Football

With the exception of Utd who have brought through some great young players, Arsenals youth system has been fantastic, his biggest downfall was not holding on to players like Edu, Gilberto, Pires, Flamini and Hleb for just that extra season. his routine stripping of the maturity in the squad leaves our youth exposed, Utds aren't so and come through without the pain.

Gibbs, Lansbury, Wilshire, Oxy-Chambermaid, Walcott (sadly), Eastmond, Frimpong and Bartley are all great young british players - and future core of our team and most likely the england team (when we last great it was the French team), I'd be very surprised if Wilshire was not England captain in 5-6 years, but bear in mind it took 9 years to get Wilshire through the ranks to his current place in the team.

Those that have risen above us have blown transfer budgets and wage structures to get there, what ever new manager comes in wont be given carte blanche to do the same to Arsenal and the fact is the board love Wenger as much as they love their bottom line, so he wont be going anywhere.

We do need a seasoned player but Wengers mastery of the transfer market has been understood and adopted by bigger spenders leaving him missing out on deal after deal. now he has gone like my Dad and is obsessed with getting something better for cheaper.

I want to see Rice out and a bad ass coach in to drive some backbone into the kids, then spend money on Baines, Vertonghen, Hazard and Doyle. we desperately need a goal scorer but putting Theo as an out and out striker and bringing Afobe in would solve that imo

We've apparently failed with a €20million bid for M'Villa.

We don't have the money, and Wenger consistently gets Champions League football, which is what the board are interested in. This is why he doesn't leave, much less to do with sentiment, he is also on a contract that extends for another 2 seasons, and a pay off is too expensive. Not that I want him to leave.

I don't believe Hazard will be available, we've missed out on Mata, Valbuena, Gonzalez, Jones, Herrera, Jadson, M'Villa. Seems its a case of not striking early enough/not having the available funds.

Wenger's youth experiment has had 6 years to produce end results. How many academy members have become first team regulars at the club? Two? (Wilshere and Scezseny). The rest are sold or loaned out (which isn't a bad policy) but don't win trophies.

It's a lot easier to blood youngsters when there are a spine of seasoned players in the team and you aren't relying on them to perform week in, week out. Fabregas was a phenomenal talent but the amount of pressure put on him was ridiculous for a player of his age and can lead to burn out.

Wenger is 62 soon and you cannot expect all managers to be like Ferguson and keep going on and on, producing winning teams, so the Arsenal board have to have a succession plan in place and must be ready to execute on it. If Udinese win on Wednesday night, and they'll fancy their chances, then the board must act decisively and get rid of Wenger and bring someone new in who can address the glaring faults in the team (that lack of experienced spinal players with a winner's attitude). Wenger's complete failure to address this for the third summer in succession cannot be tolerated.