I may be a bit harsh but for me he has been a complete failure. Nil champions leagues in 21yrars for one of Europe's so called big clubs is embarrassing. Munich Barca Real etc are light years ahead of what this so called visionary has achieved.Plus he's a whinging self entitled twat.
They aren't competent at board level though. Kroenke is a tosser and possibly the worst owner of a major sports club. Like his fellow Americans at the swamp, he's only been interested in doing the bare minimum to keep CL revenue coming in. Like the rags, there's no DoF or other football structure backing up the manager, no succession plan, nothing. And, like the rags, the whole house of cards will come tumbling down.It's possible they get worse if they replace Wenger as badly as the rags replaced Ferguson....but it's also entirely possible that through luck or actual competence at board room level, they don't fuck up like the rags did, and then they could improve very quickly to be title contenders.
I would much rather Wenger stayed on indefinitely. We know what we get with him there, and it's not anything to worry us.
Dividends. Kroenke is the controlling shareholder and his no. 1 priority is getting his yearly payout. Usmanov has more of an interest in the footballing side but doesn't have enough shares to change the financial structure and won't invest into an asset he has a minority stake in, apparently he's thinking of packing it in and buying the rest of the Everton shares.
Plus the fact he was one of the first, if not the first, to introduce the 'Financial doping' phrase into footballNo sympathy.
He's systematically ran them into the ground. He's old fashioned and stubborn. He hasn't addressed his teams biggest weaknesses and blames everything and anything on everybody else.
I'm also not having that 'real failure' will occur when he leaves. It's already happening.
Arsenal have a decent squad. Put a modern/forward thinking manager in control of it and they will become a threat once more.
When they went to ten men, their response was utterly unprofessional and that is one of many examples of his mis management
It's up fam!
It's a madness...
But as with the GPC and the Glazers, he has to take a large part of the blame for allowing the club to end up in this position, he's never so much as complained about the funds made available by the board and in most windows hasn't spent what he has been given.Cheers.
It's not an easy working environment, I'll give him that, but I still think he's to stubborn to change anything.
It's up fam!
It's a madness...
Give it Rioch till end of the season.