Nor is it unexpected that talk of crisis swirls around the club again, or that Wenger’s players are being accused of failing to try and failing to care. Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League, missing out on a place in the Champions League for the first time in Wenger’s reign. Cup and promising the club’s board, his theoretical employer, that he could reinvent himself, that he was not a relic, that the world of the Premier League had not passed him by. The club has signed two players this summer, Sead Kolasinac and Alexandre Lacazette, who both started on the bench here. Wenger has done nothing to suggest that he has developed a new tactical skill set to enable him to thrive in this edition of the Premier League.

Source: New York Times August 28, 2017 03:56 UTC