PairyGrows wrote:GoonerAlexandre wrote:PairyGrows wrote:So, Herron will be in charge of operating the youth team, not managing it. Yet the article mentions the players he has helped to flourish during his time as the youth team manager. Herron will be arranging trips, not coaching.
I think the club is trying to create this 'backroom overhaul' narrative out of nothing. If anythin, I consider these changes in personnel to be superficial at best.
And yet, look at who he's joining, a guy who came in last year, and Per who joins next year. Whatever you say, we've overhauled the Academy, and we've got a Director of Football in all but name.
When Wenger leaves, we're set
What I deem to be an overhaul is a systematic change in the way the club and/or the units within it are run, not just a few appointments here and there. If a machine isn't performing well, changing a few parts here and there most likely won't make the machine function more efficiently if the configuration causes the problems.
True.
However, look at it this way.
Our biggest issue is recruitment and we've restructured the system and got a Director of Football in. That's completely revamped, both the system and personnel are now new. Our next issue is coaching. At youth level, we're getting fresh ideas in. At scouting level, we've got new ideas and a system in. The real change will come next when Wenger leaves, that is the change in philosophy of youth coaching. However, we're transitioning for that period very well.
Wenger, for all his faults, DID EVERYTHING at Arsenal, and this is now to the detriment of the club. We needed all this in, because no modern manager will scout players, sign them, coach the team, negotiate contracts, and also look after the Youth Academy. Wenger, for all his faults, did do all this. Do you think the manager has any say in how much Messi is paid at Barca or Pogba at United, or KdB at City?