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.
I think there’s an open question of how he would go with decent backroom staff and financial support.
His worst problems for me were not on the pitch but in going along with gazidis and Raul and not demanding better.
you… are confused.
… Raul joined 2 months b4 Wenger announced his retirement, 4 months b4 he actually retired.
“Spend” started earliest with Auba, but you could argue it was rly only starting in the summer Wenger left. Mustafi/Xhaka/Perez only came about since the season b4 we didn’t buy anyone except Cech. Laca only came in cuz we sold Ox, Mkhi was a swap. We had to sell Giroud to pay for Auba.
We got worse after he left cuz Mislintat was a fraud and Raul deserves to be in jail.
Mislintat’s “genius” set us up with £103m in losses and yrs of stagnation: