When will Arteta be sacked by

[Niall_Quinn]

So, yada, yada, WHO? WHO? And WHY?

[Letters]

I’m one of these crazy people who thinks that a coach should be given three years and if they’ve not achieved anything of note in that time, it’s time to move them on

This thread contains the parameters I set by which Arteta should be kept on beyond May, and unless something big changes he’s going to fail those tests.

I guess the question is whether they are reasonable tests.
I mean, he's made us genuine title contenders which we haven't been since 2008. Yes, we've spent money to get there but you pretty much have to in football these days and clubs like Chelsea and Utd have shown you can splash money around to very little effect. What I want to see is a club heading in the right direction. I do feel I've seen progress this year - we've passed tests we failed last season. Today was a worrying relapse but Villa are chasing Top 4 and the sort of run we've been on can't last forever. If we completely fall away now then I may join you on the bandwaggon but if we do miss out but make City work for it then I think I can live with that. I do fear given our remaining fixtures that City could romp home and we could finish a poor 3rd, but let's see I guess.

[Marc Overmars]

I’m not prepared to cry about a run of 10 wins from 11 ending. That’s a better run than we managed this time last year. Plus taking 4 points off City and Liverpool is something that we all deemed essential if we had designs on winning the league.

I will hold off on judgement for now because the season is still alive. I have my suspicions at how the next few weeks will pan out but I don’t blame anyone for thinking “here we go again”.

[The Wengerbabies]

Klopp is free in the summer. Time to switch it up?

[dazthegooner]

Klopp won't manage another premiership team he'll probably take a year off and take over at Leverkusen the following season when Alonso takes over when the person who takes over the Liverpool job is sacked

[dostoy]

This is a stupid thread.

He will not be sacked for a few years yet.

[HCZ_Reborn]

This is a stupid thread.

He will not be sacked for a few years yet.

And that’s not a good thing

[Letters]

I’m not prepared to cry about a run of 10 wins from 11 ending. That’s a better run than we managed this time last year. Plus taking 4 points off City and Liverpool is something that we all deemed essential if we had designs on winning the league.

I will hold off on judgement for now because the season is still alive. I have my suspicions at how the next few weeks will pan out but I don’t blame anyone for thinking “here we go again”.

The thing that sets off big alarm bells for me is how confident I was yesterday morning and then how immediately nervous I was after the Liverpool results - you felt that too. And it seems the players did as well. We haven't lost a league game this calendar year - in fact, we've won the lot apart from City away which was a very creditable result. The minute Liverpool lose and we have a real opportunity to take the title race by the scruff of the neck we blow it.

Obviously we were playing a good team, not for nothing are they battling for Top 4, outside the top 3 they're probably the best of the rest. But still, City despatched them at home recently with a minimum of fuss.

I'll say one thing, there are fine lines in football, we missed a few chances in the first half, Martinez made a good save from Odegard. On another day one of those goes in and we might well have won the game. But while we've passed some big tests this year, we're still not quite able to get over the line. I don't think Arteta should be sacked right now, but I wonder whether he can land a big trophy. Not that I would immediately know who could come in and do so.

[Mac76]

I think Rice said they didn't know the Liverpool result until after the Villa game, not sure if that's good or bad really

[Letters]

I think Rice said they didn't know the Liverpool result until after the Villa game, not sure if that's good or bad really

That's interesting. I did wonder if they'd deliberately not found out so it didn't affect them.
Although I wonder in practice how possible that is these days.