Arsenal Leadership Fully Backing The ‘Manager’

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It appears the strategy of Arsenal leadership is to go full-steam ahead. They are backing Mikel. They are backing Edu. We are moving forward with the ‘vision.’ It’s bold or totally nuts.

Part of this approach is to take back a bit of control.

The players failed Wenger. They failed Emery. They are tanking Arteta in a big way right now.

I make the club right in that sense. Don’t enable a culture where the players feel they have the power to change the course of the season, especially if they are bum talents. At core, this mess is a player-generated one. Simply put, we have too many at the club that don’t give a fuck.

Where the story comes right back to Arteta is that he’s been a chief enabler of this since he’s arrived.

When he was in his 30s, he was tapping up people to help him earn his coaching badges. His head wasn’t on the project. He was just trying to get to the end of his deal for the next move. How did he not check his own experience of being an old player when he invested his young coaching career in old players?

New deals for Auba and David Luiz. Rumoured new deal on the table for Barca bound Mustafi. We canceled the Granit Xhaka move to Hertha Berlin. Any player that told the new management crew they believed in Mikel found themselves with another chance at the club.

The senior players have turned on the manager now. It’s clear.

If they think he’ll be pushed out, they might be in for a bit of a shock.

What baffles me is why Arteta keeps on picking them?

Mustafi is off. Don’t pick him.

Kola is shit. Stop picking him.

Xhaka won’t apologise, that’s a non-negotiable. He needs to be shipped to Italy. Stop picking him.

If the players that aren’t in the squad are causing problems, tell them they can train elsewhere for the last 5 months of their deal. Work them from home. Blame it on covid.

The biggest thing… if Arsenal are going to be indulging student Mikel like we’re a training school, someone has to put the breaks on his shocking decisions.

Here is a really fucking scary reality: If Bernd Leno pinged an achilles heel tomorrow, we could be relegated.

Runarson is the worst keeper I’ve ever seen in an Arsenal shirt.

The decision to play him against Manchester City was beyond the pale. I was told week one that he was a shower of shite. Mikel has watched a player that can’t position a wall do that in training for 5 months now. He is the last line of fire and it is scary.

That decision is on Mikel and Edu. We spent a million euros on him. There’s simply no way the scouts picked him. There were way better options available on loan and for free. We picked a new member of staff’s mate… we allowed contacts scouting to happen again. Unbelievable that Vinai, Edu, and Mikel sat around a table and saw 17th place Dijon’s second-string keeper with the worst shot-stopping record in the league and rolled the dice on him. Does no one at Arsenal ask questions of their colleagues? Why are we taking the advice of a Championship keeping coach when it comes to scouting? What data did he have that supported him being the best we could do? That is not a process. It’s amateur hour.

Where is the accountability? Who is pulling Mikel and Edu to one side to explain how someone that bad found their way onto the pitch for a quarter-final of a league cup against Manchester City? No doubt they will rectify that in January. What will KSE say?

It’s these sorts of decisions that rock my faith. Mikel cannot stop doing stupid things. He’s in a tailspin, each week he seems to do something worst. I’m really struggling to see how he escapes this moment because I can’t see any thread of a plan.

Worse, is the realisation that Vinai won’t act because I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know how to. He’s been raised in a culture of self-preservation. No one acted on Don Raul when they knew what he was all about because Sven sounded the alarm. We rode it out, blew £100m+ on players not fit to wear the shirt. Sven is now rolling hard with an exciting young team in Germany.

We acted far too late on Unai Emery when it was clear what was going to happen. Now we’re in a nightmare again, Vinai isn’t understanding the moment, nor the opportunity. Edu has a bad record with us. Vinai demoted him. Ralf Rangnick is on the market. Luis Campos is on the market. They will cost money that will pay itself back 10 times over even if they do just an OK job. Both have the experience to nuture Arteta’s talent and control his bad instincts. Both are monster movers in the market.

Owning up to a mistake early and fixing it is not part of the way we operate. Though it’s exactly how big clubs roll… look no further than Leicester. Nigel Pearson promotes them, he’s fired after a bad year in the league. Ranieri wins the league, he’s out the year after. They chop and change until they get it right. I’m not saying move on Arteta right now, but at least address the elephant in the room… Arsenal don’t rate Edu because we saw the actions on the deck chair on the .com. Edu telling the fans he enjoyed being metaphorically cauterized by a coach with 6 months on his C.V. Strike on Ralf, Mitchell or Campos. Ensure good recruitment and a vision returns to Arsenal. Get an A-lister in the most important position at a modern football club.

