I don't see why arsenal fans disagree with him he's right all you arsenal fans were Wenger out now back Wenger in again, have no sense of ambition for your club and just accept mediocrity
The thing that many Arsenal fans forget is that Peirs actually cares about this club. Aside from his shitty political views he loves Arsenal and he is concerned just as you and me are at the direction we are heading. He is a season ticket holder and goes to as many games as he can because of his schedule. So before you start to slate him ( I know he says some stupid shit sometimes , but he actually makes good points in this video). Wenger has to leave at the end of the season if we don't win any trophies. He had all of summer to reinforce the teams weak spots and he didn't do it. He signed Sanchez, Debuchy, Ospina, Chambers, and Welbeck , but still didn't address our problems which was having no world class cdm. Not to mention he sold Vermaelen and did not sign another CB to fill in that vacant spot. Idk about you, but I'm done with this incompetence. The sad thing is that the board could give less of a fuck about this issue because they only care about making money. So go on Piers I support you, WENGER OUT!
I still cant believe we spent 16 million on welbeck... hes not good enough to be a lone striker, and on the wings we already have sanchez, walcott, the ox, podolski, gnabry, campbell, cazorla..... we should have brought a centre back with that 16 mil.....
MrGoonito As much as I like giroud, he should be our back up striker... we need a world class striker.... we had akpom to cover till then or we could have got someone on loan....
Hmmm,now I dont particularly like Mr Morgan but as a gooner myself im afraid I cant argue with a single point he made! I feel Alot of Pro Wenger gooners are living off pure sentiment and are scared of what the future may hold
Piers: I love very strong aggresive players, we miss that era ........ Oh but i like the signing of Ozil. The man who isn't strong or aggresive and relys on technique
Joe ReyesAFC They have a completely different footballing culture in Spain, In England a squad like Chelsea's currently or Arsenal's of 2003/04 with a blend of power and guile are an essential to success in this country. Qualities like strength, height and desire are valued far more at a youth/grass roots level in England than in Spain where it is far more to do with technical ability... we are getting closer to Spain gradually though.
Piers Morgan is one of the typical narrow minded Arsenal fans, overlooking so much about what Wenger has done, even in the last decade. The way the club have moved forward and the stadium, recovering financially, making talents instead of buying, and hitting Europe every season. This summer was the one to judge him on, and he did flop defensively, but its not worth getting rid of so much stability, balance, consistency and beauty. Wenger just needs another David Dein.
Managing is a performance job. If he has not gotten a title in ten years as he promised, then he deserves to be sacked. Does this mean people will not look back on him favorably? No. He made his contributions, but if he continues to not get his team performing well then another manager will come in. It's the harsh nature of this sport.
gibson Wenger always has the team performing well, he pulls consistency out of nowhere from average players. He creates something out of nothing shrugging off those who are stronger financially, that has been the circumstances and hes situation for majority of the past years and deserves credit. Was he good when he wasn't in that position? Well just take a look at him before that. Concurs in his prime, competes at his weakest - just world class. Wenger didn't exactly promise to win trophies, he promised he would give everything to win it. Because when u make a sacrifice that no other manager has the balls or knowledge to do like the stadium move, its difficult to guarantee both. U either have a backbone less stadium and trophies, or a great stadium and not many trophies - at least not right away. So the step hes taken and what hes heading towards, he deserved the utmost patience and respect. He still reached finals, so basically trophies were a possibility, and took the FA Cup. So don't come here comparing other managers to him, its no where near the same. But i 100% agree that he is guilty of not strengthening this summer specifically where needed, and i think its a problem that lies in a smaller area, instead of sacking him completely and that is the Board.
how about the countless injuries, many of which come from players not being subbed off when they get a niggle? that is entirely up to Wenger. also, there is no excuse at all for having to play Flamini or Arteta every game, neither of which are of the quality for a top 4 side. i love Wenger but if he has to go to start contending for the title again so be it.
Name one other manager that could lead a club through a transitional period in which Arsenal changed stadium and Arsene had virtually no funds to spend in each transfer window and make the last 16 of the Champions League. Look at Manchester United. In their transitional period they finished seventh.
I bet if we had Klopp we would've won the league so many times. Despite Dortmund being in relegation places now which is down to bad luck and injuries I still think he would've done a better job than Wenger.
