Quote: sally cinnamon "I read this in a Darth Vader voice.
Cullen, TS and Price were all backed by the board in terms of being enabled to make big signings - Powell's incoming signings don't look out of place with the type of player we've been bringing in for a while.
Where Powell is different is it seems like the board have given him a remit (or at least endorsed his approach) of clearing out the vast majority of the underachieving Price squad and have been willing to tolerate everything falling apart during the transition.
As an Arsenal fan I've seen this situation with Mikel Arteta who was backed by the board through a lot of sticky times and backed when he created unrest by going up against big name players but on the evidence of the start of this season now he's built a squad to play the way he wants with the type of characters he wants he seems to have reset Arsenal in a much more positive direction. This is the blueprint I'm hoping for with Powell at Wire - but it might take a couple of years to get there so I'm not expecting us to be ripping up trees next season, I just want to see more stability and being competitive more consistently (which should enable us to compete for the playoffs).'"
You make an interesting point, what is the minimum Powell has to do next year to remain in post. If it's finishing higher than 2nd/3rd bottom, will 3rd/4th bottom suffice? Probably one for a new thread tbh.
Arsenal finished outside of the top 4 last year on the last day or last few games was it (dont follow avidly) were many gooners calling for his head then or have they bought into the plan or as Powelly puts it "process"?