Unai Emery is reinventing Arsenal on the pitch, but the man who set the wheels of change in motion -- and who was at the heart of the last few seasons' place intrigue -- is on his way out. Arsene Wenger departed after nearly 22 seasons as manager last May. In August, Alisher Usmanov agreed to sell his 30 percent stake in the club to majority owner Stan Kroenke. And now chief executive Ivan Gazidis, the club's chief executive since January 2009, is on the verge of leaving Arsenal to take a similar job at AC Milan. While the power struggle at Arsenal was never quite as binary as some made out, there's a certain irony to the fact that Gazidis, the last man standing as Wenger decamped the...
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