thebigbangtheo wrote:Power n Glory wrote:thebigbangtheo wrote:Well, I for one do like that he is making a clear effort to change the demographic of the team in his revamp by significantly reducing its average age.
Not only does this promise to refresh the attitude, approach and mental outlook of the squad by injecting a greater emphasis on the exuberance and dangerous courage of youthfulness, it dispels and moves us further away from the negativity and morose self pitying born of failure and marinated in the stench of self doubt and under-achievement that has seemingly and unconsciously soaked into the very bones of most of our more senior players.
For too long now we have been undergoing a transitional period during which time we haven't in reality transitioned one iota - until now.
I don't know. It looks like project youth 2.0. So far we've signed two 21 year olds and both Ben White and Aouar are 23 if those deals go through. Hard to expect a lot from new signings so young, which kind of puts us in another transitional period.
The demographic we have now with aging seniors was born out of the original project youth where we lacked experience. The original project youth was born out of replacing an aging Invincible side with youthfulness. It's a cycle. Hopefully, we get the balance right this time but I'm not expecting much this season.
I do get the point you are making PnG, but equally I must call out the difference between the misguided, failed attempt by Wenger to ham fistedly address the need for an infusion of new ideas and approach to rebuilding a new team to challenge for the title by introducing new bodies as opposed to a transfusion of iron enriched blood.
In essence, the difference is that the efforts of our former and still illustrious manager were akin to trawler fishing which uses giant nets that gather up all and sundry, whereas this operation governed by Arteta and Edu bears more resemblance to deep sea fishing for tuna using fishing rods which is ultimately specific.
I wish I had that same enthusiasm but I don't see it. Wenger was misguided and stubborn but he had a brand of football that could have worked with better players and if he and others around him were quick to identify the missing pieces and weak areas. We are far from having a playing style and philosophy under Arteta. Nobody can quite understand what style of football he's trying to play or how we'll look with these new signings. It's another transition and we won't really know if these signings are good or a bust until a couple of seasons have past as usual. Similar to Emery and similar to Wenger's final stages.