How about Henry as Arsenal manager – and Arteta as assistant?

Maybe Henry as assistant to a better manager. Not sure why Henry would, could, or should play 2nd fiddle to Arteta. Based on what? Pep’s recommendation? Arteta’s nickname is “coach?”

My big concern going forward is this regarding board and ownership; greedy and self-serving yes.stupid? No.

These people learned an invaluable lesson if you look for it.

Majority of fans wanted Wenger out, majority united and surprised ownership and board by how serious it had become. They understood the power of united fanbase against them.

Now it seems many actions by ownership continue this division on purpose.

Have the fans turn against each other, rather than unite against ownership. How many years were AOB’S and AKB’S at each others throats? Ownership never blinked or batted an eye.

They came together, empty seats, apathy, etc… A battle ownership knew was already lost.

Now it looks as if ownership prefers the divisive model, dividing the base, Arteta the scapegoat if things turn sour, and Stan still makes tons of money.

Divide and conquer, a house divided cannot stand.

I suspect- and the existing signs point to it too- that Arteta , if appointed, will indeed be a good coach. Sense tells me he would never have lasted two years working under Guardiola if not the case. This alone will be a huge improvement on Wenger, who to my eyes, had no discernable coaching ability whatever. Our clown of a defence has had no decent coach within a hundred miles of the training ground, except perhaps to put out the cones(Bouldy?, Rice?) And yet, there is always a “but” and here it comes. As virtually ALL Gooners correctly and angrily complain, Arteta has never managed even an Under aged 11 team, which makes him the “obvious” choice for that “steeped in football and Arsenal love”, NOT!!!, Gazidis!. Looking purely at the evidence, if Arteta is appointed as manager you have to conclude that either Gaziidis is a secret Spuds fan sent in to destroy our club or is clinically insane, (or both together, which amounts to the same thing anyway!) However talented a coach he may well be, the simple facts are that top players abroad, or at home, are NOT going to be desperate to play under a coach with zero managers experience, EVER! The “thrill” of being tutored by Arteta figures lower than the thrill of cleaning your teeth every morning and night, or the thrill of drinking your morning coffee. In other words, NO thrill at all. Modern , rich and talented players are motivated , apart from obscene wages, by the chance of improving their personal game under world class coaches like Guardiola, Kloff and Allegri etc. The clear facts are that Arsenal, are settling for the rank of second tier,( behind the other five above us last season) club who hope but don’t expect to one day again reach top four. Fellow Gooners , we have got rid , correctly, of Wenger, only to fall into Gazidis’s latest con against us. I predict that, even so, the season tickets will sell out, just about, but many will now be new from the existing waiting list and that fan patience will no longer be long lasting, as when Wenger managed ineptly for many years, even before we finally took the necessary fan action to remove him. I further predict that fans everywhere will from now on be far more assertive in demanding their club listen to them. One sea change that this last few months has proved to ALL Prem fans, is that we fans have power, REAL POWER, when we choose to show it. How long until we again show our power with regular empty seats is impossible to guess and will depend entirely upon results. But I predict that by next Christmas , we will again be already 12 – 18 points behind the runaway leaders, Man City. If we are then also falling out of top four chase, once again, watch the empty seats start again in earnest.