It’s depressing to be at the despair stage of the season after one game, but here we are, things are not looking particularly sharp at the club at the moment. The rumblings around the organisation aren’t positive, the players look unhappy on the pitch, and there are lots of rumours leaking out that indicating preseason has been a disaster.
The immediate concern is short-term. There are a number of things going on at the moment that need control if we’re going to have a better season.
Firstly, it feels like someone needs to pull Arteta and his crew to one side and talk a bit about accountability. There seems to be an almost Trumpian air about Mikel Arteta at the moment and it has to stop. I’ll cite three things that I’ve found disturbing over the past week.
That press conference. I’m sorry, unacceptable for a rookie manager to sulk in public. His behaviour sets the tone for how the fans feel, and more importantly, how the players feel. Complaining in public about the lack of movement with half-baked answers and a sullen vibe just won’t fly. It’s what children do and that’s how I felt seeing that carry-on.
Arteta needs to own the issues. This magical system he’s building cannot be two players away from banging. His right back problem is on him, he told us Cedric Soares has special qualities. His lack of cash for forwards is on him, he sanctioned Auba and Willian. This summer of dithering at least has to be partly on him. Odegaard is his choice, by opting for him, he accepted he wouldn’t have a #10 before the window. He’s got to own this versus finger-pointing about the things he doesn’t have. If your system is one injury away from hell, then maybe the system you are building isn’t very robust?
Can I do forthly? Let’s talk about leaks. Someone at the club is putting stories into the media that are very unhelpful. The latest is that the club has been underwhelmed with Auba’s preseason output. Sorry, cannot have that. This shows the naivety of operators we have at the club. No one is signing Auba on £350k a week, no one. So leaking he’s available is next to useless. All it does is depress the player and worse… it tells the squad, that like in a Trump cabinet position, once you are no longer useful to the manager, it’s the scrap heap for you. Think about the mindset of whoever shared that story… ‘Let’s tell the world Auba had a shite preseason and we want him out’… hardly an appetising advert for one of the best-paid players in the world.
Arteta played a role in this. When he was asked if Auba could get back to his best, he said he didn’t know. An embarrassing answer, that for me felt like he was preparing an excuse as to why the season might go off the rails. Wenger would have said, ‘this is one of the most clinical strikers in world football. He has had some problems, but I promise you, he will be back and prove the doubters wrong.’ Same thing with Willian. I get that he’s been appalling, but you know who pushed that deal? Arteta. Now he’s trying to reverse out of owning that decision, and once again, the player has been binned.
Where is Josh K here? That’s £600k a week worth of investment in two players over 30 and the manager that went hard for both deals is walking away from the players. It is unacceptable and extremely immature.
For me, this mess we’re in all stems from the promotion we gave Arteta last season. The Spaniard land grabbed because he knew Edu was weak, and Vinai caved. Now you have this dreadful structure where no one is accountable. When no one is accountable in an equal power structure, you invite cliques… because every decision becomes a power struggle where the loudest voices win.
Who is responsible for the lack of players this window? Is it Edu, who we know drives home deals even if they are shit? Or is it Arteta dithering over names in the hope that better ones come along? Who is the captain of the ship here?
Vinai has to shoulder a chunk of the blame here because it would appear that after a disaster of a season, no additional controls were put on Arteta and we’re careening into another nightmare scenario praying he can be the rockstar Wenger was. Wenger was 47 when he took over Arsenal, he’d gone through the authoritarian stage, he’d been sacked, he’d built a bottom of the table club back up to the top in Japan… Arteta cannot be expected to take over a more complex operation and do all the bits.
As any of you reading who work in big corporate business will know, things like over-promoting happen all the time. You put someone junior in control of too much, they panic under the stress, they kick out at the system, they blame people, and make the lives of their subordinates hell. When you see it happening, you don’t let it slide. You get to the truth of the problem, then you sit the person down, you tell them that you are going to take away some bits of the job and allow them to focus on a few key elements. It is not a tough conversation to have if you have evidence where the person is failing.
