Life after Wenger | Ornstein: Arsenal set to appoint Unai Emery

[Kingslayer]

Shaking with uncontrollable rage currently.

Would love to slap @Kingslayer right across the back of his head.

 

[El Duderino]

@say yes **** you you motherfucking **** **** Arteta loving *****.

In tears here.

 

[Gegen Pressing]

Sky trying to get rid of Henry. Nice try.

 

[Tosker]

I'm almost tempted to think this guy has a good point

 

[GDeep™]

I'd take Henry, honestly. If we're going to go down the massive and stupid gamble route - we may as well make the gamble on a true club legend. His aura alone in transfer negotiations etc would be beneficial. Players would want to work for Henry in the same way they want to work for Zidane. Arteta? Not so much.

The annoying thing for me is that I can't do much as a fan except support the new manager - even if I disagree with the appointment. It's impossible to stay in a permanently angry state. At the same time, it's hard to be of the opinion that the club is playing us for fools and to simply go along with it.

I'm sure I will mellow down when the season starts. I'm just supremely frustrated right now with the candidates we are looking at and what I perceive to be the reasons behind them.

Players will have to play for Arteta or he will move you on.

I think a new team and squad will be developed.

 

[El Duderino]

I'm almost tempted to think this guy has a good point

Just changed the (Allegri) to (Mikel) and that dude would sound about right.

 

[Ricardinho]

The club will push on with signings even without the new man in place so there's no rush to make the appointment. They could leave it until the first week of July if they want to. Think this will drag on a while yet.

 

[Highbury_2006]

Which would be acceptable if we had an extensive backing staff (match analysis, opponent analysis, 5 assistant coaches like at City) but we don't.

But we may get such a staff. You know absolutely nothing about how the new staff will work, my friend.

 

[carlito'sway]

Henry the footballer is a god. Henry the pundit/coach is a cretin.

Can't argue with that....I have been saying this all along. He is a joke of a pundit.

 

[carlito'sway]

From Sky Sports:

ARSENAL TO SPEAK TO HENRY

Arsenal are intending to speak to club legend Thierry Henry about the vacant managerial position at the Emirates early next week, according to Sky sources.

The club are undertaking an extensive process to determine Arséne Wenger's replacement at the helm, following the Frenchman's departure after 22-years in charge.

Sky Sports News understands that the leading candidate for the position is former midfielder Mikel Arteta.

We can safely assume that the club is talking to Henry, like they did with Viera, just as a PR/ political gesture. Nothing more or else to see there.

 

[Preacher]

He needs to have experience staff around him, especially his no.2.

I hope, that Baldy and his appointment Arteta will prove me wrong. I don't like it, but I'll support him to succeed and shut up 66% of our fanbase.

 

[Makingtrax]

After all this publicity, image how bad Arteta’s going to feel when they annonounce someone else.

He’s already found a school for the kids and packed his iPad. It’ll traumatise him.

 

[Ricardinho]

Cross seems to think this Henry thing is a load of codswallop

 

[Camron]

To the Yes-voters: if you could get Allegri over Arteta tomorrow, would you?

 

[Ricardinho]

Auto translation didn't really make much sense so anyone able to do better with this

 

[SingmeasongSong]

I'd take Henry, honestly. If we're going to go down the massive and stupid gamble route - we may as well make the gamble on a true club legend. His aura alone in transfer negotiations etc would be beneficial. Players would want to work for Henry in the same way they want to work for Zidane. Arteta? Not so much.

The annoying thing for me is that I can't do much as a fan except support the new manager - even if I disagree with the appointment. It's impossible to stay in a permanently angry state. At the same time, it's hard to be of the opinion that the club is playing us for fools and to simply go along with it.

I'm sure I will mellow down when the season starts. I'm just supremely frustrated right now with the candidates we are looking at and what I perceive to be the reasons behind them.

Agree. But I actually want Arteta now - kinda want to see how that pens out. But would take Henry and Alonso as assistants and maybe Buvac. Highly unlikely but would be a good mix IMO.

Arteta and Buvac to bring City's and Liverpool's style of play into the mix with Henry and Alonso getting experience and mostly as big name figures that command authority and might help for transfers..

 

[SingmeasongSong]

I'm almost tempted to think this guy has a good point

their should be enough to discredit this info

 

[Hunta]

Auto translation didn't really make much sense so anyone able to do better with this

Look at that gormless ****er. Rather have Pulis.

 

[Sapient Hawk]

It seems even Nice is going to get a more experienced and proven manager than Arsenal.

Not to mention one that actually exhudes confidence.

 

[CrypticSaint]

Clearly the board have decided Arteta has shown potential to be a huge success and enough of it to be worth the risk. It ultimately comes down to ideology.

Do you take a 80% chance of winning £10 or a 20% chance of winning £100?

You can make a case for both sides. You could choose the first because the 20% chance of the second option is small or you could say the £10 winnings are small enough that it's better to take a smaller chance of larger money.

Personally I'd choose Allegri over Arteta as it is a much less risky appointment, however the real question is: Is Arteta's potential worth £100 compared to Allegri's £10? If the board have truely seen enough to suggest that Arteta is ready for the role and worth a punt I don't think you can criticise that decision. So I'm not going to be up in arms when he is appointed.