Replacing Arsene Wenger’s omnipotent presence at Arsenal was always going to be more of a project than an appointment. In hindsight, it seems obvious that the contract he signed in 2017 was a temporary measure so that the club could go about making the backroom appointments to buttress the new Head Coach’s arrival. In came Sven Mislintat, Huss Fahmy and Raul Sanllehi as machinations developed rapidly. In 2018, Arsenal is far more than a football team, it is a top tier organisation that cannot operate according to the whims of a benevolent dictator. A single point of contact is a single point of failure and Arsenal’s executive team quickly constructed scaffolding to absorb the tremor...
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