Well, if you were heading in to read another Arteta love in, you’ll be greatly disappointed, because I’ve changed my mind.
Bring. Back. Akers.
Just kidding.
There was more movement in the press yesterday. The one story that is slightly horrifying me is Brendan Rodgers name and how it’s hanging around betting circles like a bad smell that gets in your lungs leaving eggs that spiders come out leading to a painful death in which you drown in spider laughter.
There seems to be a lot of goodwill brewing for Arteta, I’d hate it if we lost our bottle and offered the most cringe manager in football a way back into the league with a panic offer.
Don’t get me wrong, he’s not a bad manager, but be real, he had to slink off to Scotland to get his mojo back. Winning a title there is pretty easy on account of next to no competition in the league. They’ve won 7 titles on the bounce. Interestingly, one of my Celtic pals messaged me to say the Arteta signing felt to him a little like the Neil Lennon hire for them back in the day.
Anyway, Brendan Rodgers would be by far the most offensive appointment we could make. He’s a cringe, we’d all start sending shit memes to each other, and our press conferences would become more embarrassing than some of the after-game AFTV shenanigans.
I don’t want him at Arsenal.
Another piece of news that slipped out of Sky was that Patrick Vieira landed a call from the club about the job, and he was disappointed by the call because he felt it was a token gesture.
I can’t lie, I’m over the moon that’s how he thought the call went. If you were really up for the job, wouldn’t you want to get in front of people? Who rocks a phone interview if they want a job? He didn’t even kick it up a notch and go for a Skype video conference vibe. Imagine that, going for an £8m a year job and having to restart your laptop because your screen froze with you looking like you’ve just come up at a Carl Cox closing party. Unbelievable carry on.
Meet for a coffee, make an effort, show you want the role! This is part of the issue you get with explayers, they think they’re owed a living. Maybe I’m being a little unfair, I just remember the outrage of the Class of 92 when the club started dropping hires. Ryan Giggs in particularly really irked me. There were even stories that crept into the press about his lacklustre interview process for Swansea.
Anyway, what this tells you is the process is still on-going. The Daily Mail are reporting that the players have been told it’s 90% likely to be Arteta, again, how ridiculous are these stories… Ivan G dropping texts to kids that he’s 90% certain he’s going to sign Mikel? Please. Players are just speculating like we are, which is kind of amusing in itself.
Here’s my view, the club likely do have a favourite, and it very likely is Arteta… but this move is a risk, and Ivan G can’t come back to the fans and press and say…
‘Hey guys, we spoke to 3 people, two weren’t interested, but here’s Arteta’
They have to do their due diligence. Ivan’s already been caught talking bollocks about his extensive managerial searches when he said last season the club had scoured Europe and Arsene was the best candidate for the club. According to Honigstein, he spoke to Tuchel, who was excited about Arsenal, but then we shit the bed and re-signed Wenger.
Anyway, Ivan has to do this properly. You wait for his press conference, I bet there’s a number involved.
‘We spoke to 16 of the best candidates in Europe’
Because if there isn’t, it’ll look like he’s just signed his mate.
Still, what is interesting is since I penned that Arteta article on Monday, everyone has come out the woodwork to corroborate my theory on him being a visionary signing. This Sammy Lee article really was an eye-opener for the doubters.
Indeed, Arteta’s most important contribution to City has been how he communicates with the squad. More often than not he has been the one charged with taking on board Guardiola’s demands and filtering them through to the players. He was the one who explained to Fabian Delph what was expected of him in his new role as a hybrid left-back/central midfielder.
He has spent hours getting the message across to the centre-backs, spelling out exactly how they need to position themselves on the pitch and how to shape their bodies when they receive the ball. At the end of last year Guardiola highlighted how Sterling’s finishing had improved as a result of extra hours spent on the training ground with Arteta.
