The highly opinionated former CNN host and huge Arsenal fan Piers Morgan thinks that it about time the club told manager Arsene Wenger to retire and bring in Borussia Dortmund boss Jürgen Klopp before the young German moves to a rival club.
Before yesterday’s 2-1 loss to rivals Tottenham at White Hart Lane, thanks to a brace of goals from young England sensation Harry Kane the Gunners were in fine form having beaten Manchester City away and thrashing Aston Villa 5-0 at the Emirates, yet after having lost to the clubs fiercest rivals and slipping out of the top four Morgan is once more calling for Wenger’s head.
“My view is that Wenger has had more than enough time,” Morgan told Call Collymore.
“Which top four club in the world would keep a manager who had won one second-tier domestic trophy in ten years? To me this is completely unacceptable.
“Our recent form has been exaggerated. We had a very good performance against Manchester City away, but I was at Southampton when we got hammered on New Year ’s Day and our record against the top four or five teams over the last few years has been absolutely terrible…shocking.
“We’re sixth in the league, we’re out of the League Cup and yes, we’re still in the FA Cup, but the big yardstick for a team like Arsenal always should be the Premier League, and we have absolutely no hope of winning the league, yet again, for the tenth year running, and we’re only in February!
“So I simply say to Arsenal fans who disagree with me: At what point of failure do we say, ‘this is not good enough’, and we try someone else?”
When asked the question as to who that man might be, Morgan added:
“I will stand by the person I have been calling for a couple of years, and that it Jürgen Klopp at Borussia Dortmund.
“He took a team that was really struggling and he’s won the Bundesliga title twice in the last five years against a Bayern Munich team many believe is one of the all-time great teams.
“He’s dynamic, passionate, the fans and players love him and he’s 20 years younger than Wenger. We need to give someone like him the chance to come in and I believe he would be brilliant for us.
“If we don’t get him right now, when there’s a very real chance to get him, he will end up at another big club and do brilliantly for them.”