What have you based that on Joe? Can you not comprehend what Wenger has had to work with since the stadium move? How would Klopp have done better when it can be argued that Wenger overachieved during these last 9 years with the funds he had. Everything pointed to us doing a Liverpool while we paid off the debt, yet we consistently finished in crucial CL spots. No those aren't trophies but I don't think you realise how make or break a CL place is financially. And Wenger made it through. And as soon as we paid it off, lo and behold, we are competing again. Signing top players again. But you ungrateful fans want to take all those sacrifices made by Wenger now and pass on all his hard work to someone else. Funny thing is, that's the guy Wenger is, he's only got 2 more years left and he's still responsibly working on leaving a world class squad to whoever replaces him. Don't forget he basically has Tenure. It's always been his decision how long he wants to stay at the club. He can request another 4 years if he wants and he will get it. And you have the cheek to speak hypothetically in hindsight and say Klopp would have done better. What a baseless comment. With all due respect to Klopp, he is a fantastic manager and I hope he will have a bright future, but he does not compare to Wenger, he will tell you that himself.
Whatever you think of Piers Morgan, what he has just said on here is 100%. The bottom line is that ONE TROPHY IN 10 YEARS is not good enough for a club like Arsenal with all the resources available. One trophy would be ok for a mid-table Everton or Aston Villa, no disrespect to them but they do not have the set up that Arsenal has. The history, tradition, stadium, fan base and buying-power and potential. The problem is this: if Wenger goes, and it´s a question of when not if, who replaces him?
I feel that Wenger is overrated as a manager. When they won the league with the invincibles, the squad had so many world class players that it would have been difficult NOT to have won. Now, when the players are of lower class, he can't do it. The squad now has seen players such as Wilshere not reach their potential, and players like Ozil become worse. The man has done wonders for Arsenals ethos and policy, but as a manager, I have never seen a club stand so loyal to a man that has proven himself so few times over such a long duration. My honest opinion.
While I disagree with much of what he says and don't like him much, it is not a bad thing that there are fans like him who berate Arsenal and make such negative comments that may actually have a spurring effect. We all like praise and encouragement, and positive comments do have a good psychological effect, but criticisms and constantly demanding more can be positive sometimes in shaking up the team and make them feel the heat. But I totally disagree with him that Wenger should go. Arsenal are on the up at the moment and they need Wenger to steady the ship and guide them to new heights. Now is not the time for a change in manager. If Wenger has to go, he should have gone in 2012 or 2013 when Arsenal were in a deep hole and never looked like coming back (but miraculously did anyway, which is a huge credit to Wenger).
When Rio Ferdinand said "Dem days have gone" he was actually proving himself wrong... If Arsenal had players like they did in those days, they would be challenging. "Dem days have gone"... _Exactly_ !!
This is why I like Piers Morgan. He tells it how it is. I appreciate everything Wenger has done for the club, but we need a new manager. When I was a kid, I thought George Graham would be in charge forever. It didn't happen. Things changed. George Graham has said he would've been sacked if he'd gone a number of years without winning a trophy as the chairman demanded a trophy every season. Sir Alex Ferguson was definitely one of the most successful managers in world football, does anyone actually think he'd still be in charge of Manchester United if he went 9 years without winning anything? Of course he wouldn't. Manchester United were going to sack him if he didn't win the 1990 FA Cup as he'd been in charge 4 years. Fact.
Ohhh how I hate to agree with rio ferdinand but piers morgan lives in the past, the game HAS changed and players like Big Tony, Bouldy, Viera just wouldn't play half the season now, GONE are the days when you could challenge man to man, Gone are the days that "enforcers " used to dish out retribution, It's just not allowed any more.
Arsenal Till I Die I'll be honest mate I never watch chelski unless we're playing, just trying to make the point that there aren't supposed to be enforcers in the game any more, unless they're our opponents of course then it seems it ok to kick the shit out of us, Sorree mate, tired of seeing teams get away with it week in week out, That's the reason why we're struggling our top players are being targeted and referees do Fuck All.
Gooner Pete Vieira would walk this league mate. I agree with what you say but Paddy was an immensely gifted and intelligent player, he wouldn't have the slightest problem to adapt. And I also think that CB is the position where demands didn't change that much, so it's quite likely that Bouldy/Adams could play in today's Premier League.
