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What is Wenger's biggest mistake?

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comment by oldboy (U20062)

posted on 19/4/16

Never buys the players we need

posted on 19/4/16

Not evolving and improving your team since about 2006, feels like Wenger desperarely tried to hang on to the invincible squad even when it started to age and needed freshening up.

posted on 19/4/16

Wenger desperarely tried to hang on to the invincible squad even when it started to age and needed freshening up.
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That is the complete opposite of what happened.
Vieira (05)
Pires (06)
Bergkamp (06)
Lauren (06)
Campbell (06)
Ashley Cole (06)
Ljungberg (07)
Henry (07)
Gilberto (08 - but was phased out long before that)
Lehmann (08)

Quite a dramatic loss of the key Invincibles.



Wengers biggest mistake was staying on when the money came in.
His biggest mistake in terms of the team was not being able to replace Vieira and instead going for tippy tappy football with lots of short players lacking physicality.

posted on 19/4/16

Also WIltord and Kanu both left at the end of the 03-04 season, Keown went at the same time as did Ray Parlour.

posted on 19/4/16

His refusal to strengthen is his biggest issue. Money is there and the board are very open about this.

I can't believe he didn't leave after winning the FA cup 2 seasons ago.

Virtually ruined his legacy

comment by Radical (U8691)

posted on 19/4/16

Not leaving 2 years ago when his last contract was up. When we got thrashed 6-0 by Chelsea that season in his 1000th game I said to myself "surely Arsene now knows he can't carry on".
He had his chance to leave after winning that FA cup, he would've been well respected by nearly all Arsenal fans if he'd done that. Instead the stubborn mule decided to carry on and will most likely be hounded out by the same fans in the end.

posted on 19/4/16

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 37 seconds ago
Wenger desperarely tried to hang on to the invincible squad even when it started to age and needed freshening up.
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That is the complete opposite of what happened.
Vieira (05)
Pires (06)
Bergkamp (06)
Lauren (06)
Campbell (06)
Ashley Cole (06)
Ljungberg (07)
Henry (07)
Gilberto (08 - but was phased out long before that)
Lehmann (08)

Quite a dramatic loss of the key Invincibles.



Wengers biggest mistake was staying on when the money came in.
His biggest mistake in terms of the team was not being able to replace Vieira and instead going for tippy tappy football with lots of short players lacking physicality.
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I did say tried to

what I mean Is he tried to keep them around but failed and sought of delusinally refused to accept them leaving and thus refused to replace them with players similar to them, like Viera as you said.

posted on 19/4/16

what I mean Is he tried to keep them around but failed and sought of delusinally refused to accept them leaving and thus refused to replace them with players similar to them,
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The only ones he tried to keep were Cole, Vieira and Henry (and even the latter two he gave up on at least a year before he flogged them). Players like Lehmann, Gilberto, Pires, Bergkamp, Ljungberg, Lauren were phased out before they left.

posted on 19/4/16

Glad to see more and more fans come to the conclusion that wenger has past his sell by date. A lot of the wenger fans boys would make articles about oil money but even those guys have now dissapeared

posted on 19/4/16

He makes a number of mistakes repeatedly that I would not expect from a top Manager. The biggest one might be that he failed to realize when it is time to go. IMO he had 2 chances: in 2007 when the era of the invincibles was finished and in 2011/12 when the rebuilding had failed and Fabregas/Nasri left.

posted on 19/4/16

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 8 minutes ago
what I mean Is he tried to keep them around but failed and sought of delusinally refused to accept them leaving and thus refused to replace them with players similar to them,
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The only ones he tried to keep were Cole, Vieira and Henry (and even the latter two he gave up on at least a year before he flogged them). Players like Lehmann, Gilberto, Pires, Bergkamp, Ljungberg, Lauren were phased out before they left.

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That's strange

I'll take your word for it

posted on 19/4/16

John Harper's last convert.

posted on 19/4/16

Where does one even begin so many categories.

Players leaving
Not offering Cole more money
Letting Pires go to early
Letting Viera go to early
Letting Gilberto go to early
Giving up on Eduardo because we changed the system he was amazing in
Letting RVP go
Letting Song go
Letting Sagna go

Player recruitment
Buying Park
Buying Santos
Buying Gervinho
Buying Silvestre
Buying Podolski
Buying Arteta as a replacement for Fabregas
Buying Giroud as a replacement for RVP

Lack of player recruitment
Not replacing Nasri
Not replacing Song
Only buying Ozil and Flamini two seasons ago
No outfield players last summer
Not getting Higuain when available
Not getting Suarez when available (50 mill)
Not getting a DM for years

Allowing players to regress
Arshavin
Vermaelen
Walcott
Oxlade Chamberlain
Alexis
Cazorla (goal scoring)
Ramsey

Having faith in crocks
Rosicky
Arteta
Wilshere
Diaby
Vermaelen

Random changes of system
4-1-4-1 of 2014-2015 anyone?

Yet inability to change tactics when need to
4-4-2 anyone?

The horrendous drubbings to rivals for years
Never beating Mourinho
Awful substitutions
Faith in awful players
The socialist wage structure
Bendtner and Djourou being in starting line ups against Barcelona
Can't train defenders

New one to add, utter disrespect to the fans

comment by BO$$™ (U6401)

posted on 19/4/16

Not signing a top CF is surely up there. How he can even think Giroud is up there in the Henry, Anelka, Wright, Bergkamp class amazes me.

posted on 19/4/16

Selling the rapist to utd lost all respect for him after that.

posted on 19/4/16

His biggest mistake is that trusts in the players too much how many times have we heard we can't buy a player because it will harm another player's career. What he seems to forget he's employed by Arsenal to put together a winning team not be concerned about how an individual will feel if another player is brought in that could replace that said player.

He simply isn't ruthless no matter how morally wrong it is the likes of Wilshire and Diaby before him should of been dumped years ago. We as a club can't afford to carry anyone and in reality right now there is four or five players in the squad who contribute absolutely nothing to the team meaning we are at disadvantage to all the other teams before we even start.

posted on 19/4/16

Not keeping Pires on at least one more season.

Criminal.

posted on 19/4/16

I heard a quote the other day from a manager from years ago and he said never fall in love with your players.

posted on 19/4/16

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posted on 19/4/16

Good question.
Fast counter attacking football, one touch passing with purpose, forward, ruthless attackers....players over 6 foot

To, slow build up, endless passing and no shooting with players around 5ft 7inches tall

Bizarre.

posted on 19/4/16

comment by ♤WengersNearlyMen♤ (U5041)
posted 9 minutes ago
I heard a quote the other day from a manager from years ago and he said never fall in love with your players.
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What he probably meant by that is, "don't make the same mistake as me and fall in love with your players".

posted on 19/4/16

Not replacing David Dein. Not replacing Vieira. Not replacing RVP. Getting read of anyone wanting to voice their opinions ie taking leadership out of the players.

posted on 19/4/16

As for Wenger's biggest mistake..? Easy.

Being too proud to ever admit he was wrong.

posted on 19/4/16

The more often people ask AW to buy tall, physical and good players again the more he wants to buy 11 pixies.

posted on 19/4/16

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