Wenger Out? Then What?

I'm not remotely interested in the debate about who is or isn’t an Arsenal Supporter or who loves Arsenal more (those labelled as AKBs for being sensible or those filled with blind, illogical hate that want Wenger out). Some of us simply wanted to see Arsenal come out of the awful start to the season and climb up the table and we were happy to offer unflinching support to the club we love, in order to see Arsenal recover.

We endured weeks of idiots coming on this website and telling us how Wenger has done nothing for Arsenal, how he won a few trophies using players he didn’t bring in, how it didn’t make sense to build the new stadium and how Wenger hasn’t really done anything for Arsenal and he's a useless manager. Perhaps five years ago, with people at the club who could attract good managers and with an organisation in the backroom (and boardroom) who understand modern day football, one could think about replacing a manager like Wenger (while clever clubs like Man Utd, Everton, try to keep their manager for as long as they can, as they understand the simple logic that while it's easy to fire one manager, getting a reliable replacement is a totally different prospect).

With Saturday's victory away to Norwich (which I pointed out as a milestone in my last article) and with Newcastle facing Man Utd next week, we have a juicy home game against Fulham and should hopefully be back up in the top 4 challenging against Chelsea and Spurs for a Champions League spot. And before some idiots start talking about that not being enough; I’m sure it wasn’t enough when we were languishing in 17th a few weeks ago.

There are four credible competitions this season, same as most seasons, and Arsenal should target a trophy (any trophy) to get us back in a winning mentality and then build from there. I don’t care much for conversations about whether or not top 4 is good enough, let's focus on winning every game remaining this season or dropping as few points as possible and hang in there to see where we end up. If it's top 4, so be it; 6 weeks ago we were praying fervently not to end up on the second page of the Premiership table

Back to the topic of this article; yes, let's continue to indulge the fools who clamour for Wenger's exit, so we don’t risk being called 'blind' AKBs? Seriously, is that how fickle we've all become? Why don’t we simply apply some common sense eh? There are quite a few pretty-boy managers out there (e.g. Villas-Boas) whose experience in football was developed from watching on telly and the chances of them staying at the same club for more than three seasons is quite low (add Mourinho to that list) as they simply lack that staying power. They will either do well and then be off to the next club (Real, Barca, Inter etc) or struggle like AVB after spending millions; but one things is sure, you won’t have them for 15 years.

With guys like Gazidis in charge of Arsenal, you must be insane to even consider sacking Wenger, not because Wenger is great or irreplaceable, but CAN YOU IMAGINE WHO GAZIDIS WOULD BRING IN TO REPLACE HIM? Can you imagine the chaos that would ensue at the club? I'm sure those of us who have been supporting Arsenal for long enough can answer that question. We've been here before Wenger, we will be here after Wenger, but for goodness sake, let's get a strong board in and a solid vice chairman or chief executive before we start a deluge by chasing off the only sane person at the helm of the club (love him or hate him). I'm sure 95% of football clubs in Europe are praying Arsenal lose Wenger so they can have him.