Over the years Guardiola has occasionally referred to his “smell”, his sixth sense when it comes to making key decisions relating to his squad; he has used it in explaining why he sold Samuel Eto’o at Barcelona and Joe Hart at City.
And it seems that Arteta has a similar knack; after a couple of big wins this season Guardiola has said that he knew a good performance was coming because Arteta, taking charge of the pre-match warm-ups, and relayed how impressed he was with the players’ efforts ahead of kick-off.
A source close to the coaching staff says Arteta is a “professor”, although he is no shrinking violet, as evidenced when he confronted Lionel Messi in the tunnel at Camp Nou last season, helping to spark a mass brawl.
Everywhere you look, people are leaking that we’re hiring a leader, a fantastic coach and an innovator. Sad times that Mikel managed the City team that beat us. But whatever, I can forgive. Just bring me juego de posicion.
Anyway, the timeline seems to be that the club are rattling off interview this week. That might rollover to the following week if we’re planning on talking to Allegri (though the leaks suggest that’s not on). Then we’re into decision time. Ivan has to go to the board that has no power and tell them that they’re voting for the manager that he, Josh, Sven and Raul like.
Then it’s go go go…
GOOD TIMES PEOPLE!
Just remember, Brendan Rodgers. #NotMyManager
*and hope
Leeds
Namaste.
This won’t go like Arsene.
2/3 year deal. Well know a lot more in August. Let’s wait and see how we line up. Give it a season.
Trust me. In Arteta we trust.
Arteta Knows.
Look, he even has the same initial as Arsene. The fans just have to change a couple of lyrics.
Perfect match.
I know this is a losing battle, and the decks are now stacked for Arteta, but: – City are determined in their mission to develop and build a global franchise which includes NYC as part of their global holdings – City needed to appoint someone they believed in long term to run NYC – City could have picked any manager they wanted for this new franchise – they have the power, the money and clout – NYC is the equivalent (sort of) of cutting your teeth at Barca B (Guardiola) or Real B (Zidane); no competition exists in England comparable… Read more »
“He’ll come in with little expectation”
Yes but it is sad that our board, our club, have so little expectation, them too.
Not content with giving Man City our best players, we’re now offering to give their coaching staff experience at no cost or risk to them.
Yep, we’re taking the concept of a “feeder club” to new unseen level that’s for sure.
Guns, to each their own but you’re seeing Arsene leaving as the biggest victory…when there are still battles to be won.
Allegri at best could have us challenging and at worst a top four finish. He’s got the track record. With Arteta, at best he could have us finish second/third but we don’t know the other extreme.
I don’t want to go from the depths of late Wenger era to the same or worse places. That’s the fear.
*levels
Rambo
There is nothing to fear except fear itself.
Arsenal will hopefully wake up and realise that they can’t make the same mistakes they did with Arsene. I know the Arteta thing seems far fetched but…shoot for the stars.
It will be okay.
Maybe Arsenal board give special reference to Arteta because he’s a white, good looking man. Maybe that’s what cost Vieira? That disrespectful phonecall as well.
Surprised our PC champion didn’t see this angle. It all makes sense, don’t you think Pedro? Just like poor Campbell.
“There is nothing to fear except fear itself. ”
???
“This is City, the biggest club side (by asset value and revenue generation) in the world. ”
Eh? City’s revenue is far behind the likes of United, Real and Barca, and that’s even with the Etihad commercial deal that didn’t represent fair market value and was instead a way to circumvent FFP rules.
You just know Everton and West Ham are going to make smarter appointments than us.
Anyway apparently rumours that Leon Bailey highly rated Leverkusen winger Jamaican might get a call up to the English world cup squad where he’d then become classed as a home grown player. He just became a viable smart signing for a club like us who struggle to sign decent English players
@Elmo: that statement was part of the ‘future of City’,
i.e. sometime in the 2020s they would be potentially making that claim, and meant to demonstrate that in selecting key hires for a billion dollar+ franchise they are not prone to ‘taking punts’.
