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.
andy
Pedro Attwood (his new name) won’t be able to see anything through the tears for months if Arteta is sacked.
‘ Let’s see what Mikel has because he’s not going anywhere’
This oft-repeated assertion is laced with willful ignorance and arrogance.
Ignorance because it pretends that our form in the last 6 games has not been rock bottom relegation if we keep losing and underperforming then a dismissal for Arteta will be inevitable
Arrogance because it assumes that we have royal pass/pardon that gives us immunization from being sucked into a relegation scrap. I doubt that Adidas is paying for us to be awaiting a relegation 6-pointer on Sunday.
In the post game interview, it appears that Arteta still doesn’t know how Mou’s Spuds and Rodger’s Leicester City defeated him. He still thought that he has deployed a good tactics. I am confused. He doesn’t look stupid.
Marc
Thanks for your info. You can see it from the avatar.
It’s all very well saying arteta isn’t going anywhere but now the fans are coming back in the stadium I beg to differ . Continue with the performances and results we are getting and the board are soon going to realise the fans aren’t having this . Sunday has to be a win or he’s in massive trouble as the boos will ring loud even from 2000 fans
Remember when Mustafi and Xhaka poor performances scuttled us at home against Palace and Brighton.
Did Pedro ever agree that player poverty was a thing then? … Nope
He blamed Emery for using a power point presentation to bamboozle the geriatric board during. his interview.
Now he’s preaching the pestilence of PLAYER FAMINE when in fact what we have is a manager who’s depriving the club of nutrients when there’s enough sustenance in the larder.
Arteta has parked away playable material due to his arrogance and poor judgment. He deserves a termination letter not excuses.
I have to say I do like your site but the way you and to be fair a lot of others have turned on Arteta and players like Auba is a bit sad. A few months ago you were talking about how important the Auba signing was and yesterday it is the same stick your using to bash him with. Auba is going through to a tough time himself but I’d argue needs fans to back him but I guess for some it’s what have you done for me lately. Anyways just my thoughts and you are entitled to your… Read more »
I think it’s time to bring back Geoff and the AKB guide because Pedro is the new AKB King.
Malcolm Attwood.
This from Carragher… “I thought tactically, Arsenal were a shambles, so poor,” he said. “What I couldn’t believe and what was so frustrating watching it was that this has happened so often in Mourinho’s managerial career. Even if you had only watched Tottenham this season, you would know what they were going to try to do. “It’s almost like this Arsenal team and Mikel Arteta had been transported into this game from the moon and they didn’t know who Mourinho was and had never seen Tottenham play. “I was flabbergasted. What I watched and some of the things I heard… Read more »
Is this squad capable of a run?
Does anybody think this Arteta ball set-up has a league run in it ?
I just don’t think so
Left
That’s funny.
Who’ll do you think’s going to get binned first – Arteta, you or me?
Imagine the moment we get an actual top class manager. He’ll stop playing the underperforming players and sell them swiftly without making too much fuzz in a single transfer window. It would be half of the job done. Arteta was supposed to change the mentality of the club – then proceded to reject offers for Xhaka, Lacazette, AMN, extend jokers like Mustafi and sign past it mercenaries like Willian. How do you change the mentality if you keep the same garbage players taking their salary without caring too much for the results? I assume Arteta’s decision of giving free slate… Read more »
Diss
A run?.. The 22 unbeaten feels like the invincible season compared to Artetaball. We cannot go on any run whatsoever because our attack has been crippled by the Stoke City IP disguised as Man City IP
Diss
A run?.. The 22 games unbeaten feels like the invincible season compared to Artetaball. We cannot go on any run whatsoever because our attack has been crippled by the Stoke City IP disguised as Man City IP
From Football365 Chelsea and Thiago Silva The key to beating Leeds is to get past their man-marking press. Marcelo Bielsa assigns an opposition player to each of his starting outfielders: Mateusz Klich on N’Golo Kante, Kalvin Phillips on Kai Havertz, Stuart Dallas on Mason Mount, Luke Ayling on Timo Werner. If any of those force turnovers high up the pitch, Bielsa will be confident of creating enough chances to win matches. But there will always be one player free. With Patrick Bamford a lone striker, Frank Lampard gave Kurt Zouma the responsibility of going one vs one against him and… Read more »
In fairness to Pedro
Denial is a major component of dealing with loss
He’s still in denial so use compassion to understand his plight.
