Either way, if the most successful and arguably most important person in the history of the club was a "charming genius" and a "bottleneck" (and I really don't think he was), what does that tell you?
I think it's erroneous to compare a football club to a workplace in an industry that manufactures something concrete, whether it's a physical object or a piece of software, because there's no tangible product in football. We don't define success according to corporate interests, which is a point so obvious that I just assumed everyone here was on board with it. The kind of success that any football fan cares about is only measured by two metrics: in abstract terms, such as the quality of the entertainment on the pitch, and in concrete terms according to the number of trophies that the team wins. No one's going to applaud you for earning a huge sum of money for the shareholders if you're in charge of a football club, and if they do they're utter idiots. I don't care under what ownership forms it has been hijacked and sold off to bandits and villains; the point of a sports team isn't to make a profit for its owners.
It's interesting to stay with the point about Wenger, because for all his latter-day faults it was the organisation surrounding him much more than his own ideas that grew stale and stagnated. He certainly had a part in that happening; he grew old and loyalties formed, but it's kinda hard to look at Arsenal right now and think that we've made any genuine changes in that department. The people have changed but the problems stay the same as near as I can tell. It's just that the person(s) with the guiding vision nowadays are a lot more limited and narrow in their views and their ability to comprehend the game. Time will prove this too.
As far as organisational change goes, consider shit like the Super League that we were such a driving force behind; it's nothing but a corporate attempt to manufacture a magic bullet that will eliminate debt on their books. It doesn't solve anything for us as Arsenal supporters. That's the sort of change we've been burdened with by these absolute thieves. You can backtalk Wenger and the old guarde all you want but there was a time when Arsenal didn't embarrass the club and everyone connected to it in public like that, and we still managed to achieve great things on the pitch.