Also tell me the Santi Cazorla as assistant manager stuff is a joke. Slightly funnier than Arteta as manager. Heard this last year he’s been watching the under18’s too. That’s enough these days to be considered
@Marko: I would add that Everton and West Ham also have a degree of freedom when selecting managers/coaches that we do not, sadly have. Everton can go for a M. Silva and maybe it works, or maybe it doesn’t… but as long as they stay up (and there is always a Plan B come Dec when you can hire a Pulis or equivalent ‘stay up at all costs’ expert), their net placement in the scheme of things won’t change. Mid-table perennials. For us, if we make a wrong call – say a Moyes/VanGaal like 2 year shitstorm – than our… Read more »
If Arteta succeed to teach mental strength to Ozil, than he will already have won his battle.
Just sit back and enjoy. Clearly arsenal are attempting to move out of the Arsene twilight years and into a new era.
He’s gone
His useless staff are gone
Hopefully his players either go or improve 100%
New players coming in
New back team
Come on. Arteta will not be alone.
Fuck no
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/9601168/Brendan-Rodgers-plays-envelope-mind-games-and-picks-three-players-who-will-let-team-down-in-Being-Liverpool.html
Pedro, the Vieira disrespect is unnecessary.
“Don’t get me wrong, he’s not a bad manager, but be real, he had to slink off to Scotland to get his mojo back”
Let’s not hire the guy who’s managed Swansea and Liverpool because he went to Scotland but let’s hire the guy who Pep’s says his brilliant because he delivers Peps message to the squad.
Why let logic and facts get in the way when you are an ‘akb’.
Rambo Ramsey
“Maybe Arsenal board give special reference to Arteta because he’s a white, good looking man. Maybe that’s what cost Vieira”
So what are you inferring, that Vieira is a black, ugly ladyboy… That’s a bit rude isn’t it.
You lot are bonkers. Never happy. Always whining. There are five clubs better than us in our own league. As for Europe, forget about it. Why. Would. The. Best. Come. To. Us? You think that because Arsenal are in London, have a bit of a stadia and will pay good money, every manager will drop his pants and crawl over broken glass to manage us? We are not a draw. Have you actually thought that perhaps Arteta is the best we can do? Who was Arsene back in 1996? We took a punt then on a manager who was in… Read more »
“New players coming in”
Agree, lots of great players, all very excited by insane wages and London life…
Sorry, I would meant excited by the name of the new coach of course!!
“David Moyes leaves West Ham after just six months in charge”
The ultimate panic solution lol
“Sam Allardyce sacked as Everton manager”
The ultimate panic solution N° 2…
Cappello
Great manager. Won everything. Managed some of the greatest players in history.
Couldn’t squeeze anything out of England’s “golden generation”.
Having a manager who is experienced doesn’t buy you anything.
Get it?
Marko,
“Also tell me the Santi Cazorla as assistant manager stuff is a joke. Slightly funnier than Arteta as manager. Heard this last year he’s been watching the under18’s too. That’s enough these days to be considered”
It gets worse, doesn’t it
You’ll think they will pair Arteta with a very experienced old head…a fresh one, not Steve Bould.
If it’s Cazorla, then f*ck it we’ve gone mental.
That player-coach stuff is silly, If you’re going to retire… then f*cking retire and let a proper player take the squad space.
Guns of H,
I see that you’re in some Stockholm syndrome mode with mediocrity.
You don’t mind us being city’s feeder club, do you?
The chances of a young manager with little experience doing well are remotely low. They have a big surge at the start but tend to lose their way the second season.
When they have adversity…they completely collapse.
The exception is when they manage teams that have institutional advantages like Real or Barca or when the have exceptional players who want to play for them.
Dissenter
Are you kidding me?
I can’t generate an answer to that ludicrous suggestion.
So if Pep came…would that still qualify as us being City’s feeder club?
