Terrace Talk: Arsenal - How to get dissenters back on side? Only Wenger knows

News of Arsene Wenger’s contract renewal hardly came as a shock. Would it have been any different if he’d not just become the most successful manager in FA Cup history? I doubt it, because the club simply doesn’t have the structure in place to cope with a smooth accession.

No new manager is going to come to the Arsenal and expect to be running the club from top to bottom, in the same fashion that Arsene does.

Yet therein lies the quandary, as with Wenger agreeing a two-year extension, how do the tame suits at our club intend to engineer a transition, persuading their overlord to relinquish control of contract renewals, transfer signings, etc, to leave his eventual successor able to focus solely on managing events on the pitch.