You can actually understand it from the perspective of Arsenal heirarchy why Arteta won't be sacked. Firstly it was their call to appoint him and make him manager - and I reckon Arteta was in the frame even when Emery was appointed. They will be reluctant to admit their error, and trash their investment in him. Second - the club is in a shit storm from top to bottom. In a perverse way I can see why retaining Arteta at least prevents yet further instability. Lastly, I'm not surprised that they, like the manager, have no plan B, and I'm not sure who could be recruited that would not also present a risk in terms of lack of experience managing at the 'top level' (parentheses deliberate), or what 'top manager' would want to preside over a declining club with no European Football.
They will figure that he can't do worse than he has done this season, and gamble further on him pulling us back into Europa league contention next season with some Summer recruitment.
What is deeply worrying, apart from the obvious issues with Arteta from the outside, are the noises from within the club that he has established a set up of similarly crap or inexperienced coaches that only dance to the manager's tune, and that certain players are deeply disenchanted with him.
It is so typically Arsenal to ignore the clear evidence that Arteta is out of his depth and continue hoping for a miracle that wont come. Bad times.![]()
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
The recruitment even with European football has been terrible, so god knows what kind of trash we’re going to waste money on this summer.
I hope the fans who turn up to the Brighton game tear this lot apart.
Arteta won't be sacked because everyone above him is either clueless or untrustworthy when it comes to footballing decisions.
First step has to be getting someone like a Rangnik (suggestions welcome) into Edu's role - then you actually have a fighting chance of making the correct coaching appointments and recruiting useful players.
That probably wouldn't happen in time to make any decision on Arteta before the season started, even if we got the ball rolling now, but I'd certainly use that appointment (and this disastrous campaign) as justification to bust him back down to head coach again - there really is no need for a "manager" if the guy doing Edu's job is competent, nor do we want one. Aside from the fact that we don't want the guy running the team to have that much power, it just creates too many conflicts and grievances with contract situations - the coach should be utterly removed from that side of things so he can maintain his relationship with the players.
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