Arsenal will they again return to be great

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Six years ago Arsenal ended runners-up in the league pushing their closest rival Spurs down to third as Leicester did manage to do the unthinkable by winning Premier League.

The fans of this club must really hate their former manager Arsene Wenger as his presence was something they would rather be without. Strange to watch from the side, not really understanding the reason behind it all, as their knowledge of football and totally ignoring that this is actually going in a bit of circles, with Wenger alongside Sir Alex being the masterminds behind those great generation moves as they managed to renew their teams in time to bag trophies season in and season out.

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Before Arsene Wengers arrival at the club in September1996 it was little or nothing happening and a lot of strange talk has since been seen about Wenger this and Wenger that. Those persons in the Wenger out clan will go on for ages to defend their case as they know can see life of wrong doings big time.

Arsene Wenger was an institution at Arsenal and to give him the treatment he was given by the club and their fans are just disgusting to watch for one being an outsider, completely unthinkable, but in this World you do see strange things happening over and over again.

When you look at what happened next you understand that the club do not have a main strategy work as no successor was seen long term and no clear candidate had been addressed, so why do what they did, to destroy their own work, to start a riot towards your own, that looks like a sailboat without a skipper.

What we have seen at Arsenal after Wenger’s departure is a downfall from being a club fighting for a place in Champions League to something few can imagine will be able to fight for anything else than a Premier League survival, and the house of Arteta is not leading anywere and will probably go to the ground as the building is not standing with this type of approach.

A good healty football team do have a number of experienced bodies in there, still able to compete at the very top, you do have a body of players in and around 26 to 29 among those being first team regulars. Then you have a crop of younger players just in and around the eleven that still need time to deliver, and of course not being players that needs to take all the leading act during a full season, they will not be able to do that and fail, and with failure you will get more failure.

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In Wenger’s last season Arsenal ended 6th and qualified for Europa League action. They were EFL Cup finalists and ended their run in the Europa League in the semi’s, who are in their right mind to sack a manager after those results, and talking about giving this man the sack long before, you must have little or no knowledge of football.

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Wenger made a number of sales to be able to fund the arrivals of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette and Henrikh Mkhittaryan and with those signings bringing in players with the experience needed to be able to find more glory going forward.

Looking at the squad you had the blend and the avarage age needed as those three players made it possible to let others leave. The job that summer was to bring in quality in the back four, probably look at the keeper situation and bring in the quality needed to fly on forward.

The club never managed to bring in the quality needed to replace those players that was coming to an age that made them a bit too experienced and also losing Ramsey might have been a major blow with the player wishing to leave. A great talent and often underrated by many as he have been a bit forgotten in the rise of Wales, with Bale getting most of the credit.

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Wenger had a great nose for finding talent and signing players that could take the step as he did with Henry and Vieira both just fringe players at Juventus and AC Milan when arriving at Highbury. No player was seldom signed on the upper shelf as we all know Wenger selling most of his best players to Man City for fees he couldn’t get elsewhere.

Would have rather seen Wenger taking that job of bringing Arsenal into a better shape when leaving that what happened now and we believe it can take ages to rebuild the structure, though we cannot see who that person would be and of course not seeing how such an appointment will be happening.

The roar for Brendan Rodgers at Leicester might be there, but we do not really know how a club a bit down the pecking order coming to finances will be able to fight for those major trophies withouth a wizard at the helm, and surely that person is difficult to find.

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Two thousand games, Brian Horton, a life in football

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The name Brian Horton might be familier as the former player, manager and football coach looks back at his life in this game giving it special perspectives only Sir Alex Ferguson can match, coming to all those games involvements.

For the younger generation he will be a man that has been associated with especially Oxford and Man City as their manager, he later also took charge at Huddersfield, Brighton, Port Vale and Macclesfield.

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His first job as a manager was with Hull, combining the role with playing as we did see back then but seldom today as you have to have all your badges and licences in place to do the manager job.

For us a bit older we do remember Brian Horton fondly from his days at Brighton, being their captain in the ladder climb from from the 3rd to the 1st level of English football. He then joined Luton and spent three years at Kenilworth Road before making his player manager jump to Hull.

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This book goes in depth of course and also describing the fantastic journey Hull had under their former manager Phil Brown with a certain Brian Horton by his side. Horton alongside Brown managed to get The Tigers into the top flight for the first time in their history and surviving before a massive struggle the year after sending Phil Brown out the door, appointing Horton as caretaker for a period before Iain Dowie came in to try to save the ship, but it wasn’t to be.

Brian Horton later joined Phil Brown at Preston North End and continued to work in football for the time being. After his time with Preston new moves to Macclesfield, Doncaster and Swindon came in order either in full charge or in assistant roles.

A fascinating saga about a man that football respect greatly as he took part around in the football league with a unpolished style and knowledge of the game that few are able to copy.

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Conor Gallagher and his trip towards the top

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Conor Gallagher is still probably most known for being a World Cup winner with England going back a few years and to 2017 when he became champion with his nation. A player that again is out on loan this time with Crystal Palace last season playing for West Bromwich Albion.

He has earlier been on loan at Charlton and Swansea and the progression is of course easy to notice for the 21 year old, also taking his international steps being part of the England U.21 set up at present.

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We just have to wait and see if he will be able to break into the frame of Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea and alongside other talents such as Mason Mount and Reece James.

The season opener against his owners Chelsea did see Gallagher sit out that one as he was not allowed to play. But he was very much involved in the next that 0-0 draw at home to Brentford and also playing in the EFL Cup v. Watford but not involved when the yellow scored in the 86th minute, Gallagher hat left the field.

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Patrick Vieira is still waiting for his first win, but we feel that when that happens the youngster will have a part in this as he looks to grab his chances wherever he moves around, and we believe he in the future could be an alternative not only for the England U.21’s and below but hopefully making the grade to become a full international sometime in the future.

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We will of course follow the progress of Conor Gallagher, and exciting player to watch.

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