Arsenal: Arsene Wenger Can Only Tell Us One Thing

Arsenal were blown out of the water against West Brom and it has to be answered for. Arsene Wenger has also decided his fate, but he can only mean one thing.

Arsenal’s result against West Brom sealed a fate we already knew. This team has no backbone, no fight, no spine (that’s different than backbone, I’m just not sure how), no spirit, no desire, no hunger and the list goes on.

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It was simply an abysmal effort. Many people are calling it the final straw for Arsene Wenger. They say this is inexcusable and that he has to go. I find that hard to argue with. But I will say that the match was so bad as a whole that to blame Wenger alone is irresponsible. Sure, he had a part to play, mainly because he insists on this horrid zonal marking scheme, but there was not a single player in that match that wanted to be there when it started to get tough.

It was a collapse. Mentally and physically, Arsenal was completely outdone by 8th place West Brom in the same way they’ve been getting outdone for weeks. They were physically battered and mentally disconnected.

After the match, Arsene Wenger was put to the question about his future, naturally, and his response didn’t tell us much, but it did tell us one thing.

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You will soon know,” he said, via the Guardian. “Very soon, but I’m not necessarily worried about my future right now, when we are in a unique bad patch where we haven’t been for 20 years.”

Given the context in which he said it, after a 3-1 defeat to the Baggies, our fourth Premier League defeat in five matches, there can only be one thing he is going to say – that he is stepping down at the end of the year.

Call him disconnected or delusional if you want, but one thing this man will not do is harm the club when he has the knowledge that something can be done about it and as of right now, he has to see that changes are needed. And if those changes don’t involve players, which they can’t just yet, given that it’s only March, then it has to involve the manager.

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We can’t completely blame Wenger for this horrible position that we are in. He deserves a lion’s share of blame, but the culprits are spaced out on all tiers of this football club. It is time for a change and Wenger has to see that.