All of a sudden the Scouse game is taking on significant proportions, three weeks ago it was a no brainer, win lose or draw it was not going to effect us but now Liverpool have been dumped out of Europe and have been mocked from Land End to John O Groats  and have been written off this season as the team most likely to slip out of the top four. The Scousers are going to be looking to this game against Arsenal on Sunday to resurrect their season and have already announced that their talisman Torres is fit and ready to play against us.

They have been here before this season, when they beat Man United, the difference between that game and the one this Sunday was that Manchester United lost that game and then went on a winning run with a depleted squad to propel them to 2nd in the league. However, should we lose on Sunday I think it could well have a different effect on our team and our supporters.

Wenger has put his neck on the line about this season and promised us silverware, however with no excuses about injuries at all, this team needs to beat Liverpool Sunday and if it doesn’t then it will not bode well for Wenger getting beaten by a team that has already been written off as no hopers.

Maybe it is because I cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel at the moment I don’t know but I know we need to keep the faith, but the loss to bloody Olympiacos the other night tells me that Wenger either has no pride at all or is panicking, because if I was the manager of a football team I would want them to win every game at all costs, winning games adds a winning mentality and losing game does the opposite and for Wenger to be willing play a team like he did the other night against the weakest team left in the competition and lose the game does not bode well at all.

We are always being told tomorrow, it will arrive tomorrow, just wait a bit longer the youth team are ready and are just about to take the world by storm, well if Olympiacos is any judgement to go by we have been taken for ride.

This is year 5 without silverware of Wengers 13 year reign at Arsenal and if we do not win anything this season it will be into year 6 obviously, however potentially next season Wenger will have been here as long a unsuccessful manager as he was a successful one, is he living on a past reputation?
Does it really take 5 years to bring a youth squad through or am I missing something? If all the players were 16 at the time 5 years ago then surely they must be 21 by now? I know it doesn’t work like that but I am using it to try and make the point, actually does Wenger really have a squad that we are waiting to develop?

That is the question we need to ask, I still believe that this squad will need to be improved on to win a trophy because it is not good enough, it has not got that x factor that is going to sweep all before it, not without new blood in a couple of positions and if Wenger buys in the transfer window is he admitting that his request for time was just a smokescreen?

Personally I don’t think so because he tampers with the team so much and sells and buys an occasional player so the squad he was actually talking about all those years ago has actually just gradually dispersed into the Premier Leagues other teams and the Championship teams, we were raving about players who are no longer at the club, who had heard of Jack Wilshere 5 years ago? Nobody I suppose before he scored that goal against West Ham? Yet wenger was still on about how the team would produce and yet all of a sudden Jack Wilshere is the hope of Arsenal. Yes he is a superb player, in fact one of the best I have ever seen and I love him to bits but he was not on the radar of hopefuls when Wenger said professed we would take the world by storm, he has already sold those players and we are now on about the next set of youth players, who no doubt will be sold to Birmingham, Sunderland , West Han and Villa again and we will then be relying on the next crop of players after that.