The Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen has come to the defence of the manager Arsene Wenger by saying that he is the right man to lead Arsenal. A lot of questions have been asked about the ability of the manager to lead Arsenal to trophies.
Even though Wenger has been one of the most successful managers in the Premier league at the moment, he has not been able to achieve success in the last eight years. Since the 2005 victory in the FA Cup, Arsenal have not been able to win any major trophy. They are looking likely to remain empty handed at the end of the season as well after suffering a shock 1-0 defeat against Blackburn in the FA Cup recently.
This has knocked them out of the FA Cup, while they were eliminated from the League cup a few weeks ago. Their chances of winning the Champions League also look to be extremely slim because of the strength of the opposition – the latest Unibet Odds suggest that you might as well throw your money down the grid rather than betting on an Arsenal win 🙁
They will be facing the German club Bayern Munich in the last 16 round, which is great to be extremely difficult because Bayern are the finalists of last season’s competition. Vermaelen is regarded as one of the best defenders at Arsenal, but he has not been having a great season himself.
“Of course we’re behind him. He’s done a lot for this club. He still does a lot of hard work with us. He is the right man for the job. We have to show it on the pitch as well. At the moment the results are not good. But we will work hard with him to get the results back. Everyone in football looks too short-term. They don’t look at the long-term, and he’s done a lot for this club. It doesn’t mean that because it’s not going well at the moment we don’t stand behind him,” said Vermaelen.