Deckard2049
Player Valuation: £15m
For Wenger’s three FA Cups I could counter with league finishes becoming lower and lower. Finishing outside the top 4 for a club like Arsenal is just not an option. He did it once and kept his job. Two years in a row was too much. Did you see arsenal’s away record last year? Off the top of my head I’m pretty sure they didn’t win away from home until March all season and had one of the worst records across the entire footballing pyramid. It was up there with ours. Not to mention the spankings they’ve received from the other big 6 the last decade. 8-2 at old Trafford will always be unforgivable and he’s had plenty more drubbings since then. I should point out I liked Wenger- but it was clearly time for him to go. Again, I go back to their abysmal away record as just an indicator of how far they’ve fallen with him in charge. Plus I don’t believe it’s “easy” to win an FA Cup. But everyone knows winning leagues and champions leagues are the stuff the serious football sides are made of. Portsmouth have won an fa Cup the last decade. Swansea have won a league cup. Wigan got relegated whilst winning a cup- in cup football anything can happen. Over the course of a season the champions elect have to be consistently the best side.
For Poch he is consistently improving a team without hardly spending any money. He’s has a net spend of £30 million in his time there. That’s insane in this day and age for a team consistently finishing in the top 4. He’s doing a great job. Admittedly the trophies aren’t there, but let’s face it spurs don’t exactly win trophies historically do they? Put it this way if we could have something similar under Silva to their time under Poch, would that really not be a success?
As for Klopp, I’d put forward similar arguments to Poch, however this season they’ve really gone big in the transfer window so he has no excuses. The bigger picture though is that with both these managers there seems to be a plan, a clear strategy. What’s mourinho’s plan? Spend a load of money to plug gaps? Well the transfer window is shut now, so he has no option but to use the tools at his disposal. But right now he doesn’t look capable of formulating a plan. In an era where City are reaching 100 points defensive, slow football isn’t going to cut it. His style of play is a problem for United and they won’t win anything major whilst he remains.
