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.
He is a club legend that revolutionised this club and English football as a whole. But around 2013 onwards he was just not the right person to take the club forward anymore.
His tactics were outdated and he had a terrible habit of standing by players that constantly let him down. And when the money became available he didn’t spend it properly.
He always believed in giving his players the freedom to express themselves but he failed to recognise that not only had the game changed but so had the standard of the players he had. The best teams In the world all had a clear structure and our players weren’t at the level to compete with them without it.