John G says:

This season has been one of intense provocation and this week a microcosm of our season. As a season ticket holder of some time for the very first time I am veering to the ‘time to go’ camp. Wenger’s refusal to spend the cash at his disposal is my main gripe. I am very patient and respect his great achievements but his pride and stubbornness are becoming glaringly conspicuous

tom says:

Why does Theo keep disappearing in games.?.. it is a shame because when he’s good he is lethal. He really needs to work on the way he creates space when he is not running on to through balls (which he is quite good at when RVP/Cesc are providing). I say, get a video of someone like Hernandez, and study it to %$& … He wants to be a central striker… Wenger told him he would be, but he’s got no hold up play, needs to work on creating space, and, I think, learn a trick or two if he wants to do that… Why did he just drift central after the first ten minutes and stand around today?
And Jack has to start shooting… everyone will expect him to pass it off, even in front of an open goal. That is the time to shoot. He had an amazing opportunity in the first half. Cesc was banging in a few long distance from around that age.

Adam says:

We are fans of Arsenal.

To you, publisher:

In all honestly, since Theirry has left us, we’ve not only lost a talented striker.
We lost a leader
We lost an idol.

Replacing him is just impossible. We’ve tried everything. Replacing Ljungberg, Gilberto, Cole, Toure, Gallas and several others ( the list may seem neverending) with players such as Rosicky, Denlison, Bendtner, Senderos, Djourou, Koscielny and Reyes (to name a few of the flops that have come since Henry’s departure) just hasn’t worked. Since Theirry has left, our club has become lost. Not shambles, just lost. The intracate football we play sometimes leaves me begging for more after the final whistle but where on earth are we. As John Champion and co. stated today: “Aesthetically, they (Arsenal) would win the title EVERY year.” “Realistcally, without a comanding defence, they won’t win any title within a million years.” Ladies and Gentlemen, after hearing those shocking but truthful comments, I felt cold tears drop down from m’eyes. Tears of the truth.

I am afraid. After today’s result I sat down w/ myself and looked at all the possibilities to what will end such a torrid run (as highlighted by every critic: SIX seasons without a trophy). I’m afraid because if this is what has become of OUR football club, where do us fans go now?

Since he (Theirry) has left us, we don’t know where we are going as a football club. In fact, I can say that even our beloved Emirates Stadium has become a place of restlessness, when it was built to be fit for a team of invincables.

Who can we blame? Theirry for leaving? Eboue for his penalty mishap? Almunia for giving away more goals than Santa Claus would give more presents? Wenger..?

Truth be told, I wish this season would end soon. Now would actually be great. I would gladly run away with 3rd place.. Once again. I would also enjoy a long summer full of transfer rumours of players and our club (Honda, Shawrzer, Cahill). Many of the players rumoured are comically, players that we can actually use to help strengthen our bid to win a few trophies, and we also have the money to make those transfers possible…

I am a fan of Arsenal. Many of you reading this (if it get’s published) are a fan of Arsenal. Millions worldwide are fans of Arsenal.
Some of cried when we were eliminated so embarrassingly in the biggest stages of competition, some of us broke windows. I for one, reaffirmed my pledge and rose my head up to this computer screen, reminding people of what sort of club we are.

This is my message to you all.

Losses to Newcastle, West Brom, Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham, Barcelona, Braga, Shakhtar, Ipswich, Birmingham and freshly added Bolton leave me to come to this conclusion:

Let Wenger go.

Another tear rolls down my eye, beautiful.

When we talk about Wenger, we no longer talk about the prof that once walked the pitch with his head high regardless of what result his team would bring. He would stay calm and psychologically guide his team to success, game in, game out.

