uz says:

Great comment,but i dont hear people clamoring for AW to be sacked.He has failed and like you said,those kids dont deserve to be thrown to the wolves just yet.
He is lacking great players because he has sold all of them and made so much money for the board.We the fans feel so sad are are always heart broken.They smile as their pockects get fatter while they assure AW that as you sell them and make money for us,we will continue to endorse you till eternity! what a shame.What a shame.All board members should bury their heads in shame.The score line is 8-2.This is arsenals worst defeat coming at the begining of the season!
Mr AW,if you are a man of dignity,you should resign and retire.You made a comment when the great jose munriho was beaten 5-1 by barca.But they still won a trophy and recovered well.Believe me if jose munriho was the manager of arsenal,he would have resigned long ago.He wants to be remembered in a great way.But you sir,will be remembered as the manager that suffered the worst defeat at arsenal.
Even sir Alex says he cant imagine going 6 years at old trafford without a trophy!
Mr wenger,where is your shame?where lies your pride as a man?To restore your dignity,you need to move on

marford says:

I wonder if Arsenal is owned by Wenger alone? Or the money in his possession is it his personal money? Does it mean no one will have say in this situation Wenger has put himself? Or may be Wenger is not seeing what is going on in his club? Have they asked themselves , after this season will we be able to sell players to make more money since they have turn to selling club and can any club buy players that does not win matches? All these and more still keeps me sleepless night. Please who will help us call Wenger personaly and advice him to do his work.

stantheman says:

Crisis, what crisis? we made £60 million from Cesc & Nasri and how much did we make from Toure & Adebayor? aren’t we doing well? This was a result waiting to happen with the way that AW has weakened the team. We suspected that it was going to be bad, but not like this. What a disgrace for a great club (and indeed and institution) like Arsenal to end up in a state like this. Make no mistake, forget all other issues, this is entirely AW responsibility as the manager. Everything that happens on the pitch is down to him and he has systematically weakened the team in terms of strength and quality. I do not believe for one moment that he has been stopped by the board from replacing the players he has sold. He is held in extremely high regard and exerts a considerable amount of influence. What was his excuse after this calamity, the players, only the players. Where was his responsibilty in all of this??? I think he really owes the loyal supporters a big apology.

M.V says:

Not so many months ago arsenal beat them 1-0 at the emirates.

Gareth Priest says:

Jenkinson may have been decent if he was coming into a back four to play alongside centre backs like Campbell, Keown, Adams, Vermaelen… but as it was they got Djourou and Koscielny – neither of whom are fit for purpose though are probably a little better than we thought they were a year ago. A ringing endorsement of their talents.

As they lined up I turned to my friend and said they look like lambs to the slaughter. This result wasn’t a shock was it, it was on the cards and if they played again next week it would be another drubbing.

And Wenger’s excuses don’t wash – injuries eh? Yes well they happen – and they’ve happened top Arsenal (and pretty much everybody else) for years now – and nothing has been done to address it.

Fabregas carried this team for years and now the chickebns are coming home to roost for not investing whilst he was at the club.

I wasn’t even angry or bothered watching the game – all those emotions have been passed already watching us fumble into this ridiculous situation.

Arsenal travelling support = superb and deservev better. Hats off to them. But the club keep kicking them in the balls.

Bouba says:

Arsenal has agreed a fee for Andre Santos, left back of Fenerbahce …

Also, Wenger had an offer refused by Dortmund for Gotze ( he is their best player, so they won’t let him go ).

Benayoun is apparently on Wenger’s list as well as Marvin Martin ( the player expressed his desire to leave after Sochaux was kicked out of the UEFA Cup ).

Another offer has been made for Cahill, and Owen Coyle hopes to sign Boyata/ Onuha from Man City has a replacement.

Salvage says:

Like someone here pointed out, Wenger is scared of spending big and still not win anything. The age long excuse of playing with ineperienced youth, would then cease to fly. We need to tell ourselves the truth. Wenger is tactically inept. It shows in substitutions and the total lack of a plan and approach for individual games. Great managers and coaches, employ a different approach to a game depending on the opponent. We get so far in games simply because of the name Arsenal. If you put out a very bad Brasillian team to any tournament, they will still get respected and feared by other teams and by the time others realize that the particular team is bad, they may have gotten to the quarter finals and then would get hammered by a team who wont fear or respect the name. This is what goes on at Arsenal. We have gotten by with a bad team and a Coach who has passed his prime(Coaching wise) for so long because of the great name Arsenal. The Wenger brigade would have us believe that without Wenger, the club is doomed. Thats far from the truth. The man has lost respect of even his best players. Thats why they are leaving without looking back. Thats why even people like Bendtner and Denilson, who are not even great players, had the guts to say the stuff they said in public of wanting to win trophies , thereby suggesting a vote of no confidence on their manager. Immediately after Wenger gave the excuse of playing Manu without key players, Van Persie came out to say that it was no excuse. The body language of some of the players, says a lot. There is a momentum that change brings. Think Liverpool, Barcelona, Dortmund. Change is constant and if Arsenal refuses to make the changes, then its stagnation that is inevitable. Change is the only thing that will bring about the momentum that we speak of. Change right from the top.