A thousand thanks Mr Wenger. I have never been one of those who asked for your head and I’ve been toying with the idea whether I should write such a letter and express my feelings in the open. However, out of love for my beloved Arsenal I decided to put pen to paper.
The buck has to stop with you the Board and to a certain extent, after the latest debacle, the playing staff. As much as I do not have too much sympathy, to put it mildly, for the arrogant Mourinho, his recent mutterings have being quite correct. To bag seventeen goals in just three games is not sheer coincidence but diabolical. Besides, the team has been papering some obvious cracks on a number of other occasions throughout the season.
Lately you have talked about revisiting our training methods as well as the medical condition and the length of recovery of a good number of our players. I dare say it took you some years to realize this since this has been a major concern for quite a few years now. All you did was to bemoan our misfortunes.
I am writing this letter with a heavy hand and an injured heart. However, I am sure I am expressing the feelings of the majority of our supporters. I am a couple of weeks older than you and have been supporting Arsenal since I was a kid, that is, over 55 years ago much earlier than when you heard about Arsenal.
I still hope that before the end of my earthly journey I’ll be able to see Arsenal triumph once again, in the Premiership or Champions League. Yet, as things stand at the moment I cannot see this happening so soon.
You have to take the blame for having sold most of our best players at this first knock on the Club’s door and a request to buy was received. The Club gave in too easily. More so, and to add insult to injury, you sold them to our main title contenders. On the contrary, when we made a request for Suarez, Liverpool put their foot down resisted the club’s request and the rest is history.
You have been taking us supporters for a ride these last few years. Before each transfer market you would belch out the now nauseating statements that the club had funds available and that we would be active in the market to bolster the squad. However, you would then add – only if the players available were better than the ones we already had. Did you really believe that?. Did you really believe we had the best players in the Premiership? I am not here to pinpoint individual players because that hurts but it was obvious that some players were not worthy to wear the Arsenal shirt.
Arsenal have become the laughing stock of the Premiership because in these last few years we were satisfied simply of landing the fourth berth in the league which meant a place in the preliminary round of the CL. This year this will happen simply thanks to Manchester United, Spurs and Everton. Had these teams performed as was expected we would have been left in the cold.
I have purposely ended this open letter on a negative vein in the sincere hope that it will spur the players, and all those involved, including Mr Gazidis to get things moving once again so that all Arsenal supporters will be able to proclaim once again ‘In Arsene we trust’. Until then we live in hope.
Finally, I wish that come next season I would have had to eat humble pie. However, at this stage I need to vent out my feelings because at my age I did not want to risk suffering any heart problems.
Yours sincerely,
Pierre Cauchi
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