Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, has asked the fans to give him the time and space needed for him to rebuild the Arsenal side of his golden age. Fair enough the fans would be quite within their rights to kick up a fuss.After all it has been four years since Arsenal last won a major honour but the point is that the inadequacies that have recently been shown up in the Arsenal side will not be fixed over night.
The current crop of players that Wenger has been nurturing is just not good enough, besides from one or two names. The current philosophy at Arsenal is a good one, but it is one that needs work with clever activity in the transfer market, as well as clever tactics and faith from the fans.
The side is very talented but it is lacking the special something that links everyone together in the way that Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry did in their spells at the club. Once this is found then it will be the football and only the football that everyone is talking about.
The current pressure on modern football for instant success is very high but if Arsenal want to create a side that demands such respect on a weekly basis then they will have to be patient with the manager, who will be under intense pressure to improve things at the Emirates quickly.
Wenger said: “If we do not deliver in the next one or two years then I will be responsible. It is the most important moment in the life of this club and we have to be strong now and support this team.”
He is right. The side can easily go one of two ways. The first is down a path that will lead to success, but this will only come if Wenger buys right this summer and gets some experience into the side that for all too long has been evidently missing. The other is down a path of doom that will see the current side be overcome by the developing quality in the Premier League.
It is unlikely that Wenger will allow the second of those possibilities to become a reality, as he obviously knows what he is doing in terms of setting the standards of good football. The point is that everyone connected with the club is losing patience having to wait for the first option to happen again.
Wenger knows how to deal with the set backs of football and there is no one better suited to guide Arsenal through this summer than the Frenchman. He knows there is a lot of pressure on him but he also knows that spending money at random will not solve Arsenal’s problems.
If he is given the time, space and respect that he will start turning wrong decisions into right ones then Arsenal will slowly improve. If he can start buying some higher calibre players instead of signing 15 and 16 year olds from established clubs, then Arsenal will slowly improve.
Over all Arsenal are going to slowly improve and it is just the case of whether the board and the fans have the patience to wait for something that could be majestic again.
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