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Time to submit to the Dark Side?
Ivaney Vuonit writes:
Every
dog has his day they say. Whether you’re talking about womanizing men, company
bosses or even football managers. At some point your looks fail you, employees
no longer think you are the business oracle they once believed you were or the
tattooed lads running around the pitch think you’ve lost the plot.
Wenger
has a formidable history in the Premier League. Since 1996 he has won 3 Premier
League Trophies, 7 FA Cups and 5 Community Shields and become Arsenal’s longest
serving manager and in the course of this season can overtake Alex Ferguson as
the longest serving manager in the Premier League. During his tenure Arsenal
have moved to a new stadium but have not amassed massive debts in the process.
For
several years the Gunners’ fans accepted that financial sobriety precluded
spending large sums of money on transfers in the belief that all would be well
a few years down the road. Alas, although financially secure and a declared
readiness from the Board to support transfer activity, Wenger seems to have
become more and more Scrooge-like with the passing of time. At least that is
what it looked like when he said just throwing money around wasn’t good enough,
you had to get the right player to do the job you wanted and you had to get him
at the right price. No, no, Arsenal were not going to be bullied into financial
extravagance!
It
is then all the more surprising that last weekend Lacazette - all £52.7m off
him – was left on the bench at Anfield. His first appearance against Leicester with
one goal was followed by 78 minutes against Stoke where he was hampered by
Stoke tactics. Against Liverpool where he would have been closely marked he was
on the bench for two thirds of the game. Having broken a club record to sign
him, Wenger it would seem made a rash decision to not start him. I can imagine
how confused he might have been to discover that he wasn’t in the starting
line-up. I suggest it also confused a few of his teammates.
Whispers
suggest that Wenger’s coaching methods, motivational team talks and analyses
are falling on deaf ears. Players one third of his age are wondering where he’s
coming from and why he is not more forward thinking. All players take an
interest in how other teams train and the different methods used to develop
footballers and improve their skills and fitness. With younger managers like
Klopp, Guardiola, Mourinho, Koeman, Pochettino as well as homegrown like Dyche
it is difficult to not get the feeling that Wenger is still stuck in the 90s.
I
suspect that he’s filling the gap for one more year when
the Gunners might just get Diego Simeone who finishes his Atletico Madrid
contract in 2018 or a manager like him to infectiously coax the team into
combative competition. A touch of the Darkside of the Force is perhaps what
they need. Remember Obi-Wan Kanobi said: "It takes strength to resist
the dark side. Only the weak embrace it! It is more powerful than you know." Perhaps now is the time
for Arsenal to do a deal and get a Sith Lord as a coach!
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