I have been following Arsenal since I was 8. I’ve been through the good and the bad like the rest of you. Recently I have been widening my Arsenal  radar via internet, the twitter bird, newspapers etc and my already frustrated head has grown to an all new level of frustratedness(is that a word) with the common denominator being; Arsene Wengers transfer policy, scrap that I’m just fed up with his policies full stop. Let me begin....

Mr Wenger you have guided us to glory in the noughties, for that you will be forever remembered as an Arsenal Legend. You gave us the invincible’s a feat that I don’t think will be repeated for a very long time. You’ve given us years of pleasure winning the league at Old Trafford and White Hart Lane! What more could we ask for? Why am I being so harsh? The man has done it on a shoe string. He walks on water!

Lenin would be proud....

Let me start by saying, we play the best football in Europe at times yet we blow leads like cheap hookers. Yes its wonderful we keep the sodding ball for 70% of the game but why oh why can’t we score goals, put teams to bed and win ugly when need be? I’ll tell you why, we don’t have a Manager anymore we have a dictator who is pig headed and stubborn. He is so adamant that his way is the only way to do things. His judgement has become clouded and his transfer policy is a shambles. He only wants ‘Yes’ men in his squad.

My feelings are Wenger doesn’t keep many older players in the squad because they have more of an opinion and can disrupt his dictatorship. The young guns can be moulded to follow his strict methods. WHY didn’t we keep Gallas? What a season he had for the scum! He still has a couple years left in him. He went against the grain. Perhaps. But you need people with opinions. The guy has won trophies with Chelsea and France! He has what we need more of, experience. Why wasn’t Pires given more than a year’s contract? He is still playing now! He could have played for 2 more years under Wenger yet Arsene again refuses to offer a 2 year deal and Pires buggers off to Spain. It happens far too often. We need people that may not have the young legs anymore but have the experience to guide the rudderless ship and headless chickens. We wouldn’t have thrown away so many leads if we had experience.

Why don’t we shoot outside the box? The dictator doesn’t allow it. I’m sure players are scared of shooting! Must be the snipers on the Emirates roof.  Anybody trying to shoot  from outside the Prison perimeter will be shot!

The other Red team......

It’s wonderful that we have so much young talent don’t get me wrong, but you need a balance. Ok you don’t gain experience if you don’t play, but too many big games come far too soon for the younger players. Our squad is the youngest in the Premier League. Surely this has something to do with why we fall off towards the end of season? Mental toughness comes with experience. Get a bloody centre half who isn’t afraid to throw himself in front of a moving train. Get a midfielder who only needs to look at an opponent for them to piss their pants. An attacker who isn’t afraid to mix it Shearer style. We need Steel. For six long years Wenger has gone on about the team being ready and it has the mental toughness. So why haven’t we pushed on and won something? Unlucky? The Gods conspiring against us? No sorry don’t buy that! It’s down to our youthful squad not have the experience and killer instinct pure and simple.

Man Utd know how to blood youngsters and give them experience. Let’s take Cristiano Ronaldo as an example. Love him or hate him the guy is the best player in the world. When he came to Utd as a spotty teenager with shocking dress sense nobody had heard of him(well I had). Games were selected by Fergie and he was used as a sub on various occasions. The boy had talent but Fergie had other top players at his disposal and wasn’t under pressure to play him in every game. He even sent him on holiday over the Christmas period so he could have a rest! My worry is Jack Wilshere is being flogged and will be burnt out and stale before not too long. He needs a rest. Ok so he probably wants to play every game which pro footballer doesn’t? The problem is Jack has to play every game because we don’t have good enough players to replace him and give him the rest he deserves. Add to that the imminent departure of our dear Capitan and Nasri throwing his toys out the pram, we don’t have much else in reserve. Rosicky, Diaby and a few youngsters like Eastmann, Frimpong and Lansbury. Hardly scary on paper. Of course Man Utd Chelsea and the like s don’t fear us.

Transfers zzzzzzzz

Let me move on to transfer policy, why the hell does it take us so long to get deals done? The Gervinho deal was drawn out over months. Why not pay the money and get the deal done? Look at what has happened now with the Mata deal, we took so long to make an offer his contract clause expired and they smacked a much bigger release fee in there. PAY the money. For the sake of 2-3 million we could lose out on qualification for Champions League which earns the club a hell of a lot more. I hate to keep going back to Man Utd, but they do their main business so early. It gives the new signings time to adapt to life at the club and have a full pre season with the rest of the team. Why do we take so long? I don’t have the answer but my god it’s so frustrating. We need four good players to guarantee a title challenge. It’s going to be hard enough to get top four! All this rubbish that we are waiting for the Cesc saga to sort itself out before we add to squad is absolute nonsense. If we add to the squad we can show Cesc we have ambition and who knows he might even change his mind (long shot I know). Whether it s the board or Wenger not wanting to spend, something must change. We have become a laughing stock when it comes to transfers.

Whether you agree with me or not, something must change at the club for us to take the next step. Perhaps this will be Wenger’s last season. I think if he doesn’t win anything then it really could open the door to a new manager coming in. I’m going to leave you with a thought. Wenger has close connections to Paris St Germain. They have some serious financial clout behind them now. I can see Wenger going to Paris next year! Not all bad news, I’ve heard Guardiola could leave Barca after this season. He wants a new challenge. He likes the way we play. He likes the club. Surely the only man that can replace Mr Wenger and lead us to glory......

Right I’m off to get myself a nice cup of Nicaragua limoncilo pacamara.

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