I swear to fuck if we do hire Mikel and it goes well, any arsehole that says “told you so” after dissing him…I’ll pay them a visit.
Backwards thinking douchbags.
Guns is just giving the crew thats pulled a blinder thus far in 2018 some room to maneuver, I don’t see whats wrong with that. Nobody knows for certain whats going to work in football management. Arteta could be the masterstroke everyone in this space will later say they championed.
Sal
No one knows what’s going to work, period!
Players who look great move country or club and tank. Managers.
People change jobs and look like amateurs.
We are human and have flaws. We also “fit” with some clubs/jobs etc.
There is no way Allegri can guarantee any more success than Arteta could. None. It doesn’t work like that.
England’s World Cup squad: Alexander-Arnold, Butland, Cahill, Dele, Delph, Dier, Henderson, Jones, Kane, Lingard, Loftus-Cheek, Maguire, Pickford, Pope, Rashford, Rose, Sterling, Stones, Trippier, Vardy, Walker, Welbeck, Young.
Not one good midfielder in England squad !
“Mikel Arteta is very close to becoming the Arsenal manager with former team-mate Santi Cazorla lined up for a backroom role.”
Any real stuff in this Santi’s story ??
Think it wouldve been a mistake to take Wilshere to the WC, and think it would be best for him to leave Arsenal.
He just isnt a top midfielder any more. Unfortunately he missed too much football between 18-24 and never made the needed step up.
On the flip side of experience. Harry fucking Douchebag. In the game 160 years with nothing to show for it except 56 relegated clubs and 6 more out of business.
I get that people are shitting themselves but it’s called progress.
Just be thankful that arsenal have started to look like they are a fucking professional institution again rather than a geriatric’s plaything.
Come on.
Pedro I dont often see fault with you but lately? WOOOOOÒÒOW!!!! Is all i can say. So you have agendas all over the place it seems. First you say this:- “Another piece of news that slipped out of Sky was that Patrick Vieira landed a call from the club about the job, and he was disappointed by the call because he felt it was a token gesture.” So you’ve acknowleded it was the Club that called him as it was reported not the other way round. But you then go on to say this:- “I can’t lie, I’m over the… Read more »
Sal, “Arteta could be the masterstroke everyone in this space will later say they championed.” …that’s a possibility that you have to hope for on blind faith because you have zero sample to extrapolate from- he hasn’t managed a game so you just don’t know. If he does well then I would be happy to be wrong so long as Arsenal do well. Everyone here just wants the best for the club. However, there’s also a possibility that he could stink out the place and set us back even further. He could also create more schisms in the fan base.… Read more »
Wilshere
Rejected by Bournemouth
Offerd less money by arsenal
Rejected by England
Most overrated player in history of football
Shelvey should have made the squad, one of the rare English midfielders who can play like a class player on his day.
Fuck England.
Any tournament without England is a good one.
Can’t wait for that shite brass band playing the great escape every 20 seconds!
Blughhhhh!
Gazza left out the England squad 1998
Wilshere left out the England squad 2018
That’s the only thing they both have in common.
Yes and going to the pub and getting drunk aswel.
The England squad is actually quite good.
It’s a young team that also includes some of the elements of England’s recent youth successes.
Gareth Southgate had impressed me with his ruthlessness. Kudos to him.
There’s no Arsenal player in the England squad–that’s one of Wenger’s many legacies
Welbeck Dissenter
Dissenter I have acknowledged many times how I think Arteta (or any manager) could tank. Many times! But I am also excited that Arsenal appear to be willing to take a risk. That’s brave. Arsenal have sunk so low in most people’s opinion over that last decade that we need a fresh approach. Arsene didn’t work. He really didn’t work. If, and I say if we do hire Mikel…it won’t be that ridiculous Arsene type appointment. I think Arsenal will go a bit Real or Chelsea and have a three year cycle. Look, Arteta gets it for a couple of… Read more »
Even the German squad picked for the WC is a shadow of the great German teams in the past.
