I look at this from 2 ways.
He is on a different planet to big Sam, he would try and get us playing good football, he knows how to get a team consistently in the top 4 (albeit not for the last 2 years), he knows how to compete for trophies (although had a major dry spell in the middle of his tenure), he is very well respected by players and DOF's alike who would love to come and work with him.
However I would have some major reservations if he did become our new manager. First and foremost I reject the notion that a ticket of Wenger and a younger coach to bring through would be some kind of dream match. Steve Bould has been his number 2 for a long time now, he has shown zero progression and had no impact on Arsenal's defence which is what he was brought in to improve. Maybe Bould is not a good coach but there have been suggestions that Wenger only allows him to have a minimal impact.
Wenger has also got a very poor record in the transfer market in recent years, obviously with a few notable exceptions. Defenders in particular seem to be a major problem for him to identify, Laurent Koscielny is probably the only good centre half Wenger has signed since Sol Campbell. With our back 4 ageing rapidly and several of them needing replacing this summer, a World Cup year, I don't have the confidence in Wenger to build us a defence.
Getting the maximum out of his current Arsenal squad has been a major criticism levelled against Wenger for a while now. For big games his players go missing and have suffered several hidings in the last few years, including a few thrashings at Anfield. With such an unprofessional group of players here now, would Wenger be the right man to get them motivated and firing on all cylinders?
Finally there is the question of transition. I have seen a few posters say that Wenger in for 2 years would help us with a transition phase but I would argue what transition? We seem to have been in transition ever since Moyes left. We tried the good football, ultra positive approach under Martinez; started brilliantly but it didn't work. We transitioned to the pragmatic and realistic approach of Koeman; decent start, lost our best player and the club fell off a cliff.
What we need now is a young manager, hungry for success with fresh ideas who wants to come in here with a plan to get us to compete with the rich clubs, fix our away record (check out Arsenal's away record), modernise our squad a get a clear transfer policy in place. Is Arsene Wenger the guy to do all of that?
Not for me.
