Arsene Wenger Out? The People Responsible for Arsenal's Failures

The Arsenal board have always surprised many with their decisions, and their surreptitious manner of doing certain things. They sacked the former Managing Director, Keith Edelman quite suddenly—with even Arsene Wenger not knowing the reason for his departure.

When Stan Kroenke, the American sports tycoon obtained a major stake in Arsenal, chairman Peter Hill Wood remarked, "we don't need people of that sort," in a clear rebuke to the American.

Stan Kroenke is now a Non Executive Director on Arsenal's board.

The board have also always made irresponsible statements like, "we have x to spend on players," and "we can spend 30 million pounds to spend on a single player," only to show nothing for it.

They didn't even want to pay a couple of million pounds more for Xabi Alonso—when will they sign a player for 30 million pounds?

With Arsene Wenger's philosophy, the board has hidden behind him and managed to earn a substantial amount of profit. But today when the whole world is questioning Arsene Wenger, nobody seems to be making an emphatic defense of the man.

The transition of Arsenal to the Emirates Stadium has clearly impacted performances on the pitch, even though Arsenal PLC seems to be making huge profits. The club is now the fifth richest in the world in terms of revenue (in February) and things seemed to be going very well for the board.

Until their mediocrity translated on the pitch with the players' performances.

Arsenal's youth and inexperience has been exposed—and all this is down to the "prudence" of the board and the "inability" of the manager. The people who should really be held responsible are the members of the board, along with the players who have clearly failed to repay their manager's faith in them.

Wenger also has to take a portion of the blame without doubt, but to call him a liar for not making one or two signings in the summer is simply atrocious.

Without him, the club will lose half its players—Arsenal will become also-ran, and will certainly be in a rut for a decade considering the emerging competition in the Premier League. 

That could hurt the club permanently.

Fans are there to support the clubs through the thick and thin—not to bask in the glory of victory and question each and every move of an individual when things go wrong.

I just hope that certain sections of Arsenal's fan base show a little bit of maturity and back the team in what is clearly a difficult phase. It pains me to see a man so highly respected in the footballing world to enforce week in, week out that he has faith in the players at his disposal—when it is becoming quite evident that he might well be losing it with every defeat.

We can never underestimate the greats like Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson because they can always bounce back from lean patches.

Many Arsenal fans, along with the press, may well be eating humble pie when they see Arsene Wenger achieve glory yet again for Arsenal.

You're currently logged into Facebook

Do you want to share your Bleacher Report activity on Facebook?