The spotlight falls strongly on Edu and Vinai

In case it wasn’t clear from yesterday’s portion, I was actually trying to frame what has happened of late as a positive thing. I know on a surface level it’s difficult to attitude the divergence of the Head of Football just as the transportation space is starting to bubble as a good thing, but it was more about how what really happened might activate betters which will benefit us in the future.

My hope is that KSE will give serious consideration to the positions we have currently crowded and those we need to fill in the future. Mikel Arteta answered abundance of questions in difficult circumstances to bring home a accolade in his first half-season as a manager. A half-season which was disrupted by a world-wide pandemic, in which he had to pick as many of the bits from the shambles he acquired as possible. It’s been a great start to his occupation at Arsenal- which isn’t to say there isn’t still a huge amount of work to do, but those who had quite reasonable doubts about his lack of ordeal must have been reassured to a certain extent by what he did since taking over.

It does feel to me like both Edu and Vinai have got a spotlight sparkle on them, and that’s first and foremost because of the jobs they have. At a club like Arsenal, the Managing board and the Technical Director are of huge importance. The undertaking they do at manager tier and from a footballing position is of big meaning, so by any measure they have huge responsibility. Leaving that aside though, there’s a bit more to it for each of them. Edu, brought to the club by Raul Sanllehi, ought to be’ the final and very important part of the jigsaw in our development of a brand-new football infrastructure to take us forward.’

Perhaps he has had to work in shadows a bit until now; perhaps that’s what he prefers; but following the departure of his de facto boss, and the demands of the him to model a strong working relationship with Mikel Arteta, that can no longer be the case. Over the weekend, Vinai uttered an interview to the official site in which he pledged to improve communication to devotees, saying 😛 TAGEND

I think we can do better a position of communication with our fans. We’re not going to be able to give them a rolling commentary of everything that we’re doing , nor are we ever going to correct or be able to correct some of the misinformation there is about the club. But we need to be clear about what we’re doing and what our propose is and we can get better at that.

I feel this applies much more to the football side of things than the business one. As he said, I don’t think we need the details of the dossier rostering every single thing they want to do, but it would go a long way to soothe concerns if “weve heard” from our Technical Director about the way things are going to function and operate at a football elevation, in broad-minded strokes at least.

For example, we find ourselves in the move window, we have our targets more or less set in stone for this one, but what happens after that? We is a well-known fact that our scouting system has been overthrown, and our Head of International Scouting- responsible for finding actors like Cesc, Monreal, Martinelli and others, as well as current musicians of interest like Thomas Partey and Gabriel 2 from Lille- was one of the most high profile fatalities in recent weeks. We know that the data guys have either been marginalised of late when it comes to recruitment.

Edu, nonetheless, is an administrator. He’s someone who likes to be with the players, like a communication polouse, and he’s around the squad and the club at various tiers in a pretty hands-on way. What he is not though is a talent spotter. He’s not the guy who is going to identify the next young starlet, or find the supporter/ midfielder/ striker the work requires. He’s never done that job, so it’s a legitimate question to ask who is going to do it? Is there a need for another appointment, or do we have the resources internally to do “whos working”?

I’d too be very curious about how specific the influence of Arteta will be when it comes to our targets. In the post-Wenger reshuffle, it was supposed to be something along the lines of’ Coach asks for players in certain positions- Club provides the players based on that profile- Coach works with the players and closeds up’.

I do wonder if the new manager might have greater say over precisely who. If he says’ I demand a left back ‘, can he also say’ I demand this specific left back ‘, or’ No, I don’t want this one ‘? My sense is that’s what he’d like to be able to do, based on mentions he made in July when talking about the transport window 😛 TAGEND

” I have a very clear plan and the specificity of the players and squad equilibrium that we need to compete with the rest of the top squads in “the two countries ” .”

He expended the word ‘specificity’ more than formerly in relation to players, and while he could have just been talking about their profiles and their skill-sets, it could just as easily apply to souls. I approximate we’ll find out in time how much force he has, but as we move on, hearing something substantial from our Technical Director about his cultivate after more than a year in the job would be very welcome.

Vinai himself knows what a big activity he has 😛 TAGEND

I know this role comes with a huge responsibility and I’m fully aware of the load of responsibility.

By all accountings he’s a very good guy, people have a lot of respect for him, but ultimately he’s now in charge of one of the biggest football clubs in the world. Admittedly the challenges we face financially are unprecedented, but like Edu I think there’s something to prove in terms of how he does his duty. How could there not be? Ultimately, both men were a major part of the last set-up which understood us finish 8th in the Premier League, and even that closenes in itself raises questions.

Hopefully both men can rise to the challenge, and do excellent work he has done for us. That’s the bottom line: we need the people in these roles to be good … very good. Just like we need the manager to be good. Just like we need our goalkeeper or our centre-halves to be good, and so on. If they’re not … well we all know what happens.

It looks as if KSE have realised that WhatsApp groups and conference calls aren’t enough when it comes to running a football club. You need to be more hands-on, even if your approach is more generally hands-off. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more changes in the months to come, across various departments, but if those originate us better at any level we need to improve on, then it can only be a positive thing.

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