It was absolutely clear the ‘manager’ role ruined the progress we were making the season prior. Did Vinai scale back Arteta’s job? Did anyone look at the team that surrounds him and make suggestions of upgrades? Did anyone deep dive into the goalkeeping mess and ask him what he was doing about it? Did anyone suggest bringing in some fresh thinking?
No. It didn’t happen. It looks like gridlock in the backroom team and it sounds like Arteta is throwing Edu under the bus for not getting the deals done that he wanted. That does not feel like the sort of thing that goes on when there’s a tight working relationship.
If you and I can see backroom politics spilling out onto the shop floor, can you imagine what is actually going on behind the scenes?
The idea of hiring a young and innovative coach was an exciting one and it could have worked, but it was executed with naivety. If you take a punt on someone young, you control who is around them and you limit their power. Just like RB Leipzig did with Nagelsmann. You don’t promote a rookie after 6 months. Arsenal shouldn’t have put an inexperienced Technical Director above him and they certainly shouldn’t have downgraded the power of that role so soon. These are super simple things that should have been foreshadowed. When there’s a lack of leadership in an organization, power vacuums open up, and people that lack maturity run riot and the business lacks coherence.
Our keeper, central midfielder, and our right back all wanted out. We have been trying to find a buyer for Lacazette, someone at Arsenal is leaking that we are disappointed with our captain. Our big summer bet of last year has been binned off and told to find a new club. There are rumors flying around that there is unrest at the training ground. We can’t even handle the illness rumors properly, whatever it is, it’s better to be upfront about it rather than let it fester as something more nefarious. Leicester just came out and owned that Bertrand had covid, why haven’t we been given and update on Auba, Lacazette, and Runarsson?
Good leadership would prevent things like the above from happening. The passivity and willful inaction is now part of our DNA. We didn’t manage Wenger properly and let him spend his way to mediocrity, no one in leadership paid a price for that. We didn’t manage the transfer of power from Ivan to the dual CEO model and let Raul take over and do some really bad things. Then when that all went to hell and we found what looked like a promising model, we crushed it by breaking the hierarchy and creating a dual power structure in the footballing backroom team. It beggars belief that we can’t do better than this, but until we stop hiring people based on convenience, and start hiring people with a vision and an iron fist to activate it, we’ll be here, swimming around in a messy unstructured model hoping something clicks by accident.
These next two games are going to be telling. If we lose both of them, we’re back to last seasons run of game, this time, it’ll end in a firing. Where do we go then? You think Arsenal are finding £15m a year for Conte, or that he’d be interested after turning down Spurs? No way. We’d be back to trusting a Technical Director whose best ideas come from his super agent buddies.
It’s dark time ahead if Arteta really is causing as many problems as the rumours would suggest. Let’s pray to the footballing gods that the Brentford loss has inspired some action and some solves. Otherwise, this could be yet another messy year of painful transition football. It’s so disappointing because this whole situation could have been managed better if someone had the foresight to structure the right team and processes.
Right, see you in the comments.
Kronke out, arteta out
While we’re at it let’s have Edu out too
Third
People talk about Moyes football being bad as Arteta plays it but Moyes himself is doing well out of it
Tr4phy
Rainman nope lol
Get used to mid table mediocrity…
Pedro the problems are a result of having owners who simply do not understand football clubs, or indeed the game.
Players need to be confident and buy into a process. Arteta is now grabbing at straws trying to blame everyone around him for his failures trying to be coach and manager.
Josh is useless he has no experience he is just a rich Ans son who knows that in time it all will be his .
Worrying times again
4th
Oh joy
Surely Ragnick is our saviour in waiting !! VV & Edu definitely need to be removed from The Arsenal ASAP. Think Arteta already has his fortunes set and will be fired at some point – just a case of when (probably far too late as is always the way with this club). Feel like it would be a good way for the Kronkes to get some kudos with the fans if they culled the people rotting the club and put people on who could get us firing again. Make a big show of it… would make great Amazon All or… Read more »
Pedro,
You are a great writer and a legend. However, I beg you not to sit on the fence anymore. Call out Arteta what he is – an absolute fraud who has been given way too much time. He’s clearly neither a technical nor a cultural fit at Arsenal.
