Why I believe Wenger’s new contract is already signed…

Why Wenger is signing a new contract by Ollie Adler

This season has been a complete and utter disaster. We are not only performing worse than last season, doing worse in the big games and making a mockery out of ourselves in the champions league but it is the repetitive nature of what we achieve and what we fail in each season. This season and especially the last few months has provided us with the ‘tide is turning’ sort of attitude. After consistent failure to win the league, put up a sustainable challenge in the race for the title, get past the round of 16 in the champions league and disappoint in big games, Arsenal fans are realising that this feat isn’t surprising. We are consistently having the same classic Arsenal season year after year. It is no surpise that after reflection at the end of every season, the theme of ‘Déjà vu’ pops into our head. The reason for that ‘déjà vu’ is because the same season happened the year before and the year before that and oh wait, the year before that.

The fact is that obtaining champions league every year is impressive. However, I, as an Arsenal fan need to be questioning the progress that we have made. There is no progress; it is just consistency. Consistency is only a good thing, if you are consistently at the top. We are consistently in fourth place. I, like the majority of Arsenal fans believe it is not on anymore. I have felt this way for a long time. However, only now has the majority of Arsenal fans realised that we cannot settle for not winning titles any longer. All Arsenal fans are only now bored of the lack of progression. There is a strong Wenger out brigade now and it is louder than ever as we need new ideas, new passion, new tactics and most importantly a new winning mentality that I believe Wenger has lost.

It is this increased enthusiasm against Wenger staying at Arsenal and the fact that he only has a few months left on his contract for why many think that the ‘tide is turning.’ However, for Arsene Wenger, there is no tide to turn. This is because he will sign a new contract and in fact, I believe that it is already signed.

His demeanour suggests that he will leave at the end of the season but he will not for two key reasons. The first of these reasons is in what he says and the second of these two reasons is the delay in announcing his future.

Wenger has said that he hopes to be in management for at least ‘the next four years.’ to equal the age Alex Ferguson retired. The fact is that Wenger also said that these four years will either be at Arsenal or elsewhere. However, where will he go to manage for four years? He simply loves Arsenal too much to leave, when he only has four years left. Secondly, where will he go? Wenger is a manager who will want to stay at the top level and therefore a move to China will not happen. He also will not move to another top club as he will not want to offend Arsenal fans, of whom Wenger has served so greatly over the last 20 years. Therefore, Wenger will love to stay at Arsenal. As well as this, reports suggest that Wenger rejected an offer from a Chinese club. If Wenger isn’t staying at Arsenal, he needs to find a new club to manage. If he leaves it too late, he won’t find a new club. The fact that Wenger has left it this late demonstrates that his near future at least lies with Arsenal and a new contract will be signed. As well as this, he said that he prefers to stay at Arsenal, rather than manage Barcelona. He has indicated where he wants his future to be, the board have certainly indicated where they want his future to be and therefore there is an easy agreement for Wenger to make whereby he will stay at Arsenal.

However, Wenger claims that he doesn’t know whether he is staying or leaving yet. By the time Wenger has made his decision on his future, all possible replacements will be unavailable. Allegri hasn’t yet signed a contract extension with Juventus. However, by the time Wenger says he is leaving, Allegri would have signed a new contract because Juventus would begin to look at other managerial options if Allegri hasn’t made a stance on his future. There is no planning to the future. If you look at Manchester City, Pellegrini announced he was standing down in January and Guardiola was announced. If Pellegrini had announced he was standing down in April, another club would have snapped Guardiola up or Guardiola would have signed a new contract. Therefore, Wenger knows he is staying because if he was leaving, we would know our next manager by now.

Personally, I would love Wenger to leave on a high, having won the FA Cup. I will not be happy if he signs a new contract but it is what I really believe will happen. He cannot stand down having won the FA Cup. He needs to make the decision earlier than that so that we can plan for a new manager to succeed Wenger. I believe that it is worth the gamble that he will leave on a high so that we can move forward under a new coach.

However, I believe the lack of planning, indication on his future and his comments will mean that Wenger stays. If Wenger does stay, it is our duty as fans to get behind the team for another year or two, rather than protest because the most important thing is results on the pitch, rather than who our manager is.

Ollie

7 Comments

  1. His waiting to see if he can achive top four spot for the CL if yes he will stay if not he will leave ,

    Persenaly I wanted to see Arsenal with full squad of players to see what he can do and for the first time he has a good strong team and a full squad of players but we are struggling again,

    I hear Chelsea, ManU, ManC, even Liverpool will splash the cash this summer to strengthen their team with beter players and Arsenal looks like we will lose top players once again,

    If he can get us the fourt position again and leave then respect to him but if he stays it will carry on being depressing for all of us specialy for him

  2. I understand your logic-
    May I offer a counter thought-

    Assume for a moment that Wenger has already agreed to finish at the end of the season. Would he announce it?

    I don’t think so

    It would move players focus completely away from the next match. And on to their positions, their contracts, speculation over the next manager. I don’t believe he would do it – and what’s more he would be right not to do it.

    IF I were him and I were leaving – I would keep my public story exactly as he had it ‘I’ll decide at the end if the season’ !

  3. “This season has been a complete and utter disaster. We are not only performing worse than last season, doing worse in the big games and making a mockery out of ourselves in the champions league but it is the repetitive nature of what we achieve and what we fail in each season”

    Don’t worry we’ll turn it around mate. We’ll score 6 goals over the next 2 games conceding none 😉

  4. And You know full well that if we beat Liverpool this evening, everybody will be happy to some extent lol ? meaning ?happy for the result whilst still bearing a grudge on Wenger ? while the AKB’s will come out from hiding and will be praising Wenger in full force ??
    It’s funny how everything to do with Arsenal has become Ground Hog, with a splash of hypocrisy diluted in delusion. ???

    Whatever the outcome of today’s game, you can be sure that there will be some kind of bashing going on amongst the fans on here ? I can’t wait.

  5. Think of all the sackings over the seasons, the one’s that surprised, that shocked, which made sense, one’s that should have happened sooner. Now imagine all those final decisions were down to the manager, how many would happen. You can’t blame Wenger if he goes against the grain, he’s truly stubborn as we know, and like I said how many managers would give in. The board we have is weak. They have no love for Arsenal, at-least Wenger has that. They do not want to put overtime in, they don’t even want to make decisions for crying out loud. They’ll never take risks, and that’s why we’ve been a chasing club for so long.

  6. Arsenal have been going downhill since David Dein left, I would hope that any new manager will have better support than Wenger in the managerial role.

    Wenger isn’t perfect, I think he is poor at making subs at the right time and not always picking the right team, I don’t blame him for all the signings though. The board could have and should have done more.

    I don’t blame him for the injuries, the club should have better staff and the board should make sure the manager listens to the staffs advice. No human is perfect and so the board MUST look to cover any weakness in the manager they choose, Wenger or any future manager, a team is better than an individual.

    I want the board to show ambition.
    That will lead to a managerial change if Wenger doesn’t match the new ambition.

    The passion Arsenal fans can show is humbling yet I do feel the passion is being directed in the wrong place and that is why things are not changing.
    We know the board will not push Wenger so why keep moaning at Wenger? It feels like you all are yelling at paint to dry faster… will it? Wenger is that stubben and you all know that as well.

    So why not focus that humbling passion at the board instead?
    Expand the transfer team and surprise us all by getting a Griezmann or some other TOP TOP talent. If Wenger is the fault in the transfers for not offering enough then step in and offer enough so Wenger gets the player he wanted…

    I would want any new manager we get to have that support, don’t you?

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