But He couldn't handle
the expectations of a Big club..
Not exact matches
The two «
big clubs» that the 29 - year - old has played for are the Gunners and Bayern Munich according to the World Cup winning national team captain, and he has failed to live up to
expectations at both
of them.
NO, If we can be honest and unbiase No they are all right to be disappointed in Arsenal because we are supose to be this
BIG CLUB and we have failed to live up to big club expectation and ability and yes not only the top five have improved but sadly the rest are catching up, I'm not saying we are a total disaster but we should do better, I'm going to stick my neck out here but I think we will finish 3rd this season only because Chelsea failed to buy one or two players more for depth in case of injury and Spuds could have problems settling at Wembley and Liverpool could lose their top player in January and have injury problems and worst they have
BIG CLUB and we have failed to live up to big club expectation and ability and yes not only the top five have improved but sadly the rest are catching up, I'm not saying we are a total disaster but we should do better, I'm going to stick my neck out here but I think we will finish 3rd this season only because Chelsea failed to buy one or two players more for depth in case of injury and Spuds could have problems settling at Wembley and Liverpool could lose their top player in January and have injury problems and worst they have
CLUB and we have failed to live up to
big club expectation and ability and yes not only the top five have improved but sadly the rest are catching up, I'm not saying we are a total disaster but we should do better, I'm going to stick my neck out here but I think we will finish 3rd this season only because Chelsea failed to buy one or two players more for depth in case of injury and Spuds could have problems settling at Wembley and Liverpool could lose their top player in January and have injury problems and worst they have
big club expectation and ability and yes not only the top five have improved but sadly the rest are catching up, I'm not saying we are a total disaster but we should do better, I'm going to stick my neck out here but I think we will finish 3rd this season only because Chelsea failed to buy one or two players more for depth in case of injury and Spuds could have problems settling at Wembley and Liverpool could lose their top player in January and have injury problems and worst they have
club expectation and ability and yes not only the top five have improved but sadly the rest are catching up, I'm not saying we are a total disaster but we should do better, I'm going to stick my neck out here but I think we will finish 3rd this season only because Chelsea failed to buy one or two players more for depth in case
of injury and Spuds could have problems settling at Wembley and Liverpool could lose their top player in January and have injury problems and worst they have OX?
I'm conscious
of the size
of the
club, the
expectation level, so the pressure is even
bigger than the first day I arrived.
If Wenger allows Burnley to finish above Arsenal it will go down as the single
biggest mis - management
of this
club in our history bar none.Burnley are a small town
club with limited
expectations but it shows what Good Management with Tatical Nous can do.Not a single Burnley player would get anywhere near our SQUAD let alone team and yet we are looking over our shoulder as they continue to over perform.And exactly WHO is the so called novice manager?
Most European
clubs bar the
big 3 have little or no chance
of winning the UCL anytime soon — I would recalibrate your
expectations on that one.
At Barca it is a
big club,
big players and
big expectations and egos and as a result
of that, he was relegated to the bench because
of that.
«It's always difficult when you change
clubs and come to a
big club with a lot
of expectation,» Cech said.
I'm so sick
of people telling those
of us who are disgruntled fans to relax and give this
club time to correct itself... for anyone who believes that taking a wait - and - see approach is appropriate at this juncture they should take a good long look at themselves in the mirror because they are a
big part
of the problem... no other «
big»
club's fans would stand for this shit for nearly as long as we have... think about it, we've witnessed a changing
of the guard at every major
club in England, Spain, France and Germany in the last several years because those «
big»
clubs failed to live up to
expectations (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, ManU, ManCity etc...)... for some reason, many fans have become as fragile as our current manager, believing that there couldn't possibly be a suitable replacement, even though everyone
of these
clubs have found multiple replacements and still achieved far more than our
club... this mindset has been created by an organization that has been milking it's fans, telling countless lies (no world class players available) and lowering
expectations every since they rolled out the
biggest lie
of all: that we couldn't spend because
of the new stadium but once it was paid off we could compete with any team in the world... this organization is rotting from the inside out and if we don't demand that those in charge put soccer first this despicable behaviour won't end with Wenger's ridiculous 2 year contract... I think the real fear isn't that a suitable replacement doesn't exist, but that this organization is so money hungry and poorly mismanaged that we will sink even lower by choosing our next coach the same way they choose our players, on the cheap... even so, we need to see what mustache will do if left to his own devices so he will have to show his true colours... only then can we purge this
club and start anew
Just a few are; the inability to handle the pressure
of expectation, complacency, bottling it in the
big games, Wenger's apparent reluctance to compete and spend the
club's money in the transfer market and his insistence on playing a certain style
of attractive football when a more pragmatic approach may serve us better.
there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years
of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this
club... there have been numerous managers at each
of the
biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy
of their respective
clubs...
of course that doesn't mean that
clubs should simply follow the lead
of others, especially if
clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues
of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting
of parameters for a changing
of the guard... in the case
of Arsenal, this sort
of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve
of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me
of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they
of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans
of a football
club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests
of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your
expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber
of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state
of Denmark
Also Alexis has done it more than one season, and he done it with
big clubs were the weight
of expectation is huge.