We were obviously known for being an attacking team, but today, we can’t even fulfill the basics anymore.
Can we start the Con Artist Out????.
We all can see he was a Con 🤷🏻♂️
for what he is** sorry..
I have said this many times the board knows nothing and hired edu who knows nothing and they hired Arteta who has zero experience
We all have him a chance some more than others but in business you remove the problem not exasperate it
It’s time to remove vinai edu and arteta and bring in some proper people
People like overmars as dof
A proper manager like Brendan. Ten Haag or Conte and we will be on the right track
The 3 of Viani , edu and Arteta have been a disaster
West Ham look good. We are the worst team in London.
I agree, Pedro, but everything in this blog post could be filed under one problem: absentee, inept ownership. The power vacuums and reactions to those vacuums all exist because ownership doesn’t care and doesn’t know what they are doing. They aren’t good owners of the American teams that play in sports they actually have some familiarity with. They are abysmal running a club in a sport they know fuckall about. To me, in sports, there is one simple rule that is right nearly all the time: Teams with bad ownership can’t have consistent success. And teams in trouble with bad… Read more »
Calm down Pedro you might get accused of having a meltdown.
Brentford players openly saying they pressed Xhaka so he had no space and we gave the one pace merchant a new deal do we actually have to wait for granit to retire before we are ripped of him?
Everything Pedro said. droves of us have been saying for months now even before Arteta was hired. Swindon town wouldnt have hired him, QPR or Everton. Vinai trying to be edgy. Kroenke Snr and Jnr showing their cluelessness.
Can the same idiots who made 2 bad decisions on the trot make it 3rd time lucky?.
Artetas hairline had Pedro under a spell.
Rid of him I mean
Pedro The problem is you back Arteta through all his missteps, every single one of them. No matter how dim Arteta’s moves were, you were always here to defend them. When it was put to you that were were set to spend £50 million you came up with litany of defenders, ‘we had money’, then ‘the sequence of transfers doesn’t matter’ and ‘ball playing defenders are necessary’ Truth is we could have done better with that money we put towards Ben White. There was no way in hell he was going to have a £50 million effect when our midfield… Read more »
As Pedro wrote in his post, Conte isn’t coming here, that type of manager is wishful thinking. No decent manager would want to join our club with the current owners and the set up in charge. Saying that though, an average manager would get more out of this squad than Arteta. I’ve said it many times before as have others , the managerial road is littered with Assistant managers or coaches who have failed to make the step up to a managers role. If we were going to go with someone young and new , we should of at least… Read more »
* litany of excuses.
Diet Pep didnt just get negative traits overnight, the signs of being a charlatan were always there,
the fanboys were so smitten they chose to ignore it,
now get yourselves a big box of ice cream , tissues and cry me a river
Plus Pedro claims we cant find 15m for Conte but we can somehow pony up 50m for a player we didnt need and nobody else was in for.. Conte wouldn’t be earning 15m here or anywhere else. We have money but we are shit at spending it
Rich From the last post in case you missed You bang on auba and maybe he is over the hill , maybe not but until I’ve seen him under a different coaching structure I’ll hold my view . He a striker , he was bought to score goals ,goals and only goals wins games . Assembling a competent squad needs players to be their very best in every position , aubas goals put him in the golden boot level both before he came and once here . There was that stat no player had scored more than him in the… Read more »
Brighton Mamager would of jumped at chance of managing us.
GoonnerNY Spot on mate. Sadly Arteta is finished. The Kroenkes will throw him under a bus, maybe Edu will get the push as well. If they don’t they risk the fans turning on them. They hid behind Wenger for a long time and a depreciating asset is a issue that has to be addressed. If they are serious they will have to spend a lot of money. Self sustainability is a fantasy now.
Man City line over 500M
Subs 347M
Problem is when these young up-start managers run into problems, they don’t have the skill set to get themselves out.
Arteta reminds me so much if Gerry Monk.
They are like shooting stars, up so fast with the predictable flame out,
The joke is on the Kroenke’s, the Arsenal board and some of the fan base who are too willing to give an inexperienced manager too much power too quickly.