We might go on a 10 game run, we might claw back to 8th, but I am seriously worried that some of these bad decisions are part of Mikel’s DNA, because he keeps making them.

You can only fix mistakes if you admit you’ve made them. I saw him in a prezzer say he’d make all the same decisions again after his first year. Errr… really?

Still, it is what it is… so we have to talk about what could happen that might make things better.

All attention focuses on the weekend. We play Chelsea.

Arteta pushed all his chips onto coaching the shit out of his team with the extra time he’s had this week.

It’s time for a reaction.

The good news is it sounds like Martinelli is going to be fit. I think the fear was a hairline fracture or something horrible like that. Good news is it sounds like it was just a bad knock. Well, at least according Gabi’s Twitter.

I have no idea what he’s going to do with midfield. Mo Elneny does a job, but he’s not at the level. Dani Ceballos should be sent home to Madrid after his performance against City. Xhaka cannot be an option, his head has gone and he’s shite.

Then you ask yourself about the kids? AMN should start in midfield for me. Give him a chance. He’s an athlete, he’s a brilliant defender, and he’s a big-game player. Why wouldn’t Arteta? Coach him. Tell him to protect our defence with Mo. Keep it simple. Move it forward. Defend like a demon.

I’m crazy, but I think I’d prefer to play Smith Rowe in that midfield three. Lacazette might be technically gifted, but he has no mobility. We need runners and creators. Smith Rowe created a good chance almost immediately against City.

I don’t know what he does with the front three. I assume he’ll go with Martinelli, Eddie, and Pepe. I honestly think I’ve seen enough of Balogun to know the more junior of the strikers might have a style suited better to the equipment we have on offer. He’s faster, he plays more like a Premier League number 9, and there’s more variety to his game.

… but he seems to be on Arteta’s shitlist. So who knows.

What I don’t want to see is Willian out there again stinking out the joint. But… Mikel the manager is a politician now. The principles are gone. He’s about perception. He knows KSE will frown on another dud on a long deal. So he’ll persist. It’s madness, it really is. Can’t we fake an injury for him and pack him back off to Dubai?

Defence is also going to be interesting. I don’t want to see David Luiz out there even though he’s our best defender. Gabriel is looking a liability, Rob Holding is limited, and Cal Chambers/Pablo Mari don’t seem to be near the first team.

At least we have Leno available.

A bit of a ramble today. It’s a huge week. We go again… hoping, praying, that at some point, the tide will turn by persisting with the same ideas.

Over to you, Mikel.

P.S. Have an elite Christmas Eve. Don’t drink and drive. Stay in your damn pods… and listen to MY pod. Smooth wordsmithing…

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Andy1886

Dicks

Andy1886

Appreciate the effort Pedro but this reads like just another rehash of yesterday’s argument. Blame Edu even though you admit that Mikel makes mistake after mistake. And still suggesting that Gabriel is no good when he’s our best CB. As they say ‘there are none so blind as those who will not see’.

Danny+S

Arteta will set us back another 3 years in any hope to make the champs league again.

He’s shocking bad.

He will destroy the spirits of the exciting young player he doesn’t fancy and the bodies of the ones he does.

Can’t see any light ahead currently. Depressing times.

Danny+S

Meh

Goobergooner

Cheers Andy I was still talking shite on last post

Goobergooner

Also quality post for top spot 😂😂

Goobergooner

“I make the club right in that sense. Don’t enable a culture where the players feel they have the power to change the course of the season, especially if they are bum talents.”

I mean that does actually make a lot of sense. Fuck Luiz and Willian, the serial tool downers.

We just need players who actually play for the badge again.

And a new coach hahaha

Danny+S

Thing is with players downing tools etc, if you are being asked week in week out to play in a rigid system that isn’t working you will lose enthusiasm. If you are watching the manager be a massive hypocrite on a daily basis you will lose enthusiasm.

It’s like when the players couldn’t understand emery’s tactics.

No one in the arsenal team currently is enjoying their football. No football fan in the country is enjoying arsenals football.

Fact is, Arteta has NEVER had this team firing on all cylenders. His football has always been negative and shit. .

Hitman49

Has he been sacked yet..?

