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.

  • OnionTraining1688@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been a fan since 1998, watched many managers come and go in the league. Here’s why there was hate:

    1. Our fanbase was crap. Most of the old fans and AFTV manufactured narratives around Wenger not doing tactics and not following stats. Both were repeatedly debunked.
    2. We targeted our own players. Giroud, Ramsey, Özil, Elneny, Walcott, Szczesny etc were at the end of hate campaigns by our own fanbase. Again, AFTV at the center of it for allowing racist remarks against players like Elneny.
    3. We were delusional. The Kroenke’s did not have full power/will to invest and yet we wanted to win the league. Who took the blame? Wenger. People actually believed Wenger wouldn’t splash the cash despite him having spent well when he could.
    4. Our fans were shortsighted and didn’t count the implications of a stadium move on our ambitions. Wenger managed to resurrect a team that won several FA Cups and shields. The spurs moved stadiums recently too, what have they won in the last decade?
    5. Silverware began to be classified. The FA Cup wasn’t a ‘major’ trophy according to some bimbos including the ones with mics on YouTube. The oldest cup competition in football FFS!
    6. Sven Mislintat was looked upon as the saviour from Wenger’s ‘autocratic and old youth spotting system’. And Sven turned out to be a power-hungry disaster. His recruits were hit and miss.

    Wenger is one of the greatest managers to grace the game. He should’ve left earlier not because he wasn’t competitive, but because our fanbase deserved someone who’d take us to the depths of the bottom half of the league. He could’ve won any trophy on offer at a big club. Bayern, Man Utd, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, all wanted him not for nothing.