@Mr Serge
Xhaka can be put in the file of the many mistakes our scouting system has achieved. As someone said earlier, we’ve had the money ( yes not as much as chavs or shitty obviously), but the men making the decisions have seriously neglected to do their jobs properly, in scouting and cost of purchase. Xhaka would look great in Italy, the pace of the game is slower hence why he excels in internationals, and he was never going to be able to adapt to a league as fast playing as ours. Same with Pepe and many others.
Pedro I just had to come back, even though you’ve now seen the light. Arteta was, is, will never be, the answer to Arsenal’s problems. He is becoming an embarrassment and a weight around the clubs shoulders. We have a core of exceptionally gifted youngsters, as well as more than enough talented senior players to play a far more dynamic and expansive game. Arteta’s tactics are boring and turgid and are a detriment to the team’s progress. Leno needs to go, he is useless! Matt Ryan should have been retained. Then again, we all know that Martinez should have been… Read more »
I mean Xhaka accepted a pay reduction with Roma and was already taking Italian lessons
To think that we actually gave him a wage increase and now he’s Mr Arteta-Arsenal again.
Tea lady out
First post in 5 years? 10? Something like that.
Just to echo everything you say Pedro in this post. I love the clarity with which you see things and express them. Maybe not always spot on with everything (who is?) but this seems absolutely on the button.
Promoting a rookie manager before he had earned anything. Arsenal seem full of over-promoted people, from the owners down. Great suggestion for taking Mikel aside but who is the person with the authority to do that? Has there been anyone able since Dein left?
Chapeau to you.
Yep Peds… It’s all a bit bleak. We have no final decision maker that can fix things. We are relying on Josh K to make a decision and then empower somebody to find a replacement and restructure the leadership to something that can work. Ideally we should have cleaned house in June.
Now we are hoping for a miracle, basically. Winning solves a lot of problems… this team looks nowhere near like going on a winning streak of any kind.
Can anyone explain to me how white is better than Saliba?. Or, Arteta better than Emery?.
The only one can see that is Pedro!!!.
Areta is going from bad to worse. He was bad in man management. Last year, he has at least improved our defense. But he has this habit to try next things regardless whether his players are suitable or not. He should get back to his old defense ASAP.
Xhaka situation is infuriating because it potentially handcuffs the next guy too… for another 4 years.
That someone are the Kroenke’s who have absolutely no idea how to run a club, the stadium at home next week should be packed with #Kroenke Out banners. We have wallowed into mediocrity , mediocre owners with mediocre ideas . Get em Out !
China, didn’t she already get the boot when the redundancies happen.
I have a cunning plan, let’s all buy Spotify subscriptions and then pray to the footballing gods that he has enough money to make an offer Stan the man can not refuse
And here I thought that Manure was having a torrid way of replacing SAF it pales in comparison to what AFC is doing in replacing Wenger.
Forza Milel Out Brigade (MOB)
We have been rudderless since Dein was escorted out of the building pliget
Arsenal 17th, just need to keep the momentum going and hang in there for another 37 weeks
Lets go gunners
I hope we lose our next 6 games so we can get arteta out, i think that’ll be the only way.
Bring Wenger back as a care taker and this Con artist must go in three games.
Start talking to Wenger and gave him contract until end od the season
I suspect that Aubameyang had a fall-out with Arteta. They’re contemporaries so there can;r be too much respect there.
Laca jumped in sad f*ck it, I don’t have to put up with this sh*t anymore, got only one year left.
Thank you As someone said earlier, we’ve had the money ( yes not as much as chavs or shitty obviously) Some times people mis read what’s going on here Pedro said it clear early on Arsenal he said had the money it wasn’t a question of selling to buy the money was there. I didn’t buy into all this about £250 million rubbish but far too many of the gullible we’re talking about £20 million selling this player or £20 million selling that player.Most of those being talked about are deadwood and if 5hey are deadwood at the current iteration… Read more »
Here is something to cheer you up NOT!
