Arsene Wenger has been an institution at Arsenal, but is his time finally up?
#4 Arsenal need a change
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Wenger has been the Premier League’s constant over the last 20 years, but is it time for a change?
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In football, 20 years is a ridiculously long time. Think about this – the season that Wenger joined Arsenal saw a Cantona-inspired Manchester United win the league, Alan Shearer finish as the league’s top scorer, and Coventry City – recently relegated into England’s fourth tier – finish seventeenth. This season’s big signing Shkodran Mustafi was just four years old when Wenger was appointed!
Sure, it doesn’t necessarily mean that Wenger is completely past it, but even the greatest things grow stale with time. While other clubs have made huge leaps forward in the years that Wenger’s remained in charge – Tottenham, for instance, finished 10th in 1996/97 while Manchester City were languishing in the second tier – Arsenal have remained the lone constant and in the past couple of seasons I’d argue that they’ve finally stagnated.
With this season looking like the one where they finally miss out on the Champions League, it feels like the right time for Arsenal to freshen things up and make the big change. It wasn’t plain sailing for Manchester United but then Alex Ferguson won the league in the year he left Old Trafford – an improvement on this season would be a success for a new Arsenal manager and that’s achievable.
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Scott Newman
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