Grant Elkin

Auba Laca Willian Saka Xhaka Elneny AMN Luiz Holding Tierney Gabriel Leno. That will be starting 11 if certain players are fit, we all know how it’s going to go! Start slow consead in the 1st half, then start the 2nd half without changes. We’ll play well for about 10 minutes, then concead again, manager will make changes on 70 minutes for players that should of started. Chelsea will then sit back whatch us bang are heads against the wall. Then score again on the counter attack, we’ll lose this game 3-0 but with having 70% possession. Manager will say… Read more »

Left Testicle

Another daft post… ………………………………. Where is the accountability? Who is pulling Mikel and Edu to one side to explain how someone that bad found their way onto the pitch for a quarter-final of a league cup against Manchester City? No doubt they will rectify that in January. ………………………………. Where is the accountability? Mikel watched Runarson for the last six months in training and he picked him based on this. THE ACCOUNTABILITY IS ON ARTETA. KSE DON’T WATCH RUNARSON IN TRAINING EVERY DAY. KSE DON’T SELECT THE TEAM. Pedro states ‘Runarson is the worst keeper I’ve ever seen in an Arsenal… Read more »

AC

Danny S, Great choice of words!

“Arteta will set us back another 3 years in any hope to make the champs league again.He’s shocking bad.He will destroy the spirits of the exciting young player he doesn’t fancy and the bodies of the ones he does.Can’t see any light ahead currently. Depressing times.”

Henrik

Great read as always. It’s frustrating that the solution is so clear for everyone except for the people that run this club. Also, could I mention something else that would be a beneficial transfer for our club? In Norway’s second tier, there is a team called Sogndal. Mostly known for the Flo-brothers (Tore Andre, Havard) and their coach, former Leeds player Eirik Bakke. Their captain was born in May 2002 and dominates the midfield in almost every single match. 18 years of age, his passing and mature play are a joy to watch. Will cost around 3-4 mil but have… Read more »

David Smith

This club are in big trouble, when it comes to football, those running it are complete idiots.
Sounds like Artetas culture change has managed to alienate most of the squad. Nobody would doubt change is needed, but there are ways and means of taking people with you when you change things, increasing vibes Arteta is more like a tyrant than a manager of a football team. Even tyrants need their allies

Ernest Reed

Hoping for a turn in the clubs fortunes? Ever the optimist Pedro, but we all know how this is going to turn out.

Arteta was never my choice but i wanted for him to succeed so that the club would succeed. Never could i imagine that he may very well go down as the worst manager in club history. Emery may have been poor, but Arteta is just plain horribly bad.

Grant Elkin

What I’ve found most amusing and shocking is that he’s binned Ozil off for Willian! Now tell me who’d you rather have in the team at this stage?

Grant Elkin

Getting the feeling this club is being remodeled for the championship, anyone know the train timetable from London to Derby on Saturdays 🤔🤣😭

SpanishDave

We I read AMN is a big game player all is not well.
He is at best a half asleep plonker .
Arteta is now in panic mode pretending that we are about to turn the corner.
Oh well Happy Xmas to us all , with this Clovis shite and other stuff there’s not a lot to be happy about

andy1886

“Now tell me who’d you rather have in the team at this stage?”

Kim Kallstrom in traction tbh.

Graham

“The senior players have turned in the manager.”

I make it

The BTL posters have turned on the Blog owner

Graham

“Owning up to a mistake early and fixing it is not part of the way we operate”

I assume it’s your blog we are talking about here?

Emiratesstroller

Pedro It is crystal clear to me that whatever the mistakes made by Arteta and Edu the real problem at Arsenal is the accumulation of a large number of players who are past their best or not of the right quality. The situation is not helped by the contracts negotiated which renders many of these players difficult to shift. What the club needs at the moment is real leadership at the top of the club who are setting the rules as to how the club is being run and rebuilt. The Board needs to be both competent and ruthless. Reading… Read more »

Ishola70

Load of nonsense yet again. Arteta is tanking this side as well as the players. If anything Arteta the more guilty. You are right that the players failed Emery but we didn’t hear anything of that sort at the time. All we heard was get the horrible man out. The club are suffering worse now than they did under Emery because not only are some of the players a let down again but this current manager is not up to task either. How anyone can back any club decision is beyond me when we have seen mistake after mistake after… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

Pedro “As per Sofascore, he lost possession an incredible 20 times over the course of the night, the most of any Arsenal player on the pitch. He also made no successful dribbles, sent no accurate crosses, made just 20 total successful passes, and lost seven of his nine duels too.” That’s big game AMN btw, shocking stats, should have sold him when we had a chance. Gabriel a liability? The same guy how is by far our best defender and 3 months in a row player of the month? Still backing Arteta when it’s clear a DOF won’t change all… Read more »

Petes100

This whole club is a laughing stock, the ‘manager’ is a clueless, inexperienced charlatan pretending to know what the f**k he is doing, Edu is a complete and utter waste of space…just like he was when he was a player, the club have no direction or goal and will continue in this downward spiral until they are relegated…bring it on!