Arsenal worst player on Friday, Mari, can cost millions more. His 20th appearance triggered a clause for Brazilian club Flamengo who are in line for another million for every 10 appearances up to a total of €8m with an additional payment this summer in the region of €5m could see the total reach €16m.
Well done for a poor value for money signing, but that is what you get when you fire your recruitment department.
YES PEDRO AT LAST your seeing some of the more deep problems.
When your as NAIVE as Arteta and things are not working out
you blame everyone except yourself.
Basic formations and substitutions are a massive problem for him.
Majority of his backroom are pants Steve Round laughable..
To many tiers of operation have ruined this club?
Get rid of the scouting system a massive mistake was one
that should have been kept.?
Clearly ARTETA.’S ego is a massive problem and he is to hard necked
to do the right thing if results don’t improve.
So who does sack him.
Pedro We lost 1 game, to 2 illegitimate goals We were missing Partey + Gabriel, and 2 strikers came down with illness on match day Saka came back late and was on the bench, Martinelli only came back to training at the start of the week We had a 21yr old in midfield making his debut as a result, and a 20yr old striker making his competitive debut If Arteta has completely lost control, then pull the plug, there’s no value in dragging it out, we all know how that script ends But the idea we should make that decision… Read more »
Pliget, think you’re right about that when Dein left things got out of control, that was the start of Wenger’s power grab and his eventual downfall. The laughable thing is though didn’t they oust him because he wanted Stan the man in and then they went and did it anyway
Would people really want Graham Potter?
MD
Thankfully Gabriel should be back before the next batch of 10 games for Mari
JohnG oh yeah
Then FUCK THIS
GUNNERSAURUS OUT!!!!
…
Oh ‘cmon….
With Xhaka, our midfield is very limited. He can only play as a deep lying DM. He can’t support the other CM to bring the ball up field. If he advances higher up, it’ll take him a lot of time to come back when we lose the ball.
The joke of Edu hiring ‘head hunters’ to sign scouts for Arsenal after sacking most of our scouts
Any DoF who does not know the best scouts around shouldn’t be in that job.
Rich sadly that is true
Rich nobody cares about the Brent Ford game. No one is angry because of the brentford game. They are angry because of the 18 months building up to it to such an extent that the result was even surprising
You keep acting as if everything has been absolutely dandy last season. When we came 8th. Again.
Wasn’t surprising*
Peckobill
Gabriel is injured from the Brazil Olympic game will not be back before the international break.
£50m for White when we have Saliba on the books?
£50m for White when we’ve sold Willock for only £22m?
Sell Willock but keep Xhaka?
This season’s a disaster already. We could be finishing in the bottom half of the table if we’re not careful. Sounds a bit kneejerk and catastrophic after 1 game I know but it looked like a continuation of last season from what I can see, we looked terrible.
Lokonga looks good though but really wish we gave Willock a chance. Terrible decision by Arteta. Terrible.
China, NO Gunnersauras will be the best guy on the pitch in our first home game
Johng
Pretty sure Dein sided with Usmanov
‘’ Rich nobody cares about the Brent Ford game. No one is angry because of the brentford game. They are angry because of the 18 months building up to it to such an extent that the result was even surprising You keep acting as if everything has been absolutely dandy last season. When we came 8th. Again’
You’re talkkng to the wrong man
Rich believes our 8th place last season was a ‘slight under achievement’
If you’re unhappy about all the mistakes we keep making then you’re a ‘bed wetter’.
Rich
We lost 1 game, to 2 illegitimate goals We were missing Partey + Gabriel, and 2 strikers came down with illness on match day
We’re they illegitimate ? No one repeat no one bar Arsenal faithful think they were.
Partey is injured far too often to depend on , Gabriel possibly but as for the 2 strikers too many rumours about them to even start to need to factor them into the equation
Dissenter, maybe Edu he could hire z few hookers to noble the other teams best players the night before they play us. There must of been plenty of them floating around on his yachting jaunts
Nobble not noble
‘That press conference. I’m sorry, unacceptable for a rookie manager to sulk in public. ‘
Did Pedro actually go from ‘world class’ to ‘rookie’ on Arteta?
