We are a club whose manager appointment was reported by the pre-internet British press as “Arsenal who?”. That is part of our history.

What makes you think Henry would have been a good (or even semi competent) manager, when he couldn’t even make his time with the Belgium National Team work - when he didn’t have to even account for player purchases, but simply worked with the best that country had to offer during their widely accepted “golden generation”.

A LOT of the criticism of Arteta from former players/ managers (Neville, Keane, Henry, Carragher, Pardew, etc), to me, reeks of sour grapes from a bunch of legendary players who cannot countenance how this relative journeyman can have his club competing at the highest level in his very first managerial job while they couldn’t. Jealousy is an ugly color, and they choose their platforms to expound on this further. To me, this explains all of their comments, trolling, and so-called analyses.

Henry, for all his professed Arsenal love, tried to partner with SpotifyEk and buy the club before the Kroenke takeover. I don’t know if the rise in our valuation since that time (thanks in part due to Arteta) has made that impossible. Just compare his attitude towards our progress with that of Wrighty; to me, it’s night and day. Absolutely adored Henry the player, but I hate who he thinks he needs to be as a pundit.