scytheavatar
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You can be a **** and still practice favoritism. In fact the more you piss off your subordinates, the more you have to rely on the core loyal to you, even if they end up being incompetent.
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Life after Wenger | Ornstein: Arsenal set to appoint Unai Emery
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You can be a **** and still practice favoritism. In fact the more you piss off your subordinates, the more you have to rely on the core loyal to you, even if they end up being incompetent.
Country: Wales
I live in Wales mate, you’re preaching to the choir.
Mark Tobias
Mr. Agreeable
Doubt that would ever happen.
Just confuses me why the British public get so offended if anybody speaks ill about their German monarchs. Bizarre.
c00lguy
Active Member
If we do sign Arteta the fan base has to get behind him no matter what.
Hostility from the fans right from the start will be setting Arteta up for failure and against our interests.
Hostility from the fans right from the start will be setting Arteta up for failure and against our interests.
Mark Tobias
Mr. Agreeable
Was pretty sure you weren't from England. Second guessed my post right up until hitting post
Tosker
Does Not Hate Foreigners
which could be why Cazorla is being talked of as an assistant - a fellow Spaniard with a warm and friendly temperament could be an excellent support for Arteta the man rather than Arteta the manager, and would be much better than the manager looking for friends amongst the squad
Kingslayer
Forza Milan
They don't.
Gegen Pressing
Well-Known Member
LVG? Kaputt.
Stannis
Well-Known Member
Already happened in Australia.
A left-wing Prime Mister called Gough Whitlam was sacked and new elections called. The reasons why are complicated and a very long discussion, but there was an economic crisis looming.
Officially the Queen had to have signed off on it, but apparently, the Governor General used her authority but never consulted her, but its bit of a he said she said.
Gegen Pressing
Well-Known Member
Queen sacked Wenger? Plot thickens .
...hmm.
...hmm.
Tosker
Does Not Hate Foreigners
ask instead why the British media is obsessed with them - lots of Brits are like me and think it's high time we moved on, and have no interest in this over the top wedding between two 30+s, one of whom has been married before
tap-in
Nothing Wrong With Me
That would be a great way to help placate any hostile fans. I think its something Santi would definitely be up for and Arteta is sensible enough to realise the advantages.
carlito'sway
Established Member
Agree with both of you. Arsène is truly one of a kind and he represented the club with intelligence, dignity class and honor. Exceptional human being and great role model.
Having said that, and I am writing this as a member of the "Wenger army", he could and should have been more ruthless the last few years.
I am not even talking about the barren years, but the last 3 or 4, when he should have been more decisive with some underperforming players. He is a smart man and surely he knows deep inside he could have been more ruthless. I hope when he write his memoirs he will touch that as well.
Ivan with a gun just out of shot & a Catalan dagger in his back.
Sammy1887
New Year, Same Hate For Reed
That makes Ramsey twice the player Arteta ever was.
carlito'sway
Established Member
Arsène has always spoken highly of Mikel. Would love to ask him one day who was his favorite captain, I would not be surprised if he says Arteta.
carlito'sway
Established Member
Actually, with one yr left on his contract, it may be a good time to sell since he does not show any interest to extend it.
With that money, I can think of a couple of CM's that would stabilize our midfield.
This is one of the problems though, not even Arteta knows. He wasn't even a proper assistant/#2, he was basically a video analyst.
How will he handle adversity? What about managing disgruntled players who are not playing, will he be able to make the tough decisions? Will he gain the respect of the squad(as a newbie and just a few years ago a teammate and equal to a lot of the players in the current squad), because let's face it, if the players don't buy in and turn against you/stop playing for you there is nothing you can do no matter how good a manager you are as we've seen plenty of examples of over the years.. All this is a complete unknown because Arteta has never been in that position, not even at u-18 level.
Arteta could very well turn out to be an excellent manager, on paper he has a lot of good qualities and seems like the type who could succeed in a manager role, but this is a massive gamble. It's not like we've a strong foundation in place for him either where he can seamlessly step in that role, he's the guinea pig for Gazidis' new setup.
Mark Tobias
Mr. Agreeable
Sorry, I shouldn't generalise on your public opinions based on what I see on the news.
Quite right, better question is why do the media think you care.
samshere
Why so serieuse?
Country: India
Exactly, its a coin toss. Thats what I want to say to anyone who think's he could be good. Sure he could be good, but he could as easily be totally rubbish. We should've gone for someone with a history, that would have shown some judgement on the part of our board. Instead the board chooses to shoot bullets blindfolded. Its basically an admission of failure - the only way Arsenal can play good is if some unknown performs brilliantly, the regular way of getting managers who've done well won't work.
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