If I have understood correctly, the club's decision to impose its own backroom structure/personnel was in order to bring stability and reduce upheaval, and bring cohesion when inevitable changes to the top management occur. This in turn would prevent future over reliance on one man as was perhaps the case with Curbs?
However it may be the case that at the top level of the game, and therefore top level of management, really talented individuals like your Wengers, etc manage with personal charisma, leadership, superior technical acumen, creative thinking, training techniques etc. Therefore isn't it possible that any structure that restricts the exercise of such talent may be doomed to produce average football.
On the other hand it may be that the stability and cohesion that such a backroom structure brings, is of greater value than personalised management, and provided that backroom personnel are of sufficient calibre, this will ultimately bring relative success, or at least relative success for a club like ours.
Comments anyone, of course I may be guilty of 'over thinking' this one.
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It is not often that managers retire these days after a long stint of success, it is much more common for the sacking/mutual consent rubbish where a chairman actively wants everything about the previous regime to change it all needs to go. The manager has got the club in a mess/can't win/bought wrong players.... That was the case when Arsene took over at Arsenal, given free(ish) reign to modernise the club, same with Fergie at Man Utd and to a lesser extent Mourinho.