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1339 Gunslinger at the Edge of the Abyss

Bolton's final victory completely knocked Arsenal into the abyss!

Wenger left the Reebok Stadium with a pale face, and he took the initiative to take the blame for the loss after the game.

Wenger looked depressed at the post-match press conference. He finally admitted that the team's situation was very worrying.

"Indeed, winning the championship was very slim for us in March, but we were still trying our best, but the reality hit us a lot. We fell from the championship to the situation where we wanted to hold on to the Champions League qualification. This is not the position Arsenal should be, but the reality is cruel. We lost too many points, which made us very frustrated. We should have scored 6 points this week (Liverpool, Bolton), but we didn't get a single point. This season is really a story!"

Wenger said indignantly: "Our players have shown a positive attitude this season, and our players are beyond reproach. If we really want to find a culprit, then this person is me, and I am leading this team."

"I was very dissatisfied with the fact that we created a lot of opportunities in this game, but we still couldn't score as many goals as possible. Our team is still immature, and sometimes experience and mentality are very important." Wenger said at the end.

The young team's flaws are here, experience and mentality! This can be said to be a cliché for Arsenal.

The situation in the standings has changed drastically.

Liverpool has already won the championship ahead of schedule with 84 points.

Manchester United's points reached 70 points and basically locked in the league runner-up position.

The third place is Chelsea, who established an advantage in keeping the Champions League place after winning this round, with 65 points.

The fourth place is Manchester City, who won by Dzeko's goal in this round, led Arsenal by 1 point with 63 points!

Arsenal's two-game losing streak brought them down from the standings to fifth place, and still only had 62 points.

There are only four rounds left in the league. No one can say whether Arsenal can escape and return to the Champions League zone.

Wenger was under great pressure, which was so great that it was unimaginable.

Fleet Street also began to bombard Wenger's coaching policy!

The Times released a major special prediction that Arsenal will miss the Champions League next season!

"The 19 shots in the game were far higher than the opponent's 12 times, and the 67.2% possession rate was twice as much as the home team Bolton. However, it was such a suppressed and suppressed game. The losing side was Arsenal, which had an absolute advantage in theoretical data!

What's even more shameful is that the opponent scored the final goal in the 90th minute of the game.

Of course, this "shame" is probably accustomed to Arsenals. From Sunderland at the beginning of the season to the equalization of the 4-goal lead against Newcastle, to Bolton today, the Gunners always habitually concede the ball when the game is nearing the end, until they make themselves nightmare from competing for the championship to falling out of the Champions League!

After losing to Bolton, the Arsenal team led by Wenger only achieved an embarrassing record of 1 win, 4 draws and 2 losses in the last seven league rounds, and their position in the standings was also overtaken by Manchester City!

The nightmare of 0 championships in 5 years has become a reality, and Arsenal's biggest crisis is not that the team misses the championship trophy, but that they will be out of next season's Champions League!

From the analysis of players' performance, look at Zhu Lu's "suicide" performance at Reebok Stadium tonight, and then look at the god-level performance of Gary Cahill, the person who missed in winter, and the sharp contrast between one god and one ghost. I wonder what Wenger felt on the sidelines? Such a lineup is broken and incomplete, and the defense line is full of loopholes, how can he compete with teams like Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea?

This is a sign of the newly published Premier League coach transfer expense list and money burning list. On this list, Mark Hughes, then Manchester City coach, ranked first with an average of 146 million pounds per season. Among the top ten, there are many famous coaches like Mourinho, Benitez, Ancelotti and Mancini. The "burning money" of these famous coaches also objectively reflects the investment, expenditure and expenses of teams such as Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, etc., which are the symbol of money burning for giants.

However, it is difficult for us to find Arsenal professor Wenger in the top 15 places on this list. After careful searching, the Frenchman was ranked 18th in the "money burning list", joining coaches like McCarthy and Bruce of Sunderland.

Of course, there are even more shabby data. Wenger has been coaching Arsenal for 15 seasons. The average investment per season is only 1.68 million pounds! This is almost one-ninety of Manchester City's investment during the Mark Hughes era!

Nearly one percent of the investment! One hundred times!

With such a low investment and such a huge gap, it is no wonder that Arsenal has encountered the embarrassment of 0 championships in 5 years.

After all, Wenger is not a god. How can he compete with the Premier League’s giants just by relying on his “turning stones into gold”?

It is true that in today's world football, spending money hard may not bring one heavy trophy after another, but on the other hand, if you don't spend money, it is completely impossible to win a championship.

A wealthy family with strong youth training systems such as Barcelona and their own "blood-making" ability is the best in football, still making big investments every year: they bought Villa last summer and introduced Ibrahimovic and Ziglinsky the year before yesterday.

Liverpool has successively introduced Qin Xiong, Suarez, Mereles, Johnson, Baynes and other major players in the past two years, spending more than 100 million pounds. They have won three heavyweight championship trophys.

Chelsea spent 75 million pounds in the winter transfer period, and finally rebounded strongly in the middle and late stages of the league

There is no need to say more about Manchester City's rise.

So, why is only Arsenal slow to take action?

Is it really because of the financial difficulties that the Emirates Stadium was built a few years ago?

'The only thing I can say is that the club is in a healthy financial situation. If needed, we have the ability to spend a lot of money to buy people. But the average age of our team is 23 years old. Why do we have to undergo a big blood exchange and buy people after the season?' Wenger's words made Arsenal fans feel a lot of heart. Since they are financially healthy and don't want to buy people to strengthen their strength, will the Gunners' Legion's road to no championship continue like this?

When Manchester City has threatened Arsenal's Champions League qualification, if Arsenal does not adjust its team building strategy, then next season, next season, if he still misses the Champions League, how can Arsenal's competitiveness improve?
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