Can we win the Premier League again under Wenger ?

[dostoy]

I am not just talking this season I am talking any season.

The man just hates to spend money and cannot see what most people can plainly see.

The thing that concerns me the most and I hate to say it but what if Coquelin gets a 3 month injury in September or whenever, Flamini or Arteta are not good enough to fill in for that length of time, we need somebody much better.

I think we might need a right winger as well because that is not Ramseys position and the Ox and Theo are injury prone.

There is also Mertersacker in defence which is worrying.

I am sure there are other things as well, like playing under real pressure and easing off when we are two nil up which we seem to do.

I hate to say this but at the moment we have no chance whatsoever of winning the Premier League or the Champions League anytime soon.

I wonder sometimes if Wenger really wants to win but then I'm sure I am wrong to think that.

It is incredibly frustrating.

[Gooner23]

I disagree that the squad isn't good enough. 1 or 2 more additons would be nice but not essential. Bit harsh to say he hates to spend money as well given how much we've spunked in last couple of years.

However to answer your question I don't think we'll win it again under Wenger as for me his tactics / approach will let us down when it comes to crunch time. Hoping to put up more of a fight this season though.

[Injury Time]

No. We will no doubt "somehow" fail to prepare for those crunch games, and win some "big" matches when they are meaningless. Hoping to be proved wrong.

[Static]

We can but it seems like Wenger is handicapping us.

[Marc Overmars]

I don't think Wenger is good enough to extract that extra 10% needed to put us on the right side of those fine margins. Our seasons are always night and day in how we perform, there's never a consistent spread and that's why we never come close.

Only way I see us possibly winning the league is if we make more signings cut from the same cloth as Alexis, players who can slot in without fuss and deliver whatever the situation. Only bona fide worldies will improve us now.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Flamini or Arteta are not good enough to fill in for that length of time

I think we might need a right winger as well.

I wouldn't worry about that, Flamini is likely to go this week and Arteta is probably not going to stay fit enough to play anyway so you want to worry more about us having no cover.


Nick Griffin? He's quite right wing

[Gooner23]

I would say we have 5 worldies now (Cech, Kos, Cazorla, Ozil and Sanchez), with quite a few in that bracket below. We should on paper be good enough.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

In all seriousness, I think we can now forget about him going in 2017.....Wenger himself has said he has no plans to retire and Gazidis says he doesn't see any end in sight to his managerial reign.
If we assume that he is with us as long as Ferguson was at United, than we could potentially looking at another ten years with him as boss.

[Letters]

The man just hates to spend money.

Our net spend over the last 2 years, since the new financial deals have been in place, is about £110m.
Only Utd have spent significantly more - City have spent about £10m more.

(http://bitterandblue.sbnation.com/20...-5-and-7-years)

Over a longer period we spent less but with the stadium debts and our poor sponsorship deals, we were somewhat constrained in the transfer market.

As for the question, I'm not sure. For two thirds of last season we matched Chelsea stride for stride, we stood up in some of the big games so there's the potential there. What we've never managed to do under Wenger, since the Invincible days, is to keep going for a whole season. I think we've finally got the squad to do that, and the mentality to too. My concern is a slight weakness up front, we haven't got an Aguero or a Suarez. It is harder to win the league than it was when Wenger joined, since we last won it the only people who have are the billionaire cheats and ManYoo under Fergie (I have no idea how he did that in his last season, was was definitely the GOAT, IMO).
We won't win the league this season right now, with a real top striker we might although they don't grow on trees.

[Syn]

We've got a chance. Mostly depends on players staying injury free and Ozil establishing himself as the best player in the league.