It is a massive role and I wish him the best. I truly believe this club needs more football minded people behind the scenes and have always been in favour of retaining our own and not shunting them out to another team. I’ve always heard Merts is one of the more intelligent players and a leader behind the scenes. Regardless of the results on the field, I’ll always been in favour of that because I believe we kicked far too many of our older players out of the club without retaining any of that knowledge.
Also, I’m not saying Merts would have any real effect on our first team. Why would he when he’s got the Head of Youth role? He’ll have no say in what happens at First team level so Wenger’s influence doesn’t really come into play. Until Wenger leaves, we’re going to be stuck in the same position no matter how many chess pieces we try to move around him. Even if we saw a change in ownership and had Jabba the Hut instead of Silent Stan, we’d still face the same problems if Usmanov can’t see that the problem is Wenger.
Sorry I just don't see it. I see it as another classic Wenger appointment: a nice, unchallenging, nodding, weak minded yes man to report into lord wenger and continue the path of mediocrity at the club.
I'm thinking it through and it doesn't make sense to be so dismissive with so little information. Unless you know something else I don't. That's why I'm asking why you're drawing such conclusions. How are people in general able to spot a potential coach when still an active player?