It is clear Arteta has a lot of power at this club, I would say more power then Edu. I can post a lot of transfer stories where Edu wanted one player and Arteta wanted another and they did what Arteta wanted. Every summer since Arteta has been here we got at least 1 such story. And to be fair, in a lot of them he was right(Tomyiasu over Emerson, Ramsdale over Neto? maybe etc). Califiori is the last one, the club did not want to spend 50 mil on another defender but Arteta pushed for him, and we have to be fair again to Arteta, he looks like a great player, but the truth is, we did not need another injury prone left back, we needed someone in attack. And that is all I want, a director who can push back when it needs to be done. No need to go the other way, have the director of football make all the calls, I feel it is normal and healthy for the club to be a back and forth.
But as others have said, we gave power to Wenger before and it did not work out good, so many seasons I can point to and say, if we had a director of football that went out and got 3-4 players we would have won so much more...but we didn't. It was not ok to give that much power to a manager like Wenger, or to any world class manger out there, so why do it for one that is not world class, like Arteta?
And someone else pointed our in the other thread, I feel it can be a good thing for us, getting a new director in, with different connections....maybe we will have access to different markets and so on. I mean Edu got us nothing from the Brazilian league, bar Martinelli. His connections started and stopped with that con man little shit Kia.
