The Arteta Thread

[Marc Overmars]

Poetic justice at play.....at least for Emery anyway and probably every other serious football nut.

To think we had a considerable amount of people who felt the "great white hope" Arteta should have been picked over Emery in the first instance......I wish someone could dig up the threads lol.

Anyway, like I said earlier, what should bother everyone is that both Emery and Arteta, were the first 2 on the list of a board/owners who had ages to plan for AW's replacement....
at a time when serious coaches like Allegri, Anceloti, Benitez and
Rodgers were all available (at least their quality experience could have been used as some sort of stop gap).

it seems the predictions of the so called doomist fans keep falling in place:

We stop ever being serious contenders for the title in 2007.

We slip out of AW's imaginary top 4 trophy league in 2017.

We slip out of the newly created compensatory top 6 league in 2020.

And now we are not even able to qualify for any form of European football at all!!

In fact when was the last St.Totteringham's day??

And with our demise being as slow and as painful to watch as democracy in a Middle eastern country......our wise "custodians" decide that the only way to stop this slippery slope and secure our heritage is to join a league where we will never have to worry about the dirty word "competition" ever again!!

At this rate, they were probably right on the last bit....

All those names were scoffed at, yet I’d have any one of them in charge now.

It was a nice idea getting a rookie and Arteta does talk a good game but there’s no denying what a failure this season has been. He’s actually taken us backwards, which is quite impressive really considering how poor last season was despite the cup win.

I don’t think he’s a good coach, I don’t see any innovation and I don’t see any particular strengths. I’ve heard a lot of people say there have apparently been green shoots, the shape of the team is better etc, but what does that even mean if we’re heading for our lowest finish and no European football for the first time in 25 years? Whatever way you look at it, we’ve been shit by every single metric. Like fuck am I trusting this process that’s for sure.

We looked like a competent team for about 8 games after Christmas (helped playing the select few teams in the league worse than us!) but the rest of it has been a complete disaster. Whatever good run we’ve been on has been an outlier.

He shouldn’t take all the blame though. The players are not fit to wear the shirt, bar an obvious few. This club is finished for the foreseeable future, it’s hard to see anything changing on or off the pitch.

Pound for pound, I would say we are one of if not the worst team in Europe. So much less than the sum of our parts.