i agree, if you look at Odegaard, he started with us looking really fresh and able to create things but he's now been completely neutered and that has to be Arteta micro-managing him into a boxOriginally Posted by Marc Overmars
i agree, if you look at Odegaard, he started with us looking really fresh and able to create things but he's now been completely neutered and that has to be Arteta micro-managing him into a box
i'm not such a fan - if people are going to say it's easy for Pep to do well at Citeh and Barca, doesn't the same apply to Zidane at Real?
I am genuinely worried for us right now for the exact reason you raise there: who do we trust to make the next appointment? Vinnai? A man who got grifted by a fake Chinese car company and didn’t have the integrity to resign after the ESL fiasco. Edu? a TD with worrying links to a super agent, who needs to share his role with a manager because he’s either not up to it or isn’t trusted. The board, aka Stan, Josh, Tim Lewis and Lord Harris? Because that’s it - that right there is the entire leadership structure of this club! And if KSE are genuinely considering selling then they’re not going to give any kind of shit about fixing it. Terrifying.
Honestly, I’d love to believe that we’ve been planning ahead for this, and already have a carefully considered list of candidates drawn up, but I think we all know that the approach to finding a new coach is going to be to pick up the phone to as many agents as possible and see who they can send us.
No doubt Arteta will be in charge in next season. I don’t even think he’s under any pressure or being held to account if I’m honest. That speaks volumes to the absolute mess at executive level.
I suspect next season will be make or break for him with the fans back, he’s been very lucky to avoid that heat from the fans. I imagine he will be gone by Christmas if it’s a repeat of this seasons start.
I don’t see much prospect of a coaching change until fans are back in numbers.
When they are, it will get very ugly because the only change we are likely to see will be that forced by the fan base.
If you don’t send this signature to ten people, you will become a Spurs fan.
100% he overthinks things. You can hear it with some of the things he says, like a couple of days ago when he suggested that Martinelli works better with a passer like Xhaka behind him at LB?! Sure, if you have a clever runner and potential goal-scorer like Martinelli, then supply will be an advantage, but you can’t allow your thinking to become so siloed that that’s the only option you see. And I think he does that a lot - he’s so focussed on combination-play that he’s become a little obsessed with complimentary pairings, and ends up constantly tinkering with the side to adapt to absentees...
I wonder if the club are quickly rethinking their stance on allowing 10k fans back for hte final game of the season.
Could be a bloodbath
It starts at the very top, with Stan and family in charge there will be no accountability for the employees below them, they (Stan & Co) simply don't and won't give a shit unless the club starts losing money.
The team selection, tactics and performance are a reflection of the manager. We all saw what happened last night, the players don't appear to believe in what Arteta's trying to do and the performance highlighted that.
I like Arteta as a person but it was a massive risk taking on a manager who had never managed any team, never mind a club like Arsenal.
Where this will all end I have no idea, what I do know is that unless Arsenal is owned by someone who actually cares for what Arsenal stands for as a club, it's ambitions and it's fan then nothing will change.
The executive structure should be CEO (Vinnai) > Technical Director (Edu) > Manager (Arteta), but can you honestly see Vinnai or Edu standing up to Arteta? He's clearly the dominant voice out of the three. The first moves we make have to be upgrading those first two - until we have someone competent at the top any manager we bring in will be totally free to call the shots with no standards, accountability or opposition.
If Arteta survives the summer then the start of next season is going to be really ugly. Anything less than a fast start and the fans will be on him straightaway, and, given the sheer number of personnel changes we're looking at, that fast start seems massively unlikely...
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