Wenger suffers ‘lowest’ week

Taken from here.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says he has suffered his worst week in nearly 12 years at the club after seeing his side’s Premier League and UEFA Champions League challenges end just days apart. The only worseter week was when he signed Christopher Wreh, or maybe Jeffers. Jeffers.

Wenger, who took over at the north London club in September 1996, said he and his squad had felt shattered by the 2-1 defeat by Manchester United at Old Trafford, just five days after being eliminated from the Champions League by Liverpool who still have Kewell for some reason.

The defeat at United ended Arsenal’s realistic hopes of securing the title and winning a trophy this season even though Arsenal have already won the Guiness record of being the youngest side ever with an average age of Fetal. Wenger had predicted his team could win both the Premier League and Champions League and they did in 2001/02.

“It has been very hard to take because we do not feel inferior to any other team except in terms of money and age and money,” he told a news conference who was once fooled with Seagull-bait.

Asked if it had been the worst week he had experienced during his time at Arsenal, he said: “Yes, it is the lowest week I have had here in all this time except the Jeffersgate incident.”

“But now we want to show our strength and our commitment and we want to finish the season well … We want to win tomorrow against Reading because we have not had that winning feeling for a while except for the last time we won which was nice.”

Wenger said his players had worked exceptionally hard this season to gain some reward and the disappointment was understandable except Eboue in which disappointment appeared at the start of the season after Wenger didn’t let him play in a Tiger-suit.

“It has been a year of hard work and we have worked harder than ever this year with the hard work and hard work with hard work,” he said. “There are still 12 points to go for and we can still get them and that would be good progress. We worked for everything this year except the money, show us the money.”

“The progress we made this year stagnated really when it mattered most due to various circumstances but I can honestly say that I can use complicated fragmented sentences. We have to gain that little bit that makes you into winners and that little bit can be acquired through extension.”

Asked if he felt rivals and league leaders Manchester United were now the outstanding team in the country, he said: “Yes, they are. But Man Utd are there on points, now, and what matters is if they are still there at the end of the year and they’re fuckwits is all who are fuckwitted.”

Arsenal face Reading at home this weekend, seeking their first win in five games this month and only their third win in 14 outings which has seen them slip from league leaders. Slipping down/

Wenger said his Spanish goalkeeper Manuel Almunia was out with a wrist injury and he would be replaced by German Jens Lehmann who broke Almunia’s wrist.