I, amongst many football fans have grew up watching Premier League football and Arsenal have been up there with the best teams in the league for some time. Arsene Wenger has been at the helm throughout Arsenals best trophy period/s in the Premier League and has had some absolutely world class footballers at the club in that time.
I've seen Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Robert Pires and Freddie Ljunberg dismantle teams with swift counter attacks in seconds and i've seen the invincible's close out teams for a full season and that will never be repeated however, all good things come to an end and it'll happen to most football clubs .. the honeymoon period will end and they'll either end up selling players that want to leave or they will go through a trophy-less period and when that time comes, you can only hope that you have either a manager or leaders in your squad that can guide you through that rough time.
Now, a lot of football fans that are from the outside looking in at Arsenal will mostly agree that Arsenal are lacking a leader ON the pitch mainly someone who will get stuck in, grab the team by the scruff of the neck and lead his team onto a draw or a win.
They had that in Patrick Viera, they had it in their two centre halves and they had it in Thierry Henry, Bergkamp and Pires and many other players that were part of the invincible's.. players that would not give their team mates any other choice but to get their heads up and push on.
Of course, not all teams need a gamechanger in midfield who gets stuck in etc.. Manchester United don't have one and they get by just fine however they win trophies pretty much year in, year out and that's the difference between the two.
I personally feel Arsenal could improve in a handful of positions in their starting XI and that's not me having a dig whatsoever, that's me expressing what i feel will improve Arsenal and get them back in the top four.
The fact that actually a few Arsenal fans want Wenger out is however, quite puzzling considering he's the man that has led their club to a UCL final, again i'm going to mention the invincible's as well amongst other honours. The question i forward to you is, if Wenger was to quit.. who's going to be the experienced leader in Arsenals camp? Yeah sure you could bring in a new manager but what will he have, what Wenger doesn't? A stricter regime on the players? You cannot replace a man with such integrity just because you went without trophies, you can't always blame the manager for that. He puts out a starting XI that he feels can win the game that's in front of him. Despite that, you can argue that he has had players that could have lead his team to glory over the last, 5 years? Samir Nasri, Cesc Fabregas and most recently, Robin Van Persie have moved on to pastures new, to seek trophies to fulfill their own personal dreams and ambitions and from an unbiased point of view, you can't blame them whatsoever but let's get one thing straight that a lot of people seem to forget.. Arsenal didn't PRODUCE the three mentioned .. they were all bought from a young age, they were nurtured and they moved on. From Marseille, Barcelona and Feyenoord respectively they were all brought in from a young age and they matured and moved on. Personally in my eyes that does not make Arsenal a selling club, it may have dropped them down a peg or two in the Premier League food chain but that's about it. Footballers are hungry for success and they want it as much as they want to breath, especially when you're well known world beaters who do it on a consistent basis. You can blame Arsene Wenger all you want for selling the mentioned players, but who says he's the one who sorts out players contracts/extensions? With most managers at most football clubs, it's usually managers taking chances on players however due to the amount of high profile players that have left Arsenal over the last few years .. it's now become near enough, which managers are willing to take a chance on Arsene Wenger and his promises of success.
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