Not exact matches
So don't be tempted by the «romantic» notion that we must honor Arsene's legacy by moving him upstairs because as long as he's in the building and has the ear of our absentee landlord, any potential
successor will be little more
than a puppet regime, which means more of the same, or likely
worse, for the foreseeable future.
If he keeps performing like he has since the Monaco game (and to be fair before that game, that was just a
bad game by all the team) then I hope we don't buy a CF unless that CF is younger
than 23 and happy to wait a couple years before being the main man, train a
successor and not a replacement....
The
worst same - party
successor is better
than the best opposition
successor.
«Tiberius was a terribly
bad emperor and he knew that he would be shown up by his
successor so he adopted Caligula because he knew that he would be even
worse than he was.»
One way in which a generation may act
badly is if it puts in place a set of future circumstances that make it morally required for its
successors (and perhaps even itself) to make other generations suffer either unnecessarily, or at least more
than would otherwise be the case.