When will Arteta be sacked by

[IBK]

Noone's saying that Arteta should be manager for life, or that he doesn't have his flaws. But in terms of sticking with him for the time being, its a no brainer.

First - are we progressing as a team under him? Undoubtedly. I'll accept that if we'd had another end of the season like last year this could be questioned, but we haven't. Our team has shown a lot more resiliance at the sharp end of the season whatever happens and our results against our direct competitors for the league, and our traditionally strongest local deby opponents has been better than anyone else's. Plus our stats in both attack and defence are the best in the league. If we get pipped to the title by a monster team that has won the past 3 and 5 out of the last 6 league titles and is regarded as the world's best then we still deserve to be regarded as an elite team.

Our first CL quarter final since 2010, and a narrow 1 goal defeat to bayern also clearly speaks to progress.

Second - will we progress further under Arteta? The signs are good. He is clearly learning and developing as a manager, and the speed at which our team is evolving past recent key players - eg Jesus; Zinchenko; Partey; Ramsdale is self-evident. His decision making re our latest player purchases , and ability to persuade our best players to re-sign for the club (along with Edu) has been excellent and our mostly young team hads not reached its ceiling.

Third - is there anyone else available who is better/likely to out perform Arteta at the present time? I would say no. This is of course partly because we are in the middle of his evolving project, but when you look at the names being mentioned for Liverpool; Manure - I don't think we can better our manager.

Obviously things eveolve and potentially can change, but I am optimistic going into next season, however this one now ends.

[Mac76]

I agree, I think the team is really bought into Arteta and if they can offload Zin plus a few others and then recuit well, we could have an even better season next year, but it does / should involve winning something

[IBK]

I agree, I think the team is really bought into Arteta and if they can offload Zin plus a few others and then recuit well, we could have an even better season next year, but it does / should involve winning something

Yes - its time for a trophy now

[Marc Overmars]

He’s taken us to the cusp of glory but he does need to get over the line sooner rather than later. Chelsea and United won’t be in the gutter forever and before we know it the competition will ramp up again. We don’t want to be like Spurs who missed their window of opportunity to do something with Poch.

Then again I find it difficult to be too hard on him now given the strength of what we’re up against and also the fact no one other than Klopp has done much in recent years. I have no idea who could replace him so I’m happy for him to carry on while we’re seeing progress and there’s no doubt progress is what we’ve seen every year since that dismal 20/21 season.

It’s May and there’s a possibility of us winning the league, this seemed so far away a few years ago that it wasn’t even worth dreaming about.