Mikel Arteta: Managerial Royalty

[Flying Okapis]

How getting rid of him isn’t a unanimous opinion amongst fans now is totally baffling. The facts are we are worse than we were with Emery so he has to go.

Be interested to hear the reasoning from @HollandGooner @Rosso @GoonerJeeves qs to why Arsenal should stick with Arteta next season, I dont even have any intention to ridicule just really dont understand the thought process?

 

[Sapient Hawk]

The fact that he currently seems to have a "future" at this club is indicative of our acceptance of mediocrity.

 

[Artisan]

The Casual football fans will still fill the stadium, no matter how hard us Die-hard fans try and get rid, the casuals in london will still flock like sheep to put cash in stans back pocket.

Casual football fans and tourist don't turn up to watch midtable teams with no hope of even competing in Europe. It's more likely it'd be the hardcore who'll see this as an opportunity to finally jump the waiting list and become season ticket holders.

 

[Blood on the Tracks]

It’s more nuanced than that. Being a billionaire doesn’t mean you’ll make the right calls for your business.

I think that's the root cause of problem. The motivations of Kroenke and Arsenal as a competitive football team / fanbase aren't aligned.

I'm sure Kroenke will profit wonderfully financially when / if he decides to sell. The football club will probably be languishing in mediocrity though.

 

[HairSprayGooners]

The scenes when Arteta purposely lost to get the Kroenke's out and Ek in.

 

[Jury]

Can’t believe Teta made old man @Jury open the beers at 11pm on a Thursday.

Shocking stuff.

Only had one Kestrel Super strength before a posse of forum young bucks started smacking the **** out of @GDeep™ It was like being at school, only this time I let the bullying run it’s course. They probably saved me from going in hard.

 

[Riou]

Not surprised.

That’s his former teammate and captain. It’s exactly the same as the former Utd players on Sky backing Ole even when he was having a disasterclass.

Loyal, is our Jack.

Seems like a lifetime ago though when we had Wilshere, Özil, Rosicky, Cazorla and Ramsey spraying passes around like nothing...our build up is so bad now.

 

[OnlyOne]

You have to wonder if the players ever fully recovered from Freddie's managerial disaster, maybe this is what Arteta can't talk about? I feel for him here if the case.

 

[Blood on the Tracks]

Lets flip it, we're all pretty united in wanting Arteta to be sacked.

If he isn't sacked, if KSE don't sell up, both of which are likely scenarios, what do you want to happen this summer and what do you think will happen this summer?

With the pandemic and everything else that's gone on, the club will be in a serious situation and the transfer budget from a "use what you make" perspective will essentially be nil unless big sales are made.

So KSE actually have to invest probably close to £200M to stop the club sliding further. I think you have this situation where we have to go all out to attract good footballers with no European football. That means stupid transfer fees and also stupid wage offers, but you also will need to do something similar to what City did at the start, and firstly attract one big player with stupid money before others are like oh ****, they actually mean business here.

Kroenke coming out and ploughing a couple of hundred million into transfers fees just isn't going to happen though, Arteta or no Arteta. Everything his regime has done so far goes against that. Kroenke has a pretty clear business model for the club.

We'll probably end up with an extra £20m or so cash injection from Stan (Probably leveraged against the club) to try to pacify the fanbase after the Super League fiasco. It'll be leaked to every sports outlet that Stan is investing his own money into the club as a nice bit of PR.

 

[HairSprayGooners]

Kroenke coming out and ploughing a couple of hundred million into transfers fees just isn't going to happen though, Arteta or no Arteta. Everything his regime has done so far goes against that. Kroenke has a pretty clear business model for the club.

We'll probably end up with an extra £20m or so cash injection from Stan (Probably leveraged against the club) to try to pacify the fanbase after the Super League fiasco. It'll be leaked to every sports outlet that Stan is investing his own money into the club as a nice bit of PR.

£20M cash injection would mean £20M to spend unless we make big sales. No European football and the pandemic mean we literally have no money spend from within the club unless we firesale.

 

[Arsenal1508]

Arteta is simply not competent for this job. He may claim he gives his life foe the club, but that is total BS. He gets millions.

No way he can claim giving life to the club vs us fanatic fans who have loved Arsenal for decades.

 

[Arsenal1508]

You have to wonder if the players ever fully recovered from Freddie's managerial disaster, maybe this is what Arteta can't talk about? I feel for him here if the case.

Huh? Freddie was always interim manager and managed just a few matches.

The sad truth is that who have a coach that wants to be a manager, but simply he does not have the ability. Not everyone is cut out for this job.

 

[OnlyOne]

Huh? Freddie was always interim manager and managed just a few matches.

The sad truth is that who have a coach that wants to be a manager, but simply he does not have the ability. Not everyone is cut out for this job.

@American_Gooner

 

[Rasmi]

A video of him saying he takes full responsibility popped up on my YouTube. Don’t tell me it’s from today and he decided to do some pr

 

[squallman]

This is the lowest low I have witnessed tbh.

The lowest low you've witnessed so far.

 

[Rimaal]

No way Wilsh is Arteta in. He's squirming. He said all that he can.

 

[ArtetaOut]

I’m not interested in anything he has to say unless it’s “I quit”. **** off with this BS sweet-talk

 

[GLITCH]

He's the luckiest rookie manager I've ever seen. I cannot wait for fans to be back in the stadium.

 

[krengon]

Say yes was moving mad with everyone those times he was really just drunk off the Arteta sauce, why you think he has so many people @ing now after he was chatting sh*t for months? We shouldn't have let him run rampant like that though.

he timed his exit perfectly has to be said. Right when it was too obvious there was no turnaround, just a false dawn.

 

[Why]

Woke up early this morning to check BBC news hoping he was gone, got an open tab with "Arteta news" I am waiting to flash with something new.

For Kroenke though, I mean he could sell now, make 500mil - 1billion profit, or put in 100-200mil. Would make sense to just sell up and take the profit. He is a businessman and that's good business to sell a depreciating asset for a profit. If he doesn't it's because he has leveraged a bunch of debt in the US against Arsenal... This means we are spending our money, not on Arsenal, but on his NFL/NBA teams players.

Sad times for us as a club. Either way this Transfer window is going to be fascinating.