When we talk about Wenger now, we see a man under pressure. We see man on his knees everytime Arsenal are about to end another game with a negative result. We see a man using water bottles and forth officials to release his tensions. He’s lost his unique spark that made him different from everyone else. With that, we have lost everything that had made US, different from everyone else. He’s been sucked into the whirlpool including the likes of Tony Pulis, Mick McCarthy, Avram Grant (managers that are ridiculed by the press – no offense intended)

Do critics call us special for playing ‘beautiful football’? No.
Do those same critics rate us as title contenders after every game? No.
The only thing keeping us there is our history. Keown, Dixon, Wright, Henry, Seaman, Bergkamp are what keep the club in the picture. Other teams give us respect because of these figures (A little too much at times).

Now when we look at what Wenger thinks are the new figures that should be respected (Fabregas, Nasri, Wilshere, Van Persie, Song), they all are ‘very intimidating’.

I’m obviously being sarcastic. I’m not being sarcastic by this however: We’ve become a club that wants to ‘learn’ rather than ‘teach’. We use Manchester United and Chelsea as examples to make us a football club now, rather than us being an example to their players and staff, when we would challenge for the title with vigor. Take Manchester City for example. Sure they want to buy the title now, but a FA cup final and fourth place in the league after the purchase of many players (with funds available) isn’t something to call them a learning club now. If only we had that spending ideology within us.

Which is why wenger must go. He’s had his chances to show that he is a cool and calm manager ready to face anything, now he can’t even handle the press as well as he used to after his team only got SEVEN points out of a possible TWENTY ONE.

The game has changed, so has wenger. If we want to change, we need to go with the current trend that other clubs are moving towards: spending money, not becoming an academy.

I love you Arsene. I truly do. You will always remain the proffeseur in my heart and mind. I cry now as im typing this for the sake of the club, for the sake of Arsenal.

It’s either this or he wakes up… Please wake up.

I love Arsenal, as we all do.

Hopefully this gets posted.

Derek McGirk says:

Chris, get rid of Wenger?…You are the most fickle of so-called Arsenal supporters. “I gave Arsene one last chance to change two seasons ago, he did not, then last season came to and end and that was it for me.” – if that be the case than you should sack him.

P.S. Please shut your blog down.

Mukhlis says:

Ermmm I still think we played beautiful footbal. Dominated 60% of the game. Only that we have no luck. How can the ref give penalty against Djorou when he did nothing wrong while we suppose to get a penalty when Robinson fouled Walcott early part of the game. I think if no bad decision from the ref we should have been same points as Man U. Get over it and just prepare for next season. We should get 3 more good players and we will be champion. Trust me, we have the momentum but lack of concentration 10 minutes before the game end. The games that spoilt our season are against Newcastle and Barcelona 2nd leg. I think there’s a few more but I just don’t like to highlight it here. What is past is past. Please give Wenger another chance. I think he will do it right next season. Anyway if you think Wenger should go who do you think the right person can replace him? Thanks.

Ray says:

1. Be humble and admit that we are not good enough.
- Even a team like Barcelona feel that they have room for improvement and their youth system cannot develop the needed talent, they buy. Who are we to say we are good enough, having a better youth system and having a better current squad?
- Certain players before you buy them, they look talented, but after a few season, we found that they aren’t so talented and very inconsistent. Fine, cut the pain and sell them. Free up the budget for better player. No one will blame Wenger for buying the wrong player, not everyday you will get a gem like Henry, sometimes there will be Cygan. The only bad thing is having a problem but still refuse to admit it.

2. Stop lieing to the fans and yourself, Wenger
- Past results were great, no arguement on that.
- That does not give you the right to lie to the fans that the current squad is good, latented and consistent enough to win the title. The results proved that.
- If you refuse to spend, continue to lie to the fans or try to trick the fans, I am sorry, you have to go. Even if that means some players will leave together with you or no other candidate who can get CL football by spending so little, at the end of the day, it is just business and we need the correct person to do the job.

