Country: Wales
I'll never understand why Gazidis was so highly regarded among Arsenal fans who tripped over their own feet in an attempt to praise him.
Even the new structure he put in place was praised as soon as it was put in place. No one waited 5 minutes to see how well it would even work.
He negotiated some awful commercial deals during his tenure too. Gazidis would negotiate a shirt deal in 2014 to put us on par with what Chelsea got in 2010 and get called a genius for doing so. When other teams renegotiated their deals in 2015 and again blew us out of the water.
I think for a long time most of our revenue came from match day income. At a greater percentage than every other club in the league. Which showed that we were massively underperforming on the commercial front because if we had the same percentage of revenue from commercial deals that other teams had, our financial situation would have looked a lot healthier.
Bald charlatan who did nothing but hide behind the boss and up stakes and ran the second he had to stand on his own two feet.
He got stick off fans who paid attention, lot of media friends I suspect were spinning for him all the time.
Wenger was such a lightning rod for criticism, it’s only now after they’ve both gone that the truth has started to come out.
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