I’m a newer fan who only started watching the club over the past 2 seasons. I’ve been trying to learn the history of the club, and I’m confused why there was hate for Wenger at the end of his career. I learned that he lead the invincible’s, and that amazing squad from the early 2000s, he gave us the only champions league final appearance in club history, and even after that he seem to do an amazing job. Heck he even got a new Stadium that is really nice. He seemed to be loved. By all accounts he should be a Saint to the gooners but then I look forward a few years, and they were all these Wenger out protests. What led to such a fall from grace.
Let’s agree to disagree: just look at Arsenal’s net spend under Wenger it’s ridiculously low and always dwarfed by the other big 4 teams. The blatant mistake was Mustafi, but managing to bring prime Auba and Lacazette in latter years as well as Xhaka is testament to the professor’s gift. the difficult ego was really Sanchez who by that time was no longer in his prime. Ozil was a notoriously difficult character that Papa Wengz kept in check.
I think the main issue was style of ownership at the time and not Kroenke, we had split ownership with two large billionaires trying to buy the club outright, and neither would invest properly as it would be more costly to buy out the other. I think Wenger himself mentioned it on Seaman’s podcast a few weeks ago.