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FTK RANT: Is it time to sack Arsene Wenger?

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I have had enough of failure, and many of you feel the same way as I do, and after our exit from the FA Cup, we are now left with only the Premier League. Fans have been again let down, but by who? Was it by the players who will happily bank their wages and carry on? Or was it by the owners who are only interested in a return for their investment of shares? Or perhaps if you read the venomous attacks on Arsene Wenger, is it down to him? Let’s face it Arsene Wenger is very good at making excuses it seems, but he seems less able at winning the important football matches that count.
So anger is expressed in many ways. But now the fans have become even more divided after the third defeat in 2 weeks. There is understandable frustration. We can say enough is enough, and we can call for the exit of this player and that player, we can call for the sacking of Arsene Wenger, yet with 10 games to go if we withdraw our support for the club that we love, then that is tantamount to wanting failure, the very thing that we have had enough of… See the irony?
So let’s hypothetically do what the anti-Wenger brigade want. Let’s sack Arsene Wenger…

NOW WHAT?

I want every author of anti Arsene Wenger on this site to answer that question. It’s very easy to destroy everything. But now I for one want to hear your solutions, please don’t be repetitive and repeat the worn phrases as to why Arsene should go. Put up your solutions and options if that were to be done tomorrow. I am really serious. I am sick of the spoilt knee jerk reactions from fans who should know better. Yes its bad, but it could be far worse. So tell what we should do after sacking Arsene Wenger PLEASE…
With 10 games to go, who will come in to take over the club? We don’t have a Kenny Dagleish as do Liverpool who can step in and run the club. Pat Rice has no proven managerial experience. All other suitable candidates are under contract. So simply put, let us shelve our negative thoughts and outbursts, for the sake of the club. I accept that things must change next season, there are some player contracts that must not be renewed. But I remain faithful to the belief that the only one who should sack Arsene Wenger is the man himself. If he honestly feels that he cannot take the club any further, then he must be asked to advise the Board upon his replacement. But imagine, a manager as great as Arsene Wenger at a club as great as Arsenal would he really give up before winning the Champions League for the fans?
So this is not the time to sack Arsene Wenger, let him complete his work, we could lift the Premier League at the end of this season, and what would you think then? We are guaranteed Champions League football next season, we should finish at least second which is an improvement on last season, so is this season a failure after all the injuries? Really??? Have we lost all reason? GET A GRIP FOR F**KS SAKE! We do not have a divine right to win trophies. Yes some of our players are not good enough, and some are lazy. But some things take time. Arsenal won the league in 1971, it took 18 years to win it back. I REPEAT, IT TOOK EIGHTEEN YEARS TO WIN IT BACK. 1971 – 1989
There are many teams who have never won that coveted title let alone do the double. Yet we won the double in 1998 and 2002. NO TEAM HAS EVER WON THE LEAGUE TITLE WITHOUT LOSING yet under Arsene Wenger we went unbeaten in the league during season 2003/4. That is why I can wait a little longer for Arsene to regain his midas touch. NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO WISH FOR FAILURE!
In 1989, after a run of seven defeats, Alex Ferguson was having to face calls from the Manchester United fans, Banners announcing “Three years of excuses and it’s still crap.Ta Ra Fergie” were being held up in the stands of Old Trafford. He was facing the sack had he lost to Nottigham Forest in the third round of the FA Cup. Man Utd beat Notts Forest, the form team that season and saved his job, and as they say, the rest is history.
Please do voice your anger and frustration at the end of the season, when the season’s results can be put into the proper perspective. We have to believe and keep strong, realise this. We have yet to have a settled back four for an entire season, so we do need to sort things out. But I want SUCCESS, Success for Arsenal Football Club, and I believe that all true fans want this as well, but sacking Arsene Wenger is not the way to go about it.