Arsene Wenger spoke to the press following the 2-1 defeat to Brighton, giving his reaction the defeat but still insisting he’s the man who can turn things around.
Here’s what he had to say.
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Thursday, December 19, 2024
Arsene Wenger spoke to the press following the 2-1 defeat to Brighton, giving his reaction the defeat but still insisting he’s the man who can turn things around.
Here’s what he had to say.
No
He knows he is finished you can see it. The players want him out.
The emperor has no clothes.
‘I’m long enough in the job to know what’s going on’
The important thing to remember is that Arsene is NOT Arsenal, even though he thinks he is. WE are the Arsenal and we were here before he came and we’ll be here long after he’s gone. The shame is that he’s spoilt the fond memories I had of him
This.
WE ARE THE ARSENAL
AND WE ARE THE BEST: WE ARE THE ARSENAL SO………
FUCK ALL THE REST…
Fuck’m all, fuck’m all
United west ham liverpool
@the loon ranger. I think what you said has some truth to it. He talks about his commitment to arsenal so much I think he believes his own rhetoric. When leaders have absolute power they begin to believe in their own myth. He seems to talk about arsenals interests as if they are synonymous with his own. They’re not. He is not arsenal. I really think he is losing the plot and he doesn’t just need a push out of the club, he needs dragging kicking and screaming. It’s over. It has been for years. He is wasting these players… Read more »
I don’t see how you can come up with that statement. The players are just as much to blame as the manager. Yes, as manager Wenger is responsible for the abysmal displays this season but I’m fairly certain this is not down to tactics and it is not fixed simply by replacing Wenger – if he goes at the end of the season, so be it, but I believe his heart is in the game and in The Arsenal, so he’ll do his best until the last day. All of this pointing fingers does no good and I’m pretty certain… Read more »
But it’s not getting better… wake up FFS!!
Well, he apparently either has a shirt or pants, though I’m not certain he knows how to put them on.
One of the best managers of the PL era.
Also one of the worst.
Enough is enough!!!
It’s time to go Mr Wenger
The board need to show some mercy on him and free him from his waking nightmare 🙁
Sad to see this long drawn out ending
People keep saying hes broken, i don’t see it. He genuinely doesn’t seem to believe he’s doing a bad job or even accept how badly things are going. I think he believes his own excuses, i also reckon to people who know so little about football like the Kronke’s his excuses and endless mentioning of all these intangibles probably sound like sense. Like a politician hes probably convinced them that hes all knowing spinning this bullshit and thats why they’re so hesitant to sack him.
This is just sad now. Please, Kroenke, put him – and us – out of this misery.
This is becoming like a retirement home for an old man scared to live without football, not a football club. Embarrassing.
I hope his apologist for the last 6 years, including this site owners feel ashamed and apologise to those who saw this man as he is, a selfish old man who put his interests above our great club.
Arsene IS the problem
Just once I want to see Wenger pissed off after a loss like this. I know nobody wants to fire him in the middle of the season, but there will be far more permanent damage than just finishing out of the top 4 again if things don’t turn around quickly as players are not going to want to sign with us unless there is clear evidence changes are being made starting with the manager.
What did learn from that? the Arsenal press officer can’t close a bloody press conference!
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Arsene you said you have come back from this before, No you haven’t.
Indeed. You’ve got steadily worse from this before and it’s still going on.
He’s not going to go. He really thinks he’s the one to lead us back to the top. This is, to put it bluntly, insanity. He clearly is hallucinating. TBH the signs of this have been apparent for awhile. What club with aspirations of a place at the elite table have had a goalkeeper as bad as Almunia? That was 2007. This situation didn’t happen overnight
Fuck. I’ve had five beers but I think I’ll need five more before I can watch this.
Time (overdue) for an ultimatum from the board: Arsene, we didn’t want to have to sack you, but fall on your sword now or you’re fired. Fat chance, I know.
Board needs to discuss a severance package with him. No one wants to give up a £9 million a year job and if he gets sacked they’ll have to pay compo regardless.
If the severance includes statue and ambassador role he might take it.
Knowing the fact that we wont be having a managerial change midway
He has to turn around the things asap
One thing that I criticise is He treats players like 4 year olds
Comon mahn . Give them a bashing. Bench them. Make them earn their money and not just collect heaps of pounds for strolling in the park
Sad fact is they earn the same sitting on the bench.
Wonder why arsenal players who leave the club don’t do so well…..Hleb, Sanogo, Song etc?.They carried their mediocre attitude to their new clubs thinking every manager was like Wenger. Did you observe that Ox chamberlain had changed attitude at Liverpool, while Sanchez at Man U still thinks he was playing for Arsenal until Jose pulled him out, an abomination at Arsenal. It is not a show of love not to spank your kids when the misbehave, it is called weakness. Wenger is weak and every of his player past and present knows that. They play when and how they want… Read more »
I keep watching these things hoping for him to announce he’s leaving but like his players performances, he continually let’s me down. Hard to say which one of those disappoints me more.
Wenger, you’re more fucking animated in your interviews than on the pitch.
In the old days he used to throw his water bottle. He doesn’t even do that anymore.
That’s because he prepares better for interviews than he does for matches. Have you ever seen him miss any interview? Win or loose Wenger will always appear at the press conference, to pontificate, mr professor.
“Nothing is permanent,” he says. I wish that was true.
I started watching this and thought, here we go, Wenger Bingo. But by the end, I just felt sad. He is a decent man and you can see that he has lost the dressing room and he is hurting. The trouble is, he believes he can still get us out of this mess, but that clearly is no longer possible, bar a miracle. Truly sad that it has come to this.
