New manager

[Dein-machine]

Read this earlier - some interesting (sobering) thoughts there, as always, but nothing to be daunted by, in my opinion. If anything, I think we should be genuinely excited about the amount of scope we still have for improvement, given where we currently sit, and what we have going for us as a club? Even though other clubs are getting more out of what they have right now, and are putting us to shame in certain departments, I feel it's going to be far easier for us to pull our socks up and modernise tour approach to things like fitness, coaching and scouting than it will be for the likes of Liverpool, s***s, Everton, etc to finance stadium moves, drastically increase their revenue potentials, and generally sustain what they're currently doing over the long-term...

Good read but not quite sure what the guys actual message is. He suggests at the end that its a bit of a "defense" of the current situation but seems quite critical of Wenger throughout. At the end of the day the surprising thing for me is how far we seem to have fallen behind on issues where I thought Wenger would be strong. If the mistakes made by medical staff using the redzone method are true then its farcical that we are supposed to have "Le Prof" in charge. Bearing in mind how much our football & player quality has regressed since the Invincibles era, the very least is that you would expect him to have all the technical stuff in order. Gazidis needs to give more control over things like medical issues, diets/food to experts & take Wenger away from making decisions on things he new a little bit about 15 years ago.
Wenger should decide the kind of players we need in transfer window but then let others do the deals - he has constantly proved his dinosaur views on modern day transfers are costing us the chance to add quality to the squad.
Having read the article, it just makes more sense for the good of Arsenal Football club that AW says his goodbyes this year.
We sound like a club where nobody makes a move without Wengers say so, he is trying to be "Jack of all trades" & I'm afraid he has become "Master of non" ( or failure in Maureen's words ).

[Power n Glory]

Good read but not quite sure what the guys actual message is. He suggests at the end that its a bit of a "defense" of the current situation but seems quite critical of Wenger throughout. At the end of the day the surprising thing for me is how far we seem to have fallen behind on issues where I thought Wenger would be strong. If the mistakes made by medical staff using the redzone method are true then its farcical that we are supposed to have "Le Prof" in charge. Bearing in mind how much our football & player quality has regressed since the Invincibles era, the very least is that you would expect him to have all the technical stuff in order. Gazidis needs to give more control over things like medical issues, diets/food to experts & take Wenger away from making decisions on things he new a little bit about 15 years ago.
Wenger should decide the kind of players we need in transfer window but then let others do the deals - he has constantly proved his dinosaur views on modern day transfers are costing us the chance to add quality to the squad.
Having read the article, it just makes more sense for the good of Arsenal Football club that AW says his goodbyes this year.
We sound like a club where nobody makes a move without Wengers say so, he is trying to be "Jack of all trades" & I'm afraid he has become "Master of non" ( or failure in Maureen's words ).

In essence, I think he's saying Wenger is holding the club back. He has too much control over too many areas and needs to freshen up the backroom staff or move on. He's overplaying players which leads to injuries and he's overtraining players, which also leads to injuries. We've got equipment which monitors fatigue levels but Wenger ignores the warning signs. Le Grove has been posting about the fitness of the payers a lot lately.