Pressure mounts on Wenger after shock FA Cup exit

The roof seems to be caving in on Arsene Wenger’s long reign at Arsenal after club suffered the ignominy of a shock 5th round FA Cup exit at the hands of Blackburn Rovers. Wenger had never been defeated by a lower-league opposition in the competition during his long reign at Arsenal but last night’s loss only provided the exclamation point on an already poor season for the Gunners. An inconsistent Premier League campaign sees them trailing 4th placed Tottenham by four points as they are once again left to fight for a Champions League spot alone.

The Round of 16 tie over Bayern Munich is the only chance for the beleaguered players to save their reputations after recent events and Wenger himself is keen on moving forward rather than dwelling on the present as he told the Daily Mail: “It is not over yet. For you maybe, but not for me. It’s important to focus on our next game. It’s a good opportunity to show we have character.”

But the Arsenal fans aren’t over the embarrassing defeat to Blackburn as calls for ‘Wenger out’ rang around the Emirates at full-time. The Frenchman has reiterated that he has no intention of deserting his beloved club, with whom he has a contract till 2014. The Arsenal board and Wenger himself will sit down at the end of the season to review the state of the club’s health. A failure to finish in the Top Four would definitely make things worse for Wenger, especially after what is most likely to be an eight year without a trophy.

David Moyes and Carlo Ancelotti are just a few names being thrown around as possible replacements for Wenger should he leave in the summer, with Moyes possibly working towards a move to a bigger club by rejecting contract talks with Everton.

16 thoughts on “Pressure mounts on Wenger after shock FA Cup exit

  1. Wenger hz done alot 4 arsenal.he hz develop young playerz 2 big name eg rvp cesc adabayor song.u have 2 sack da board first and remve bond as assistance coach and replace him with some1 outside da club.and improve da transfar policy.in wenger wd trust arsenal 4life

    • Man every one knows that, but he has reached at a level where all his tactics are proving him wrong, if you talk like that the he is a very good football scout or promoter of younger talented footballers but not a manger, what if wenger was a business man in this competitive economy , what would he do?????

  2. AW has no excuse. He had money to spend, he knows his bench is not good enough and he refused to buy players. He is as confused as Mr. Bean.

  3. Wenger please leave the club before the club becomes under totenham,if I live in london I show what I do before arsenal dies.go to hell. Up to when we (millions of arsenal fans) continue burning b/c of some hyenas(kroenke,wenger,gazidis hillwood,bould,…) anything can’t till wenger leaves!! Viva gooners?

  4. Arsenal looks like the winner playing against Blackburn but end up a loser with a 0-1 result due to strikers with no assist given to them.. Speed and creating space for penetration into their defence is the answer to winning a game. Striking a ball into the net need to be calm like Henry.

  5. It’s. good that every one gets what van Persie said, that the club has no vision.,, only bringing up talented players and sell them off, what makes a manager to be great
    Winning trophies, not only macthes
    Wait he will be selling of the next top names , the next excuse wld be
    I had no choice!!!

  6. The march between Arsenal & Black burne, shows naturally Arsenal are not in favour to win that cup, because they have played almost 90% of the ball. But they are not locky. NB! What does not belong to you, nomatter how you try, does not come to you.

  7. FFP is supposed to be the savior of Arsenal FC. Newsflash: If you are not competing in Europe when the regulations kick in you are at a massive DISadvantage compared to the likes of Chelsea, Man City and even Spurs. This loss just emphasized the lack of talent in reserve that we all knew about. IF everyone stays fit Arsenal might stay in Europe (Europa League) but if anyone in the first team gets injured no chance. That is down to bad scouting and bad choices by the manager in the transfer market. I remember the days when Arsenal could qualify for Europe using their second XI but now we see a second XI that can’t even compete against Championship sides and a first choice striker in Giroud who is not as good as most of the strikers at most of the other EPL clubs. I’d take Rickie Lambert ahead of Giroud every time and he was playing in League 2 not so long ago.

  8. you are right but wenger is a confuse man and i just begin to hate him. what made him not to sign a dm and why did he leave diaby on d pitch? you bring in three fast attacking player to play with lazy diaby. i hate wenger now and ………

  9. as far as wenger is not ready to buy good players, arsenal will never ever win
    trophy. he has opportunity to buy players, on january, he refused.look at
    musa sissoko, tottenham buy him only 3million and he is one of the best defensive midfilders, in french league, we dont have defensive midfilder, no experience goalkeeper, no clinical striker, but he refuse to buy, dispite, 50 million pounds he was given sorry for you wenger, i pitty jack wilshere for extending contract, no silverware for him.

  10. wenger must be sacked cos he has done nothing to this club,nowdays ARSENAL FC is a selling club develope talents and sell with a big profit with wenger getting some percentage of that profit. it started long time ago with THIERY HENRY people did not realise that on time, check the list of players wenger sold:
    1.henry 2.fabrigas3.adebayor 4.nasir 5.van persie 6. song. 7 bentley 8.gallas 9.toure . These a strong players to be with the current squad imagine if Henry can play with van persie or walcott. some players can be taken to team b. wenger do something to please your fans we are tired of next season. wake up wenger to bring arsenal to glory as it was last 2003/2004

  11. You are very correct,wenger & his fellows has messed d club & his fans up they dnt care about d club,winning trophies or d fans.wenger should go & scout players 4 other clubs or go get a job as an economic some where else,imagine Alex feguson insulting him 4 not winning anything 4 8yrs & his comfortable men this guy wenger & his crew wants 2 destroy d club something should be done fast

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