Clrnc wrote:
It's kinda unreal how much the standards have dropped around here, myself included given how hopeless our entire club looks like these days. I was furious we bottled top 4 despite having every result go our way under Emery and wanted him gone, but these days there are some who are happy to accept mid table mediocrity for next few years just because they think Edu sucks and take time to replace him.
Expectation and acceptance aren't the same thing. Our entire club looking hopeless is the reason to expect a poor result this season.
We have a Board that won't invest massively, a stolid manager, a questionable club hierarchy and a deficient squad. That adds up to mediocrity. We're not on track to fix even one of those problems any time soon. Fixing three at once would mean chaos. The foundations aren't good, it sucks but sometimes the truth sucks.
The Board isn't going to shift without a hostile, over the odds takeover bid. At the rate we spend for now, there's more patient work to do bringing in players who are likely to have quality and to want to stick around after another contract cycle. And yes, maybe we can do better than Edu. Getting someone great in that role might have a bigger impact on the strategic timeline than sacking Arteta.