Samuel Ch Mate I don't disagree that they could play in the EPL now, I just asked the question "how many games" would they get, what used to be considered a " harsh but fair tackle" is now a red card offence, all three of them could win those hard challenges but in todays game they're not allowed to tackle that hard. Is it to do with spoiling the opponents make-up I wonder. lol
Lmao, then we'll surely be out of top 4. I hope the board or wenger for that matter ain't that stupid. Should get someone like simeone or allegri. Not saying it has or will be those two, but someone with top club experience or experience of winning league titles in la liga, premier league, Bundesliga or italy etc. At least the percent of being successful will increase with a top manager than with an average like Moyes.
Not really a fan of Morgan If I'm honest but he does talk sense about Arsenal. In order for Arsenal to start winning the league they need to win at Home against their rivals and get positive results away from home against them. That will give them confidence and belief that they can win the league and other trophies and be successful. Look what Mourinho did with Chelsea in the summer transfer window. He identified the positions Chelsea needed strengthening and got those players to fill them positions and they've done amazing this season. City do it as well, they buy clever and most of the time now they get their money's worth with players who do their job & do it well. Wenger basically needs to adapt his approach to the Premier League now 'cause it's different to what it was to when Arsenal last won it and he needs to learn fast for the Arsenal fans sake!
Bet Piers is eating those words now. Arsenal are sitting in 3rd spot after 28 games. I am a die-hard United fan, but you know that one never calls it quits until it is mathematically impossible to reach your team objective/target that you started with at the beginning of the season.
I agree with piers but this was in 2014... he says how great Wenger was for the first 8 years and then had for 10 years which sounds reasonable because 8 years after he took over 2006 was when we got to the champions league final but then 10 years from that was 2016 yet this is 2014
Piers is spot on. How an earth can merely qualifying for the Champions League be considered a success in the modern era; especially given our resources? Wenger did great things in the first eight years, and kept the club in the top-four against the backdrop of the Chelsea-City petrodollars and the stadium development in the second eight years if you will, but he's proven time and time again to be tactically inept, stubborn (undermining Steve Bould during the early stages of the 2012-13 season because he was getting all credit for our defensive improvements. So much so that he told Tony Colbert to take training when absent) and a defeatist who looks upon finishing in the Champions League places as some sort of achievement. He's had countless opportunities to strengthen and improve the defensive side of things, and has failed time and time again. Instead he keeps faith with average talents, brings in injury-prone free agents like Sanogo at the expense of Gonzalo Higuain (107 goals in 190 appearances for Real Madrid), makes ridiculously stupid offers for players, something that's seen us miss out on the likes of Gary Cahill (6 million, when 12 would have got him), Juan Mata (Wenger instructing Dick Law to focus on signing Joel Campbell hardly helped on that one), and Luis Suarez (£40 million and ONE pound - really?), continues this obsession with signing young talent for the future (17-year-old Legia Warsaw midfielder Krystian Bielik being a case in point), and sells our best players to rival teams - Van Persie, Clichy, Cole, Adebayor, Toure, and Fabregas (first-option, but let him go to Chelsea). What ever happened to the here and the now? This team is crying out for a midfield enforcer (A Matic type figure if you will) of proven quality (not a converted number ten like Arteta, or a midget like Flamini) and a center-back with a basic understanding of the game. Koscielny is athletic and has improved dramatically since he arrived in 2010, but we need greater depth of quality in that area, instead of relying upon on sub-standard entities like Monreal, and inexperience in the form of Issac Hayden, and Hector Bellerin, for example. Finally, I find it laughable that people like Morgan and others are branded narrow-minded for daring to question the manager, and accused of overlooking what he's done - even though Piers acknowledged what he did during the first eight years, and gave credit for keeping the club in the Champions League, as did I. Also, if he has his team so well prepared, why are we always suffering from such an alarming volume of injuries? Why are we always subjected to 6-3, 6-0, 8-2, 5-1, and 8-2 hidings, eventualities Wenger dismisses as 'accidents'? We need a change that brings a new voice and new concepts. They'll probably be a brigade of people who'll subject me to a torrent of petty and quite frankly pathetic abuse, and bleat about how we'll 'end up like Man United'. Well, maybe we may have to go through a season of that to get through to the other side. Well, it's not turned out too badly for United has it? Oh, and apparently Fabregas would hold back Jack Wilshire's development? Really? Prior to our last league game, Fabregas had twelve assists - the sum total of Jack Wilshire's entire Arsenal career to date. Yes, he's had rotten luck with injuries, but it's still a very poor number. He (Fabregas) has also created more assists than Ozil had throughout the entirety of his first season. But, when presented with a 5.6 million selling-on bonus, why re-sign him? Like I say, he was a great manager, but the more he carries on managing the way he has, he'll destroy what was once a quite formidable reputation.
