Quincy, the issue with that deal for me is this.
Last summer one might argue that we were in a 50/50. One could reasonably argue for either strategy of Option A: going big and extending Aubameyang, buying Partey and Willian and trying to win the league in 2 years. That needed a lot of aggressive investment and belief that Arteta was the chosen one. It also needed you to believe that all those players and Pépé etc would be performing at their maximum.
What we are finding is that is not actually the case. And that we might actually need to be doing Option B, rebuilding aggressively. Buying Eriksen would be an example of a typical CEO mistake we see all the time. You make an investment mistake, and instead of pulling out, you double down. You see this all the time. Folks do this because it is embarrassing and credibility busting to pull out, even though it might create more value for the organization. We need to think about pulling out. And pulling out means fixing the team for the future. I don’t buy this we are 6 points from 4th. We are busted and making it worse.
