Well it seems to have been an option for a few years now. After all, we can only judge AW on the high standards he himself has set and by those standards, the last decade or so has been a failure.
I realised the other day that in 2022 it will be the same length of time between league wins as between 1971 and 1989. That's only four years away now.
We had six or seven managers between '71 and '89, didn't we. That's something of an issue, I suppose.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."