"Mourinho doesn't settle for second, he would never classify success as qualifying for the Champions League" Mourinho would go on to say finishing 2nd with Man United was his greatest ever success and celebrate finishing 6th with Tottenham more than Wenger ever celebrated 4th.
Jack Wilshere was a Tottenham fan when he was young.My dad used to know the Wilsheres and he said to me that he remembers Jack in his blue and white colours on the way to White Hart Lane to watch Spurs. He should have signed for them, but Spurs lost out to Arsenal. He keeps this pretty quiet.
Well you dads a lying he was a West Ham fan and if you look online you can see a actual pic of Jack around 8 year old in a West Ham kit . Never a dirty yid
greedy1231990 Sorry to disappoint you greedy, but Jack was a boy of many colours, and football, not teams is maybe his one love. I wouldn't be surprised, all professionals are the same, you should know that. He was born in Stevenage, so there's a clue. Jack Wilshere, Spurs supporter... you will just have to swallow it, eye-witness evidence. The search should now be on for Jack in a Spurs' shirt.
Say what you want about Piers.. But everything he just said is 100% true. We've become accustom to mediocrity, 4th place WTF is that?!. If Mourinho/Klopp had this group of players at arsenal (Ozil, Sanchez, Cazorla, Ramsey, OX, Giroud, Podolski, Theo, Wilshere, Kosc), they'll turn them into beasts/winners. They'll make their players kill for em & that's the difference. Wenger has lost that hunger he once had. Nonetheless I'll forever love Wenger, but it's time Arsenal divorce Arsene.
I personally believe wenger can still lead arsenal to success but he needs to sort things out quickly by bringing strong and aggressive characters into this current team whom i think have a huge potential... he must buy a tall physical commanding defensive mind set midfielder and also a top notch centre half. i think the offense is good enough but adding another talented young player like draxler won't harm. and if he fails to do so next season the door is open for a new manager. also an experienced goalkeeper is necessary cus Szczęsny still a lil bit shaky and osping is not convincing with his injuries
like him or not piers morgan has hit the nail squarely on the head. arsenal's squad is TOO SMALL. in both physical and numerical size. they don't have enough quality in numbers and what they do have are too small in stature. this may work in the tikka takka of spain or in the relatively unphysical champions league but in this country players get away with a lot more. ok so the two footed tackles of the souness era are gone but this is still the most physical league in the world. look at the last time arsenal won the league. the invicibles. lehmann, cole, Campbell, kolo, lauren, ljungberg, pires, viera, gilberto, bergkamp and henry. in this team you had Ashley cole and Freddie ljungberg who were under 6 foot. even Robert pires, a player many consider to be a pussy on the pitch a bit of a namby pamby. even Robert pires was 6"2!!! nowadays they play with a midfield general of 5"6 jack wilshere or artea and flamini who are 5"10 at best.
Piers claims are IRRIFUTABLE, he gave credit to Wenger for his successful 8 years but rightly attacked him for the 10n unsuccessful ones and if my maths is correct that's two more unsuccessful years. People go "financial constraints" this financial constraints that but the fact of the matter is around 2011 I think we had Song, Nasri, Wilshere, Vermaelen, RVP, Fabregas, Sagna and Arshavin. At this point all of them were operating at either world class or bordering on the edge of those levels. If our medical department were competent or Wenger's training methods were not self inflicting injuries we might have achieved something. This alone n would have won us nothing but imagine if we added to that nucleus with players who did not self destruct like Squilllaci, Djourou, Denilson and Bendtner...You cannot dare tell me financial weakness meant there wasn't better players out there than them who could've come in, added some PHYSICAL PRESENCE to our squad and won us titles. For these reasons Wenger deserves to be fired for showing a lack of insight and a stubborn mentality concerning faith in players who are simply not good enough.
I think Arsene Wenger is one of the best coaches in the world. He should have gone to Spurs and then you critics would have had a bit more serious stuff to moan about, like having to suffer the Spurs Invincibles, Multi League Champions, FA Cup Winners and League Cup Winners. He chose the wrong club and is probably regretting it; and who can blame him when he has to read and hear the reactions of misguided and ungrateful so-called Arsenal fans.