Nelson
No worries mate – the tyranny of Kim Dumb Pedro Attwood must never return.
Dissenter
Agree with much of what you’ve said today but just a thought. When the Venky’s bought Blackburn back in the day they didn’t realise that we had relegation in the PL – it came as quite a shock. Would it be worth someone mentioning it to the Kroenke’s just in case?
Me. Arteta isn’t going anywhere and Malcolm enjoys you teasing him. 🙂
Marc
Agreed
There’s this unmistakable arrogance that assumes we can never be relegated
I fear we have the perfect storm conditions that can make anything possible.
Dissenter
I don’t think we’ll get relegated but at the same time history has a list of clubs who were too big to go down.
It’d be beyond stupid to fall into that trap.
If we get into a relegation head to head against Burnley, who would you put your money on?
A rookie manager or a veteran of trench warfare who’s kept his club up with wage Bill of £85 million?
Marc
I too don’t think we will be relegated but the point remains that our form under Arteta is relegation standard and there’s no indication that he can turn it around.
No one knows the low point of Arteta ball, we all assume this is the nadir, but who knows?
I’m calling plagiarism on this one Pedro! Here’s what I wrote yesterday. I was arguing we should be following the George Graham 1988-89 model where only David O’Leary was the only regular contributor to have hit thirty years old. ‘Our under 25 group includes Tierney, Gabriel, Saka and Martinelli We should be giving serious first-team opportunities to Maitland-Niles, Willock, Nelson and Smith-Rowe right now. Our senior members should be players like Partey and Elneny not headcases like Xhaka, Mustafi and Willian.This should also be the time Auba decides if he wants to be a leader or a malcontent. If it’s… Read more »
I can’t see Allegri going anywhere near this setup, he doesn’t want to wreck his rep straight after his sabbatical. This club is a mess, he will have much better offers.
Anyway, he would ask for far more money to repair things that Stan would sanction, the money is gone
This club will do well to get out of this intact
If Pedro wouldn’t have championed Arteta before he was hired, the tone in the articles would have been similar to this time last season without the English speaking thing, because both are on the same track.
i.e. playing bums week in week out, one dimensional attack patterns; from the sides (cut backs vs crosses)
Has there been any updates on Partey’s injury?
Next time we look for a manager,/first team coach; it has to be from outside the Basque country, doesn’t it?
“We don’t have money for Willian,” Mourinho said when asked whether he explored the option of signing a player that he knows well.
“We cannot pay the wages that he gets at Arsenal, so I didn’t want to waste our time because we cannot pay these wages.
I’m pretty sure I know what happened over the summer. Arteta got some of the long-term disappoints like Mustafi and Xhaka to actually play decently for a few games and then thought he could just work magic on every underperforming squad member this season. That’s why he offered Mustafi a new deal and sung the praises of Xhaka. The one word that sums it up? Hubris.
It seems to me there are some who would prefer to see Pedro proven wrong than see Arteta shine. There was a risk taking on a rookie manager. Nobody – including Pedro (and me) – was unaware of that. But take a look at the alternatives. No top manager would have taken on the job without the guarantee of substantial transfer money. And after Emery’s departure, their demands would have been greater. And in no way would the Kroenkes agree to that. Thus the alternative narrowed, with no certainty of success. And Arteta seemed a better bet than most, and… Read more »
Looks like Germany has their own fair share of moron refs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/55214584
Seriously, we should all lay off Pedro a little. He’s tormented right now just like many of us.
Exhibit A from today:
Is he a bad coach? No.
Is he finished at Arsenal? No.
Can we turn things around? Yes.
What was yesterday’s headline? ‘Arteta Enters The Death Spiral’. What the hell happened to the spiral?!!!
