Arsenal have been given some indirect advice on how to deal with struggling ownership issues, though the warning may be a bit behind the times now.
With a popular team and a fashionable manager in charge, the Gunners are feeling excited going into the season for the first time in a while. The 4-2 victory over Leicester made it the first time in more than ten years that they had scored six goals in their first two matches of a season and the first time since 2009 that they had achieved that with two wins as well.
Although it is just two matches, and there is a long way to go, add in Europa League nights, injuries, and some transfer toil in the final weeks of the window and things can change extremely fast, but there is positivity at the Emirates.
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It's not been a normal feeling for fans in recent memory, and they can also look over their shoulder at rivals Manchester United and laugh. The Red Devils were humbled 4-0 away at Brentford to go to the bottom of the league after two matches, a place that Arsenal were 12 months ago.
The trust and the plan in place from above at the club have been proved right, though. Sticking with Arteta and a bold transfer plan, backing the youth policy at the club and now adding important experienced players with quality. It is the type of aligned thinking that has been missing at Old Trafford and has led to Gary Neville truly ripping his former team apart, though there is an important message for the Kroenke family to take.
Neville said, "I have heard you criticise Daniel Levy at Tottenham when they failed over a long period of time. They have had failure over 20-30 years - and that's a fact. So my point is that we have had failure here for ten years at United. The club is rotten.
"He [Levy] has built an unbelievable stadium that people want to come and play in; he has got the best training ground in the country; he's appointed a fantastic sporting director; he has built an unbelievable stadium that is the best in the world. Manchester United are the opposite of that."
Arsenal fans can probably sympathise, to some extent, with the events at Old Trafford. They have for a long time been in protest of the Kroenke ownership and the structure in place in a similar vein to Erik ten Hag's current club. Although Arsenal look to have come out of their worst period in over 20 years and have found some stability, it would still be wise to heed the message coming from Neville.
Arsenal have their north London rivals who have had a comparable time as well. Levy has been hammered for his tight-stringed budget and lack of ambition, which has changed with the appointment and backing of Conte. The world of football is fickle, though, and when the tough period of the season hits, there is a long-term lesson to be learnt from Manchester United's current woes.
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