Edit: Punchinello deletes his own posts
Edit: Punchinello deletes his own posts
Last edited by Ironing; 09-06-2011 at 12:11 PM.
From today's Arseblog:-
£15m on Downing would make £7.5m on Bebe look like a bargain.
He is so terrible at football that he has an entire syndrome named after him.![]()
Tuesday the 14th of June
Morning all,
much of what's about this morning stems from Ivan Gazidis and his meeting with some of the AST <http://arsenaltrust.org/> membership last night. He came along, answered the questions, said all the right things and none of it was in any way earth-shattering or unexpected.
He said that the manager had the 100% support of the board <http://news.arseblog.com/index.php/2011/06/gazidis-wenger-has-100-support/>
, which I think we already knew. What was interesting was when pressed on what might precipitate a change of manager and to whom Arsene was accountable, he said:
Arsene is ultimately accountable to the fans - they ultimately make judgment. If you are seeing the relationship between the fans and the manager break down over time that is unsustainable. But I don't think we are anywhere near that.
I know fans are important, and some fans certainly like to feel important, but to me the manager should be accountable first and foremost to the board, to those who run the club. It just strikes me as odd that the board will gauge fan reaction to make a decision about the most important footballing position at the club.
It's clear there are those who feel Arsene has taken the club as far as he can and that a change is overdue. There are others who believe he should be given more time. So where is the tipping point at which the board will decide one point of view is most widely held and therefore most relevant? Does it suggest that there's a lack of footballing expertise in the current set-up?
More on the blog (Including videso of last night)