I can kinda understand where you're coming from, though the rhetoric about murdering parents is ... pretty special. Under Arteta the atmosphere feels pretty cultish and disciplinarian, right down to our cargo cult "build it and results will come" approach to turning ourselves into a budget shop City. We're doing it, at vast expense as well, and it's even starting to look pretty good, but there's no guarantee of actually competing for anything with it.
However, many or most of the players seem to respond well to Arteta's tyranny, and the certainty and structure of this approach up and down the club, the focus on youth, the willingness to burn cash in pursuit of "the right fit" according to Arteta's pretzel logic with signings, even when the mood and our results have been mediocre, seem to have been the right prescription for properly exiting the Wenger era.
Before Wenger departed, we talked a lot about what we'd need to do as a club to avoid the appalling hangover we were watching unfold at United after Ferguson. As history shows, the combination of the likes of Gazidis, Emery, Mislintat and Sanllehi was very badly misjudged. Although the Kroenkes seem to be pretty terrible people, I still reflect on their decision to send Tim Lewis in to assassinate a few people with gratitude.
The good news for those of us who doubt or loathe Arteta is that this is the first season of his tenure where the expectation of a top four finish from our Board down is in the public domain, however vaguely. My feeling is that over the next one or two seasons, our results either progress or Arteta is forced out.
If you hate Arteta but love Arsenal, you're bound to get some joy from the next couple of seasons.
