The spirit in the dressing room must be absolutely rotten.
Wenger's philosophy is dead, players just don't buy into it anymore.
That article seems to suggest very much that Wenger established a personal relationship with Kroenke. I'm sure Kroenke very much admired his achievements prior to becoming majority share holder but it also helps when your de facto boss is about as proactive as a monitor lizard.
And even if you're right about the chief executive being an ornamental position, that rather makes it even more plain that Gazidis should not be part of the post Wenger restructuring. If he's taken the job knowing that he will be chief executive in name only and more than happy to be in a job eight years without wielding any influence, what on earth makes you think he's suddenly going to be any good for us when Wenger goes.
If he knew he was ornamental and had no power it kind of makes him doubly stupid for coming out the way he did about the catalyst for change. That either he was spinning or was too stupid to see that Wenger would go above his head no matter what he tried to do.
No matter how you try and frame the Kroenke-Wenger dynamic, I can't see how Gazidis comes out of this looking like anything but a clown.
Don't see what Alexis would have to gain from handing in an official transfer request at this point. It's been clear for ages to everyone that he wants to leave so it's not going to change squat. It'd be far more effective to his cause by putting in performances like he did yesterday instead.
Twitter/journos/whatever now saying Monaco won't sell afterall, we haven't even put in a bid for Lemar yet anyway, we want either him or Oxlade, and Oxlade wants a move to us not Chelsea.
Pretty slick. He'll be the only Arsenal player that can say "we" played well on Sunday. I thought the deal with the chavs was agreed and he was having his medical tomorrow. He'd even done the secret chav fan bit in the papers. Not sure they could get a majority of scousers to buy into the Liverpool kit as a child routine if he swaps at this late stage.
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