Finesse
Well-Known Member
Arteta is a very promising young manager and we all have to accept this is his first rodeo. He has and will make mistakes. At this level for a club this size he will always be under the eye of a microscope. Those are the demands of this club. What we can accommodate as progress , maybe is what sends a manager packing down at the Bridge. This is football.
I think he has a very good squad many clubs apart from City , Liverpool and arguably United will be happy with. Rogers and Ancelotti would be squeezing honey out of this bunch. Rogers especially. We are not as bad as he made us look during the rot. It was just bad team management and poor man management that led to a total dysfunction. The team was beating all the worst records in the club’s history until we got a CAM playing. ESR via necessity due to injuries. Then we go 6 games in the PL with 14 for and 2 against ( goals ) . The most in form team behind City. That’s hardly bad players who decided to look good because of ESR.
It was simply relying on players and a system that did not bring the best out of the entire team. Simple. A simple tweak with those players out and the right players played in the right positions and boom the team creeped into form. Now the team picks itself.
I hope he learned from this. The mistake started in the summer when we failed to address the CAM situation in the market , put faith in Willian for that role , froze out our best option for the role and went into the season trying all kinds of formations to negate the need of a CAM or trying Willian to no avail.
Apart from this and some rookie man management issues , you cannot fault the defensive structure and the record defensive stability. Winning games away now has become a smooth issue and we had issues there right back to Arsène’s final years. I have heard he has till the end of the season to keep this afloat to earn the kind of incomings he wants. Hence the decision to tie the purse string this window. Edu will have to work out a very efficient management player structure with Arteta to get the kind of uncontested backing they desire. Simple issues like Laca running down his deal and value again , Eddie same shoes , Chambers , Elneny , etc. When will this club start selling players at the right time , keeping value and generating funds from its assets ? Arsène and DD at one staged earned it and we got behind them at every inch. Arteta and Edu have my backing and I remain very constructive in my analysis despite this. It’s no black and white issue.
I think he has a very good squad many clubs apart from City , Liverpool and arguably United will be happy with. Rogers and Ancelotti would be squeezing honey out of this bunch. Rogers especially. We are not as bad as he made us look during the rot. It was just bad team management and poor man management that led to a total dysfunction. The team was beating all the worst records in the club’s history until we got a CAM playing. ESR via necessity due to injuries. Then we go 6 games in the PL with 14 for and 2 against ( goals ) . The most in form team behind City. That’s hardly bad players who decided to look good because of ESR.
It was simply relying on players and a system that did not bring the best out of the entire team. Simple. A simple tweak with those players out and the right players played in the right positions and boom the team creeped into form. Now the team picks itself.
I hope he learned from this. The mistake started in the summer when we failed to address the CAM situation in the market , put faith in Willian for that role , froze out our best option for the role and went into the season trying all kinds of formations to negate the need of a CAM or trying Willian to no avail.
Apart from this and some rookie man management issues , you cannot fault the defensive structure and the record defensive stability. Winning games away now has become a smooth issue and we had issues there right back to Arsène’s final years. I have heard he has till the end of the season to keep this afloat to earn the kind of incomings he wants. Hence the decision to tie the purse string this window. Edu will have to work out a very efficient management player structure with Arteta to get the kind of uncontested backing they desire. Simple issues like Laca running down his deal and value again , Eddie same shoes , Chambers , Elneny , etc. When will this club start selling players at the right time , keeping value and generating funds from its assets ? Arsène and DD at one staged earned it and we got behind them at every inch. Arteta and Edu have my backing and I remain very constructive in my analysis despite this. It’s no black and white issue.