Who remembers what Raul Sanllehi looks like?
Times are hard and Don Raul is hiding. He was no where to be seen in Arsenal’s post FA cup celebrations. Since then, in the afterglow, social and mainstream media turned to happy transfer talk. For two days, at least, it was was all rumors of Willian and Coutinho being signed. Remarkably, despite his apparent excellent relations with the media, none of this activity was tied to the Don. Instead it was Edu and and the club’s new “head of recruitment”, Kia Jaroobchian who were in the headlines.
By Wednesday it became clear why our our Head of Football is keeping a low profile. Fans received a bombshell with the following announcement:
Unfortunately, we have now come to the point where we are proposing 55 redundancies
By the way, in a long 469-word meandering statement, signed by both Raul and Vinai, it took them nine (9) paragraphs and 365 words to get to the crux of the matter.
Gotta say they and the PR team tried their best to deflect and conceal the full implications of what was being proposed. But in the age of social media, despite rampant censorship, fans quickly exposed the club hierarchy as rotten hypocrites for betraying recent promises made to the players, to staff and to fans. According to 20th April edition of The Guardian, the club released a statement which said inter alia:
At the time they said qualifying for Europe would make our financial position “stronger”. How come this is no longer so?
Even more horrifying is news that the proposed cuts will hit strike at the heart of the independent recruiting staff built up over the past 20 years. International recruitment specialist, Francis Cagigao, who was a youth player at Arsenal before going on to work alongside Arsene Wenger and who played a major role in identifying and recruiting the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Hector Bellerin and Gabriel Martinelli, is slated to go.
Also at risk of losing their jobs are Peter Clark (head of UK scouting) and Brian McDermott – both senior figures in Arsenal’s first-team scouting department.
But who needs scouts when super agent Kia Jaroobchian has a portfolio of his clients waiting to sign up for Arsenal, which will of course earn him lucrative fees and commissions. Edu, David Luiz, and Willian are his clients. The fox is already in the hen-house and he is feasting on the screaming, defenseless chickens.
No wonder Don Raul is lying low.
A great victory, not as great as the one over the champions in 2017 but a comeback somehow feels just as good! Wonderful.
However that great moment did not protect AW from these frauds. Neither will this victory protect Mikel, anyone thinking otherwise is living in Dreamland or snorting mushroom powder.
I gues Arteta same as Wenger can only cover the horrific flaws of the current mafia who took over the club from Fizman and were locked into some kind of deal for a time which protected the club from the horrors being inflicted upon it since 2017.
The bullshitting blagging twats defended these frauds with their “Ramsey and Ozil can’t play together” nonsense and gibberish, I guess when you are friends and family with the agents you have no shame, or you are committed to this vision of football.
Well, we all saw how that ended for Leeds and Derby when they chose cheating and laundering over the Football of Clough. The Kronkes are a little cleverer as they use Great Football coaches as a fig lead for their nastiness.
Can the Arsenal survive this?
Although I wish otherwise, I doubt Arsenal in its current form can survive this deceitful, insidious destruction from the inside. Like any institution, the corrosion starts inside until the rot sets in and the institution eventually falls. As is observable, its the Kroenkes who have allowed Don Raul, and before that Gazidis, to destroy the foundations of the club.