Quote Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur View Post
You guys aren’t paying attention if that’s your assessment. No need to even mention Stan. We already know his position and how much he admires Wenger. The focus is on Ivan and let’s also remember that Wenger hired his own boss.

If Ivan were happily taking a back seat, we wouldn’t be amongst the richest clubs in the world. That’s not the sort of plan you can ramble up overnight as some sort of PR cover story. When taking this job, knowing our situation with the new stadium, the plan was to build a self-sustaining club that can compete with our rivals. I’d say we’ve stepped up notch in terms of finances and brand but it’s a different story on the pitch. As a CEO, Ivan should be asking Wenger what he needs from the club to win the league. Wenger has often said that lack of resources and injuries have stopped us winning the league. He can’t use the money excuse anymore and we’ve invested in our medical staff and equipment to help with the injuries. There aren’t many excuses left or directions to point now.

Last season we should have won the league. Wenger, with all his usual arrogance, decided to only sign one outfield player in the summer and it backfired in spectacular fashion. Keep in mind his usual bluster about ‘buying not being the only answer’. That’s the message he was putting out. Fast forward, he’s now the squad needs strengthening and that comes off the back of us blowing money on Xhaka, Mustafi and Perez. He’s now saying we need to improve our scouting network and could have signed Griezemann, Kante and Mbappe earlier if we acted quicker. Are you buying any of that? He’ll continue this song and dance forever and from the sounds of it, Ivan’s not buying the bullshit but doesn’t have the power or backing to fire him.
We were one of the richest clubs in the world before Ivan Gazidis joined us.

Qualifying for the champions league season upon season on relatively low expenditure, high ticket prices (especially for season tickets) has maximised the clubs cash flow. Now I don't think any CEO could have made us as big as the size of Man United and Real Madrid, but their respective kit sponsorship with Addidas dwarves ours with Puma by some way and Addidas flatly turned us down in terms of what we were asking for, which is due to our lack of success on the field.

So you have a point there where lack of success on the field is hindering us from making more money off the field, so again if he is a CEO letting Wenger have carte Blanche shows either complacency or weakness on his part.

Either way you look at it, he is Wengers boss if you are having to accept you have no power over him, you shouldn't be at the club not if you are a man of ambition anyway.