Outspoken Arsenal fan Piers Morgan believes Arsene Wenger’s time has come as Gunners boss and has called for the club to target Jurgen Klopp as his replacement now, or risk losing him to a rival.
The man-of-many-opinions joined talkSPORT for an exclusive chat following his beloved side’s north London derby defeat to Tottenham, where a brace from Harry Kane – who he claimed wouldn’t even get a place on Arsenal’s bench – sealed a 2-1 win at White Hart Lane.
Having ended their long hunt for silverware with FA Cup glory last term, Arsenal seemed to be on the rise with an impressive performance against defending champions Manchester City last month.
But, with the loss to fierce rivals Spurs seeing them slip out of the top four, Morgan believes their performances have been over-hyped; insisting the club need a fresh outlook following 18 years with 65-year-old Wenger at the helm, with the Borussia Dortmund boss his perfect man to fill the role.
“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 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 Jurgen 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.”
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