I’ve thought this for a while.
Some of the things Wenger has said after matches and his demeanour have been different than previous seasons.
He doesn’t even bother blaming the ref or anyone else, he just accepts it was a bad performance.
This transfer window has just reinforced what I thought.
We have seen more activity in this window than in the previous three or four combined, and I don’t believe Wenger was behind it.
He has had some of his power taken away, and either he will leave or be pushed out.
He knows he has taken us as far as he can and that every other big club in the PL has a manager that is better and more ambitious than him.
I expect him to go at the end of this season, whether he leaves or is forced to leave.
If he doesn’t, we will stagnate even further and the board, and probably Wenger, realise this.
Hasn’t been club manager for over 10 years, didn’t have that great of a club manager career, had his biggest success on club level while managing in Austria, has been a bit inconsistent managing Germany, has his favorite players (just as Wenger), is weird and is insanely boring to listen to outside of the tactical stuff.
I’d say it’s mostly the huge amount of question marks that would make him a, well… ““interesting”” choice but far from my favored pick.
The success is not the concern.
It’s the man management side of being a club manager that is an issue.
When you are national team coach, the players are at your mercy. There is no wage concern, no squad number restriction. It is really quite easy going on that front.
While at club level, players have a comparatively bigger say. If you have a disgruntled/injured/out of form player, you can’t just send him back home & call a replacement. You have to improvise when shit goes down.
Then you need to deal with the fact that you can’t get anyone you like. Wenger wanted Mkhitaryan but he couldn’t the first time. Conte wanted Lukaku, he couldn’t; and so on.
Does he have any clue how good he is with knowing the players he wants & conveying it to Sven?
Then the frequency of games comes with lack of time to prepare the tactics. We don’t know if he is tactically flexible to modify his strategy when he comes up against rich opponents and many such concerns.
His pinned tweet was about Auba becoming an Arsenal player on January 18th, it pretty much played out as he had said all along. Auba would be an Arsenal player but it would drag on due to several factors. Shit came true, I’m a believer
I’m also thinking that perhaps Löw isn’t the right appointment. I guess the initial reaction is “yes, Wenger is going”. But really we want a forward thinking manager. Löw’s appointment would feel rather regressive. Similar reasons to why I don’t much fancy Ancelotti either.
Though granted, Ancelotti’s club managerial career is a lot more impressive than Löw’s. He hasn’t managed a big club and he barely stayed anywhere for much longer than a year.
