Quote Originally Posted by Merry Chrizimas View Post
As he said though, noone forced the guy to stay on, he wasn't tied to a chair with a gun to his head, if he wasn't happy he could have walked away from the money and found another job. Clearly he's been very happy doing his job as he wants to do it.
You are so focused on Wenger you can't see the point. Swap Wenger for any name you want, the philosophy of this club isn't changing any time soon. Trying to paint the executives and owners as Wenger's puppets doesn't take into account who is doing well at Arsenal and who's suffering. There's a hierarchy of rewards with the fans at the bottom of the pile propping it up. Anyone who thinks the weight will be lifted when Wenger leaves is going to be crushed. It's not just the greed of the owners, it seems to me the players have fully realised what's happening are have found every conceivable way to milk the situation for maximum return with minimum effort. The next manager in has a hell of a job on his hands and I can think of maybe two names who MIGHT have a prayer, Ferguson or Mourinho. Both are impossible so whit Arsenal what you see is what you get for the medium term at least regardless of who comes in. Or put another way, change the pilots all you want but the monkeys don't travel with the fans anyway. They are on a completely different trip.