This reality must really be huge then.
For someone so stubborn on opinions to go from one extreme to the other?!
Rich “ with a perpetual revolving door of managers, each one declared the new hero, before very quickly becoming the villain” That’s life of the top end of football , it’s what every top club does until they get it right . How many did Liverpool go through until they got it right . Maybe the next guy will do it maybe he won’t . We don’t know but what we do is the current guy is NOT doing it . That’s what we do know and sticking with him is getting us absolutely no where . Pedro was a… Read more »
Arteta’s promotion to manager was the reward for: a) getting players to agree to the wage cut b) getting rid of the scouting network c) sacking gunnersaurus If you don’t believe me, check out the timeline and event sequence. I don’t keep calling him Josh’s henchman for nothing. Sacking gunnersaurus was not a cost saving move – it was a show of contempt for the past. These are signals to be picked up – Doris the tea lady is not relaying this stuff to Pedders. Josh, with A&E’s active participation, was/is out to dismantle the ‘old’ Arsenal and prove he… Read more »
I see. Well consider my bed sheets positively soiled.
Bloody hell, a man is allowed to change his opinion. Why are so many ready to twist the knife on Pedro? It’s like some of you see him as Arteta himself, positively frothing at the mouth to reiterate and remind that you were right and he was wrong! So what! The club is a shambles top to bottom, you should be directing the same amount of effort at the board to get rid of the axis of evil, MA, VV and Edu as you do at a blogger! Personally, I would love to see 5 fans turn up the Chelsea… Read more »
Md
He’s out for at least another 10 ?
Gentlebris
Pedro will retrace his steps back to Arteta
This is just a very fleeting momentary pause, he did the same when Emery broke a paddle on Arteta’s bum last season.
Pedro also had a certain Johnny tell him what we’ve all been saying in his podcast
Imagine a club of Arsenal’s stature operating without a scouting network for more than a year now.
I am surprised this doesn’t get as much ridicule as it deserves.
Pedro It seems crazy that arsenal appear to be in crisis after only one game but it’s difficult to see any kind of coherence or plan at the club. I don’t follow things as closely as some on here, especially potential signings, but I really don’t know what they’re all trying to do at arsenal- on and off the pitch. They all need to wake up. This is the premiership. It’s brutal and it’s not like American sports. The league doesn’t just stand still while clubs like arsenal try and implent five year plans and ‘transitional periods’. There are no… Read more »
Yes Pedro in Arteta out, where would we go if Pedro didn’t spend a lot of time with this blog
Good post Pedro
I know I’m one of those that usually attack you, but this is a really good post especially as you truly believed in Arteta.
My opinion is that Arteta thinks he is a good as managers like Pep without the CV to back it up, so he tries/trying the man management like Pep or Mourinho would do.
Rich I’m with Dissenter on this one. The Brentford result was a symptom not the cause. If Pedro is right about the rumours Arteta is finished. I suspect there will be discussions behind the scenes to see who might be willing/able to takeover. Arteta may well be a good coach but at this level you need bucketloads of psychological nous, it would appear he doesn’t have it. Painful though it is we need to get spanked by Chelsea and City to force the change.
Wengaball
Arteta even as far back as a player was a boss brown noser.
Never liked them types , always bullshitted the bosses to progress above their level .
Doogie where were you when Pedro was banning people for having an opinion on Arteta? These Pedro defenders are cringe, when Pedro is big enough to defend himself
I’ve always believed Pedro has earned the right to be wrong about anything Arsenal
The hard work he’s done in the last decade speaks volumes about his commitment to Arsenal.
That said, he did tether himself with Arteta too much so he has to brace himself for the expected blowback.
Pedro always had the last word so it’s all good. It’s just banter at the end of the day.
Dissenter Ultimately 6 points off 4th, which would have been seen as a good season Is a slight underachievement 6 points can hypothetically be reversed by one head to head game between two teams, going in a different direction, and goal difference flipping the position It’s fine margins You might hate that, but it doesn’t make it any less true A few astute adjustments can see us make some marginal gains over 38 games, we’re not in a good position, but it’s not as unsalvageable as some on here seem to think either I couldn’t give a toss what we… Read more »
‘Artetas hairline had Pedro under a spell.’
