True, but with a caveat imo. Him running Arsenal is absolutely irrelevant to me. Kane was in their youth program for a wee bit as a kid, Gallagher's a Chelsea lad, and so on. As long as you're professional and keep your Goon connections to yourself when you're on the clock (and represent the club well when off it), it makes little difference these days.
What bothers me more is his reluctance, or inability, to read the room when things are going badly wrong. Keeping Frank for as long as he did because it worked with Arteta ignores the many environmental differences between the two situations. Trusting Lange as anything more than a glorified scout, even more so. Couple that with the unforced errors, like promising more communication, and then disappearing for months when the team was in the murk - or agreeing to do that tech conference talk about being CEO at Spurs when the team was desperately fighting against relegation. Hiring Tudor as an interim because he was on Paratici's 'break glass in case of emergency' sticky note, and then getting desperate and giving de Zerbi total control and a fat wage to join just a month later.
If it's true that Nick Beucher was the one who stepped in to get Frank sacked, it doesn't speak well of Vinai's ability to read the room - which should be one of the main survival traits for any leader.
I frankly think we're in a bit of an odd situation at the moment where it seems like the Lewis kids (or at least, Vivienne Lewis) genuinely want the club to act differently to how their dad let Levy run it (and by some accounts, Vivienne didn't like Levy, so it checks out). But they've put trust in Vinai and Lange to run that rebuild (and Charrington to hang around as their eye on things). And I'm not sure that will work out the way the Lewis kids think it will.
