I’m a newer fan who only started watching the club over the past 2 seasons. I’ve been trying to learn the history of the club, and I’m confused why there was hate for Wenger at the end of his career. I learned that he lead the invincible’s, and that amazing squad from the early 2000s, he gave us the only champions league final appearance in club history, and even after that he seem to do an amazing job. Heck he even got a new Stadium that is really nice. He seemed to be loved. By all accounts he should be a Saint to the gooners but then I look forward a few years, and they were all these Wenger out protests. What led to such a fall from grace.
There was a lot of differences and disagreements within the fanbase, but I think generally most fans didn’t hate Wenger, we hated the slow and painful decline that ownership and upper management had allowed to go on year after year and recognised that Wenger was shielding them from criticism by working his magic and consistently finishing top 4 with a poor squad. He had to go so that the wound could be opened, because it wasn’t healing.