Redbearer

Very on point Pedro. Unfortunately it appears that Arteta will stick with the duds we have acquired. I don’t want to see Willian or Luiz starting against the Chavs since they won’t have the fire in their bellies for it. We need some smart spirited fighters now. Pepe does not do enough for me off the ball. Runarson is a joke signing. After that performance against Citeh he should never be allowed to wear the shirt again. He looked like a rabbit caught in headlights, well out of his depth! Arteta must start to pick players who are mentally strong… Read more »

TheLegendaryDB10

“Don’t enable a culture where the players feel they have the power to change the course of the season, especially if they are bum talents. At core, this mess is a player-generated one. Simply put, we have too many at the club that don’t give a fuck.” What a way to absolve MA completely of his own numerous fuck ups. So does this mean that Arteta can only function with the players that he buys? If that is the case, then this means that MA is nothing more than a cheque book manager. I wonder how Kroenke will feel if… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

Oh and those AMN stats are against City when he got some time in midfield.

Areta is the one who decided to keep the old underperformers , he’s the one that’s playing them week in week out, he seems to hate young players and the only ones he plays are Saka and Martinelli who already had their break out seasons before he arrived, and Eddie who simply isn’t good enough and still get played over and over again. Shocking decision making and we’re going to lose all our top prospects if he stays.

Kris

Emiratesstroller,

why do you always press the enter key so much?
Giving us a repetitive strain injury from the unnecessary extra scrolling LOL

Ishola70

All deflection.

Edu, the players, Mike McDonald the scout blaming lack of people in the stadium, Emirates Stroller last night implying that covid was a factor.

All done to absolve Arteta.

What is it with Arteta and this defence of him? He really doesn’t deserve it. He won a couple of games in the FA Cup by parking the bus and now he is absolutely tanking in the competition that tells all the EPL.

shaun

“Pedro It is crystal clear to me that whatever the mistakes made by Arteta and Edu the real problem at Arsenal is the accumulation of a large number of players who are past their best or not of the right quality.” it should also be crystal clear that the manager and the tdf are complete novices who are making the situation ten times as bad with incredibly poor judgment and decision making …the squad is not 15 th in the table and sinking quality ….. this is rank bad management to the level we had not previously seen , the… Read more »

Gabe 727

In life like in football once in a while you have to eat some humble pie….and when you do, you better take a good, hard look into it.
Mikel and Edu are in the process of eating that pie but are still on the denial face of the process, problem is, we don’t have time for them to realize that it’s not a 5 courses meal but a shitty meal. Count your loses and move on, fight not to go on relegation and wait for a new season hoping you learned the lesson.

Chrispy

Hang on. Gabriel is a liability now?

andy1886

Runarsson is to goalkeeping what Mikel is to football management.

We’ll probably stick with both then.

shaun

“This club can back what they like for the time being. It will make no difference. Events on the field will see Arteta get dismissed.” exactly as it does not matter that you have these strange people still suggesting Arteta is a good coach lol………………………lol what evidence is there of that please enlighten us ?

Graham

Yet again I think Pedro like Arteta is following the Trump playbook.

Trump is reportedly now turning on pretty well everyone else in the White House and Republican Party claiming they have let him down and he would get his rightful win if they just backed him.

And now I read this deluded post.

Left Testicle

Kris,
We try to encourage ES to hit the enter key – it breaks up the text. I don’t think I could handle a long ES post without paragraph breaks! 🙂

Graham

Andy1886 – that’s an unfair comparison – Runarsson had some actual goalkeeping experience before coming to us

Left Testicle

Kris,
I see what you’re saying now – something weird is happening with your posts Emirates!

Left Testicle

Runarsson is Arteta’s equivalent of Wenger’s Kallstrom.