Championship keeper Jack butland and £30mil keeper Jordan pickford who’s let in about 80goals this season.
I’m with you Guns, nobody knows anything. Lets put it this way Dissenter, I really like this crews track record thus far. Club finally seems to have a plan after a decade of drifting in a state of constant haiku. From shifting Sanchez out and pulling Mhki in thought that showed style, making best of dire situation created by a very bad decision last summer. PEA in whom looks to be our best scoring threat since Titi 14, with Giroud, Wallcott, Coq and Debuchy all shifted out in January. Wenger plus staff sacked with year left on deal. Yes I… Read more »
TR7
Thanks for the correction.
Welbeck made the squad.
Welbeck in the squad is great for Arsenal.
Hope he has a goal-filled world cup that will double his transfer value.
Oh ya and I like drunk pirates, but I do see your point.
Wasn’t every pirate drunk?
If Shane Macgowan’s the modern marker then yes.
It’s completely bizarre that with Emery, Ancelotti and Enrique all unemployed and available that Arsenal are prepared to by pass them and all their collective experience of winning cups, league titles and continental trophies to put their faith in an utter novice. The record speaks for itself. Managerial honours by individual Unai Emery Club Sevilla UEFA Europa League: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 Copa del Rey: Runner-up 2015–16 Paris Saint-Germain Ligue 1: 2017–18 Coupe de France: 2016–17, 2017–18 Coupe de la Ligue: 2016–17, 2017–18 Trophée des Champions: 2016, 2017 Individual Miguel Muñoz Trophy (Segunda División): 2005–06, 2006–07 La Liga Manager of the… Read more »
I think pirates had better hygiene than Shane McGowen
Great list. All peaked.
Mikel is the future.
Arteta Knows.
“Mikel Arteta
None”
Wrong. It should be
Mikel Arteta
Pep’s assistant ( also wanted by Poch).
Credited with improving Raheem Sterling’s finishing.
Yeah Unai Emery peaked at 45 didnt he.
I think we are starting to see who are actually Arsenal FC fans, and who are just bored online trolls.
“Surely its the club you should be criticising because any process like this should be the same for all participants to ensure due dilligence and give you an equal basis from which to measure each candidate.”
Exactly bro, R.A.C.I.S.M.
I thought you were against this sort of thing Pedro? Didn’t you write multiple articles on how managers of color are not given a fair chance. Weren’t you all for equal opportunities?
You should be up in arms about this, you Liberal-when-it-suits, you.
Jack had 2,600 on the season played in 38 games this season the most he’s done in 5/6 years and yet Loftus Cheek gets a call up and Jake Livermore is on stand by. That’s got to hurt. I hope he uses this experience as a wake-up call as long as he stays here he’ll never be good enough to consistently start and influence games and that’s what he needs to be picked for England. Basically for the better of your career move. In saying all that Welbeck gets a call up? Danny Rose has played just 10 games and… Read more »
Guns of Hackney
“Great list. All peaked. Mikel is the future. Arteta Knows.”‘
See why I wrote that you’re acting all gung-ho like a drunken pirate.
All peaked?…really
Your guy’s career is at ZERO. You’re basing your assumptions on blind faith with sample size of ZERO.
Guns of H
I thought you were a clown when you were crying like a little girl saying you will QUIT Arsenal until Wenger leaves.
You’re drivel this morning just confirms it.
“I think we are starting to see who are actually Arsenal FC fans, and who are just bored online trolls”
Right. So because arsenal won’t or don’t hire your boytoy Allegri or Jardim, any other suggestions or people liking Arteta is an online troll?
Says the man who vanished from Le Grove for ages.
I’ll assume you and everyone else who doesn’t like Arteta will be fucking off?
What a baby.
I wish Arsenal would stop the dilly-dallying and announce the name already. Get it over with so we can move on.
*your drivel*
How embarrassing when your own country rejects you.
Arteta is so good a leader that he didn’t
1) Help Bellerin with his positioning ( Tony Adams helped Cashey with this).
2) Couldn’t find a way to help the Ox be more consistent.
3) Didn’t teach Ramsey to be disciplined.
4) Was an average captain.
Dissenter
My drivel? You mean my opinion…that happens to not be the same as yours? That drivel?
Everything I have said is true. There are no guarantees in life. If there was, wouldn’t every bastard out there be rich betting on “sure things”. No.
You are scared of Arsenal making a mistake. But Arsenal have nothing to lose. It will go well, okay or poorly.
If it goes the way of the latter, I’m sure arsenal will deal with it.
Azed
He was a player then. He’s now a coach. It wasn’t in his remit back then. Sheesh.
Yes. Sorted. Good.
Farteta new name for Mikel
Lol Bob will be opening the Champagne bottle tonight.
So Vieira is not good enough for Arsenal but Arteta is? Is that what you are saying?!? … and this an Arsenal blog?!? Yeah, like I said Le grove, the Untold of the Arteta era. What was it MLK said? “…to be judged not by the colour of their skin but the content of their character.” If we did a straw poll amongst Arsenal fans whom they admire most between Vieira and Arteta who do you think would win? Who has the club treated with respect in this process and who has the club treated like an afterthought? The discrepancy… Read more »
Here we are again though. Sqwabbling like a scouser over a bin rat.
We’ve seen the back of Wenger after many of us thought it would never happen and here we are again crapping on each other.
Arsenal fans are officially twats.
People upset because they actually thought arsenal would replace wenger with a big name lol i said for years when he finally left we would get a no name manager to basically carry on where he left off. The thing they haven’t done is move him upstairs to still run things, which they would have if he accepted
I can’t believe this is turning into a race thing. Doesn’t anyone actually think Peter was kidding?
Maybe, just maybe arsenal are thinking a manager ahead??? Hire Arteta now and come back in for Vieira in a couple after he has cut his teeth?
I think we need to knock this race card thing on the head.
Vieira was arguably are greatest captain…and he was black. I’m not sure there should be an issue here.
*our
“He was a player then. He’s now a coach. It wasn’t in his remit back then.
Sheesh. Yes. Sorted. Good.”
Or maybe he isn’t as good as Pedro and the Arteta in crowd are making him out to be.
Maybe Arteta’s speciality is following orders rather than giving them.
Like
Pep: Yo Mikel, I want you help Raheem with his finishing, show him how to open his body the proper way when a cross comes in.
As opposed to
Arteta: Hey Pep, let me work with Raheem, I believe I can help him improve his finishing.
Yawn.
Just get Wenger back in.
So Welbeck made it, our one repesentative.
Remember that picture of Wenger with all those english players?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/12150731/Jack-Wilshere-Alex-Oxlade-Chamberlain-Kieran-Gibbs-what-happened-to-Arsenals-British-core.html
What a joke.
Tell the truth, Guns of Hackney; you kinda need us to feel important. It must make the week go quickly, adding expletives and invectives to address anyone who has to cheek to 1.) be happy that Wenger is gone 2.) be worried about a totally unexperienced manager replacing him. What an ungrateful lot, right? Yeah, Fu** em. You were the first to see Arteta’s potential and when he’s out here winning titles for Arsenal , we’ll remember that you (and Pedro) were unrelenting in your belief in the finely groomed Spaniard. You Legend. But seriously, is it really a ‘diss’… Read more »
Funny thing there is not one rational argument being put forward as to why Arteta would make a decent manager other than that he worked with Pep, who mind you most of the le-grovers were heavily critical of only last season. Yet conversely, there are several genuine concerns as to why he shouldn’t be considered as Arsenal manager. Most notably that the man has ZERO experience in any senior management position or coaching role. The scary thing for me is that most of the fans on this board are ok with that. I can’t even fathom how a novice manager… Read more »
*representative
Arsenal fans now
https://youtu.be/2vjPBrBU-TM
“We’ve seen the back of Wenger after many of us thought it would never happen and here we are again crapping on each other.” Actually it’s okay for people to express their feelings that the club is about to appoint a manager with zero experience for the position he is seeking. If that’s what ou call “crapping on each other” , then so be it. When the appointment is made I guess many will reluctantly sheath their swords. For fuc*s sake, can they just announce the freaking decision and stop all the pretense of doing “due diligence”. This is what… Read more »
Arsenal will hire Howe.
Then we’ll all be surprised. And sickened.
One colour underneath. One love. Peace.
I’m lying. Fuck you all.
For the record, my managerial choice would have been Tuchel.
But that boat sailed.
“Actually it’s okay for people to express their feelings that the club is about to appoint a manager with zero experience for the position he is seeking”
All well and good except you are not actually letting anyone with a different view to yours off without an insult
You seem incensed, like Arteta has wronged you in the past or something.
Guns of
Its not about you having an opinion, its about the absolute bollocks you are writing.
Just trying to be controversial to make an online name for yourself.
You aint me, you never will be.
“It’s completely bizarre that with Emery, Ancelotti and Enrique all unemployed and available that Arsenal are prepared to by pass them”
Nothing bizarre in that.
It’s Arsenal under Kroenke. It’s Arsenal since we moved to the Emirates. It’s Arsenal since we’ve stop being a football club.
Oh Gambon…
You still like to think of yourself as the most important guy in the room, don’t you.
It’s an opinion. It doesn’t match yours so I am a 1. Troll or 2. Trying to make a name for myself.
Honestly, reel it in a bit.
As I said, if Arsenal do hire someone not on your list, will that be the last we hear from you?
I’m not even a Jack Wilshere fan but looking at that CM, it’s absolutely shockingly poor.
Should have been picked.
England are getting nowhere past the QF, and that’s if they get lucky on the way.
“You aint me, you never will be.”
it is a blog full of strangers with monikers …no one wants to be you
Get a grip
I am quite open minded about whomshoukd be the new manager, the most important thing to me is a change of mentaility. No one really knows what kind of manager Arteter could be, I am not saying he would be first choice but let’s just see what happens
Still no one stepping up to prove how Allegri, Jardim, Nagelsmann or Umeri can GUARANTEE success.
Not one. Where are you all? Billy big bollocks.
Throw stats all you want but where is the hard proof that hiring one of the above guarantees success.
Eagle
Agree its a really poor choice leaving Wilshire at home, Southgate and him must have history.
Hard to back that side.
‘Still no one stepping up to prove how Allegri, Jardim, Nagelsmann or Umeri can GUARANTEE success.’
They GUARANTEE progress.
See you all later.
I really cant be bothered with all the fan division, and now the weird agendas im seeing.
Heres to a successful few years with the amazing Mikel Arteta.
“They GUARANTEE progress.”
No they don’t…neither does Arteta
There are no GUARANTEES in life
Carl Jenkinson, Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere, Kieran Gibbs, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain,Walcott
British core toilet crap not a single player at the world cup.
What a disgusting waste of money and time.
RR
How? How do they guarantee progress? That is such a ludicrous suggestion.
We assume they will but we don’t know. Just the same as we don’t know that Arteta could be good…or bad.
You lot play name monopoly. You do the same with players.
Just go with it. I’m going to enjoy the unknown and being a fan again.
Sal Yeah I mean looking throughout the side, there’s nobody really past Sterling and Kane that could be potential matchwinners and the difference makers, possibly add Alli to that list depending on if he turns up. After that it’s just littered with average players and water-carriers, and not even experienced ones at that. Incredible to me how you could leave behind Hart too, he’s a leader regardless of how he’s played last couple of seasons. And he’s hardly a step-down from any of that trio of GK’s, is he? And not picking James Milner is very questionable, given his experience… Read more »