Qwiss! wrote:
Has there been more Arsenalisation? I think many of the clubs values and traditions seem to be disappearing under KSE. That they give token gestures of goodbye as they push legends and long term servants out the door, they have to be shamed into honouring the passing of former players and staff, etc Worst of all trying to pull us out of the Premier League and into some Americanised bullshit pan-Euro league.
"Arsenalisation" really means the replacement of the substantial by the symbolic. What's actually going on behind the scenes is KSE trying to replicate a club management model from another sport in the United States, it's a business restructure.
The big photographs of Wenger, special kits and branding and props and sound bites are more filling in the placeholders in the white-labelled plan. That said, the top-down "cultural change" is somewhat real and is fixing certain issues with the old structure: Sanllehi, squad management, the dickhead factor.
Don't really blame KSE about the ESL stuff. It was a stupid idea and everyone other big club was involved, hasn't been the first time.
Qwiss! wrote:
And how much of that is based on expectation? If we had the same game 4 seasons ago how would it have been recieved? I doubt with much positivity.
When it was happening in real time we got very excited. The performance was classy—for those 55 minutes—and we were running the play against very strong opposition. None of the criticisms levelled at Arteta's Arsenal were present. Until, of course, that unbearable meltdown. That was only a couple of matches ago, but it's not a big stretch to say the mood after Forest may not be the long term one.
I'm worried that in a few more days we're quite likely out of another competition and beaten by Spurs.
@[deleted] Yeah, I basically agree. A lot comes down to whether it's possible to get back on track with a few players missing. Be nice if Ghana did us a favour and send Partey home early.
