Juego de posición 101. Might as well have been Guardiola talking here.
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.