Arsenal: The Transfer Window To Save Arsene Wenger’s Job

Arsene Wenger has a year left on his contract. If he wants to extend his Arsenal career he will need to have a hell of a transfer window.

Arsenal – to everyone’s surprise – are at a crucial juncture under the Arsene Wenger reign. With the recent influx in top class managers throughout the Premier League, competition for the title is set to be as tough as ever, and this Summer will be vital in allowing Wenger to invest in his squad to develop a group of players that are capable of producing such a challenge.

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That is the aim of this Arsenal team. To win the league. And with this current crop of players, that seems more of a pipe dream than a reality. Serious investment is required if Arsenal are to win their first league title since 2004.

Does all this sound familiar? Rewind a year ago, and all these same things were said. A year before that, the same things were said and this trend can regress and regress for a depressingly long time. This article was written all the way back in the Summer of 2013 stating the exact same issues that I am here. And yet, such issues still remain, and now, it may well be time for Arsenal to hand their legendary manager an ultimatum if Le Professeur cannot find the cure.

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If there was ever a time to win the league, last season was it. 5,000-1 Leicester City showed that. With defending champions Chelsea losing the plot under Jose Mourinho, United faltering under Louis Van Gaal and Manchester City shooting themselves in the foot by prematurely announcing the departure of Manuel Pellegrini at the end of the year, the league was well and truly up for grabs. Arsenal saw the trophy slip through their grasp.

It was the latter half of the season that caused Arsenal’s title blunder. A combination of injuries, poor form and mental fragility that scuppered such hopes for that oh so elusive Premier League title. Such issues have plagued the club for years, and Wenger’s insistence not to invest in any outfield player before the season now look as a key reason for such difficulties.

Arsenal fans are now in a state of great frustration. They are frustrated for the continual near but so far seasons, the promise and hope without any deliverance and the same problems that are the root of such issues for so long. Wenger is rightly being criticized for being unable to fix what has not worked for so long, and now, with only a year left on his contract, he is set with a task that he has faced each and every year, even if it is one he has not acknowledged.

If Wenger cannot bring success to the Emirates next year, it could well be his last season at the club. He has been a legend, a true great, the greatest Arsenal manager in history, but the repetitive story lines are becoming, well, too repetitive for the fans to handle.

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Wenger needs to break the cycle. To do that, he must invest big and he must invest wisely. Granit Xhaka is the start of such investment, but much more is needed in this vital Summer transfer window.