**** me we're pathetic. Sums up how cowardly Arteta is.
Not far from our actual league position, tbh. In well deserved company.
**** me we're pathetic. Sums up how cowardly Arteta is.
In resume, he is a fraud... Un pinche habladorArteta proved to me the importance of communication. He says all the right things. Even when we lose he is so polished and knows exactly what to say, the right emotions and the right quotes. And if you never seen his team play and listened to him it’s very hard not to be impressed. But 2 years now and no one here can tell us what Arteta teams look like and how they set up. Not what he believes. But what his team actually does on the pitch
We are not in relegation zone only because our players have much more quality than that. They are carrying this useless manager.
**** me we're pathetic. Sums up how cowardly Arteta is.
Only at Arsenal can you be bad in every measurable way and still be comfy in your job.At this point, by all known metrics, Arteta is garbage: league position, points per game, home wins, xG, actual goals scored, style of play, game management, tactical awareness and flexibility, development of players, man management.
What the hell is going on?
Only if you are handsome and good lying in English. Emery didn't have that treat.Only at Arsenal can you be bad in every measurable way and still be comfy in your job.
Kroenkes couldn’t give a ****. Anything involving us not getting relegated is success for them.To think that 2 weeks ago shortsighted usual suspects were parading on here like we just won the league.
Should have been sacked for Saliba situation only, not to mention other things.
Kroenke's are in dire need of someone with just a little bit of football knowledge, to explain to them what a bad business has been going on around here.
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It wasn't just the Athletic and his colleagues. Everton was interested in him and Barça has looked at him as well. The fact is he was a highly regarded managerial prospect, no one inside the game disputed this. Again, it's just re-writing history to say otherwise.Big man you're gonna have to sit this one out. You are using the Athletic as a credible source? FFS. The Athletic is the only propaganda machine that works harder than Kim Jong Il's in North Korea. Highly regarded by who? You mean his ex work colleagues? Pep, Sterling and Sane. Isn't Xhaka highly regarded by his managers? Doesn't mean he's very good does it? I mean come on, you never had a reference written for you?
This is a massive whitewashing of Em*ry. Em*ry took us from a team on 65 xG performance level in our last season under Wenger, which was an unmitigated disaster, to a 59 xG in his first season, and then to 13th place and the worst performances that we've seen since before Wenger before getting the sack. In no way was Em*ry's CV credible, it was credibly bad...we had 10+ years of managerial evidence to see that he was not at all a viable managerial candidate for a big club, and we made the hire.At this point this one sided vendetta against Emery is lame. We got to an European final and finished one point off top 4, in his first season. We all know how he wanted guys like Zaha, Maguire, Nkunku and Banega and got shafted for guys like Torreria, Pepe, Soktratis and Denis Suarez. Emery done better with players that were not his unlike Arteta. Do you know how bad that is? And I don't even like Emery. It is always better to go for someone with a credible CV than someone who's entire praise comes from his friends or ex-colleagues.
1) Everton and Barca are two teams not exactly known for hiring great managers at this moment of time. I mean I can't think of two clubs with worse luck to hiring managers. The fact Koeman wasn't deemed good enough Everton but accepted as Barca's should tell you something.It wasn't just the Athletic and his colleagues. Everton was interested in him and Barça has looked at him as well. The fact is he was a highly regarded managerial prospect, no one inside the game disputed this. Again, it's just re-writing history to say otherwise.
This is a massive whitewashing of Em*ry. Em*ry took us from a team on 65 xG performance level in our last season under Wenger, which was an unmitigated disaster, to a 59 xG in his first season, and then to 13th place and the worst performances that we've seen since before Wenger before getting the sack. In no way was Em*ry's CV credible, it was credibly bad...we had 10+ years of managerial evidence to see that he was not at all a viable managerial candidate for a big club, and we made the hire.
It's absolutely more sensible to bet on a managerial prospect than to bet on a poor option who we have plenty of evidence is not good. The former is called making a calculated bet and missing and the latter is called incompetence.
The silver lining is that we find ourselves with much more interesting candidates available than at the time of both Em*ry and Arteta's hirings, in Potter, ten Hag, and potentially Rose or Frank or Gallardo if he can be convinced to leave River. But if we hold on too long with Arteta that will once again remind us that the people above him are not competent (barring real--unlikely--evolutions in Arteta's work during this season). Either way, a truly forward-thinking group would've sacked Arteta at the end of the season and hired Potter, as I recommended. I can understand the reticence to do that because they believed in him and his potential, but now it's time to act quickly since the writing is on the wall.
Anyways, we all know the likely reality: we don't have an especially forward-thinking decision making group and they believe strongly in Arteta and he is here until the end of the season, barring a terrible drop in form. So after a couple days reflection after a depressing day on Monday I'm just back hoping that Arteta can improve, because otherwise we are going to suffer as a club. Thinking we are going to sack Arteta mid-season and hire Potter or ten Hag is a pipedream, sadly.
I mentioned Anguissa last season along with Loftus cheek as cheap options in midfield for us and people on here laughed but both of those would be improvements on Sambi and Elneny or whoever we have in midfield right now.Wonder if we’d consider Kalvin Phillips? I don’t think he’s a major upgrade over Xhaka myself though or would work with him.
I liked the look of Anguissa at Fulham last year and he’s been playing every game for Napoli this year.
Anguissa at Napoli? Don't know him much, but he was awful in their Europa League match against Leicester. Was really badI mentioned Anguissa last season along with Loftus cheek as cheap options in midfield for us and people on here laughed but both of those would be improvements on Sambi and Elneny or whoever we have in midfield right now.
The club messed up spending that money on white and dale. We needed to improve our central midfield. If they went out and spent that 80M on a world class midfielder we would be in much better shape.
Keep guendouzi and spend the sambi money on a good RB and we would have been better off.
For some reason non of that counts with Arsenal fans. Wenger's version of those up to 2015/16 were very good . . . but lets remove him.At this point, by all known metrics, Arteta is garbage: league position, points per game, home wins, xG, actual goals scored, style of play, game management, tactical awareness and flexibility, development of players, man management.
What the hell is going on?
**** me we're pathetic. Sums up how cowardly Arteta is.
One bad match doesn’t define a player though. If you watched hmm last seasons you would have seen his quality through out the premier league games. Which is why he was able to leave a relegated team for a team like Napoli on loan.Anguissa at Napoli? Don't know him much, but he was awful in their Europa League match against Leicester. Was really bad
James McNicholas and Art de Roche pump out these pro Arteta pieces like confetti, wonder whether it’s the club or Arteta paying them.How much does the Athletic get paid to put out these puff pieces?