rich 1990
Not A Big Believer In Diversity
Baldie can't get it wrong. As someone said, he's not Wenger, he hasn't got credit to fall back on. Appoint Arteta or the like and he'll get scalped.
The case to why Arsenal will struggle post-Wenger was published a day later on the same website
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/feature...ccessor-a-huge-do-list-and-it-could-be-brutal
IMO it's somewhere in the middle as it usually is with these things
It’s Arteta for me.We don't want Benitez, Ancelloti, LVG types that have been to dozens of clubs, like second hand cars that have got arse dents in the seats.
We're Arsenal, the class club of the Prem. The one who brought in 'Arséne who?' and founded a dynasty.
Let's get some young hungry buck with something to prove like Arteta, Vieira.
https://www.arsenal.com/news/features/20150325/-my-dream-was-to-play-for-arsenal-
Read that interview and tell me he's not basically been a coach his whole career. This is from 4 years ago and he's talking much more like a coach than a player.
All he has to do is coach the team and put on a good suit at the weekend, Sven & Raul will take care of the rest.
In fairness he had to hire them. It was too much for even Wenger at the end. The massive role Dein played should have been filled much sooner tbh. I'm more about judging him on our commercial deals which have a direct impact on player acquisition. This imo was the easy/easier part.Well, I gained some faith this season when they hired Mislintat and Sanllehi. It was obvious they finally had a plan and were laying some groundwork for the eventual change. Those guys have a track record.
I don't mind ruthlessness. My doubts concern his ability on commercial deals and more lately on manager acquisition. I'd like him to be ruthless and tear up our Puma deal early for example. This is where he comes up short.he's shown that he can be ruthless when the situation calls for it
not a nice characteristic, but a necessary one - and tbf he must have been exasperated at times dealing with Wenger
I don't mind ruthlessness. My doubts concern his ability on commercial deals and more lately on manager acquisition. I'd like him to be ruthless and tear up our Puma deal early for example. This is where he comes up short.
I take your point but there are ways of doing things. I just don't like or trust the man. It's sort of irrational of me :confused:I'm not so sure. Gazidis isn't really an Arsenal man, he's just a money man, but he has made efforts to embody the values of the club. Tearing up deals before they've expired to sign one with someone else isn't something that Arsenal do, because they know that it devalues their reputation. For better or worse Arsenal try to be a trustworthy club, I think that's to be commended.
One last plug for Arteta before I change my mind in the morning: he could do wonders for Xhaka. When Arteta was playing really well at the base of our midfield, keeping play ticking along, that was exactly what Xhaka is trying to be. So who better to mentor Xhaka than someone who understands exactly what it takes to perform that role?
I agree with this.Does it not bother you that 9 of the players scheduled to be under contract next season are Arteta's former Arsenal teammates (just two years ago)? Being a manager is an entirely different relationship than being a teammate. You can get away with being something of a friend as an assistant coach, but you have to have a different relationship as a manager. How can they separate that? I think it would be very difficult.
While I've always thought Arteta seemed like a guy who had the qualities to be a good manager someday, we can't be sure. He's never managed a game at any level. And you want him to follow a living legend? That's a difficult task even for an experienced manager. There's a reason Ryan Giggs didn't get the Manchester United job, even with four games as interim manager and three seasons on the coaching staff.
I'd be thrilled if Arteta came back and joined the coaching staff, but with such a thin resume as a coach and no managerial experience, I think it would be an enormous gamble to appoint him manager. I suspect a lot of people are letting their fondness for Arteta get in the way of reason here.
Apologies if posted earlier.
Ralf is another name we can add