Quote Originally Posted by IBK View Post
What do you regard as personal skills? In a football manager context these have to be skills that get your players playing for you; trusting you; working as a team and believing in the project. It is self-evident that this is happening at our club. What All or Nothing does show is that the collective is everything for Arteta, and there has been a profound culture change in terms of the players seeing themselves as part of a unit. You don't have to be the warmest personality to get the best out of most people - you just need to show that you care. AW in his later years created a Colney creche where players were far too comfortable, and where did that get us? Look at the age profile of our squad. Plenty of young players who generally require more nurturing than more seasoned profesionals, and they look happy. What more do you want?

As for Aubameyang, IMO Arteta did the rigth thing. If the player felt humiliated, then he shouldn't have taken the piss by thinking he was outside the rules that apply to everyone else. Particularly as club captain and someone the other players looked up to. By all accounts he was a serial offender. What was the manager supposed to do if he refused to fall into line?
I can tell you from personal experience what it’s like to be treated like that, the thing is you have absolutely no idea what the reasons were for him coming back a day later than agreed. We know already that Auba’s mum has been ill, and it doesn’t matter how much you earn you still have human feelings. Arteta doesn’t confront the situation head on he’s going on about all these notes he’s kept of when Auba has been late for training and to me it gives every impression of trying to justify his treatment of a player who is out of form.
Arteta cannot seem to handle players who have big reputations and cannot handle anyone who might question his dictatorial bull suit and passive aggressive personality. But isolating someone and making them come in for pointless training by himself was simply an attempt to humiliate a player he had no interest in using anymore. It forms a pattern of behaviour and it suggests that it will happen again to other players. Arteta is simply hoping that if he continues building a team of players who won’t think for themselves he won’t eventually lose the dressing room.
It’s utterly toxic behaviour and three wins against teams we should be beating doesn’t change that. I went into All or Nothing with an open mind but it utterly cemented to me how Arteta should not be in this job and his inability to deal with people on a human level is why. This goes beyond the hubris of this tactical set up and his transfer philosophy.
I genuinely don’t think the guy is in his right mind, and I hope the board intervenes to relieve him of his post when invariably things go bad (and I just cannot see how they won’t….you’ve got all the ingredients for disaster there)