Wenger Hasnt «Blown his last chance
of winning anything because he NEVER had the chance, Im almost certain that the attitude is do nt aim too high (PL victory) because the fans
expectations will be boosted (CL Victory) and that type
of achievement costs money,
BIG money and that is something that scares the Silver spooned, Merchant banking, elitist board more than ANYTHING ELSE on the planet (perhaps only eclipsed by the thought
of a shady Uzbek millionaire owning the
club).
In turn, the FA Cup remains their only hope
of a trophy this season, and having spent
big on key players over the last two years including the likes
of Paul Pogba and Romelu Lukaku, coupled with the general
expectations at a
club like Man Utd, more would arguably have been expected
of Jose Mourinho and his players.
and I still reiterate my sentiments, many players are better suited to playing for smaller
clubs with very little
expectations and less pressure and I can name loads
of very very talented players who just don't have the
big club mentality, players who bloom and shine when they are the main attraction, the
big fish in a small pond but who will whither and fade once they make the step up to
bigger teams... with Arsenal Afobe will just be another player, another upstart who will find the pressure
of delivering week in week out or be out
of the team hard to deal with... at Bournemouth he has time to settle into his pace, if he misses chances like he did on his debut for the
club he will still be given chances after chances, just like it happened withn him
Am never one to excuse our continuous failings and Wenger's general ineptitude but all this talk
of Afobe been another one we missed out on is a bit preposterous and very very premature... yes he's scored a few goals for Bournemouth but can we all take a step bck and recognise that playing for a team who will be happy just to avoid relegation is very different from playing for a
club which demands trophies and high achievements every season (yea, I know we have been found wanting on these fronts for a long time)... some players are better in small
clubs with limited
expectations and very neat to no pressure... that is why history is littered with stories
of good players who went to
big clubs and flopped only to go down a few levels and find their form again....
stadium debt could be used only for so long.The fact is arsenal cant match the financial strength
of big clubs.One good signing every year just doesn't cut it as rest
of the teams are buying 3 or 4 players that too top top player which he describes so often.Just do nt raise peoples
expectations and not deliver at the end.I do beleive he is arrogant in the fact that he won't buy a cdm in mould
of Vieira or toure bcoz he wants to prove that he can win it with smaller creative playes.Coquelin is good but no
big club depends on a single player to carry them, there needs to be a backup always.
The
expectations at
club following the move were unrealistically high though and maybe an assumption that we are now one
of the
big boys has found its way into the psyche at the
club.
At his former
club he was often nothing short
of spectacular but the pressure and
expectations are now much
bigger.
After last season, the
expectation of fans for this season went through the roof, and partly this may have been fuelled by the board, insisting that to compete with the very top
clubs we needed to move into a
bigger stadium, enabling us to significantly increase our income.
The Reds stuttered at the start
of the campaign but the upturn in their fortunes has led to reports that Manchester City are making admiring glances towards Merseyside and, asked if Rodgers was equipped to meet
expectations at a
big - spending
club, Monk said: «Yes, he can manage at the top, for sure.
Those six
clubs — Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool and Arsenal — all go into the start
of each season knowing they are the
biggest clubs in England and all have title hopes, with a Champions League finish being the minimum
expectation for each.
All that said, it pays to remind ourselves that while the program last year was starrier, almost all
of the big auteurist films fell some way short of expectations («Knight of Cups,» «Queen Of The Desert,» «Every Thing Will Be Fine» respectively) and the true stars emerged elsewhere — in Andrew Haigh «s now Oscar - nominated «45 Years,» in Jafar Panahi «s Golden Bear - winner «Taxi,» Pablo Larraín «s Grand Prix winner «The Club,» and elsewher
of the
big auteurist films fell some way short
of expectations («Knight of Cups,» «Queen Of The Desert,» «Every Thing Will Be Fine» respectively) and the true stars emerged elsewhere — in Andrew Haigh «s now Oscar - nominated «45 Years,» in Jafar Panahi «s Golden Bear - winner «Taxi,» Pablo Larraín «s Grand Prix winner «The Club,» and elsewher
of expectations («Knight
of Cups,» «Queen Of The Desert,» «Every Thing Will Be Fine» respectively) and the true stars emerged elsewhere — in Andrew Haigh «s now Oscar - nominated «45 Years,» in Jafar Panahi «s Golden Bear - winner «Taxi,» Pablo Larraín «s Grand Prix winner «The Club,» and elsewher
of Cups,» «Queen
Of The Desert,» «Every Thing Will Be Fine» respectively) and the true stars emerged elsewhere — in Andrew Haigh «s now Oscar - nominated «45 Years,» in Jafar Panahi «s Golden Bear - winner «Taxi,» Pablo Larraín «s Grand Prix winner «The Club,» and elsewher
Of The Desert,» «Every Thing Will Be Fine» respectively) and the true stars emerged elsewhere — in Andrew Haigh «s now Oscar - nominated «45 Years,» in Jafar Panahi «s Golden Bear - winner «Taxi,» Pablo Larraín «s Grand Prix winner «The
Club,» and elsewhere.