Arteta as manager sucks . Arteta as a football head coach was good.
eb
Yeah because I’m much more interested in seeing a bloke I’ve never met proven wrong than the team I’ve supported for over 30 years and have a season ticket for be successful.
Did you actually think before you wrote that sentence?
bac
Is he a bad coach? No. – but he’s a terrible manager which is what his job is.
Is he finished at Arsenal? No. – Yes he’s done whether it happens Monday morning or in a years time it’s over.
Can we turn things around? Yes. – As a club of course as a manager no Arteta’s done.
Marc-I think the referee made the right call on the yellow card-seriously. That’s clearly unsportsmanlike conduct.
I don’t know who made the financial decision for Willian, but it was Peter Risdale school of negotiation:
1) Chelsea was offering 1 year + 1 year option on 150kpw
2) Spurs was offering 2 year on 100kpw
3) Arsenal offers 3 years on 200kpw
Anybody is surprised that we won his signature?
Marc-you do realize I was quoting Pedro, right?
bac
Let it go – when you see players get away with murder and the guy didn’t give it any to the opposition it’s just petty. The opposition players are upset because they look like dickheads – that’s not the scorer’s fault.
bac
Just making sure it’s clear to you – Pedro’s going to be trying every trick going to deflect and lay the blame elsewhere.
“I don’t know who made the financial decision for Willian, but it was Peter Risdale school of negotiation:”
The great Seth Johnson, if I remember right?
englandsbest You are trying to present that circumstances were not favorable for Arteta , which is false . I will the first one who would be happy if he binned Xhaka and co in the next game. But he has had numerous chances to do just that over the course of period from when he took the job, plus all the evidence of that came before. What he instead did was bin the favorites under Emery(Guendouzi & Torreria ) . He talks a good game of clean slate what slate did he give Guen & Torreria ? If he can… Read more »
Moray,
Yes. The famous “Fuck me” by the stunned agent resulting in the “you driving a hard bargain” by the great Peter Risdale.
Pedro is trying to balance his heart (he loves Arteta) and his head (he’s facing a revolt from most of Le Grove). It’s a tough spot to be in but I think he’s laying down some final markers for the manager. If Arteta still picks Xhaka, WIllian etc and they continue to let us down then Pedro really has only one place to go on Arteta.
It’s the hope that kills you! Arteta inherited an absolute shithouse. He performed a minor miracle last season, by winning the FA Cup and getting some wins against the top tier clubs (first time in years.) Signing Gabriel and Partey and unfortunately Willian, gave us all fresh hope of a shot at the top 4 and really competing. However, during that run to the Cup final win, we also lost to Brighton, Villa, Sp*rs and tried desperately to throw a 3 goal lead away to a doomed Watford who totally outplayed us. How quickly we banished the memory of those… Read more »
So Pedro, let me get this straight… Arteta is a good coach based on what exactly?? Arteta can turn it around based on what evidence?? We have had a total of 4 shots on goal in two games – please explain to me how Arteta is going to make this team more potent in attack, much less win a game? We’re looking at Burnley, BURNLEY as a touch game, a game we’re likely to loose more so than win and you’re blogging about Arteta can turn it around??? Frankly if Burnley played any other team in the football league, they’d… Read more »
Le Sauce agree with everything you write
My worry is that Arteta is too egotistical and stubborn to do what needs to be done. If they left him as a coach with experienced people around him it might have worked. Why did they give him so much power, he obviously can’t handle it. He really is looking like the Moyes that was on his last legs at Man U, hoofing the ball into the box tactics and very little else.
Excuses followed by more excuses followed by a huge helping of excuses. If Arteta is allowed to muddle through the rest of this season the excuse will be “well with no EL money we couldn’t buy anyone and the handful of players who were good – Gabriel / Saka etc no want to leave”
It’s a spiral alright but the way out of it is to stop digging, recognise the managers many short comings and replace him.
Talk of writing the season off is disappointing, I recognise we are in a very tough spot right now but we still have 27 league games to play and 3 cup competitions to challenge for. Some teams that have started strongly will fade in the league, and some that have started slow will have strong run of form to finish, this happens pretty much every year. At the very least, we need to get ourselves together to challenge for top 7, that could be enough for a Europa spot, and with the money that brings in it shouldn’t be sniffed… Read more »
now want to leave not no want!
‘Arteta was duoed’
No Arteta was pigheaded because the first thing he did out of the game was to persuade Xhaka to stay.
Chris
Well said – 27 matches that’s 81 points.
What ever happened to Pedro Attwoods “win and we’re only X points” away from 4th?
Even at the worst of Wenger, he was never as bad as Arteta , yet we sacked Wenger
Even at the worst of Emery, he was never as bad as Arteta, yet we sacked Emery
Are we still a big club?
I’m not so sure because a big chunk of our fan base seem to have abandonment issues.
Pedro Agree on GX, that’s a no brainer. Agree on Bellerin. Agree on Luiz. Agree on Mustafi, As for Willian, he’s lost it at present and should be dropped. Don’ti agree on Lacazette, who, for the most part, wears his heart on his sleeve and gives it his best. He is a box player, pure and simple and shouldn’t be dropping deep all the time to shield and collect balls. He should be our fox in the box, where he can create havoc and also make space for Auba and Nketiah/Balogun. Willian has hit a wall, both physically and mentally.… Read more »
Allegri would take the Arsenal job. He wanted it before and was interviewed by Raul. He ‘spanked’ Raul during ‘questions’ – Raul was frightened of him. Emery was deemed as easy meat and so was Arteta.
people shitting over lacazette need to read this paragraph “Don’ti agree on Lacazette, who, for the most part, wears his heart on his sleeve and gives it his best. He is a box player, pure and simple and shouldn’t be dropping deep all the time to shield and collect balls. He should be our fox in the box, where he can create havoc and also make space for Auba and Nketiah/Balogun” I am not even a fan of lacazette or I wasn’t really a fan because I don’t really like fox in the box strikers mainly because I like complete… Read more »
Graham
Have you noticed how all the short passing out the back has disappeared? It’s gone from one extreme to the other.
Just tells me that he’s clutching at straws trying to find a way out, problem is even if he hit a winning formula he’d move on from it before it had a chance to work.
When Pedro Attwood writes Arteta’s obituary on here it’ll end up with player poverty and Arteta was too good for the group of players he had.
The day that Arsenal started sliding down the slippery slope was the day we saw 4th place as being a success. Once you set yourself lower expectations, there’s only one place you’ll end up. That’s right, lower down the pecking order. Competing at the highest level is about not accepting second, third and fourth best. Those that come on here and gloat about the fact that we consistently achieved top 4 under Wenger, have to realise that this is where the real problems started. If you want to win, you’d never tolerate the Arsenal culture from 2006 onwards. That’s why… Read more »
Wenger was not a true winner.
If he was, he would have put the club first.
You got me where you want me
I ain’t nothin’ but your fool
Ya treated me mean
Oh you treated me cruel
Chain, chain, chain
(Chain, chain, chain)
Chain of fools
“I am not even a fan of lacazette or I wasn’t really a fan because I don’t really like fox in the box strikers mainly because I like complete forwards like henry aguero ect.”
LG
You called for Laca up and down this space before we signed him, in fact I told you he was the Euro version of Darren Bent just shorter… I get it we were all desperate to shed Giroud.
The ultimate karma is with PEA and Laca in side we play as if Giroud is leading the line, I never envisioned Mikel going that route.
Play the kids.
put Saka, Nelson, Smith Rowe, Balogun, Willock, AMN and Saliba on against burnley and let’s just see what happens.
Darian-o rolling heavy.
Mr.J, do you by any chance work for statsbomb cause that was an absolute banger of a post. Those numbers CANNOT be ignored based on blind faith. We all need to wake up, THERE IS NO SAUCE.. At least not yet! Red line Arteta has proven over the past year that he isn’t ready for our level yet. There is no shame in that, Arsenal is too big to allow a novice learn on the Job to our detriment. Pedro has always said were a big club in the heart of London with a huge pull to any top professional… Read more »
Predictable post, but disappointing anyways. There’s no evidence that Arteta is a good coach. Pedro blames everyone and everything but Arteta. Even suggesting that the fans are somehow responsible for the past two months of shit football!? Come on now, that’s ridiculous.
I would suggest developing Nikolaj Möller as our first team striker ASAP. Arteta’s latest fatal mistake is scrapping what he has built up for the defense and assigned an ACM. Our current midfield is way too weak to attack through the middle. We shouldn’t destroy what has been working, ie. attack from the wing. We should make small steps to improve our system. – Since our team can put up many crosses, Nikolaj Möller should be more suitable to receive those high balls. I read that he plays well with Balo together. He could link up with Balo or Auba… Read more »
You’ll notice notice that Pedro and the likes of Sal never bring up xGA or try to apply numbers to defend Arteta.
Now it’s all religion; just have faith that he’ll turn it around.
How do you know this, has he turned things around in the past before
Nope, we hired a blank slate so let’s wait until we increase our cross-into-box output to 100/game. Maybe that ought to do the trick.
Auba will just wear high heeled boots.
Graham
Spot on. As soon as we said top 4 as a trophy, it was over for us. ‘Top 4 is a trophy’ should have seen Wenger sacked on the spot. No true winner would spout that. Is it any wonder that we had and still have such a collection of players with poor mentalities when the club has not only accepted, but instilled those mentalities for the past ten years!!
Of course dissenter
Like Arteta would say… Basic math’s!!!.
Arteta is not going anywhere. The board are 100% behind him.
Players will leave before he does.
And we will be strengthening in January. At least 2 players. Maybe more if we can shift the deadwood.
When emery was going 20 something undefeated Pedro was still calling him not good enough. Sack him. Etc
Arteta has us in 15th. Playing much worse. Shown no signs of anything of note that would give us hope that he has a clue about management but Pedro wants to give him time
Sack him now. Save our season
this is supposedly arteta’s best team and I can’t see how we’re supposed to win games right now, regardless I expect us to fluke something together against burnley no matter the lineup, the timing would no doubt be right.
what arteta should actually do is just see if his current first team can beat Dundalk, that would be a worthwhile experiment.
“I would suggest developing Nikolaj Möller as our first team striker ASAP.” We have a player fully capable of scoring 30 goals a season, for me Arteta is mental if he doesn’t work first and foremost on giving him the chances to pull him out of this slumber. Put ESR or Laca in a hybrid 10 roll, you know the part of the MF that’s literally vacant with the heat map forming a horse shoe. We don’t have the quality to create from flanks like Klopp with Sane, Salah and Firmino in the feeding zone. It just ends up being… Read more »
Emery came into a worse side with no balance, and unlike arteta, he had no say in who comes. He had to stop the rot, as well as try to handle the expectations that Wenger left and more. Every came in and immediately made iwobi a 25m player, he increased guens worth by 500% and tried to play expansive football. Sadly it didn’t work for him and in the end even I knew he had to go. Arteta is in a similar position and if results don’t improve, he has to go. A manager is only given time if he… Read more »
@ Le Source
Indeed we need to wake up…. We are RANK AWFUL and some fans are still talking about ‘challenging’.
Challenging what??
Are Leeds & Newcastle suddenly going to somehow start challenge??? Well Leeds and Newcastle are both a point ahead of us!!
Big club what?? We stopped acting like a big club years ago… No other big club would entertain Arteta as an appointment.
People really need to wake up.
Bruce rioch wasn’t even as bad as Arteta is.
In other great news, Aaron Ramsey is proving quite the hit signing in Turin 😭😭
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9018635/Struggling-Aaron-Ramsey-proving-Juventus-WORST-signing-five-years-move.html
Godfather
Not surprised in the slightest – what does surprise me is there are still those who think we should have given him a mega money contract when he’s even more likely to struggle with the pace and physicality of the PL.
It’s almost funny that Pedro Attwood is going full circle and is now relaying on the backing from the fans who wanted to keep Wenger forever because “who else do you get?”
The only fear I have is when Arteta is sacked Pedro Attwood will go on a bitter ex crusade against the replacement.
I wonder if the average Tottenham fan would rather the club win a trophy( any trophy) than a top 4 spot (not champions), taking into account that they have only won 2 league cups in 30 years …maybe they would like to win another league cup.
Marc
Like the one v Emery. He never stood a chance with Pedro because he got hired over arteta in the first place
The last year under Arteta shows they were right not to hire Arteta then.
Too bad they didn’t make the same choice last December.
Pierre
I would think so. Because no matter how bad we are and how “good” they are we can still hold 4 fa cups during our banter years over their heads while they have won nothing during their golden period
I would not be surprised if this blog has an inside into Arteta and hence continue to defend this mess. Sad, but vested interests tends to trump the truth. The truth is that Arteta has no chance of turning this around. To suggest we ditch seasoned pros and rely on kids is more deflection, as fans like to hear this kind of BS. Hence the constant deflection: players are letting him down, should rely on kids, needs 6 (yes 6!) new players… all of it is BULLSHIT. The squad is good enough and pre lockdown were playing football that was… Read more »
Pierre
Careful I can see the Spud’s winning the League Cup this year – Mourinho loves the competition and uses it to get a second wind during the run in.
” Wenger became our bank manager and lost all footballing ambitions”
And still kept us top4/6..
“You’ll notice notice that Pedro and the likes of Sal never bring up xGA or try to apply numbers to defend Arteta.” Dissenter if you’re going to take a swing at least get the info correct, i’ve been pretty critical of Arteta. He’s made some baffling decisions that need to be questioned, it’s a growing list. Unlike you the local weather vane who literally blows in whichever direction the herd goes, I think there’s more to this side and manager than we are seeing, with that this next set of results thru January will likely dictate much. Notably if he… Read more »
That Burbley at home is being seen as a “tough must win” match that is also being seen as not a given shows how far we have fallen under Arteta
Literally there are only 7 teams who have scored less goals than us… ACROSS BOTH THE PL AND THE CHAMPIONSHIP..
only 3 of those are premier League teams
Arteta-ball isn’t just finished… ITS DEAD
Mr.J
Or we could just put in some more shit crosses?
Marc Faber
Arteta hasn’t broken the morale of the squad. They are still 100% behind him.
It is each other that they are doubting right now
G
He did the bare minimum to collect the money that top 4 brought.
Never tried to challenge for the league anymore
That’s not footballing ambition
The reason I know Arteta is finished is quite simply because every argument put up to defend him actually just makes him look even worse.
“Arteta hasn’t broken the morale of the squad. They are still 100% behind him.It is each other that they are doubting right now”
What type of manager after organizing a clear the air meeting would have the above said about them.
This manager is deader than a Norwegian Blue called Polly.
Deme
He pushed an injured player back on to the pitch.
He’s lost the dressing room and the morale is gone because of Arteta.
@ Marc
I’ve literally never seen us this bad…. I wasn’t born when we had a run like this.
Can you imagine if Emery had said something even remotely like what Arteta said in that press conference??
The presser UNDERLINED just how clueless he is!
What type of manager needs a clear the air meeting after only being manager for less than a year.
He’s done
Snowkid
Things need sorting with Partey, 100% and he should never have played him.
But they are still 100% behind him. Don’t know how long it will last for, but for now they are.
By the way, I’m not trying to defend him, just saying how it is
You guys are boring talking about what Arteta needs to do. The same players you saw against spuds is the same you will see start every game until Arteta is sacked. Wake the fuck up!
Marc
‘…and have a season ticket for be successful.’
Did you actually think before writing that???
Translation, please.
Mr.J
It’s one fuck after another.
Telling the press he’s going to have an investigation after the training ground incident – firstly don’t tell the media it just fuels the fire, secondly I’d prefer the manager to be focused on other matters.
Telling the press he needs 6 more players – great way to keep up moral there.
Pushing Partey back on and likely causing the injury to be made worse.
Keeping Luiz on when the cut was too bad for him to play a week later – that’s just staggering.
That’s without getting into the transfer fuck ups.