The problem and the principal reason we are mid table isn't Arteta, really.
The fact we've got stability and a relative lack of burning ambition at Board and executive level is vital, but it's the overall process of adjustment in the squad, in the rhetoric, in the messages and communication.
We've had this coming for a long time, a decade at least. The lack of anticipation and prudent preventive action is highly disappointing. Only Gazidis really had the intuition required to change course, which he did by leaving the club.
Venkatesham wasting his time playing footsies with the ESL proposal is a great example of the scales that remain over our eyes. Another few seasons like this and we won't even be included in such proposals.
