Mikel Arteta: Aston La Vista To The Title?

[A_G]

Is he having a press conference today?.

Probably.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

How does this thread keep getting so many pages anyway?

 

[El Duderino]

Suprised @A__G voted in the thread instead of just posting some tweets about the team.

Dripp squad taking notice of their new target as we speak.

 

[AberGooner]

The biggest damage finishing 8th has done is allow a 5th place to be seen as progress by the club. There should be no difference being 5th or 8th to a club like Arsenal. It's an average season however you look at it.

 

[MikelHadADream]

Make no mistake, if he is backed with another 150m window, the expectation should be a title challenge, no doubt about that. How much did Klopp spend before he got Liverpool challenging for the league and CL?

 

[mpower2540]

The PR machine is back in full flow.

Rival fans' banter about us at the beginning of the season has somehow been used as a framework to justify 5th as an overachievement. The best you can say about him is he's finished about par but that's quite a stretch given the context of the season.

 

[Paperino]

 

[mpower2540]

The biggest damage finishing 8th has done is allow a 5th place to be seen as progress by the club. There should be no difference being 5th or 8th to a club like Arsenal. It's an average season however you look at it.

I'd call it progress if the performances were significantly better. We've spent 150m and we're more or less the same team we were last season. We've scored one extra goal, conceded more, one injury can still completely destabilize the team, our press is still rubbish, our ability to deal with a press is still inconsistent, and sustaining attacks and creating clear chances is still a problem. This is all in comparison with last season which was arguably our worst premier league campaign ever.

Have we improved? Maybe? A little bit? But with a 150m pound outlay we're still pretty much the same team we were a year ago

 

[Rasmi]

Make no mistake, if he is backed with another 150m window, the expectation should be a title challenge, no doubt about that. How much did Klopp spend before he got Liverpool challenging for the league and CL?

2 seasons at 8th and at some point being 16th and the words relegation has completely changed this club. Arteta honestly made us a team that would celebrate like a title. On Twitter a lot of our fans were saying 4th should make him manager of the season

 

[AberGooner]

I'd call it progress if the performances were significantly better. We've spent 150m and we're more or less the same team we were last season. We've scored one extra goal, conceded more, one injury can still completely destabilize the team, our press is still rubbish, our ability to deal with a press is still inconsistent, and sustaining attacks and creating clear chances is still a problem. This is all in comparison with last season which was arguably our worst premier league campaign ever.

Have we improved? Maybe? A little bit? But with a 150m pound outlay we're still pretty much the same team we were a year ago

There was a spell from sometime in December up till and including the City game where I could definitely see progress in the way we where playing. Sadly we've reverted back to type since then.

You could've watched games like Newcastle and Southampton, just to pick out a few, on many occasions last season.

 

[MauveGunner]

There was a spell from sometime in December up till and including the City game where I could definitely see progress in the way we where playing. Sadly we've reverted back to type since then.

You could've watched games like Newcastle and Southampton, just to pick out a few, on many occasions last season.

Exactly. That was a short spell where we could see that there was something going on. That's also when I thought that we were onto something and we could continue on a good run.

But alas, without the whole first XI fit we are unable to recreate that.

 

[grange]

Lol. Read, weep and apologise. I've circled it for you.

Look at #4, you big dope

 

[Rasmi]

Exactly. That was a short spell where we could see that there was something going on. That's also when I thought that we were onto something and we could continue on a good run.

But alas, without the whole first XI fit we are unable to recreate that.

Is this any different from a player who is not good enough have a short spell where he shows potential, but 80% of the time be underwhelming

Since Arteta took over I think atleast 80% of the time we played poor to average football. Even when getting results we rarely look convincing

 

[Makingtrax]

@Riou you think getting back to where he started after 5 transfer windows, £220m and all his own players is a success, when Conte is likely to do better spending £24m and 1 transfer window. Come on bro. Thought better of you.

 

[ArsenesCoatMaker]

Make no mistake, if he is backed with another 150m window, the expectation should be a title challenge, no doubt about that. How much did Klopp spend before he got Liverpool challenging for the league and CL?

Expecting 150M to put us in a title challenge when none of our players would get into City or Liverpool's XI and City have just slammed down £250m on Halaand and spent a billion on their back 5 alone over the last decade. Sounds realistic

 

[Paperino]

Expecting 150M to put us in a title challenge when none of our players would get into City or Liverpool's XI and City have just slammed down £250m on Halaand and spent a billion on their back 5 alone over the last decade. Sounds realistic

What should we expect next season?

 

[Kav]

The PR machine is back in full flow.

This is the one thing I can’t accept from Arteta and the club. The constant PR messages and justification exercises by the club and manager.

The more you try to frame it as a good job the more people will see that you’re incapable of doing a good job. You came 8th last season you lowered the clubs standing. Coming 5th isn’t beyond expectations it is the bare minimum!

I don’t think I have ever seen another manager make such an effort to publicly justify his actions.

Just get on with your actual job of managing the team.

 

[MikelHadADream]

Expecting 150M to put us in a title challenge when none of our players would get into City or Liverpool's XI and City have just slammed down £250m on Halaand and spent a billion on their back 5 alone over the last decade. Sounds realistic

Arteta took at team that was hovering around 5-8th, and has so far spent 200m net, which should have been enough for top 4 this year, especially with no European football.

If he achieved his own goal this year (top 4), and spent another 100m net, the obvious next step would be a title challenge no?

 

[MauveGunner]

Is this any different from a player who is not good enough have a short spell where he shows potential, but 80% of the time be underwhelming

Since Arteta took over I think atleast 80% of the time we played poor to average football. Even when getting results we rarely look convincing

True.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

At least he's defending some of his players.