Usmanov will not sack Wenger. Wenger was spending money and getting established players like Sol Campbell, Henry, Lehman and many

On September 30, 1996, David Dein controversially introduced a shy and unknown Frenchman as the new manager of Arsenal Football Club. Plucked from the relative obscurity of Nagoya Grampus Eight in the Japanese J-League, Arsene Wenger was the first manage

The mess we are in is down to Wenger’s poor tactics and signings. If we are going to have a clear out in the summer then Wenger has be one of them. We need to rebuild from scratch and i personally believe its time for a new era. *What other manager has t

I have supported the gunners for nearly 70 years (no medal for please) and I honestly think that AW is one of the worst managers the club has ever had. He cannot visualise a player beyond the age of 24 years old, so he gets rid of them. To replace him is

It is difficult to consider the mauling Arsenal were doled out by AC Milan last night and not fear the worst for a team. Arsene Wenger admitted the Gunners’ 4-0 humbling at the hands of AC Milan was a “disaster” and claimed it was probably his worst nigh

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Well that was embarrassing. A lot of Arsenal fans will be understandably angry at a team that appears to be doing their best Jekyll and Hyde impersonation. I don’t think Wenger could have expected such an anaemic performance from his players. In a Europe

Good players have not been properly replaced. Mikel Arteta for Cesc Fabregas? Not good enough. Wenger’s failure to invest properly last summer finally caught up with his team on Wednesday night. This was men against boys, heavyweights battering lightweig

Arsenal received an absolute mauling at the hands of AC Milan in the first leg at the San Siro. Kevin-Prince Boateng, who tonight could have been akin to Lionel Messi, put in a splendid performance for the Rossonerri. Boateng opened the scoring at 15 min

The 3 biggest talents in Europe right now are Gotze, Erikson and maybe Hazard. If Arsenal are going to buy any of these players its most likely going to be Erikson and hes probably the 1 we could do with the most anyway. Dont understand why so many peopl

Looks like Rangers is going into Administration!! Can we have Bartley back Asap. Fair enough – stand corrected on Viera. Was going on an interview he gave saying he wanted to leave earlier, but probably that was said in retrospect. Shocking about Rangers

THE FA went into Wednesdays fateful meeting with Fabio Capello fully ready to allow the Italian to fall on his sword. Bernstein is the ultimate committee man. He will not accede even to the simplest no-brainer unless the course of action has been fully r

David Bernstein was widely regarded as the safety-first choice when he was selected to succeed Lord Triesman as chairman of the Football Association in late 2010 as the governing body lurched towards the end of another troublesome year. Many saw David De

Stuck in the mud Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Out of all the clubs on the edge of, or just outside of the top 4, Chelsea are the biggest underachievers. Having spent over £90m within the last year alone on star names such as Fernando Torres, David Luiz

Wenger’s philosophy is aligned along the path of developing players and the financial merit of investing shrewdly. Arsenal are the epitome of a football club when it comes to financial matters; the financial model is a sound and self-sufficient one. Ther

When you look at the England team, you see a board who have gone against their manager, a now-deposed captain who will have lost faith in the people he plays for and a manager who cannot rely on the board to support his decisions. It is about as far from

It’s difficult to know where to start this week’s column. On the face of it, a compelling comeback from two goals down to keep our FA Cup hopes alive, followed by a point and a clean sheet away from home should constitute a reasonably good week. Yet it d

Click here to read 'Martin O'Neill: Messiah' Arsène Wenger claimed on Friday that he is not bothered by adverse reaction from a minority of supporters. Yet however few booed the decision to send on Andrey Arshavin as the man to win last Sunday's game aga

So here it is people, the first ever Le Grove podcast! I haven’t listened to it back, all I know is the microphones worked and I started and stopped it in the right place. It was recorded with Alex Fynn who is co-author of Arsenal: the making of a modern