Mikel Arteta: Aston La Vista To The Title?

[Makingtrax]

The thing that’s stopping us from being an elite team is the midfield. When you sum up Partey + Ode’s inconsistent and Xhaka’s lack of mobility/turning ability, I think it’s easy to see that this is what’s stopping us from consistently dominating game after game. Maybe Lokongo, ESR, Vieira, and Ode can develop to help us out.

Agree. That’s why many of us were unhappy with White and Lakonga signings last year. It’s not that Wight is a bad CB, he’s half decent, just not worth that price tag. And if Arteta had taken a chance on Saliba, midfield is where we really needed the big bucks spending. Might have got top 4 then.

 

[dka1]

Is Gunnerblog is over the top with the Arteta arse licking? I'd think maybe he'd learn to be a bit more subtle about it but the guy is such a dork that he doesn't know how. I can tell he's a proper suck up.

Fo show. He's got his tongue so far up Arteta's arsehole that he can taste the special order meal Arteta had to celebrate the FA Cup win.

And don't get me wrong I've actually been highly impressed with the way Arteta (and Edu) have conducted business this summer and I can't lie the way he's incorporated Saliba and made our defensive line look like a proper unit, great great stuff.

I've also admitted that I may have judged him too harshly regarding his treatment of certain players and it may have been due to inexperience rather than purposely being a d!ck (though I'm still waiting to see how things go down with the squad this year).

It's hard to not be excited. But I still find the over the top, Arteta can almost do no wrong chatter from dudes like him a bit nauseating.

 

[Riou]

Who cares what Gunnerblog thinks anyway, it's not like he is a super respected journalist.

Don't know why people even read his stuff, tbh.

 

[2Smokeyy]

That Arsenal fan put Rory in a spliff tbf. He had to resort to throwing a tantrum

 

[Riou]

That Arsenal fan put Rory in a spliff tbf. He had to resort to throwing a tantrum

McKola and Rory are so painful to watch on these debates, ffs.

Least they have an actual Arsenal fan when discussing us though.

 

[samspade]

Agree. That’s why many of us were unhappy with White and Lakonga signings last year. It’s not that Wight is a bad CB, he’s half decent, just not worth that price tag. And if Arteta had taken a chance on Saliba, midfield is where we really needed the big bucks spending. Might have got top 4 then.

As you might expect, my analysis is different. I think that for a team that plays a high line with possession-based football, quality, mobile, ball-playing cb’s are absolutely crucial. I think you need at least one quality rotation option, and you need to be able to replenish technical level too, particularly with European football. I think a situation where we took a leap of faith on a 20 yo talent who would also have to be our creative fulcrum at the back and one very good partner cb with only decent technical skills would have been a stupid thing to walk into. If anything maybe we should have kept Saliba AND signed White.

With the benefit of hindsight, i think we should have pumped money into the cbs a year earlier during the Willian window and passed on Partey. Then, last summer, if possible, we should have tried to pump money into the correct midfielders.

Part of our problem is supply, the mf positions in a 4-3-3 are specialist and really need to be of very high quality to produce what we want. I don’t think it’s acknowledged enough that you are limited by what you can attract. Liverpool get the pick of the bargains and pay their players very little because they can bargain with their success. Arsenal’s position in the pecking order meant we would have had to settle for deals others didn’t want.

Arsenal didn’t seem like as promising an operation last summer so we weren’t going to be able to do business like Jesus- I think there’s a good chance we wouldn’t have been able to find the right midfielder to invest our 50m in. But I think we’re becoming more attractive again so discussions about premium quality upgrades for mf might be on the table.

I’m not even sure I want us to buy a midfielders as I’d like to see some of our young guns given a chance in those positions. But if I was being ruthless I would probably buy one midfielder, a top quality 8 who could cover at 6 would be the ideal. A player like that is going to be very expensive.

 

[A_G]

Spoiler

Mikel Arteta compiled a dossier of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s misdemeanours before banishing the striker from his first-team squad — defying pressure from senior figures at Arsenal to keep him in the fold.

The Arsenal manager made detailed notes about the incidents, including times and dates, building up evidence before dropping Aubameyang and stripping him of the captaincy for multiple disciplinary breaches in December last year.

Arteta did not relent, despite the likes of Edu, Arsenal’s technical director, urging him to give Aubameyang another chance, and the club terminated his contract, worth £350,000 a week, by paying him about £7 million before he joined Barcelona as a free agent in February. Arsenal were left with one fewer senior striker and went on to finish outside the ChampionsLeague places.

Arteta initially defended his decision to sideline Aubameyang at a press conference, following which he told one of the club’s communications staff that he had kept evidence. The sequence was caught in the Amazon Prime Video documentary All Or Nothing, the next three episodes of which will be released on Thursday.

