Wenger still believes he can turn things around and is why he has been more upbeat of late, why he wasn’t so desolate after the latest defeat, this time 3-1 away to West Brom
Amid all the wonder about Arsene Wenger’s future, those close to him have always maintained that one thing is absolutely certain. The 67-year-old would find it very difficult to imagine his life without the day-to-day of being Arsenal football manager.That is one big reason why he is leaning towards staying. Another big reason is because he feels he can solve the current problems with this team. That is why he has been more upbeat of late, why he wasn’t so desolate after the latest defeat, this time 3-1 away to West Brom.Another wonder, however, is what will happen if the problems really are terminal; if he is wrong on this. This is the curious situation Arsenal are in, because of all the complications connected to the fact one man has such a power, but also what if Wenger commits… but there is total collapse?
It cannot be denied that Saturday looked very bad in that regard. It is not just that Arsenal again lost. It was how they lost, with such an apparent lack of fight, with such a susceptibility to just caving.That is also something we haven’t seen before, at least not in this kind of context. Arsenal have suffered a conspicuously high amount of bad defeats for a big club, especially in the last half decade, but one of the constants of even that time - along with Wenger himself - has been their creditable self-correction mechanism. While they have not been capable of getting the win that would really put them onto the next level, they have never suffered the type of defeat that properly plunges them into outright crisis. That might be something else starting to finally change, and not for the better.
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