Last night was another atrocity, that we’ve become rather accustomed to seeing time and time again since the past 4 seasons and believe me when I say it, its beginning to get on a lot of people’s nerves.
There comes a point when you begin to ponder what the purpose really is? The first test this season and we buckle under the pressure again? There was no way in hell United deserved to win and there was no way in hell we couldn’t score another goal and yet both happened which raised a lot of questions in my mind, the first being the mental strength of the players and the second being what the fuck is wenger thinking?
After going down 2-1, we should have thrown out all our fire power and that certainly did not mean throwing out Bendtner, it meant putting out Eduardo, a natural goal scorer, who tends to pull something out of nothing, like Arshavin and produces results and yet it was the other way around? Why didn’t you go for the jugular Mr. Wenger? What was the purpose of hiding your players behind what they may have done in a previous match? This isn’t a fucking charity event, if you want to achieve something you need to take those risks.
Now at this point two instances stick out like sore thumbs, the first being the tie against Chelsea last season where we had a fit Arshavin who was also cup tied for the upcoming game against United in the Champions League and there was no point in resting him, instead of going straight for the jugular, the boss fielded a defensive side which once again crumbled under pressure and that midfield consisted of players we’ve come to know very well as the midfield that is “maturing” with every game, yet you fail to see it often.
Another instance is the well known issue of buying a DMF, we’ve had this problem for a couple of seasons now and I’m sure the boss can see it as well, yet he’s fucking about, trying to sell diaby as the answer to all our problems when even a 2 month old baby could tell you that that isn’t working. Here’s my point, Diaby has played in what 101 games for Arsenal thus far, he’s injury prone, error prone and yet despite all that, why is wenger continuing to force such players down our throats?
We, the fans are paying for those wages, for virtually everything, then why is it so difficult for him to splash the cash? We aren’t asking for a billion pound signing either, I’m sure, wenger can infact find a player who is well within our budget and also well within the specifics of being world class.
A lot of people, at this point will cry, we don’t have money and we’re broke as fuck, but let me ask you something, have you seen our financials? We’re in operating profits, our cash flows are positive, we seem to be heading in the right direction, yet how hard is it to splash 10 odd million to bring a player that will surely solve the only problem that we seem to be having at present? Hell, the money from the Adebayor & Toure sales, despite balancing the books, is still enough to buy a decent player.
Another instance is the stubbornness of the boss, last season when we needed a midfield player, at first Wenger couldn’t up his bid for Alonso (a meager 2 million pounds more) and when the need for a defensive minded player arose, he bought a CAM in the form of Arshavin, with greatest of respect to Arsha, who is world class and perhaps my favorite Arsenal player at the moment behind Cesc, wasn’t what we needed at the moment and that fact came back to haunt us when we went crashing out from every competition we were in.
Diaby isn’t the answer to our problems, he simply isn’t ready and neither is denilson, these players really need a world class player to learn from. You can’t keep throwing them in with Giggs and expect them to learn when the outcome has become rather repetitive instead of productive.
I mean look at our bench, wenger keeps crying, look at the squad, when we have those player back, its difficult to choose from but what’s the point, I mean it’s the same bunch of crocks on the operating table time and time again and even now if you look at it, who do we really have to cover for cesc? Look at the list of injured players, Nasri, Theo, Rosicky, and all of them are attacking players, what do we have in terms of pure midfield players like Vieira? What was the point of selling one of the most loyal Arsenal players ever in the form of Gilberto? Would he not have made a difference last season and last night and yet he was cast aside like a rat on a marooned ship eating out the last of the bread.
I know, these are early days, but if we’re so obviously going down the same path as season before, what difference is it really going to make whether we cry “wolf” now or at the end of the season?
Arsene Wenger needs to change his tactics and he needs to understand what the fans want from time to time. This project youth isn’t ever going to work unless this youth has some mature, experienced head to learn from and understand the art of keeping it together and for that he needs to bring in a couple of experienced players and phase out some of the excess fat we’re carrying around under false pretenses of “talent”.
You may want to disagree with me just for the sake of it, but if you really think about it, isn’t this what is going on in every fans mind? You can’t repeating the mistakes of the past and yet that’s what we seem to be doing, unless we don’t make drastic amends we are going to lose some of our best players and you can see the level of frustration on their faces as well, they may not speak it, but if you read between the lines, they too have been crying for the same course of action that we, the fans have been and yet it seems to be falling on deaf ears.
I love Arsenal, I really do and it hurts to see us going down to such teams who are obviously not as good as us but there are some harsh realities that we need to face up to if we’re going to becomes the world class club that we’re so used to being labeled as.