Kesses+gunner

Pedro
What the barometer how low can we go till you agree enough is enough.i agree most players are shit but I can’t trust arteta to build new project he is alienating prospects like saliba guend,balogun.sack him after blue mauling I hope so

Batistuta

This from Eurosport It’s time to quit pretending. Arteta got the job because he sat next to Pep Guardiola a few times and looks formidable in a suit. Had he worn some Tracky Bs, or his illegible clichés were not interpreted as “the project”, he would not be in the hotseat. “I’m pretty sure they are going to trust him,” said Guardiola on his dear friend. “They will do a big mistake if they are thinking [of dismissing him].” If your fellow managers are asking the club to give you another chance, it’s game over. What are the benefits of… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

Saliba outperformed Gabriel in ligue 1 by almost every metric last season btw, there was a article posted in the comments in the last post that showed that, and he was far better than any of our other defenders or the average PL defender and he still has to play with the u23s so Mustafi can get play time in his last year? Get the fuck out of here.

Radio Raheem

Edu and Arteta have to go. I think it’s what Pedro’s post implies but perhaps can’t bring himself to quite say.

englandsbest

There you are. Civil war in the dressing-room. The old and tainted undermining the ‘process’ in a devious manner. Ozil the totem pointing the way. Solution? A mass clear-out. Including the useless staff who allowed this to happen. A catalogue of errors from the top trio. But in fairness, they inherited this mess. A dreadful hangover from the days of Wenger and Gazidis. And a negligent owner who doesn’t know a thing about football and doesn’t appear to give a damn. Three rookies who have showed far too much respect for the elderly, and bad judgement in general. Nevertheless, changing… Read more »

Sean Mukiza

We know you love Thomas Tuchel, Peter wood. haha He’s now available. I’m waiting for the Tuchel hype train from you mate. Hopefully no GeNeRaTiOnAl CoAcH rubbish

andy1886

Sorry Graham you’re correct.

Mikel is to football management what Ali Dia was to Graham Souness’ credibility.

Barney75

“Here is a really fucking scary reality: If Bernd Leno pinged an achilles heel tomorrow, we could be relegated” Actually the even fucking scarier reality is that we could easily get relegated regardless of who plays in goal. We are that bad. ’94/95 was the worst I’d seen before…a very uninspiring season although we did get to a final …but at least we had Adams et al so you know they’d sweat blood for Arsenal. This lot couldn’t give a fuck. I don’t see any merit in keeping Artera at all…he simply cannot manage people. Weren’t there rumours he wasn’t… Read more »

andy1886

EB – Since we will be losing the majority of the dross this summer there is no reason to believe if we change the manager next time around will be no different. Or we could keep the incumbent, lose the dross and continue to sign the likes of Willian, Runarsson, Mari and Soares because he couldn’t tell a decent footballer from a cabbage.

South African Gooner

PedRo ****Runarson is the worst keeper I’ve ever seen in an Arsenal shirt.**** HE HAS to be the worst in the whole of the league (92 clubs). When a ‘keeper is frantically diving around his goal area , when shots are going 10 ft wide of his goal- you dont have a ‘keeper in goal , you have a bloody comedian. Only x 5 more years of him at £40 000 a week. What happens now with him? Cant play him again. He is a liability. No one will surely want him. Under 23’s should be for talelented youngsters? So… Read more »

andy1886

Tuchel? The new Emery? Perfect for Pedro then.

Black Snake

Vinai and Edu need to get the F out of our club. I hate what it has become and especially the twats in charge. We can blame the manager and players as much as we like but it’s dick heads like Vinai and Edu that hired the manager. Then it’s the wiggy twat and his son that are happy to have dross like Vinai and Edu. Get rid of the lot of them!

Graham

I think on that logic we have to add Pedro for pushing for Arteta for nearly 2 years.

Batistuta

So that’s Pochettino to PSG done then.

Please no to Tuchel. I’d rather Jardim who at least has a track record with young players

Samir

PSG sack Tuchel.

Ishola70

Well we had one previous PSG manager before.

It could happen again.

andy1886

Ishola – I hope not, better than Mikel (who isn’t) but his achievements don’t merit the hype.

Ishola70

You can see that PSG is a madhouse.

Emery went from one madhouse at PSG and jumped straight into another one at Arsenal.

South African Gooner

Really ruthless clubs sack on Christmas Eve.

We will wait until April the 1st.

Samesong

Emery doing alright at Villareal 19 games unbeaten all comps.