“That is why I have everything documented with the dates, the times . . . how it happened, why it happened . . . because if one day it is needed . . . ” Arteta said. “He has been late, apart from all the issues, many times. The club has got a tradition. When you get paid that much money . . . ”

During a conference call, one of the club’s lawyers is seen telling Edu and Richard Garlick, Arsenal’s director of football operations, that they were legally “on the back foot” for exiling Aubameyang from training. She asked whether the club had more evidence beyond him returning from France a day late after visiting his unwell mother. Garlick replied: “Mikel has a file, a catalogue of misdemeanours he has had which has culminated in this,” to which the lawyer replied: “It is not perfect.”

Edu admitted that it was “not easy” to support Arteta because Aubameyang scored goals (92 in 163 games for the club) and was well liked by the players. He told Vinai Venkatesham, the Arsenal chief executive: “We have to talk to Aubameyang and to Mikel. He has to come back to the squad and help us until the end of the season.” Venkatesham agreed. “We are going to have to reintegrate him. We have to,” he said.

Arteta made his final decision because he looked into Aubameyang’s eyes and felt the “trust” was not there between them. The striker travelled to Barcelona to seal his transfer — something the club only learnt from social media posts. Arsenal were told by one of Aubameyang’s representatives that the player was in Barcelona for a “private” reason and because his father lived there. Edu responded: “So we live in Disneyworld?”

Hoooo boy @Macho

 

[Hunta]

Spoiler

Mikel Arteta compiled a dossier of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s misdemeanours before banishing the striker from his first-team squad — defying pressure from senior figures at Arsenal to keep him in the fold.

The Arsenal manager made detailed notes about the incidents, including times and dates, building up evidence before dropping Aubameyang and stripping him of the captaincy for multiple disciplinary breaches in December last year.

Arteta did not relent, despite the likes of Edu, Arsenal’s technical director, urging him to give Aubameyang another chance, and the club terminated his contract, worth £350,000 a week, by paying him about £7 million before he joined Barcelona as a free agent in February. Arsenal were left with one fewer senior striker and went on to finish outside the ChampionsLeague places.

Arteta initially defended his decision to sideline Aubameyang at a press conference, following which he told one of the club’s communications staff that he had kept evidence. The sequence was caught in the Amazon Prime Video documentary All Or Nothing, the next three episodes of which will be released on Thursday.

“That is why I have everything documented with the dates, the times . . . how it happened, why it happened . . . because if one day it is needed . . . ” Arteta said. “He has been late, apart from all the issues, many times. The club has got a tradition. When you get paid that much money . . . ”

During a conference call, one of the club’s lawyers is seen telling Edu and Richard Garlick, Arsenal’s director of football operations, that they were legally “on the back foot” for exiling Aubameyang from training. She asked whether the club had more evidence beyond him returning from France a day late after visiting his unwell mother. Garlick replied: “Mikel has a file, a catalogue of misdemeanours he has had which has culminated in this,” to which the lawyer replied: “It is not perfect.”

Edu admitted that it was “not easy” to support Arteta because Aubameyang scored goals (92 in 163 games for the club) and was well liked by the players. He told Vinai Venkatesham, the Arsenal chief executive: “We have to talk to Aubameyang and to Mikel. He has to come back to the squad and help us until the end of the season.” Venkatesham agreed. “We are going to have to reintegrate him. We have to,” he said.

Arteta made his final decision because he looked into Aubameyang’s eyes and felt the “trust” was not there between them. The striker travelled to Barcelona to seal his transfer — something the club only learnt from social media posts. Arsenal were told by one of Aubameyang’s representatives that the player was in Barcelona for a “private” reason and because his father lived there. Edu responded: “So we live in Disneyworld?”

Hoooo boy @Macho

Top stuff from Mikel, £350k a week and Auba couldn’t be arsed getting in on time.

 

[A_G]

Top stuff from Mikel, £350k a week and Auba couldn’t be arsed getting in on time.

Auba didn’t make us put a yellow box at the top of the page. All I’m saying.

 

[Hunta]

Auba didn’t make us put a yellow box at the top of the page. All I’m saying.

Heard it was Jonathan Chong?

 

[Slug457]

It's hard to not be excited. But I still find the over the top, Arteta can almost do no wrong chatter from dudes like him a bit nauseating.

His brother being Ramsdales agent is no doubt a factor in this

 

[Macho]

Spoiler

Mikel Arteta compiled a dossier of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s misdemeanours before banishing the striker from his first-team squad — defying pressure from senior figures at Arsenal to keep him in the fold.

The Arsenal manager made detailed notes about the incidents, including times and dates, building up evidence before dropping Aubameyang and stripping him of the captaincy for multiple disciplinary breaches in December last year.

Arteta did not relent, despite the likes of Edu, Arsenal’s technical director, urging him to give Aubameyang another chance, and the club terminated his contract, worth £350,000 a week, by paying him about £7 million before he joined Barcelona as a free agent in February. Arsenal were left with one fewer senior striker and went on to finish outside the ChampionsLeague places.

Arteta initially defended his decision to sideline Aubameyang at a press conference, following which he told one of the club’s communications staff that he had kept evidence. The sequence was caught in the Amazon Prime Video documentary All Or Nothing, the next three episodes of which will be released on Thursday.

