Arsenal fans must give Arsene Wenger patience

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.

Arsenal set to offer manager a new contract

Arsenal are set to offer manager, Arsene Wenger, a brand new contract as he continues his search for the formula that means perfect football. Arsenal have now gone a number of seasons without winning a trophy but the club have not forgotten how lucky they are to have one of the best managers in the game in charge.

Wenger’s football philosophy is a brilliant one that makes his Arsenal side one of the most attractive to watch in the modern game. Wenger was in charge of a team that once went a whole league season in the Premier League without losing one game and the club clearly still see something in him to show faith.

The club’s chairman, Peter Hill-Wood said: “Arsene's future is not in question, although I am sure there will be people who have nothing better to do trying to suggest it is. He has another season left on his contract and if he was to ask for an extension we would be delighted. But he hasn't discussed it with us and we haven't discussed it with him. There are other things to think about.”

The news is accompanied by the chairman’s promise to release any funds that Wenger desires this season to improve the squad of Arsenal, whether it be an established big name or yet another up and coming star. This is obviously an area in the club that needs to be addressed after the gulf in class between them and Manchester United was displayed for everyone to see the other night.

Wenger is a good tactician and has a very good football brain. There will be no issues associated with the new contract or stipulations that the Frenchman has to adhere to. He still has it in him to win trophies and he is still passionate to win his first European Cup.

Arsenal would find it very difficult to replace Wenger if the club let his contract run down and decided not to offer him a new one. It is for this reason that they want to secure his services for future seasons as Wenger is constantly being linked with moves to Spain, Italy and other European countries.

Arsenal is very much his club and he is the reason for all of their modern success. He can recreate this, his curent side and development just needs a few tweaks to become better and turn the poor results thay have had in the last couple of seasons into stunning victories.

With everything that Arsenal were winning just a few seasons back, neutrals could not help but hold their hands up and admire the way Arsenal were playing football. Wenger knows what he is doing and a healthy and lucrative contract would be the show of faith that he may look for shortly.

It would also give him and the club confidence to push on and challenge again when fans may start to be thinking that the golden age may never be recreated. Arsenal could do a lot worse.