Yes - I'll buy that. Both parties clearly have their part to play, and from where I'm sitting Wenger has no agenda, whereas the board is more likely to.
But the point I was making about Cloughie; Blair and Thatcher is that they, and Wenger, all have one thing in common. They started off great, and ultimately lost direction because they lost perspective and objectivity. Clough ended up being relegated; Blair took us to war in Iraq and Thather was undone by the poll tax.