Arsenal: Ivan Gazidis Playing Dangerous Game With Words

Arsenal aren’t known for their changes, yet Ivan Gazidis is claiming that Arsene Wenger must become a catalyst for change. Careful what you say, Ivan.

There has been so much talking in the past couple weeks. With Arsenal under intense scrutiny and so few willing to step up on the pitch and do something about it, what we have been suffering through is a bunch of empty chatter.

First, it was Mesut Ozil, saying he was being singled out, blah blah. Rather than just accept that he has been playing poorly, he lashed out at the criticism. Then he came out against Manchester City and put in another lukewarm performance.

Then it was Alex Iwobi. Iwobi echoed Arsene Wenger’s claim from last year, that everyone on the club was a leader. Which is antonymous with what leadership actually is.

He even went so far as to say that supporters were just impatient. Which makes zero sense.

It’s been all talk. And now club CEO Ivan Gazidis, who is often criticized even more than Wenger and the players, has his own version of chatter, saying that if Wenger is to stay, he must become a “catalyst for change.”

On the surface, this looks positive. He is trying to put pressure on Wenger to makethe necessary adjustments to move the club forward. That isn’t a revolutionary idea. But the board has long been considered to be under the foot of Wenger and if Wenger does not enact these changes that Gazidis is pressuring him to make, then who looks bad?

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Everyone.

Gazidis would look as powerless as we all suspected he was, Wenger would look power-crazed and the board would still be emasculated. And in the mean time, nothing would change.

Hopefully this is something that Gazidis and Wenger have spoken about, and that is actually going to come to pass. You can’t tell a fan base that has been waiting for over a decade for real changes that those changes are finally coming and then not deliver.

Supporters are already beating on each other outside of the Emirates and until these changes to occur, that isn’t going to change.

These words that we keep hearing are completely foreign to what we actually see. Promises of changes, of hidden leaders, these things just don’t fit with what Arsenal has become and it has me worried that what Gazidis is saying is more empty chatter.

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Until something is actually done, rather than talked about. Until changes are actually enacted, rather than dreamed of, then there is nothing here.

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