Sentences with phrase «years fans defended»

For years fans defended Wenger, saying that it was hardly any funds, star players leaving, and injuries that were the problem.

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A lot fans down the years, including myself, have defended Wenger for not being able to get world class players in, and more importantly... the correct players for the weak areas of the first team, due to the lack of funds.

Then basically give them «thanks for letting me crash here» after a year and go to back to where you were fired for defending your integrity against a racist bully and where the fans don't care for you a bit.

that's not coincidence, fans like you make it look normal but it's so silly defending the specialist in failure while in 13 years, if he was as good as he was in the 90s, we could have won it at least once..

And yes I am a fan, one for over 45 years, I come on to defend players from cretins like you.

If we fans appreciated defending more than goal scoring than he would easily be our Player of the year for the last 3 years.

I may defend Wenger a lot in some aspects but I have been calling for this change for years, how much of a Wenger fan am I when I have been calling for his responsibility to be cut down for Yyears, how much of a Wenger fan am I when I have been calling for his responsibility to be cut down for YEARSYEARS?

you equate us with Chelsea that they have the same points as us but you fail to realise that they are the defending champions thus failure to win the trophy this season wouldnt cause any alarm for concern.we have stuck with the team for years and all we are demanding is to make the obvious changes so we can win the league and all you say is that we are the worst fans?

this article typifies everything that is wrong with our club... if you had any balls you would have started with that Mertz nonsense, but instead, like Wenger, you started out pretending to be a rational individual only to reveal your true unintelligible in the final paragraph... I feel like you have never watched Mertz play except for in the FA Cup final last year... how does someone help defend corners, crosses and the like when you can't man - mark, you have a negative vertical and you close your eyes whenever the ball comes in your direction... this was a panic buy that didn't make sense then, considering how most teams were setup to counterattack us, and it makes even less sense now... he was well past his prime when he arrived, like Podolski, Arteta, Flamini 2.0 among numerous others, and was used by Wenger to trick the uninformed fans into believing he cared about turning this team into a true contender

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

And it is not just the manager who has faith in Sanogo, because his fellow countryman Mathieu Flamnini has spoken out in an Evening Standard report to defend the 21 - year old after his performance at Leicester made it 16 games without a senior goal and drew heavy criticism from the fans and media alike.

-- Fans STILL defending Wenger's position after years of abuse.

AW had been useless for nearly 10 years now, zero ambition, anyone who defends him isn't a real fan.

Fans are not fools, when you see them started complaining from every area of our beloved club, its not because of the present situations alone but the repeated scenario of so many years that always end at where our present philosophy can reach, you can't continue defending same story, same method, same tools, same results years in years out.

some fans will go an extra mile to defend Wenger even though everything is obvious that after 13 years of failure, he won't change and we should expect the repetition of previous seasons for next season as well, but they are happy with that as long as le - fraud is happily getting the fat paycheck and making every sort of excuses to defend his failures, they even defend the failures with him

I know I sound like a fan boy but for years we begged for a destroyer but instead had Denilson, Diaby, Elneny, Arteta who whilst there decent passers they wren't / aren't really into defending.

Very true mate, with all the failures that the whole world witness, the lies, the excuses, failed tactics, blaming the fans, the zip on his coat, still people here are happy to keep him even for more years, and they are willing to go another level just to defend the senile one.

For over 6 years, the fans defended Wenger with their lives because we all understood the club had financial constraints.

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I'm a huge fan of «The Larry Sanders Show» and «Defending Your Life,» so I got to regale him with questions about those and all the cool stuff he's done over the years.

When Amanda Hocking, the 26 - year - old poster girl for self - publishing, revealed her $ 2 million book contract with St. Martin's Press, she defended the deal on her own blog to legions of fans and militant, mystified indie authors.

Greenburg reminds us that Scalia is a big fan of TV counter-terrorist Jack Bauer, defending his vigilante approach to law enforcement at a conference last year with the comment, «Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles.