Should Arsenal extend Arsène Wenger's contract?

[Max]

I was once alone in a swimming pool changing room with Arsene Wenger. True story.

 

[JimJams]

Best 6 minutes of your life.

 

[AnimoEtFide]

Did he claim he didn't see anything?

 

[liu]

His age means that he won't be staying for too long. Hopefully Arsenal already realized how difficult the potential transition would be after seeing United tried and failed to copy the success of City and Chelsea.
Hope Wenger and the board can work out a succession/transition plan together. Whether he should be offered a new contract and how long the contract should be depends on his health and their transition plan. However, I see this taking more than one season, so I believe they should extend his contract.

 

[mistermagic]

His age means that he won't be staying for too long. Hopefully Arsenal already realized how difficult the potential transition would be after seeing United tried and failed to copy the success of City and Chelsea.
Hope Wenger and the board can work out a succession/transition plan together. Whether he should be offered a new contract and how long the contract should be depends on his health and their transition plan. However, I see this taking more than one season, so I believe they should extend his contract.

This success has largely been down to takeovers and generous spending sprees which I'm sure United will equal in due time. It's just that those clubs are running out of managers.

 

[Andrew Sinclair]

Wenger will forever be a staple part of Arsenal's history. Though, nothing lasts forever, and I think it's due time for Wenger to stand down.

His wisdom and experience is much needed in the boardroom I think.

 

[Avatar]

I love Wenger, but he missed his chance last season. It took a lot of wind out of our sails.

 

[irish-stu]

I think its been time for him to go for some time. No one in football will dispute what he has done for the English game but there comes a time when you have to look past that and admit that for the past few season it just has not been good enough.

 

[smat]

His appointment was announced 20 years ago today!

https://twitter.com/Lexus7Sanchez/status/776667967744577536

 

[JimJams]

When will his disappointment be announced?

 

[smat]

When will his disappointment be announced?

27th February 2011.

 

[Pagnell]

It's a difficult one. After 20 years I can't picture Arsenal without Wenger. But with the structure and budget they now have, for the first time I'm actually thinking they will do better with someone else. The era of football Wenger was most comfortable with, and therefore most successful in, has been and gone, and it won't return. Arsenal as a club need to ask themselves what they want. A cliché it might be but top 4, CL football and decent domestic cup runs every season? Or additionally to regularly and properly challenge for the league and make the latter stages of the Champions League? They have the ability and financial clout to be doing that and the fans rightly should be expecting it.

He still has a lot to offer football despite his age, but it should be a fresh start with another, perhaps smaller team, or as fresh a start as it's possible for a 66 year old to have. And Arsenal should bring in a manager with a more modern approach to the game, more appropriate for today's football and the money involved in it. The biggest hurdle they have however is who that will be. There are no obvious candidates out there who aren't already firmly attached to another club.

 

[JimJams]

Can't see Wenger going anywhere else once his Arsenal stint is done. More likely he moves upstairs and even that's unlikely I think.

 

[smat]

I hope, when he goes, it's a clean break.

I could see him managing France.

 

[Pagnell]

I believe it's absolutely essential it be a clean break. With the almost total control and influence Wenger currently has at Arsenal, him moving elsewhere in the club will make the job of the incoming manager almost untenable.

 

[smat]

Exactly. The Fergie/Moyes 'looming shadow' thing was bad. Just unnecessary pressure.

Honestly, fuck knows what will happen after Wenger goes. The entire club is in his image. He's not just a manager, he's also essentially a director of operations. Replacing him will involve all aspects of the club to be untangled and turned into coherent roles.

 

[GodsGift]

Diego Simeone has had his contract at Atletico shortened by two years...

 

[smat]

Diego Simeone has had his contract at Atletico shortened by two years...

Read somewhere that he fancies managing Inter/in Italy. Which is a bit dim as Serie A is well boring now, and the Premier League is where all the best managers (and Jose) are flocking to.

 

[Avatar]

I feel like he's the type of man we need, to scare the puffters in our team to be like prope.... wait im being an old man supporter again.

 

[smat]

He has been manager for twenty years today.

 

[Stagat]

He has been manager for twenty years today.

Show us your best Wenger XI then mate.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37408155

 

[GodsGift]

I refused to do my team cos' there was no Edu

I'd have Lauren in for Dixon and Ljungberg for Overmars. Oh and Bergkamp for Wright, cmon.

 

[Skinner]

Seaman

Lauren Campbell Adams Cole

Vieira

Overmars Pires

Bergkamp

Wright Henry​

 

[smat]

Rami Shaaban
Gavin Hoyte - Pascal Cygan - Igors Stepanovs - Karbassiyoon
Alberto Mendez-Rodriguez - Stefan Malz - Amaury Bischoff - Quincy Owusu-Abeyie
Tomas Danilevicius - Dennis Bergkamp

 

[mistermagic]

Not even a spot for Armand Traoré? Also, not sure what Arshavin's legacy is like. Superb in his day but his stay ended badly.

 

[smat]

Armand was alright. Quick, leggy, couldn't defend but that didn't separate him from Eboue really, and that guy played a hundred-odd games for us. Unfairly maligned, I'd say. He fitted in well during that dark period of 8-2s etc.

Arshavin is fondly remembered for the 4-4 at Anfield. After his first eighteen months, in which he flitted between brilliance and inertia, he settled into just inertia. Chubby little man, so unfit, and towards the end not even any good at football. One of many, many cult figures during the period 2006-2013 (see also Baptista, Almunia, Bendtner, the 35-year-old Notts County reject Sol Campbell, and Emmanuel Frimpong).

 

[Pagnell]

Show us your best Wenger XI then mate.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37408155

A Wenger best XI without Bergkamp? Him and Henry would be the first two on the team sheet.