My impression is that he has lost the dressing room in the same way that he has lost many Arsenal supporters. The players like him and respect him; many came to Arsenal specifically because he was the manager. But, whatever the cause of the problems, they don’t believe he is now able to solve them.
I’m not sure he does believe he can turn things around any more, not really – he says it, but you can tell from his body language that deep down he knows the game is up. I expect there’s a part of him might even be hoping the Board would have the guts to put him out of his misery.
Wenger is confident in halting the crisis that the club is suffering.
A crisis that he himself created.
Everything is lost on him. Everything.
He seems confident to me. No uncertainty for him. He intends to prepare for the next game until the last day of his contract.
It’s so depressing, I couldn’t watch the whole thing.
I doubt we sack Wenger mid season but it’s become obvious he has lost the fans and the players now as evidenced by how little fight this team is putting up and the leaks from the dressing room about how the players don’t believe Wenger and the coaches are capable of giving them the direction they need. People are still talking about what happens if we win the Europa league – this is a much stronger field than Man U had to face and given current form that’s a total pipe dream. We’ll be lucky if we even get out… Read more »
Win the Europa = Wenger stays = Yet another pathetic hiding in the Champions league. And it goes on and on……
You needn’t worry about that kas. We are not winning the Europa league, or possibly even another game this season.
I don’t even know what that whole naked trousers comment even meant?
Basically the players are at their lowest, you can’t take anything more away from them, kind of ‘dont kick a man when he’s down, give him a hand up’
Such a big night on Thursday. Wenger has to stick with players that have been out of form and out of touch with each other. The rabbit in the headlights syndrome faces us once more inside the San Siro. This is the problem when you keep a giant defender like BFG in the squad and not understand he has nothing much left to give and not replace him with a similar player. We need a giant defender in this game and what we have are all performing under average. Gabriel for me is a much better defender than Mustafi and… Read more »
This is like throwing a sausage into a tunnel to try and satisfy the deranged Mr Wenger !! It’s not ever going to happen. The man is living in Islington lighthouse believing he’s going to save us all from the impending eventuality of the P45.
I’ve been with the “Wenger out” crowd but with the proviso that he be relieved after the season ends. Now I want him out now, and have Steve Bould step up as caretaker manager. We can start working on getting a full-time replacement immediately.
Bouldy should be ashamed. If he had any integrity he would resign. How can one with such a pedigree in defence continue in this vane.
Not altogether sure that Bouldie has been given the green light by AW to have that much influence – if any – on how the team is set up. If that were the case, you would expect SB to implement all that he learnt under George Graham and we would see an immediate change in the way the defence behave for a start. I don’t think Bould has any more say than you and I. Arsene is stubborn if nothing else. It’s his way, end of.
Another bland, anodyne post-match interview where Wenger speaks a lot but actually says nothing meaningful. He’s finished now, even the most blind, most stupid fans can see it. I would like to hear tomorrow that Wenger was called up to the boardroom and immediately sacked without any hesitation. But I fear that this farce will be allowed to run on until the end of the season. The useless Kroenke family appear to be incapable of making a quick, decisive decision. I actually feel sorry for Wenger now. He has been hung out to dry and left to take all this… Read more »
The useless Kroenke family doesn’t have to make any decision–as long as the money keeps rolling in.
Yes but surely in the long term coupled with our consistent form of going backwards, it will effect our club financially. How much longer can our fans pay top dollar to watch a mid table team. How much longer can we attract the top dollar from sponsors and attract top players etc.
I struggle to buy into this narrative that he’s a selfish / stubborn manager who is only concerned about himself. Some people on here comment as though they think he’s purposely gone about wrecking the club & team. Honestly, breaks my heart to Arsene have to go through this. I totally accept he’s been at fault for a lot of what’s gone on with the team in recent seasons, and that he should go, but he’s well & truly been hung out to dry by the club. Actually you could say he is stubborn, stubborn in the sense that he’ll… Read more »
Culture at the club is terrible. Owners don’t have team performance expectations and AW has too big an influence behind the scenes. Players aren’t pressured into performing well as AW is too easy on them. If Board pressured AW to get results performances would be different. Could you imagine Fergie with our lot?
It’s hard to see wenger still defending his players he won’t ever throw them under the bus. This season has been littered with mistakes and poor effort from all over the pitch right from the start. Our midfield is mainly made up of physically weak but attacking players who are easy to brush aside and don’t like to be involved in a dirty dog fight. Our defence is slow and showing it’s age and these run of games have messed them up. As much as wenger is to blame it can’t be right that fans feel he’s lost the dressing… Read more »
I agree on your points but one small thing about our defence. How can we be so short sighted selling both Coq and Gabriel. Those 2 were our most tenacious players. Something that I feel we really need now.
Trousers?
We have the ghost of a legend sitting on the bench. Such an unbelievable shame.
Ok that’s it. I have found the solution to our problems. We need to change the ATMOSPHERE and MENTALITY in the club. I have the solution. We need to hire 3 people to join the coaching team for the job: Roy Keane, Robbie Savage and Joey Barton, and call them the ‘TacklesTrio’ Their primary task is to add intensity and terror and fear to our players. 1) Serious in Training: They will be given licence to launch into full scale flying tackles to any players found screwing around in training. 2) Concentration Level: improve concentration level of players by putting… Read more »
oh yes, forgot to add that Xhaka will be the 1st call-up to (3) on the 1st day to show the players what this is all about, and because of his accumulated offences.