“That is why I have everything documented with the dates, the times . . . how it happened, why it happened . . . because if one day it is needed . . . ” Arteta said. “He has been late, apart from all the issues, many times. The club has got a tradition. When you get paid that much money . . . ”

During a conference call, one of the club’s lawyers is seen telling Edu and Richard Garlick, Arsenal’s director of football operations, that they were legally “on the back foot” for exiling Aubameyang from training. She asked whether the club had more evidence beyond him returning from France a day late after visiting his unwell mother. Garlick replied: “Mikel has a file, a catalogue of misdemeanours he has had which has culminated in this,” to which the lawyer replied: “It is not perfect.”

Edu admitted that it was “not easy” to support Arteta because Aubameyang scored goals (92 in 163 games for the club) and was well liked by the players. He told Vinai Venkatesham, the Arsenal chief executive: “We have to talk to Aubameyang and to Mikel. He has to come back to the squad and help us until the end of the season.” Venkatesham agreed. “We are going to have to reintegrate him. We have to,” he said.

Arteta made his final decision because he looked into Aubameyang’s eyes and felt the “trust” was not there between them. The striker travelled to Barcelona to seal his transfer — something the club only learnt from social media posts. Arsenal were told by one of Aubameyang’s representatives that the player was in Barcelona for a “private” reason and because his father lived there. Edu responded: “So we live in Disneyworld?”

Hoooo boy @Macho

 

[El Duderino]

Spoiler

Mikel Arteta compiled a dossier of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s misdemeanours before banishing the striker from his first-team squad — defying pressure from senior figures at Arsenal to keep him in the fold.

The Arsenal manager made detailed notes about the incidents, including times and dates, building up evidence before dropping Aubameyang and stripping him of the captaincy for multiple disciplinary breaches in December last year.

Arteta did not relent, despite the likes of Edu, Arsenal’s technical director, urging him to give Aubameyang another chance, and the club terminated his contract, worth £350,000 a week, by paying him about £7 million before he joined Barcelona as a free agent in February. Arsenal were left with one fewer senior striker and went on to finish outside the ChampionsLeague places.

Arteta initially defended his decision to sideline Aubameyang at a press conference, following which he told one of the club’s communications staff that he had kept evidence. The sequence was caught in the Amazon Prime Video documentary All Or Nothing, the next three episodes of which will be released on Thursday.

“That is why I have everything documented with the dates, the times . . . how it happened, why it happened . . . because if one day it is needed . . . ” Arteta said. “He has been late, apart from all the issues, many times. The club has got a tradition. When you get paid that much money . . . ”

During a conference call, one of the club’s lawyers is seen telling Edu and Richard Garlick, Arsenal’s director of football operations, that they were legally “on the back foot” for exiling Aubameyang from training. She asked whether the club had more evidence beyond him returning from France a day late after visiting his unwell mother. Garlick replied: “Mikel has a file, a catalogue of misdemeanours he has had which has culminated in this,” to which the lawyer replied: “It is not perfect.”

Edu admitted that it was “not easy” to support Arteta because Aubameyang scored goals (92 in 163 games for the club) and was well liked by the players. He told Vinai Venkatesham, the Arsenal chief executive: “We have to talk to Aubameyang and to Mikel. He has to come back to the squad and help us until the end of the season.” Venkatesham agreed. “We are going to have to reintegrate him. We have to,” he said.

Arteta made his final decision because he looked into Aubameyang’s eyes and felt the “trust” was not there between them. The striker travelled to Barcelona to seal his transfer — something the club only learnt from social media posts. Arsenal were told by one of Aubameyang’s representatives that the player was in Barcelona for a “private” reason and because his father lived there. Edu responded: “So we live in Disneyworld?”

Hoooo boy @Macho

He's making a list, he's checking in twice, he had the boys at legal over thin ice.

 

[Macho]

He's making a list, he's checking in twice, he had the boys over thin ice.

 

[dka1]

Auba didn’t make us put a yellow box at the top of the page. All I’m saying.

Well...well...that is a good point and perhaps an uncomfortable discussion to be had.

 

[samspade]

Auba didn’t make us put a yellow box at the top of the page. All I’m saying.

If Arteta had a ‘dossier’ on this subject he’d belong in prison.

 

[El Duderino]

Auba didn’t make us put a yellow box at the top of the page. All I’m saying.

 

[Heskey]

I honestly can't care less about Arteta or the club given recent events.

This just further highlights what a narcissistic mad man Arsenal has leading them.

"Arteta made his final decision because he looked into Aubameyang’s eyes and felt the “trust” was not there between them"

 

[Macho]

So do they have a dossier on all extra curricular activities at the club or just lateness? Mikel you was winning me over but you look a certain way here man.

 

[Heskey]

So do they have a dossier on all extra curricular activities at the club or just lateness? Mikel you was winning me over but you look a certain way here man.

Mikel was winning you over?