Perhaps with a different manager, a change of manager. But with Mikel in charge and finishing second, that has proven not to be true. Indeed, we've been saying it for a few years now; one might hope we were more familiar with our potential and objectives now.
If we're solid runners-up every season, I'm not sure why you'd risk failing to qualify for the Champions League just for the sake of change for change's sake. We deliberated over this when Wenger was still in charge, right up until the moment he actually did fail to qualify us for the Champions League and the matter was taken out of our hands, so to speak
