The painful reality is this: Arsenal don't have a leader with the relevant skill set to win the Champions League. Wenger has put together a squad that on paper isn't far off being very, very competitive, but sadly, unless you have the absolute best players in the business, you need to have a game plan (and not even the best teams boast master planners). You need tactics and thinking in every game. You need deep postgame and pregame analysis. You need innovation. You need world-class fitness. You need a culture within the setup that forces accountability. You need a manager who says, "I'll do whatever it takes to give my players the tools to succeed."

Arsenal don't have the above. Which is why, until Wenger moves on, they'll always be the also-rans in the major competitions. A club in elite purgatory. Always good enough to make it to the big race, never fast or smart enough to push over the finish line in first place. That's all about the manager. Until he changes, Arsenal fans will continue to celebrate glorious failure.

Peter Wood

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