Tuchel loses his job yet we’re on brink of relegation and Arteta job is safe. We really have become a laughing stock in world football

Samir

Tuchel; a point of the top of Ligue 1 and won his CL group.

Arteta; 15th, 4 points from relegation, hundreds of mistakes, player mismanagement left right and centre – fully backed by the board…

Valentin

Pochetino is likely to be announced as the new PSG manager after Tomas Tuchel has been officially sacked by Leonardo. 3rd time in a row that Tuchel battle with a club DoF result in his departure rather than his results.

Valentin

By the time Vinay wakes up, there will be only Joe from accounting left for manager. Every other decent option would have been taken.
He needs to be decisive now, not wait until the ship is impaled on the iceberg and nearly submerged.

Ishola70

FFS we are relying on Vinnay.

This club is getting seriously comedic.

Bergkamp63

The problem with putting AMN in midfield will likely mean Bellerin at RB, you can’t win as he can’t be in two places at once.

Not that he is that good anyway, just a little less shit than the shitiest of the shit we have.

Danny+S

Xhaka and cebellos or Elneny in CM v Chelsea.

Jamie

Tuchel after spanking Strasbourg at home 4-0 to bring PSG within a point of the top of the table: sacked.

Arteta after a 4-1 drubbing at home to City in the cup whilst languishing 4 points above the relegation zone in the league: trust the process but blame everyone else.

Merry Christmas Ebe.

Sly

Lol
Not sure what koolaid this bloggers sipping on
Players ain’t the problem bruv

Sly

You posted trash about Wenger for the longest time…some of it legit tbh
At least try and be objective
What’s good for the goose n all

AC

Peter woods favorite coach thomas tuchel is now available

Emiratesstroller

andy 1886

I would remind you that Raul and Edu were in charge of contract and transfer business when Willian, Mari and Soares were recruited All three were handled by same super agent.

Runarsson was recommended by all accounts by Goalkeeper Coach.

What Arsenal needs is a Football Director to oversee the football business at club. Arsenal’s
problems are not going to disappear if you keep on changing the manager and coaching staff.

Rich

Pedro

“We might go on a 10 game run”

What are you smoking?

Whatever it is….. I bet it’s really good, and I need some

Puff puff give, stop messing up the rotation…..

Grant Elkin

Arteta out Tuchel in, hopefully it will happen once we’re actually in the relegation zone.

I hate Green Bay

Back in the day, I used to be sent into fucked companies and try to unfuck them. The process starts with sacking the riff raff.

Think about Arsenal, one would have to sack the entire executive, the two most senior managers, probably all the coaching staff, around about 14 players, and then have to tell the owners they have to sell.

That process wouldnt happen overnight, it would take a long time, so I think we will remain fucked for the foreseeable future.

andy1886

Stroller, I will remind you that Arteta campaigned to get William and claimed that Mari and Soares were reat signings. He also worked at City with Mari in case you’ve forgotten. As for Runarsson he had a full say in both selling Martinez and signing his replacement. Stop being an apologist, it’s untenable.

Batistuta

Yea Edu and Raul to blame for Mari and Cedric and not like the manager didn’t have a say in said signings

Sly

Arsenal leadership don’t have the balls to make the right move
We should have gone for klopp when he was available
Tuchel?? Haha they can’t do it
They’ll stick with this 🤡 cos like Pedro he’s spinning some sweet shit
Not sure who’s worse the club or the coach
Now u have the blogger sycophantic

Batistuta

Not like Arteta also didn’t have a huge say in the William signing too with a promise to win the champions league in what 3 years. It’s all every other person’s fault except the manager so changing him wouldn’t change anything

andy1886

Also Stroller if one the biggest problems IS the manager then of course you can improve things by changing him.

Top eight squad in fifteenth.

Terrible team selection.

Terrible formation.

Terrible tactics.

Terrible man management.

Do you disagree? If so explain.

Fix any of the above without adding a single player and we’d improve. Stop making baseless claims, if changing the manager didn’t change football clubs’ fortunes why do they do it?

Valentin

I have Jorge tweets about Pablo Mari, at least I am not the only one who watching the reserve games thought that he was really shaky, slow and very unconvincing.
If he can’t get a game when Gabriel is suspended, may that means that Arteta as well is not convinced but can’t bring himself to admit that he championed another dud on top of Willian and Cedric.

