Mikel Arteta: Aston La Vista To The Title?

[Oxeki]

Where do we go from here?

Are the owners going to piss another 150m on the wall again?

The biggest mistake this club has ever made was giving Arteta that extension. It wasn't a bad thing in and of itself but they should have waited for the season to end and evaluated before making any decision. Now we can't sack. The club have no choice but to invest another gargantuan amount in the summer or else the manager will be a sitting duck. What even makes that decision even look worse now is that he was offered that extension after 3 consecutive losses.

This situation just creates apathy next season. This feels even worse than the Emery dark days.

 

[Malky]

Arteta's not in top 4. The fact is he's failed from a coaching perspective. He’s not improved the defence, he’s not improved the team going forward and the style of play is still rigid and horrible to watch.

I don't know if the club can keep out investing City for this guy, but they're wasting their money..

2.5 years with all that money spent and him not improving us defensively is a disgrace. Considering we no longer play exciting attacking football having a solid defensive setup should be the bare minimum of his coaching.... and he's failed.

 

[MikelHadADream]

2.5 years with all that money spent and him not improving us defensively is a disgrace. Considering we no longer play exciting attacking football having a solid defensive setup should be the bare minimum of his coaching.... and he's failed.

The vast majority of his signings have been defensive players as well lmao. Going to lose it when he spends 100m on fullbacks and CBs when he decides he doesn't like Nuno or Saliba.

 

[Malky]

Where do we go from here?

Are the owners going to piss another 150m on the wall again?

The biggest mistake this club has ever made was giving Arteta that extension. It wasn't a bad thing in and of itself but they should have waited for the season to end and evaluated before making any decision. Now we can't sack. The club have no choice but to invest another gargantuan amount in the summer or else the manager will be a sitting duck. What even makes that decision even look worse now is that he was offered that extension after 3 consecutive losses.

This situation just creates apathy next season. This feels even worse than the Emery dark days.

Arteta knows he's untouchable here. No manager gets an extension after 3 straight defeats in the manner we did, but yet here we are.
Arteta talked some bollocks about changing the culture when he took over. So how does getting rewarded for failure change any ****ing culture?

 

[Macho]

Where do we go from here?

Are the owners going to piss another 150m on the wall again?

If we're sticking with Arteta then yeah there's no choice.

The squad isn't what it should be whether we like Arteta or not. I said last summer I didn't want him to spend any money and he should be sacked, but that's what we've done and we're kind forced to go through with this now.

 

[krengon]

Unacceptable numbers

 

[MikelHadADream]

Unacceptable numbers

These are all kids that are playing basically their first season as consistent starters (second for Saka) and an absolutely finished player who wasn't great to begin with. They were always going to have spells like this.

The decision to spend the majority of the money on keepers and defensive players is what cost us this season, not these guys.

 

[Makingtrax]

Unacceptable numbers

Yeah, but if you take his number between 20th April and 8th May we’re top of league.

 

[Macho]

Unacceptable numbers

They can't even rope Pepe into this since he hasn't started since October

Yeah all those guys should be ashamed, terrible terrible people.

 

[A_G]

Unacceptable numbers

Aubameyang: 13g, 1a in 22 appearances

 

[<<reed>>]

Unacceptable numbers

If you twerk for "the youngest squad in the league" trophy, don't cry about the kids producing subpar numbers.

Bonus: Tuchel finished in Top 4 last season with Jorginho as their top goal scorer, who scored 7 pens.

 

[krengon]

The decision to spend the majority of the money on keepers and defensive players is what cost us this season, not these guys.

yeah I thought we ****ed up in the summer window and nothing I've seen this season changes my mind on that. We'd have been much better off making more offensive signings.

 

[GLITCH]

What did he actually do that deserves a mention?

I can mention a few things... like taking Sp**s out of competition on purpose, exiting domestic cups early, getting to one game a week, whining about not being good enough and offering himself up to PSG before stumbling into the top four because of our ****ups.

Elitness.

Quite honestly, I agree with what you've said. He steadied them, and made them more resilient, but had we done our bit, I doubt he'd be getting much praise. Instead, we gift-wrapped 4th place.

 

[Oxeki]

If we're sticking with Arteta then yeah there's no choice.

At what point do you think Josh would pull the plug?

 

[Jasard]

At what point do you think Josh would pull the plug?

It'll be when the fans in the stadium turn I imagine. I think they're some way off that

 

[<<reed>>]

Henry would never

 

[Paperino]

What a tw@t.

 

[A_G]

At what point do you think Josh would pull the plug?

Look on the bright side, if it goes tits up next season they have a 6 week break without any games due to the World Cup where they can make a change.

 

[Jasard]

Look on the bright side, if it goes tits up next season they have a 6 week break without any games due to the World Cup where they can make a change.

I'm really interested in how the world cup changes the dynamic. Will we get players putting in 80% so they don't get injured?

 

[El Duderino]

Aubameyang: 13g, 1a in 22 appearances

And one visit to his sick mum's home in France is all it took.