Phil71 wrote:Luzh 22 wrote:Phil71 wrote:
Finishing 4th was never enough for his footballing desires, but it was excellent for the club's finances.
I have no issue with any other part of your post, except that sentence right there. That is plain revisionism.
It was more than enough for his footballing desires. So much so, he tried to legitimise it by calling it a "trophy". Truth is, somewhere along the way, football achievements started to mean less to AW than monetary achievements.
I guess we disagree then.
I don't think he ever lost his desire for footballing success. The CL is the Eldorado that every club seeks to gain, and he secured it every year bar two. No matter how anyone might try to belittle it, that was a terrific achievement, and one that any one of our fans would be delighted to get next season.
I agree, I think we gets downfall was being realistic with where we could get to and trying to portray it as acceptable. He’s the type of guy who will take the fall and never sell out the people he fell for and that caused his to be the hate figure more so than the board.
He’s nowhere near as delusional as his interviews and latter years make him out to be, he just played the role and ultimately fell below that minimum standard he had set.
You could see on the sidelines it was never enough, the man felt every frustration we did and it must’ve been killing him to stay in that job tbh. I hate how people still have so much hate for the guy who did everything he could for the club, one day I hope people will understand it. He would’ve died for Arsenal to win the PL again, unfortunately all it would’ve taken was a striker in 2015/16 but who was to know at the time.