Arteta’s gift has been to seduce a horde of competitive multi-millionaire narcissists to buy into his ideas
. Appointed in 1996, he was Leon Trotsky: the general brimming with new ideas, ferocious energy and seemingly countless different ways of doing things. By the time Wenger was eased out in 2018, he was north London’s Leonid Brezhnev, the leader of the Soviet Union who presided over an era of stagnation and decline.
Arteta is a football obsessive of course, but he’s sufficiently secure in himself to acknowledge the past, so he was instrumental in displaying a giant Wenger picture and quote at Arsenal’s London Colney training complex and inviting the hitherto disenchanted Wenger to return as a spectator last Boxing Day.
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