Sly

Still haven’t seen the evidence/source for the ‘generational coach’ bs
If this club hired LeGo boi based on his proximity to Pep in training sessions that will be the most deluded crap I’ve seen in awhile
Speaks to a massive inferiority complex with the club
and also with Pedro

Sly

‘Go on an 10 game run’
😂😂
Embarrassing

Frost

“Gabriel is looking a liability”

Lol no he’s not. Arteta is tho.

Mr Serge

Get tuchel in now

Sly

Arsenal has become a Mickey Mouse club
That the players do know

Rich

You always back your staff 100%, right up until the point you no longer back them. The thought process around not allowing these players to push another manager out the door, I understand. I flat don’t trust the club to recruit a new manager. Arteta wasn’t my choice, but I wanted to back him. But if he doesn’t take at least 4/9 from the next 3 Then his position becomes completely untenable If KSE, Vinai and Edu haven’t at least considered the very real possibility that they might need to sack Arteta? or that we’re actually in a relegation scrap?… Read more »

Emiratesstroller

We keep on picking managers and head coaches out of a hat as the panacea of solving our current problems. Tuchel is the latest suggestion. One should however ask the question why was he sacked by both Borussia Dortmund and PSG? Bluntly Arsenal’s problems go back a long way and not just with arrival of Arteta. What we don’t need if we change the manager is another short term appointment. The real malaise at the club is and has been for a long time poor recruitment and ridiculous contracts, which has saddled the club with a bloated, unbalanced and poor… Read more »

South African Gooner

ES *****For all the negativity about Arteta I still think that he is a decent coach. ******* ??? Where is the evidence? 2 goals from open play in 10 games? Lowest ranked club in the league(92nd) for attempts on goal in the second half? Lowest ranked in the prem for attempts etc? If you coached the team, it would be more of a goal threat. He is a 100% blagger. The only reason , he aint BEEN SACKED yet is because they probably can’t afford his £10 000 000 severance package. As is the goalkeeping coach. Dont be so bloody… Read more »

TheLegendThatIsDennisBergkamp

Our performances can’t get any worst…

Valentin

One very concerning thing about Arteta is his complete disregard for the safety and well-being of his players. This is now the third incident within a month when Arteta took bad managerial decision who could have very serious medical impact. On David Luiz concussion, even discarding the blood seeping through the bandage it was obvious that he should not have stayed on the pitch. The fact he needed 10 days robe clear to play again is proof enough. His push on Partey would be funny if it was not so tragic. Here is a player who was rushed back, who… Read more »

Batistuta

I predicted Mari would be a liability signing after watching him against City. Said he looked to slow to play in this league. Don’t have any football degree or badge or anything but you can most times from the off predict whether or not a player would survive I the premier league. Mertesacker was good cuz he could read the game quite well sometimes but Mari just looked outright slow and even sacred when anyone was running at him. Just like with Wenger before he left, we’ve let another manager make some brain dead decisions with giving average players long… Read more »

Marc

Pedro still looking to exonerate Arteta and in fact find a way to keep him in the job.

The piece is confused – the club is going to back the manager and Edu to show a set of players they can’t down a manager but allows the same manager to stop them being sold, offers them new contracts and keep them in the squad over young promising new players.

Give it up Pedro.

Samesong

I think we will lose heavily on boxing day.

Marc

I think we all need to stage an intervention on Pedro. It’s not funny any more and I miss his blog being worth reading.

Batistuta

When Emirates stroller or Pedro says he thinks Arteta is a decent coach, you’d think there was some sort of background to that statement but nothing absolutely suggests that is even remotely true, no evidence whatsoever really.

Really hope we don’t have a brain freeze after losing to Chelsea and appoint Tuchel.

Left Testicle

Most of the time I skip the post waffle and jump straight to the comments.

Emiratesstroller

South African Gooner

You seem to have a very short memory.

Arsenal beat Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea in EPL, FA Cup and Community Shield. So Arteta is not so incompetent as you keep on suggesting.

No-one is suggesting that Arteta has not made some mistakes, but that applies to most head
coaches and managers. After all Liverpool lost 7-2 to Aston Villa. Does that make Klopp a rotten manager?

MGooner

@Marc

If the blog is controversial, it generates 4 times more clicks and more comments.

Marc

It’s quite funny that Pedro and a small handful of others are taking statements or leaks out of the club backing Arteta as being on the level.

What does anyone actually expect the club to say? Even if they’re putting together an internal shortlist they’re not going to come out and say “Arteta, mate he’s fucking useless”.

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