Bettor.com goes in-depth to find Wenger’s woes and how they transformed Arsenal from Premier League title-contenders to UEFA Champions League pretenders in a matter of a few seasons.
For a club of this magnitude, having won the Premiership so many times in the past and including a term completely unbeaten, finishing fourth in the rankings should not be looked up as an achievement.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 Ferguson a run for his
money.
However, now the veteran Scot laughs in glee, as the Gunners were eliminated from the Capital One Cup by Bradford City despite playing a full-strength side.
The question is not how. But why?
The Bantams relished the chance to get one over the Gooners and performed admirably throughout the ninety minutes to seal the win. Even a late penalty from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Thomas-Vermaelen-c35002 wasn’t enough to dampen their spirits and a shoot-out win secured their progression
in the competition.
Wenger has simply gotten staked by his mistakes, which have spread far and wide inside the defence, attack and midfield of the team.
Since the departure of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Laurent-Koscielny-c21742 have been brought to shore up the backline. Good players yes, but apt replacements for such legends, no.
The situation is even more despair in the centre of the park, where the future of the club is mainly dependent on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jack-Wilshere-c17463, who will surely be tempted by what he seen in the past few years at the helm.
Captain Cesc Fabregas and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Samir-Nasri-c32360 were both integral parts of the Arsenal machine, but Arsene Wenger chose to sell them in 2011 for big money and no real replacements.
Moving onto the attack, one realizes that it’s a miracle that the club are in the UEFA Champions League in the first place.
A man of Robin Van Persie’s class would have left a gaping hole at any club he left, but Wenger has http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marouane-Chamakh-c24294 to count on for goals now. So how do you expect to get away with such shoddy acquisitions? Simple, change the philosophy of
the club to playing good football and finishing in a Champions League place, while eluding trophies and continuing to living off past glories.
Obviously this would hit nerves if repeated and that was the case as Wenger tackled questions from the media before his side’s weekend match.
“It’s true we have not kicked on, but we have rebuilt a team this year and we will see where we finish. We are not happy with what we have produced, but we will turn it around before the finish," he said coldly.
“Don’t worry — we will buy http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 in January and we will surprise you. I am here to take the flak — and I must say you (the media) do that very well,’ admitted Wenger. We finished third in the league last season, but it depends on how you judge a team.”
Yes Arsene that’s how you judge a team. Champagne football and a low run in Europe’s premier competition is the correct way forward for a side which were called invincibles only eight years ago, a title which they no simply no longer deserve.
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