The spell is apparently broken.
Arteta needs to do this and Arteta needs todo that.
Only thing Arteta needs to do is fuck off!
Pedro finally seeing the light. Whatever the decision, Arteta has made a lot of them in the playing side. I blame esu and co too but the main culprit is the coach. Whatever he thinks is going to work isn’t. He needs a massive change of luck to last the season. And the idea of hiring a young coach was right. But it was the wrong young coach that we hired. I would go get Ten hag from ajax. He will whip our youngsters in to a good team. While we are at it, fire edu and get overmars too.
Lmao all those posters looking at Wenger as the solution Wenger was never a tactical genius. He needs technicians that can play wengerball. Who in our midfield can play wengerball in the middle of the park? Xhaka? Lol Wenger isn’t fergie who could get average players to over perform, he is a manager who let’s the team play freely but in order to do so, he needs talent. It’s no wonder he bombed in Japan and any other club he managed before arsenal. He had the perfect players when he joined, slowly when it was up to him, we started… Read more »
I like the part about today’s blog calling for Arteta to be pulled to one side. The trouble is, who is going to be doing that, Vinai? With all due respect, he isn’t a football man and would even Arteta respect his assessment? We had the chance to bring in a club legend in O’Leary on the board last year, a structure which includes club legends and people who understand the game is a bigger advantage than some might think. This didn’t possible for every club obviously, but for Arsenal surely it is. Look at some of the legends that… Read more »
Gentelbris I don’t believe it. I think there’s some flip flopping going on. Beat Chelsea and the same people will be out in force protecting their leader.
BTW Arteta can bring in 10 players he will not improve us.
‘Pedro will retrace his steps back to Arteta’
Dissenter,
I don’t think he will.
How much damage must Pedro do to his own rep because of a man with beautiful hair.
Samesong sounds like you’re a frother mate. Have you literally never changed your opinion on anything, ever? Is your favourite meal breaded dinosaurs and chips with jelly and ice cream for afters? Not defending Pedro, I just think the whole I told you so angle that lots are taking on here is a little bit pathetic
Things are bad, but anyone hoping we lose our next 6 games so Arteta gets the sack is a joke of a supporter.
Embarrassing
Rich Always enjoyed t]your company eBay though we didn’t agree about stuff. Hope you had a good time away. Honestly any manager is better than Arteta right now It’s not like we are trying to replace a generational manager like Wenger It’s not like we are trying to replace a manager coming from PSG who had won three ELs and took us to within a c**t’s hair of 4th place with a poorer squad. We are talking about a manager who when given £50 million of uncommitted money to spend.in a COVID-devastated summer, chooses to splurge it all on a… Read more »
There seems to be an almost Trumpian air about Mikel Arteta at the moment and it has to stop. Ffs we’ve been talking about this all along but you backed him like he knew what he was doing. Guen Saliba IF Arteta has his way this summer then Lacazette and Auba, the latest to have fall foul of the nonsence intangibles, would be gone. So what happens next year? Partey, ESR, Odegard and Saka? Who’s gonna tell this man you’re a man manager and you’ll meet cunts along the way and manage them you must. Conte managed Costa and never… Read more »
The only thing Arteta should be pulled to one side for…is to sack him.
It won’t happen because the clowns in the club aren’t capable of a quick change of managers. It takes a lot of nous to have a manager already lined up and ready to go. Arsenal don’t have that know-how or sophistication to make that switch happen
‘Gentelbris I don’t believe it. I think there’s some flip flopping going on. Beat Chelsea and the same people will be out in force protecting their leader.’
Samesong,
Apart from Pedro, ES and CC, i don’t know many here still on the Arteta jolly ride.
Care to mention a few names so we could at least gauge what they say now against what they say if we beat Chelsea 1:0 parking the bus?
Doogie you sound like an arse licker stick to that.
All good for a man to change their opinion but be fine to the people you banned who were right about Arteta.