Will Arsene Wenger leave Arsenal this summer?
Posted by Cathal Breathnach on April 7, 2010 | 12 Comments
Arsenal bowed out of the Champions League on Tuesday evening with Arsene Wenger’s men eventually losing 6-3 on aggeragate to Spanish giants Barcelona.
Lionel Messi proved the match winner for Barca, scoring 4 times for the Catalan club to send Pep Guardiola’s men to the semi-final’s and leave Arsenal with just one more chance of silverware in the form of the Premier League.
With the injuries to Cesc Fabregas, William Gallas and Andrei Arshavin, many, including myself, think Arsenal’s chances of winning anything this season have now gone. They are only 3 points behind Chelsea at the top of the Premier League table, however with only 5 games to play, it seems unlikely they can make up that gap.
So where does this leave Arsene Wenger?
Well, if Arsenal fail to lift the title this season, that would make it an incredible 5 years since the Gunners have lifted a trophy and to be perfectly honest, that is far too long for such a massive club.
Many Arsenal fans believe the lack of serious investment is the reason for the club’s lack of silverware over the last half dozen years and to be fair, that is probably right. Not enough money has been spent on top quality players and I think the failure to add real quality to the squad has been the downfall of Arsenal.
If you look at the club’s around them, ie, Manchester United and Chelsea. They are not afraid to cough up big sums for big players from time to time and that is one reason why Arsenal are still a little bit behind them.
Wenger has previously been linked with moves away from the Emirates, with a switch to Real Madrid being mooted on several occassions. With the current situation at the Bernabeu regarding Manuel Pellegrini’s position, I wouldn’t rule out the possibilty of Wenger taking the hot seat at Real sometime this summer.
Although the Arsenal squad is still quite young, perhaps there is a part of Wenger that thinks he can’t take this bunch of players any further.
I’m keen to hear what you have to say in this. Comments below please.
Comments
12 Responses to “Will Arsene Wenger leave Arsenal this summer?”
Leave a Reply
Find Us On
Football News 24/7
April 7th, 2010 @ 1:50 AM
I think AW has taken Arsenalas far as he can. No manager is indipensable . Having said that if AW were to go to RM he will find its a different kind of environment.
He wont be given power and he wiil be judged from the day thefirst game kicks off.
April 7th, 2010 @ 1:53 AM
Why can’t you take Wenger at his word instead of useless, and pretty trite, speculation. He says he will finish his contract — why should you doubt him? He always has. He says his future is based on his assessment of the development potential of his squad — why doubt him?
You imply that he has willfully failed to spend, when you know, if you are a sentient being following the club, that he has been a full partner in the club’s strategy to build a stadium for the future and not to acquire huge debts in the process?
I’ve read these same, purposefully obtuse comments dozens of times on other blogs…what useful purpose could you possibly have to regurgitate something that has been served up a hundred times already?
April 7th, 2010 @ 1:56 AM
Nick, I never said it was Wenger’s fault that there hasn’t been serious investment in the squad, all I said was that the lack of serious investment is the reason why Arsenal haven’t won much silverware.
April 7th, 2010 @ 2:02 AM
Pure and complete nonsense..Every time Arsenal is defeated pple like you get s’thng to spit on. Englishmen are alwys hates Arsenal they pray hard jst to see Arsenal go down.Tht’s why they alwys have bad thng abt Arsenal.For God’s sake utd splashng cash to buy players bt they still straggle to win in the absent of Rooney.So u’ve got no new crup to say go hang urself coz Wenger is there to stay. We don need any trophy coz u p’ple will never let non english player dominates u.
April 7th, 2010 @ 2:07 AM
5 games to go yet it’s unlikely we can make up a 3 point deficit in the league? Wow… surprising you could type this drivel with your knee pumping and jerking so furiously, yeah Arsenal are out of the champions league, let’s dredge up some spurious crap regarding the antithesis of everything Wenger stands against in linking him with Real. Such an embarrassingly bitter resentful article it can only be the work of an utter know nothing remedial whose cobbled together the most ignorant red top bilge of the last season…or a t*ttenham supporter.
Which is it Breathnach? Like anyone gives one.
Wazzock.
April 7th, 2010 @ 2:26 AM
its time wenger just left he cant do anymore with this team its over.this team is great when they play a lower team but when they play a big team and when it matters they are shit.i wish walcot would just keep hes big mouth do the talking on the pitch. off the picth he said im going run barca and on it he did shit. walcot is young but so is messi but he dont talk so much shit like walcot. its over wenger and plz take ur young shit players with you.
April 7th, 2010 @ 5:25 AM
what useful purpose could you possibly have to regurgitate something that has been served up a hundred times already?……
the purpose is u mupppet is because wenger is doing the same mistake again and again
April 7th, 2010 @ 6:04 AM
Wenger is the most successful manager in Arsenal’s history. Fact.
However, in recent years he’s been certaintly been resting on his laurels.
However, you need to look at what he’s doing for the long term. He’s sacrifising the short term for financial prosperity that should also bring about trophies in the long term. What other manager with Wenger’s mentality and restrictions would continue to keep Arsenal within the top 4? Not many. It’s no coincidence his ‘demise’ is coincided with the Emirates Stadium….
I’ve been bi-polar with Wenger. Frustrated one week, excited the next.
I think wee need to view Wenger on a year to year basis: Are we improving?
I thought at the end of last season, I’d give him one more year. I thought – he didn’t have to win anything necessarily, but he’d have to challenge. If he put up a fight, then no complaints (after all, there can only be 1 winner, so let’s not be too harsh, either).
And how has he done this season?
Carling Cup: As expected. Was for the young guns.
FA Cup: Threw it away to compete in the other 2 competitions – a gamble that didn’t pay off in the end.
Champions League: Quarter Finals. Good enough considering we were drawn against the world’s BEST!
Premiership: Still fighting with 5 games to go – and that’s key.
If Wenger adds properly this summer (A proper GK, a DC, and a proper winger to add to the striker we have tied up, we’ll be in serious contention next season).
Sagna, Vermalean, Fabregas, Arshavin, Nasri, Van Persie…..we have the talent, we just need to add to it…
Last season I gave Wenger one more season to properly compete. He’s achieved that. Now I give him one more season to win a trophy. Should he fail, then he needs to go. But let’s see what he does in the summer and the resulting season, first….
Keep the faith.
April 7th, 2010 @ 7:38 AM
Instability within the board is to blame, bring back david dein. If Wenger is wanted by top clubs then why encourage him to leave? Unless that what the press to enforce with the arsenal fans! If people want him out who should come in? Please don’t say o’neil is better.
April 7th, 2010 @ 8:07 AM
Even ayoung kid can see that Arsenal has failled due to luck of investment.And on the part of Aw’s leaving,its so unfortunate that Wenger can not be given second chances like they are doing at the club now. In clubs like madrid, the very first loss can make u pack yo stuf.
April 12th, 2010 @ 5:37 PM
Wenger says that producting players is coming first from bying. But when he products them, he sells them… like Adebayor, Vieira and possibly Fabregas… I think that he did not synchronized with the football of last years…. He is watching Arsenal struggling and he does nothing….
I think that his time at Arsenal is O V E R
May 23rd, 2011 @ 2:45 PM
Am from nigeria and I will love wenger to live to quite the club aS manager.thanks for all the arsene firm.