Where do the problems lie at Arsenal?

His lack of empathy and interest over prices during the AGM really annoyed me. It was his last comment that bothered me the most though: “Thanks for your interest in our affairs”. That for me was a clear-cut insult to the shareholders, AST members and us as fans. We are fully entitled to have an interest and opinion in our club, not ‘your affairs’. If we didn’t go to the games and spend money elsewhere within the club then he wouldn’t even have a job. I think he needs to step down now, it’s clear he has lost passion and respect for the club and it’s fans.

I could write all day about Ivan Gazidis, the slippery lizard of a man who acts as Arsenal’s main politician. Whilst he talks a good talk, it’s clear that this man is about the money too. He talks so much about ‘in two years time’ or ‘in the future’, but the issues we have are now. We are not competing now, we aren’t the club that players want to play for anymore and we are currently ruining our reputation. If we don’t address the issues now, then in the future there won’t be a club to have a great financial model for.

Gazidis gets huge bonuses for practically nothing. We have the worst commercial deals, something he is in charge of and he also just doesn’t realise that overcharging fans to see a team that is falling apart is pure theft. We should not be allowing this man to keep his ‘job’.

I finally come to Arsene Wenger… the man that most Arsenal fans used to argue over until the last month or so. When Wenger joined Arsenal there was no doubt about it, he made an impression in his first few years with a winning spree and a team of ‘Invincibles’. We all loved Le Prof and dreamed of a great future for Arsenal, but 8 years after our last trophy and I am left wondering where it all went wrong for him.

The man used to be a football genius and now he just seems like a worried old fool who is too stubborn to admit he has gone wrong. For every good player that Wenger has bought since Dein left, there have been 3 duds to match. Wenger has a vision but this vision stopped working because football has changed and every team plays differently. Wenger has refused to tactically adapt. I was always pro-Wenger until last season. Now I think he should just step down and let someone else take the reins. We need a fresh manager and a fresh team. Where else in the world would you continue to over-pay a manager who doesn’t do his job?

We need all of these people out of the club. Protests at the Emirates followed by people going to the game after, will not work. We need a boycott of putting any money into the club – that means not going to games, not buying food, not buying any programmes or merchandise. If every Arsenal fan did that on one day I bet the board would take notice. We fans need to take control and insist they get us a team of QUALITY players who want to be there and play to win everything, and a manager who has the AMBITION and drive to get a trophy instead of considering 4th place it’s own ‘trophy’. We need a director who can install some faith in the fans and tell us how it is, instead of remaining silent.

So remember the day in the picture above, and remember that we as fans have the right to have a say  how our club is run. We ultimately pay them so let’s take a stand and remember that the good old days can happen again.

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