vantoure
Well-Known Member
This is a good post. However I'll say something, as long as there are people that laughed off consistent top 4 under Wenger, who continue to praise the smallest of wins by Arteta, I'll continue to find it hard to support this manager.I think, in addition to the two categories you have stated is there a third category. I would call those folks realists.
Lets start with your bottom line, a point where we are all on the same page. We want Arsenal to get back into the top four and work our way back to being an elite side again. The differences of course come in with how we see Arsenal getting there, and its where our groupings come in.
We understand the two categories you've stated, so I would focus on the third one. Realists, understand the cards that we have been dealt. The club is going to back Mikel until there is no other option but to dump him. The club have either seen something behind the scenes themselves that give them the belief, or are too proud to admit we have failed again and will force the issue. Now it would be up to that realist to give you their view as to what they think, and that would determine their posting.
As for the other groups, stat merchants (another agenda gang to be honest) and the agenda merchants. Its either they think that their posting on here is going to somehow force the change that we saw with Arsène (highly highly doubt that would happen), or they do not want to be wrong, and will hold their position until the end.
I've said this before, and its really simple. Its completely possible, and very credible, to hold multiple positions on the manager and club at the same time. Having a fluid approach to our situation is credible because the situation of sport is fluid. One day we are celebrating a edgy win against Leicester, the next we are throwing it away at Old Trafford. More of those days are on the horizon, that I can promise you.
You lose credibility when you decide to die for one position.
You may call it whatever, but it is frustrating to see the goal post of what's acceptable change in your very eyes by people who scoffed in the face of evidence of arsenal's financial handicap and kept deriding a manager punching above his weight.
And it really isn't as much about Arteta, it's just hard to accept this sudden volte-face. Now if the club or these supporters admit that this is the new reality and that they got it wrong, but we're on a new project, then the hypocrisy will be dealt with and it becomes easier to throw out agendas