1995 all over again… Pick your best squad under Arsene Wenger.

I’d give up my left kidney to have that team playing for us again! It was a perfect mix of guile, grit and grace.

Ivan’s ‘Change’ doesn’t really exist, it was only said to ensure fans renew their season tickets.
Pretending to be in for a big player (but then miss out on him) no longer works on Gooners like it used to

Big whoop if the spuds finish above us. It goes way beyond extreme embarrassment, but as usual, the tiny totts can’t resist crowing. Fact of the matter is that in the last 56 years they have been so far down that they’re not even on the list of ‘big’ teams. They’ve had to wait for our manager to become a pensioner before making any in-roads! We will fight back – hopefully with new blood in charge, but as far as a power shift (favourite journo crap) – when they can add another 11 league titles to their meagre haul then, and only then will it be a rivalry.

Sorry Rico aa bit off topic but spot on

From Alan Smith today, much on the lines we are thinking
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“This is definitely a crossroads. They could turn left or right or stand at the crossroads by allowing the manager to stay.

“Arsene has spoken about reinventing himself but I am pessimistic about his ability to do that after so many years because there is no-one at the club to challenge him now.

“Arsene doesn’t want to be challenged. He doesn’t want any dissenting voices. So the board know they’ve got a big decision to make because of the reaction of the fans.

“Other fans look at Arsenal supporters and laugh. They think ‘what have you lot got to worry about? You have won the FA Cup twice recently, you’re in the top four, what’s the matter with you?’

“But when you are an Arsenal fan, that isn’t good enough, especially when you are paying through the nose for season tickets and you look at the other top teams.”

Seeing that I suggested it :- Seaman ,Dixon, Adams ,Bould , Cole, Parlour, Vieira, Pires, Bergkamp, Henry , Wright.

Freddie, Alexis, Ozil, Keown , Lauren, Gilberto , Lehmann.

No room for Bischcoff I am afraid.

rico, that’s a new one on me, home or away lol.

I really need to brush up on my Arsenal these days, it’s getting embarrassing.

Hi Rico and HH.

Thanks Rico for yet another unexpected Post, and thanks for the feedback from everyone.
On to today, Arsenal’s best XI under Wenger?
Lehmann
Sagna Campbell Toure Cole

Overmars Vieira Petit Pires

van Persie Henry

Naturally, Dennis Bergkamp would be ahead of RvP, but I kept it specifically on Wenger’s signings.
It’s a world away from where we are now.
I was contemplating about whether football has ever had a ‘golden’ era, without any corruption or cheating.
It has been going on for so long it’s difficult to separate reality from that which is manufactured, and when you look at the way many big clubs have sold out their fans and souls, just so a greedy mercenary can make a quick buck, it beggars belief that our football authorities have sat back and allowed communities to become so disenfranchised from their local team.
When Leicester won the PL last year, they became only the 24th different winners, which shows us it has been monopolised by a few clubs. But there are big clubs in that list whose fans have been cheated for decades, and you have to wonder why it was allowed to happen.
Sheffield Wednesday and Sunderland each have six titles, but both club’s last title was way back in the 1930’s. Newcastle are another big club, but the last of their four titles was won in 1927.
After Arsenal are Everton and Villa, whose last titles were in the 1980’s (30 years this year since Everton’s last), Wolves and Leeds have three each, and neither of them are anywhere near.
It’s a hell of a long time for something to be broken at all of these big clubs, and down the years many people have profited whilst watching over-paid manager after over-paid manager further damage the club’s legacy.
Luton are a prime example. Never champions, but beat us in the League Cup final in 1988, and they’ve only recently climbed back into the Football League after dropping to the Conference.
Our F.A. and football regulators really aren’t fit for purpose when you look at the state of our game in this country.
The thing that put me on this train of thought was Arsene Wenger’s recent quotes about how he ‘built’ the club, and when he arrived Arsenal had seven members of staff, ‘now we’re seven hundred…’
Wenger is an intelligent man who will tell anyone who still listens in multiple languages how much ‘he loves Arsenal’. I’m sure he does in his own way, the club have been eye-poppingly generous towards him, but he will never love the club as much as the supporters.
He is also obsessed with football, which is why I find it strange that he is so dismissive of anything the club achieved before his arrival.
Arsenal won their last European trophy two years before Wenger arrived, and the title-winning side of 1991 lost only one league game, so the idea that he was joining some little tin-pot operation is ludricrous.
Just the fact that he keeps bringing up the past to try and convince people that he’s doing a great job is shameful and embarrassing.
He is a narcissistic reptile whose sole interest is self-preservation.

Seaman
Sagna Campbell Toure Cole

Alexis Vieira Fabregas Pires

Bergkamp Henry

not sure whether to look forward to the Palace game with all the other ‘top teams’ grabbing a win.

Morning Rico. Yes, I can’t get interested in this evening’s game either. Seems as Wenger is only considering one person as we await his decision.