In my last article, I said Arsenla were in a mess. Three weeks on, it has become a crisis.
It’s a struggle to find one aspect where the club is impressive right now. Board members are hidden, fans are divided, the manager is keeping fans in the dark, players not performing on the pitch, and there are ongoing transfer rumours.
Arsenal have played four games in March and won just one – the FA Cup quarter-final against non-league side Lincoln City.
Defeats against Liverpool and Bayern Munich were not surprising, while the latest defeat at West Bromwich Albion was overshadowed by the air show.
The biggest problem right now is a lack of trust. Fans have no trust in the board and the manager. CEO Ivan Gazidis appears only at the season end to promise signings to calm the fans, in hope of season ticket renewals.
There is a massive distance between the fans and club, and it is hurting the former.
After the West Brom defeat, Wenger was still not revealing his future, and explained why Champions League qualification is not as important as it was before, saying, “Of course, on the sporting front it would be a blow, but financially the Champions League does not have the impact any more that it had five or six years ago because of the influx of the television money [to the Premier League].”
For years, Arsenal fans have heard why top four is so important and now it is not so important? Part of fan-base have been brainwashed into treating top four as a trophy. But what now? If not qualifying for Champions League is also OK, what next?
As a fan, I absolutely see it as a betrayal.
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Finance is so important for football clubs, but even if it’s just a business things are not going well at Arsenal, because a business is only successful when customers are satisfied. For Arsenal, currently, fans are of little importance.
The future for the club looks even worse. If reports are to be believed, Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil, Lucas Perez and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are set to leave, and if Arsenal fail to qualify for Champions League, how will Wenger replace these players with ones of the same if not better calibre?
The club is losing the trust of fans fast and the angry protests will eventually grow, because if nothing changes in terms of board and manager, nothing will change on the pitch either.
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