Raul Sanllehi (sacked)

[AbouCuellar]

Here’s what I said when I was at my most manic high about “Godteta” on 21 Dec:

@AbouCuellar

If I’m totally honest, actually, I’m more excited by the prospect of Arteta.

I think it’s one of those things where if I was completely cold and calculating and I was a betting man without vested interest in the club I’d weigh the pros and cons and prefer Poch.

But I’m not a betting man and not completely cold and calculating. I’m an optimist and I’m a sucker for the ultimate payoff situation: our own top manager, with ties to the club, some 15 years younger than Poch and with newer ideas, a longer cycle before his ideas become old, our own Basque God without some of the minor warts/limitations Poch has.

Basically it’s medium risk (say medium risk because where we are at a point where we can’t really drop any further; the risks are wasting more time/getting further away from building something, losing more of Wenger’s positives established at the club) extremely high reward versus low risk high reward. A betting man takes the latter bet an optimist with his heart in it takes the first one.

Depending on the date my take was always something like that or flat out preferring Poch

You lot can enjoy your cyber posturing all you like but there actually is no contradiction, and I’m totally in my right to criticise Raúl if Arteta turns out the way he looks to be turning out.