.
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Sure. But even if that home form dipped a bit, being average and not hot garbage on the road will increase the point total quite a bit.
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I understand Wenger’s impulse to institute a socialist wage structure at the club. In some ways it makes sense. First team players earn 40k/week or something like that. The problem is that there’s no hard salary cap in European leagues.
Combined with the general perception (and reality) of decline surrounding the club and we wound up in a situation where we overpaid a lot of players. One of the things that we’ll probably never hear about, but what I most want to hear about is how we’re restructuring our contract policies.
Are we going to start being more grown up when it comes to negotiating contracts? We’re letting Ramsey and Welbeck run their deals out but hopefully they are the last players we do that to. Even though Xhaka is looking less and less useful at least we’ve protected the asset so when Lazio want to buy him next summer they have to pay $22M and not $7M.
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Arsenal and Italians clubs. It never seems to bother anybody else. Ok, maybe PSG a bit this season for obvious reasons.
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How many "playing out from the back"s are going to result in a Xhaka fuck up this season? I’m going to say 18.
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Torreira is absolute key here, feel like we need more technical players to achieve this though. Interesting to see if Xhaka can deal with such pressures so I imagine we’ll see a lot more from Guendouzi this season.
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Once we learn it, it’s gonna be a great thing. Just don’t play Xhaka in this system :mustafi: