Well, I threw my toys out of the pram yesterday. Nothing like a Spurs loss to really bring the emotions out. Today, we get back to the mission… which is like, you know, a win or something.
Things aren’t great for Arteta. He can’t hide behind many excuses, though clearly, there are some. I think the theme that has come via the interesting criticism is that the biggest mistake of his tenure thus far has been enablement.
He came into a mess, he knew the stories, but he still backed the bums who always let the managers down.
He also threw his name on the strategy deck of short-term fixes, one he should have recognised was tainted badly by history.
His biggest mistake was to stand by ideas that have failed since 2014.
Is he a bad coach? No.
Is he finished at Arsenal? No.
Can we turn things around? Yes.
The journey was always going to be rough, maybe I didn’t expect it to be this rough, but still… this is a big job that requires more than one man to contribute value if it’s to be completed on time and in full.
Something has to change though, and I think there’s a pretty clear consensus amongst fans, explayers, and pundits on what that needs to be.
HONESTY
The season is more than likely over in the Premier League. We’re not competing for top 4 now. We’re playing for a respectful finish and some improvements in January. Arteta needs to front up about the season and he needs to look to the future. He tempted us with top 4 knowing we were 6 players short of what was needed. That’s quite the porky to tell the fans, now he has to rectify the lie, be honest, and tell us what IS possible. Get it out the way, no bullshit or protecting feelings.
One of the biggest things you learn in management is that it does not matter how likable someone is, if they are shite, they will ALWAYS let you down.
Now, I’m not talking about kids. I’m talking about experienced people that have entrenched behaviours and clear patterns in the way they operate when the pressure is on. Mental weakness never turns to strength. Laziness can shift into a blip of good behaviour, but always, the bad self waits in the wings. Character… well, that is set in stone. It’s even worse if a collection of bad characters form the backbone of a culture at a football club.
That is where Arteta is with this project right now. He thought he had fixed it with his cup win. He was wrong.
He has been burned for enabling. Now he has to draw insights from the wounds, formulate a simple plan forward, then implement it with brute force.
EXPERIENCE
We have spent 7 years watching the club shuffle in ‘experience’ that just doesn’t have what it takes to deliver over the course of a season. The biggest letdowns are the big names. Most of them aren’t on Arteta. They are the responsibility of past managers, CEOs, and sporting directors. Two of them, Auba and Willian are on Arteta, but there is still hope there.
Xhaka, Bellerin, Mustafi, Luiz and Lacazette aren’t cutting it and there needs to be consequences. It’s time to move on them. Make a statement. It’s time to accept that these guys will always, always, always let you down in the end.
Arteta came in like a fireball of logic and pragmatism… he played those that deserved it, dropped those that were shite. So simple. Where did that approach go? How can you soil your own non-negotiables so badly?
It needs to change. The big names need to be treated the same as the smaller names. Bad performances on and off the pitch must have consquences.
THE HALE-ENDERS
On paper, they aren’t up to the level. We know that. However, they work hard, they are all athletes, and on a good day, they make the system look like a system.
Arteta doesn’t like using them because they make mistakes. Well Mikel, so do the senior player that have us sitting in 15th.
AMN is the legs in midfield we don’t have. Reiss Nelson has the power and pace we don’t have out wide and he’s at the very least hungry. Eddie will doggedly press, he surpassed Shearer’s record for the U21s. Maybe ESR could offer more mobility to that #10 role we put Lacazette into. Could Balogun be any less interesting than what we have going on right now? If we like lobbing long balls into the box, Moller just landed player of the month for the U23s. At least he’s big.
If Arteta is honest with the fans, then the Hale-Enders approach is easier to implement. Fans know that we’re shit now. Our season went with Thomas Partey hobbling off. I think we’d all prefer to see the kids have a crack at doing something interesting. At least they’d care. At least they’d improve.
PLAY TO WIN
Arteta needs to do what works with players that give a fuck. He doesn’t need to play Pep-lite football. He doesn’t need to appease our every whim (irony of me listing three ways he can fix the football is not lost on me). He does need to give us footballers that look like they care.
If 4 at the back doesn’t work, then play 3 and ignore the whinging.
If Auba is best out wide, leave him there, the player wasn’t complaining.
If 10 games in a row will make one of the kids ready for the league, let’s do it and enjoy watching a team grow together.
The current approach of rolling out a transition system that the senior players aren’t interested in playing is really, really not clever.
Get back to what worked last season. Hungry players putting on a show even if it was disgusting to watch. A death spiral can be arrested. Miserable players can be brought back to life. You can get a 10 game run out of this squad. This can be better.
We need some magic and a lot of hard work. Let’s see what Mikel has because he’s not going anywhere.
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Welcome back Bankz (saw you posted yesterday)
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Tr4phy
Top half!
Europa!
I think the season is over if we persist with Arteta, a competent manager could get us up the table if we could string a run of results together.
Not sure about Nelson’s power? He can’t beat the front post when taking a corner! Agree though play the kids see who cuts it and right the season off, signing dead end players like willian will kill our club get rid of the dross and give up on bellend he can not defend and legs have gone.
Is he a bad coach? No.
Is he finished at Arsenal? No.
Can we turn things around? Yes.
Correction:
Yes
Yes
No.
The sooner you and evetyone else accept this, the better. GOHackney is a fast learner
‘He tempted us with top 4 knowing we were 6 players short of what was needed’
Correction
He was clueless, making things up as he goes.
‘entrenched behaviours and clear patterns in the way they operate when the pressure is on. ‘
Apply this logic to l’il Moyes.
Not surprised to see that one of the three moves wasn’t to give the manager his P45…. I guess that the narrative will be that these are terrible senior players but that’s not supported by any actual facts. We have a decent squad that has a gaping hole in central midfield that means we’ll struggle for top four. We don’t have a terrible squad that’s worse than fourteen other PL sides. It’s up to the manager to do his job and get the best from what he has be that the senior players, the youngsters, or whatever combination of the… Read more »
Arteta looks the business talks the business is young and likeable but honeymoon period well and truly over I wanted Allegri before Dick emery and still stick by it.
‘He doesn’t need to play Pep-lite football. ‘
Neither should he play Moyesball, lmfaoooooo
Pedro: “One of the biggest things you learn in management is that it does not matter how likable someone is, if they are shite, they will ALWAYS let you down.”
I’m glad you have finally seen the light re Arteta.
Leno
Cedric – Mari – Gabriel – Tierney
AMN – Elneny
Ceballos
Pepe – Auba – Saka
Obviously Partey would be in there if he was fit but until then I reckon we gotta try something like this. Elneny and AMN will have to prove that they can be solid and disciplined, and let Ceballos use his creativity higher up the pitch. Auba probably deserves to be dropped on current form but we can’t really do that, and he needs a goal or two to get some confidence back. Martinelli is a big one that we need back asap.
Good post.
Imo Arteta will turn this around and hopefully the Spuds loss is final nail in the experienced players’s coffins.
Give ESR a go. Amn cant be worse than Xhaka. Nelson cant be worse than the current Willian.
Why is Arteta playing bums? There should be some reasons right….
@AC – Emery was a ‘bum’, now senior players are ‘bums’ and at some point I expect that Edu will be a ‘bum’. Pedro sure likes his bums!
Let Pedro continue with his agenda……we can discuss a different plan here. If Arteta is fired what next? who is going to coach us better? if players are the problem, Is KSE going to invest big in players? If KSE is not investing how do we get back to the top?
Thanks Pedro, good read. Just hope Arteta has the courage enact on similar ideas, not sure these young players can do much worse. I don’t know why he has so little trust in AMN, who I believe would have been far more alert to what happened last weekend, and quicker to cover. Perhaps Arteta is trying to put certain players in the shop window , get them match fit and be rid? But What a shit show he has inherited. We really need owners with a clue, or other experienced people running the club, are they really that hard to… Read more »
AC , first we need strogn backbone of the people in charge. Right now I don`t think there is any… WE should act fast and direct. Even if that cost us this year. Just fire Edu(obviously not good enough with the signings of Cedric, Luiz, Mari, Willian ) Get someone that has the full power and trust of KSE. I think they invested enough , but we have spend so badly. On wages, Poor transfers. Just get the kids, get some unique talents, that won`t be starting for their clubs, get them play time and support them even if they… Read more »
Why does the season in the premier league have to be over? We’re still what 6/8 points off the top4 so what is with wanting to do away with yet another season barely half way through.
Great post Pedro. Let us see what the youngsters can do.
The kids already have a good on field relationship. when Martinelli came in, you could see he felt more at home with saka, eddie, nelson , Smith rowe and willock .. Those 6 , along with Balogun know how to win when they play together, can they do it in the premier league, maybe they can It’s a pity Guendouzi and Saliba are not available The season for me was all about seeing how the kids develop, sadly Arteta hasn’t given them the opportunities. We have City in the quarters of the league cup , play the kids its what… Read more »
Anyone else feeling fatigue?
We are at the point where Aubameyang needs to be taken out of the starting line up and use him off the bench and he may rebuild his confidence…
We have 2 young strikers in Eddie and Balogun who score for fun and will give the team energy..
Eddie is our top scorer this season with only one start in the league, he has good movement and creates space for his team mates , that is why the team invariably scores more goals with Eddie starting up top.
Totally agree with 1886 comments 👍
Eddie also wouldn’t start for any EPL team. Probably ever.
Also, if when chasing a game at the end and lobbing balls in, why didn’t a supposedly astute manager get one of the central defenders to play up top as the extra striker to actually make use of those balls. AMN or another defensive mid/defender could’ve then been brought on to replace Xhaka as cover 🤔
Coaching is clearly going backwards. Team looks to have no ideas with the ball now, except to pass backwards or on the rare attack to cross it into an empty box. A team without right thinking will lack motivation on the pitch and so play with fear and hence pass backwards as the default move. Maybe new creative coaches with new ideas are required on the training ground? For now, why not try a line-up like this for a few games to see if drive & pace moving forward improve: Leno Soares, Mari, Gabriel, Tierney Elneny, AMN ESR Saka, Balogun,… Read more »
Arteta was happy to accept the plaudits when he won the FA Cup and asked people to “Believe in me…” he has to stand up and take the flack when things aren’t going too well. He knew the risks when he took the job on, he needs to stop pretending that he is still a coach and take responsibility for this car cash and start learning from his mistakes. It can’t be all on Arteta though. The players, especially the senior pros need to start doing the same. They need to remember what a privilege it is to play for… Read more »
Atleast wenger used to play Per upfront when lobbing balls to chase a game.
This one is a charlatan
*car crash
“Eddie also wouldn’t start for any EPL team. Probably ever.”
Wouldn’t even start for a Championship side apparently.
It would be nice to see Arteta go with project youth but I just cant see it. He has such a raging hard on for Xhaka, Willian, Bellerin etc.
Can you just imagine how effective Giroud would be in our present set up? He would be contending for the EPL golden boot!
Olivier come back… all is forgiven!!!
Now okay the current players he’s got, 70% are not fit for purpose, but look at what he did with those players last year. Now look at them, if fans had called Abua out last season they’d get roasted. Whay can’t certain sections of the fan base realise, that it’s the system that’s cause these issues. As manager the buck stops with Arteta, he picks the team he coaches them how to play, therefore this current situation is all on him. Now before you say but it’s certain players letting him down, ask yourself this who picks them! Unfortunately Arteta… Read more »
Lots of intricate (and often meaningless) stats being knocked about re Arteta at the moment.
This one is the best..
TROPHIES WON AFTER 12 MONTHS IN CHARGE
Sir Alex Ferguson Man United 0
Arsene Wenger Arsenal 0
Jurgen Klopp Liverpool 0
Marcelo Bielsa Leeds 0
Unai Emery Arsenal 0
Mauricio Pochettino Spurs 0
Jose Mourinho Spurs 0
Frank Lampard Chelsea 0
Ole Solskjaer Man United 0
Mikel Arteta Arsenal 1
If i were at the management level at Arsenal, i will not give Arteta any money for the January transfer window but fire him because i cannot trust him with big resources, especially as he has shown that he does not have the balls to make the brave decisions. Let us not forget that when PEP was appointed as the head coach of Barcelona, he did away with most of the senior players he met and promoted a lot of the youngsters he met eg Messi,Bousquets,Iniesta etc and we all know the success he acheived at Barcelona, let me not… Read more »
Signs up and seduces us with talk of attractive football.
Things don’t go as planned > ‘oh yeah, forgot to mention we’ll need 6 players’
Things get worse > ‘did I say 6 players, I meant 7’
Things get even worse > ‘Sorry, I meant 9 players’ (with Xhaka and Willian remain in the team)
I think he can turn things around, and actually, a lot of those players DO care, trust me I know.
The problem is that they’re just not good enough.
For example, Hector and Xhaka care. They’re passionate and want to win, but they’re just not elite and don’t have the ability to achieve what we need.
For example, Hector and Xhaka care. They’re passionate and want to win, but they’re just not elite and don’t have the ability to achieve what we need.
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Xhaka may ‘care’ but he doesn’t care enough or show any bottle. I’m losing count of the amount of times he ducks out of the way of the ball, but he will continually give away needless fouls.
Cedric > Bellerin
AMN / Elneny / Ceballos / Willock > Xhaka
Cedric needs to start at RB now. He shows more aggression and purpose than bellerin and he can defend.
Xhaka cannot start any more games.
Willian needs to warm the bench until he finds his desire to play.
These in my mind are the minimum requirements to getting back on track, I know we’ve not been great all over but those 3 players Have been particularly stinking the place out.
Could have got a combined 43 million for bell and Xhaka in the summer at least and Willian just shouldn’t have happened.
We definitely can’t write off the season by December Pedro, aren’t you tired of Arsenal being a joke club. Man u came third last season even as they were shite before project restart. We need to get our act together and mount a challenge for top 4 as it is absolutely ridiculous to give up on every season by November. Jeez!!!
If Arteta isn’t the right guy then tell him to fuck off and get someone in who can salvage the season.
Absolutely ridiculous to write off a season after just 11 games
“THREE MOVES THAT COULD SAVE ARSENAL’S SEASON”
1) Sack Arteta
2) Sack Edu
3) Sack Pedro
Sorry mate but it’s over.
Le Sauce
We’re coming up to being a third of the way through the league season and Pedro is not only saying the seasons a write off already he’s selling as being OK.
Can you imagine his tantrums if that had have happened under the previous 2 full time managers?
Luiz – Arteta
Xhaka – stopped from leaving – Arteta
Mustafi – almost had contract extended – Arteta
Laca – stopped from leaving – Arteta
Nobody campaigned for Arteta on the Arsenal blogosphere like Pedro did for Arteta. Pedro told me on numerous occasions that Arteta was being prepared to take over from Pep… to which I said I don’t think so…
I’m mixed on Arteta.
I started off as a skeptic, I warmed to him around the FA Cup… but I still think it is too early to count him out just yet, partially because I don’t want to spend more millions paying Arteta off. I rather we spent those millions on strengthening the team instead.
Le Sauce,
Absolutely ridiculous to write off a season after just 11 games
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That’s almost one third of the season. Write it off. If our season was an animal it would have been put down by now.
Pedro “Xhaka, Bellerin, Mustafi, Luiz and Lacazette aren’t cutting it and there needs to be consequences.” Re writing history in the most sloppy way. Xhaka – stopped him leaving for big money. Bellerin – was involved in making the Soares deal permanent and refusing a bid on AMN – this tells me there was interest in Bellerin – guess who stopped him leaving. Mustafi – Offered him a new contract and has used him in the EL when Saliba could’ve gained experience. Luiz – Got a contract extension in the summer. Laca – Turned down a sizable offer in the… Read more »
Oh how Ironic is now that it is arteta in charge Pedro changes his tune about player poverty. Pedro, there was always this huge risk when we appointed a rookie. I do agree we should stick with him a little while though. What is infuriating to me about him is he prefers seniority over risky youth no matter how shitty the senior guy is doing. Willian needs to start from the bench till he gets his spot back. Granit Xhaka and Dani ceballos also need to start from the bench. Its Ainsley’s turn. Power and pace with the ability to… Read more »
Great post,Pedro. I still think we are being duped by the players. If they are as bad as their performances are showing ,the coach should go straight to the Sam Allardyce/Tony Pulis school of football. Play everyone in our own half except the forward and just play the percentage game of hoofball. When the players start complaining, point out that some of our professionals cant even take a throw in or a corner. I am all for a cull of the more experienced seniors,and use the next few months to forge a team with our youngsters. I hope all of… Read more »
Marc
There were articles, im not sure if they quoted Bellerin or weather they quoted sources, but they said he was ready to leave arsenal and he’d had enough.
There was apparently interest from PSG.
‘footballers that care’.
Exactly. So who are they? Broadly speaking, they are the young and vigorous. The ones Pedro named, Nketiah, AMN, Nelson, plus the others that no doubt he would have included:
Holding, Saka, Willock, Gabriel, Pepe. Along with Martinelli when fit and Saliba if ready. Plus Tierney, Leno, Elneny, and maybe Luiz and Mustafi because they DO care.
The rest should be ditched this Jan, Auba and Laca included if they can be sold at a decent price.
“Manifestation of this is poor Governance. Arsenal’s Board has not been fit for purpose since about 2010. First it outsourced everything to Wenger, then it outsourced to anyone who pitched up that week. Things won’t change until Board is strengthened with independence & expertise” Think Mr T Payton here sums up the situation rather well. Why cant, or wont they strengthen the board? what are they frightened of? The have already employed the likes or Raul/ Gazidis, can they really do any worse? they clearly dont know what they are doing upstairs. I wonder if this Tim Lewis might be… Read more »
And It might only be me but I see Bellerin a s a positive for us. He was poor against tottenham but he is actually the only guy making key passes in the final third for us. Our creativity is that poor. I think je is leading in asissts for us. We can do better than him but our huge gaping hole in midfield is where all my resources would go if it was up to me.
“Manifestation of this is poor Governance. Arsenal’s Board has not been fit for purpose since about 2010. First it outsourced everything to Wenger, then it outsourced to anyone who pitched up that week. Things won’t change until Board is strengthened with independence & expertise” Think Mr T Payton here sums up the situation rather well. Why cant, or wont they strengthen the board? what are they frightened of? The have already employed the likes or Raul/ Gazidis, can they really do any worse? they clearly dont know what they are doing upstairs. I wonder if this Tim Lewis might be… Read more »
Love Carra, hate Gary. Gary is big head, Carra is big heart.
Looks like Pedro’s not fooling many on here at all.
Marc We can’t just write off a season when we know that our final league placement would determine the amount of money we get for squad building next summer. If Arteta doesn’t wake up then he should absolutely get the boot… We can’t just subject the rest of the season to having willock and co do their thing under no pressure whatsoever, this isn’t the MLS. What we need to do is give him till the new year to get his shit together, if he doesn’t then thank him for his services with a firm handshake and show him the… Read more »
Left Testicle
Absolutely right about his conduct on the pitch. Uses his aggression in the wrong way, not smart at all.
We have got to call time on certain players and move on….
Xhaka, Bellerin, Mustafi, Lacca, Ozil, Kola, Socratis, to name but a few that need to leave….
Left
That only shows we have a bum in charge. Serious clubs don’t write off a season after 11 games, were bad but not so bad that a coach who knows what he’s doing can’t salvage
If Arteta is able to turn things around that’s good and if not get someone else in. The longer we have bums in charge the longer our rise to the top will be …
This is first 11 with all players fit
Leno
Cedric – Mari – Gabriel – Tierney
AMN – Elneny – partey
Pepe – Auba – Saka
rotate elneny with ceballos depending on opposition. With ceballos playing against lower calibre teams.
You know it’s bad when fans want a Southampton reject to start for us at right back.
Pedro now on the player poverty bandwagon……
Lol..
Jose M took over Spurs in 14th place, They are now 1st. Jose M has seen his Spurs side humiliate Man Utd 6-1 at Old Trafford, And seen them hit 5 at the Saints too. Jose M has beaten Pep and old no.2 ,2 zero and 2 zero in recent weeks without breaking sweat Jose M. Like him or loathe him is elite. We have 3rd rater Arteta.And thats why we are 15th today and have scored about 1 goal in 10 hours. PedRo can write post after post- but Arteta aint got ‘IT’ , never will have ‘IT’ or… Read more »
350k a week for a player he doesn’t trust to play in his favorite position is looking like a poor decision right now, turning down 20m+ for AMN to never play him doesn’t make much sense either.
“That’s almost one third of the season. Write it off. If our season was an animal it would have been put down by now.”
That could be true but what is absolutely guaranteed is the person who abused the animal causing the harm would be held accountable and prosecuted not taken to a puppy farm to pick out another pet.
Pedro what makes you confident that Arteta is a good coach? Because I’m not seeing much evidence to support that view, everything I’m seeing suggests the opposite. If you have some information that we don’t I’d love to hear it because I’m really struggling find any positives.
Pedro, Pasting my answer to your previous statement. “Valentin, yeah, fire the coach exactly a year after the same thing happened. That feels fresh and not the definition of insanity.” Fixing things until you get it right is not insanity. In fact it is the opposite of Insanity. It is the only logical thing to do. Lots of successful clubs fire their unsuccessful managers until they get it right. Real Madrid, Chelsea, Bayern do it all the time. ManCity used to do it. Spurs kept firing managers until they got Pochetino appointment right. And when he started to flounder, they… Read more »
“Valentin, yeah, fire the coach exactly a year after the same thing happened. That feels fresh and not the definition of insanity.”
Did Pedro really say that?
I really don’t understand why Willian keeps on being picked for the EPL. That one choice is undermining his whole spiel about players only being chosen because they are the best on the football and training field.
Willian is an older slower Gervinho… just thinking about that. An old Chelsea player looking for a nice pay off, deluding himself that he can still play at the top level before he goes off to semi retirement in the MLS.
*just think
Very true Marc. You can’t on one hand say Arteta has messed up the season so bad we should write it off and at the same time say he should be allowed to continue. If we’re to write off the season it should be because the person who put us in a mess has been let go so we have to give the new coach time to bring his ideas in…
This isn’t even diet pep like sid would say, it’s diet Pulis …absolutely atrocious football that we have even lower second half shots than teams in the EFL
Marc,
Yes, He did.
Pedro will defend Arteta till the very bitter end that will come way too late unless Edu grows a pair and explain in clear simple terms the situation to Josh:
“If we are relegated, your investment will halve in value!”
Thank God Brighton lost! We would have been one place off the relegation zone.
Three moves that can save Arsenal’s season:
1) Sack Arteta
2) Sack Arteta
3) Sack Arteta
Willian — £200k nowhere near good enough anymore
Ozil – £350k whether he is good enough now is debatable, but the manager doesn’t know what do with him.. despite man management skills being supposedly one of his strengths…
That’s over £550k a week being wasted on two players who are not adding anything to the team. That’s even before we consider Xhaka etc…
We must be one of the worst clubs in the EPL on money management…!
Afternoon guys. I agree we should play the youth. My only concern is they will be asked to play to his strict rigid structure. Basically they too will be stifled. He seeing this will hook 3 around 60 and put on his old faithful but at the same time useless old faces
Leeds that analysis is why we can’t really blame the owner’s for not spending, the only fault they have is not monitoring and ensuring the money is well spent. How can we be spending huge finances on poor, one dimensional players
You only get to see this many limited players at Arsenal. We have goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and attackers with massive flaws and you have to change systems to accommodate and hide their flaws. Our recruitment for the past 5 years has been a mess
Is DietPep still around?
What? He’s still there?
Valentin
Pedro’s losing the plot – so effectively Arteta’s got a job for life because sacking him would ” That feels fresh and not the definition of insanity.”
I remember the Wenger brigade saying we couldn’t sack him because there was no other option as a coach – that’s basically what Pedro’s now saying about Arteta.
It’s official Pedro has turned into Tony Attwood!!!
Three moves that could save Arsenal’s season…
Move 1: Sack Arteta
Arsenal sacking Arteta is a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’.
Arteta does his best to throw his squad under the bus at every opportunity. You only have the chance to turn things around when you have your players’ support.
Tony our coach said we played EXACTLY to his plan except the strikers didn’t take their chances. We don’t need to look too far for where the problem is, Tottenham gave us the ball and all we did with it was to whip in 44 crosses with only two of them being good crosses.. We would get similar results if we play the kids because you don’t play ESR, AMN in midfield and Azeez but bypass them all only to ask Tierney and Cedric to lump crosses towards Nketiah/Balogun against giant defenders. That is madness
Looks like it’ll be Max Allegri that replaces Fraudteta
Thought he should have come in straight after Wenger,nobody seems to be able to ever make the most obvious and sensible decision in the top management of the club,shocking stuff
Now the Arteta hire has set the club a couple of years back from competing in the top end of the EPL.
Victorious
Allegri was my first pick but we couldn’t offer the transfer funds he wanted – now he’s not at Juve any more he might be a little more open to a longer term “project”.
Three games with the youngsters in the EPL and their future will forever ruined, undoable damage.
Picture ESR being shoved back into the field having a tight hamstring.
You heard it here 1st!
Le Sauce
Arteta opening his mouth is getting cringe worthy. Right now he hasn’t completely lost the dressing room or seen the players down tools but it’s happening.
People are slagging off Auba for not performing – of course he’s pissed off, he’s being asked to score goals in a system that will never produce the chances he needs. The guy’s a fucking goal machine and knows how to get goals but he’s being told to do something that will never never create regular goals from open play – who wouldn’t be pissed off under similar circumstances?
Good post Pedro and you make some good points and no disrespect, but most of the points are glaringly obvious. But, since when has an Arsenal manager ever done the glaringly obvious! Xhaka, Willian and Laca should all be out of the first 11 for the foreseeable and they should be replaced with some of the kids. Everyone to a man can pretty much see that. Chances of it happening – slim to none! We are not dealing with mistakes that were made years ago. Willian was signed months ago and it would not surprise me one bit if we… Read more »
Writing off the season isn’t bad if the following happens: 1a. Sack Arteta (clearly a poor, poor manager) as he would be too proud to accept a demotion 1b. Sack Edu and return Vinia to the commercial/marketing shit he’s good at 2. Get a footballing CEO who would work with the board in overseeing our rise to the top 3. Get a proper DOF/TD who would provide a blueprint for style of play and playing personel (not this stupid scatter gun recruitment approach) …Ralph Ragnick 4. Get a coach with a good CV and track record not this whole rookie… Read more »
Looks like I’ll have to find another handle. I’ll think about it.
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Nelson
December 8, 2020 09:48:35
Great post Pedro. Let us see what the youngsters can do.
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Arsenal Football Club — if Dante’s Inferno was transferred on to the football field — I’m sure we would be one of the circles of hell and punishment. Same mistakes being continually made, but never learned from!
Would love to see Pedro’s face if Allegri walked in and said “Good Ebening”…
The whole of today’s blog is what I expected of Arteta . I had hoped he would play the young ones , bin the non performers & play in a fluid tactical system . He said everyone played with. a clean slate yet AMN , Torreria and Willock werent given many chances . Not in the PL .
Arteta speaks a lot but he is the same as Wenger , no honesty whatsoever.
If.Arteta needs 6 players to even compete for top-4, then Emery needed 9 players to a6tain his targets
Arsenal fans behave like little puppies adopted from the shelter with serious attachment issues. Why is it so hard to let go of a poorly performing manager?
Arteta has set his stall out buying has beens and scared of youth players
He won’t suddenly change this , he will hope to get a few wins against bottom teams
and struggle on
Meanwhile the club festers
If we are taking honesty ‘it’s dishonest to just assert that our season ended with Partey walking off’’
It’s more fitting to say our season ‘ended’ when Arteta rushed Partey back weeks before he. was expected to be ready.
Things aren’t great for Arteta. He can’t hide behind many excuses, though clearly, there are some. I think the theme that has come via the interesting criticism is that the biggest mistake of his tenure thus far has been enablement. He came into a mess, he knew the stories, but he still backed the bums who always let the managers down. Another likely behind the scenes viewpoint : He backed into the bums came into a mess, he knew stories that it always let the manager down. He promised 4th place , but when one creeped in front we were… Read more »
Nelson
Has someone else posted under your name?
If yes that could be Pedro – he tried with me once.