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MK Shrimper · Feb 21, 2013

How had Wenger not be sacked? 8 years without a trophy, beaten by Blackburn & Bradford. He must be the most teflon coated manager in the world.

If I was a gooner (and thank god I'm not) I'd be holding my head in my hands and wondering why.

Steve lansley · Feb 21, 2013

MK Shrimper said:
How had Wenger not be sacked? 8 years without a trophy, beaten by Blackburn & Bradford. He must be the most teflon coated manager in the world.

If I was a gooner (and thank god I'm not) I'd be holding my head in my hands and wondering why.

Doing a great job long my he continue:smile:

chapperzUK · Feb 21, 2013

I think his contract ends at the end of this season, last I can see is he signed a 3 year deal in August 2010.

Jam_Man · Feb 21, 2013

My take on it is that the Arsenal board made a decision with the new stadium to just tick things over for X amount of years to repay it asap.

The stadium I believe is now almost paid for and Ive always thought they would start spending when it was done, and rumours of a 70 million warchest next year seem to tie in with this.

Something needs to change there though as their current policy is seeing them fall further behind.

Wenger isnt blameless though, buying mediocre players like Chamakh, Bendteer and Santos and then signing them on big salaries on long term contracts has lumbered them with a wage bill that doesnt match the quality of the squad.

Seeing him in that press conference you do have to wonder if his tenure is coming to an end though.

He was never going to win the league with the likes of Chelsea and Man city spending over a billion between them, but should have picked up some cups. Thats what is the strange thing, he has treated cups like nice to haves, when they were the trophies they could have actually won.

Jam_Man · Feb 21, 2013

chapperzUK said:
I think his contract ends at the end of this season, last I can see is he signed a 3 year deal in August 2010.

18 months to run...

steveo · Feb 24, 2013

MK Shrimper said:
How had Wenger not be sacked? 8 years without a trophy, beaten by Blackburn & Bradford. He must be the most teflon coated manager in the world.

If I was a gooner (and thank god I'm not) I'd be holding my head in my hands and wondering why.

Thing is MK, how many managers will never win a trophy, let alone 8 years without one. He is probably after Fergie, still the most successful manager in the division.