Country: England
Player:Rice
What's wrong with that? Arteta finished last season strongly as well so let's not pretend this uptick in form is permanent we just don't know.
Tbf it doesn't really matter Hairspray was actually right in the end, even if this guy completely sh*ts the bed (again) this is just our lot for the foreseeable.
And people will say "no blah blah blah next season is different" but tbh it will just be Bellerin and Xhaka's name being mentioned it's just so obvious.
Well I guess it's just evidence that he's getting judged on who he is rather than what he's doing currently.
Personally I give more latitude to a novice manager, the same way I wouldn't be jumping on 19 year old players back if he went through a poor spell or started his career off slowly.
Well yeah, you don't appoint a novice manager unless you're behind him long term, so barring us being in a relegation scrap with 8 games to go he wasn't likely to be sacked.
If Bellerin particularly is a starting player for us next season, that'll be on Arteta and I'll judge him on that more so than Hector.