Arsene Wenger will leave Arsenal after struggling to replicate his early success. Arsene Wenger was ahead of his time when he arrived at Arsenal in 1996, but he leaves, almost 22 years later, out of time and out of step with the game he helped to transform during the first half of his reign as manager. So the Frenchman's announcement of his decision to step down at the end of the season, halfway through the two-year contract he signed last summer, is a bittersweet moment for Wenger and Arsenal. To suggest that now is the right time for change at the Emirates would be to overlook the reality that that time actually came perhaps four or five years ago. It is a harsh assessment of the...
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