Arsenal: Arsene Wenger should not be sacked - Vermaelen
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Arsenal captain Thomas Vermaelen says he is stunned by suggestions that manager Arsene Wenger should be sacked.
Pressure is mounting on Wenger after Arsenal lost 3-1 to Bayern Munich in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie at the Emirates on Tuesday.
This followed a 1-0 home loss to Championship Blackburn in the FA Cup.
Asked if he was shocked Wenger's future is being questioned, Vermaelen said: "I am actually. Everyone in football looks too short term."
He added: "They don't look at the long term and he's done a lot for this club. He is the right man for this club and we are all behind him."
Winger Theo Walcott said: "We've got the best man in the job to get our heads back to where they should be. I've played a lot of games in the Champions League and I know how things go.
"We need to react in a positive way straight away. We can't be down in the dumps in training. Everybody needs to be alive and alert, recover well."
With an uphill battle to qualify for the Champions League quarter-finals, Arsenal are now facing the possibility of an eighth successive season without a trophy.
They are 21 points behind leaders Manchester United in the Premier League and were knocked out of the Capital One Cup by League Two Bradford at the quarter-final stage.
But it is understood senior figures at Arsenal have no intention of sacking their 63-year-old manager - even if they fail to qualify for next season's Champions League.
On Monday Wenger became angry at a news conference over a report he would be offered a new contract, claiming it intended "to harm".
Following the defeat by Bayern Munich, some newspapers suggested that Wenger should consider his position.
But Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere said that Wenger was not to blame for the team's poor results.
Vermaelen agreed, saying: "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."
"It doesn't mean that because it's not going well at the moment we don't stand behind him."
The defender has also asked that the club's fans stay patient despite the poor run of form.
"The fans must not forget that we need them because they belong to the team and to the club," he said.
"Sometimes, as a player, you are frustrated as well. If you lose you get frustrated but it's not the right thing to act on. We have to stick together, work hard. We need each other.
"Of course we are not happy. Don't look at each other, don't blame each other, work hard every day to get the results back."
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McFaulty out!
Sometimes the BBC is just as bad as the awful tabloid newspapers.
So get some better players and do what most people are aware you can do.....
Never hits the target- just drivels and drivels and drivels...
Sunday league journalism.
Get your act together BBC! This is embarrassing.
I know we shouldn't live in the past but we're talking about a man who has had a whole season UNBEATEN with his club, in an era when football was so physical and brutal. I mean Fergie in his 26 years hasn't even done that.
Who's to say they won't win at the Allianz anyway, it's unlikely but it's doable.
We the license payers demand a Points of View - on TV - where we the license payers can hold to account the journalism being broadcast on the BBC website.
The journalists on TV & Radio are scrutinized- why not the Web ones also?
There's a serious lack of quality and accountability on this Sport site - it's not good enough - and we demand better!
THE BBC ISN'T A RED TOP !!! (sic)
Thats the problem with this guy. Arrogance is a recurring theme in his drivel. Sees himself more of a pundit than journalist.
Taking things (AW's managerial record) out of context = bad (standard) journalism. Simples.
If his article is anything to go by there must be some very poor football journalists at the BBC!!
Arsenal are just having a bad season but theyre only four points off forth. . As for Bradford they've had a fairytale cup run and I reckon if they'd played some of the other big guns they might have done them as well.
I just honestly think people are over reacting and I'm not an Arsenal fan.
He is FAR from faultless (wages on weaker players). But to blame him, solely? No.
Kroenke out. Usmanov in!