3. Change players
- Among those who MUST be offload before their price drop further are Almunia, Squilacci, Denilson, Diably, Eboue, Rosicky.
- Clichy can be replace by Baines if he refuse to sign a new contract. Gibss is not the answer to Clichy departure and Clichy isn’t really the answer to Ashley Cole departure either.
- Loan out Ramsey.
- Buy Steekelenburg. Groom Szczesny at the same time.
- We will not win anything as long as Djourou/Squilacci + Koscielny are the CB. Koscielny and Djourou still under development. Everyone can see that if we had Garry Cahill in the match against Bolton and Bolton having Djourou as CB, the victory is ours already.
- Definitely need another world class striker. Bendtner and Chamakh are not the answer, they aren’t even the answer for the bench. Just imagine if RVP is out for few months, no way we can rely on Bendtner and Chamakh to score goal for us.
- Get mentality strong player with killer instinct. It prove that from our squad, if you do not have these two, no matter how talented you are, you ain’t going to win anything.

4. The board
- I hope the board will change after the takeover.
- Bring back David Dein, without him, Wenger don’t dare to spend.
- Get rid of Hill-Wood, this guy is a joke.

5. Opponent Oriented Strategy
- Do not be stubborn to use ONE way to defeat all. It doesn’t happen and will not happen.
- Different opponent has differenet method to crack down.
- The only thing that is constant in this world is CHANGE.

Joblow says:

ALL I WANT TO SEE IS WHO SOME OF US FANS GONNA BLAME THIS TIME AS THE USUAL SUSPECTS WERE ALL MISSING – ALMUNIA, EBOUE, SQUILLACI, DIABY, DENILSON, VELA AND BENDTNER!!

JUST THINK WE NEED A NEW APPROACH. MIXING IT UP A LITTLE. 4-4-2. ACTUALLY GETTING WINGERS TO PLAY ON THE WINGS AND NOT 2ND/SUPPORT STRIKERS.

ARSENAL FOREVER!!!

cheese says:

players we need to buy

ashley young
lucio or cahill
coleman from everton
lucas
hooper from celtic

around 30 to 40 mil?

is that to much to ask?

KC says:

……………………….THE END OF THE EXPERIMENT………………………..

Season Ended With Kocielny’s Idiocy Against Birminghim! The Team’s Already Flimsy Spirit Died With That Defeat. Subsequent Capitulations FA Cup, CL, and Premiership Were To Be Expected From A Team With Little Leadership And Little Fight.

I would love to see Arshavin, Eboue, Bendtner, Rosicky, and Denilson sold this summer. As a group they will probably return $20-$30 million pounds. That along with existing transfer funds should be applied to a top flight experienced player, preferably a d-mid, to partner either Wilshere, Ramsey, or Song (depending on who is in the best form at a given time in the season) and a truly top class striker.

Wenger has been admirably loyal to the point of stubbornness with this group of young players, but they cannot take the pressure.

Another trophy-less season, yes, but that’s not the biggest problem at all. The problem is that the team made virtually no progress. They are not good enough.

Say good bye to the season, and along with it I think we can say good bye to Wenger’s bold but failed experiment with youth.

Sell Arshavin, Eboue, Bendtner, Rosicky, and Denilson, Fabregas will leave of his own accord (most likely), and you are sitting on $50-60 million in cash to finance “The End of the Experiment”

Asrsene Topfour says:

FACTS:

Pos Team P W D L F A +/- Pts
1 Man U 34 21 10 3 71 32 39 73
2 Chelsea 34 20 7 7 64 27 37 67
3 Arsenal 34 18 10 6 67 36 31 64
4 Man City 33 17 8 8 51 30 21 59
5 Spur 33 14 13 6 49 41 8 55

NB: Premierleague statistics only!

Only five players have scored five or more goals in the league this season, fewer than United and Chelsea. While Nasri and Walcott had a breakthrough season in terms of goal scoring, on the other hand, Bendtner, Cesc and Arshavin all have scored fewer goals than last season. The number of Arsenal players across the squad who contributed to goal scoring on average are less than those of all the other top five clubs. Manchester United have only

I have a different opinion on the matter, the defense