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Adieu Gaspar
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BBF
Established Member
Country: England
Sebastes
Statbomb Merchant
Country: Sweden
Edu knew
GDeepfanboy
New Member
Country: USA
We were largely injury free last season while City had KDB and Haaland out for large periods of the season and still bottled the title so what's your excuse? And they are now five points above us with even worse injury problems and it's not even December yet. Same goes for Liverpool this season with injuries and Slot hardly spent any money in the window and they are 7 points above us what's your excuse?
Conte's a joke? Nah Arteta's a joke compared to him. He's a multiple times league winner with different clubs compared to a chequebook fraud who's won one ****ing 1 FA Cup with a squad that's not his in 5 years after spending nearly a billion. Even at a joke club like Sp**s he did relatively well compared to we were under Arteta. They finished above us qualifying for the champions league finishing 4th in his first season while we finished 5th under Arteta before Arteta went cheque book mode. When he left Sp**s were still in 4th place and in champions league contention. And he's managing a joke club like Spuds with a joke miser owner like Levy compared to Arteta who's had a vastly superior squad and limitless amount of money to spend with the owner fully behind him. There is no comparison between managing the two clubs. It's like heaven and earth and like playing a game in easy mode and hard mode. Conte overperformed while Arteta's performance is underwhelming. There is no comparison at all when it comes to the quality of the two. I can't believe you're rating a fraud like Arteta above a proven winner like Conte.
And look at him already at the top of the table with Napoli in his first season and we can't even beat a team that is below Napoli ffs. And why would he go scorched earth mode if he was afforded the time and money afforded to Arteta now? If he's had the squad and money afforded to Arteta we would've won the league multiple times already.
Sammy1887
New Year, Same Hate For Reed
DoF's role should shadow over the manager. But with Teta's increasing influence that won't happen and it worries me because we won't get anyone decent or half reliable. Guess more of these stupid Goalkeeper and Defender signings.
Macho
Thinks he's better than Havertz.
Country: England
If I suggest Bruno Guemeres and Paqueta and the club ends up signing the midfielders they signed instead- yeah I would probably bounce too.
Sebastes
Statbomb Merchant
Country: Sweden
A football director’s job is to build the squad. Together with, or with input from the manager, of course.
I think it’s fairly obvious that Edu didn’t have that mandate and Arteta is the one who have built this squad. The partnership thing is not a lie, but how did it look in the end? They can have had a 50/50 say in transfers but in the end, if one guy always gets his way then it’s not really a partnership, is it?
That said, Edu likely only has himself to blame as signings we can definitely put his name on, like Marquinhos etc, really failed to impress.
The one I wonder most about is Vieira. Who was the driving force behind him..? I suspect Edu.
Macho
Thinks he's better than Havertz.
Country: England
Fabio was 100% Edu lol
Arteta wasn't even in the vid when Edu have him the tour of Colney.
Sebastes
Statbomb Merchant
Country: Sweden
Yeah well then it’s clearly easy to see why we wouldn’t go for his recommendations. His track record with transfers looks suspect at best imo.
But I don’t think Arteta should get that kind of mandate either. Even if you attribute all successful transfers to him (which is not true) it still shows a lack of squad building from a long term, strategic perspective.
ArsenalInMyHeart
This is your brain on ITK addiction
Riou
Mikel… Is this real?
Country: Northern Ireland
"...serve a 6 month notice period/gardening leave..."
Half a year of BBQ-ing for Edu on the horizon, you have earned it sir
Half a year of BBQ-ing for Edu on the horizon, you have earned it sir
HagnSprayGooners
@TNAT's Lone Subscriber
Country: Northern Ireland
So he wanted to leave that badly that hes happy to leave us mid season and wait to start a new job? Not sure about that.
grange
Losing my brain cells 🥸
Country: USA
Player:Calafiori
Six months of walking around in his bathrobe? Anybody surprised by the work shy ****?
RunTheTrap
Says Aesthetics Merchants, but really means Trilly
I'm sure there is a high-brow quote that relates comedy and the truth.
RunTheTrap
Says Aesthetics Merchants, but really means Trilly
How the hell do YOU have a fanboy, but I don't?
MikeVinna
Established Member
Very strange. He couldve just finished the season but I suppose the club doesn’t want someone in that job who isnt all-in.
Bagels
Well-Known Member
Country: Canada
Wasn't there the burgeoning narrative that Arteta made every possible decision for everybody, nobody else had any other say in anything and everyone exists to do his bidding? First team coaching staff having so much influence over recruitment seems like the other polar end of the spectrum...
I'd say, and as if often the case, both extremes pose problems.
Country: Bangladesh
Player:White
This is so tragic it’s actually funny.
Imagine being a DOF and getting cu-cked not only by the manager but by the ****ing goalkeeping coach smh
Country: Bangladesh
Player:White
In my experience too many cooks is even worse than one cook.
Bagels
Well-Known Member
Country: Canada
Yep, there has to be some balance. First team coaching input I'm sure is invaluable, these guys have a more direct pulse than any body else. But as a DoF I would 100% be asking what the **** is going on if I can't do my job effectively because a coach disagrees with me. The roles are different because they serve different functions...
It also runs absolutely contrary to the dominant narrative I've been reading on here, so a bit interesting and curious.
