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  • Official: Mikel Arteta is the new Arsenal manager.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

So you want to wait 10 years till we win a trophy?

Artera has been backed like no other Arsenal manager in history. 5 years and £800m later he needs to deliver. How do you know it wasn’t Artera’s idea to NOT sign an alternative to Havertz this past summer? His risk but he ultimately has to pay for it if we don’t win anything.

How do you know it was Arteta idea not to sign a striker? How many strikers moved in the summer that would have improved on Havertz? We did try hard for Sesko early in the window and clearly that move wasn't possible.

Within 5 years we've gone from hopeless to fighting for league titles against basically football's version of Lance Armstrong. We are getting there but our fans need to show some composure and hold our nerve, our fanbase has a nervous breakdown on every blip we have.

      Claudius profligate in terms how we prioritise spending. some things have to come before others. im probably in the minority but I've had this problem with our recruitment priorities since the signing of Ben White up to the present day.

          Gazza M people always say "we needed defenders" in comparison to "not signing defenders", but it should be in comparison to signing forwards instead. Nedding defenders in isolation isn't really an argument - nobody thinks we should spend less on defenders so that we can put the money in the bank.

          Although when I say this, the counter-argument is often that it's not about prioritization, and that we have money available but forwards simply aren't available.

          Although when I'm mad about not beating City, the argument is that they have so many more good players than us because of their money.

            lorddulaarsenal like the 50 mil center back we play at left back that simply cannot play 2 games back to back?

            JazzG ah the old "there was nobody better"

                JazzG
                Mate we were in the Europa League final the year before Arteta took over and the same team won the FA cup a year later. You’re making out as if Arteta took charge of Everton.

                Yes, progress is all well and good but what metrics would you use to define a good season? Challenge again and come up short?

                When does he have to actually deliver or are we just happy with ‘progress’ aka being nearly men.

                    Sicario2 - Tier 1 When does he have to actually deliver

                    Who are you replacing Arteta with sorry?

                    Arteta actually needs to deliver when the guy we have lined up to replace him will definitely deliver.

                    Don't even think Arteta's that loveable, but I've got no doubt he puts a lot more pressure on himself to deliver than any fan who pops off about him "needing to deliver" ever has.

                    He needs to deliver every season.

                        Burnwinter he may put pressure on himself but there has to be something external looking at that to assess where we are and what we need to deliver trophies.

                        He's dragged us back into the conversation of being in the top 2 but he hasn't yet shown he can get it done and win a title or champions league. It's not clear yet that his approach can do that it's still unproven. So when do you assess that to say that last step might be outside his reach and we need to look for something else?

                            awooga83 I don't disagree with you, but I do think there seems to be a lot of toys coming out of the pram in a season where we've had a really tough away schedule, combined with 3 red cards in 9 games which have obviously not helped, combined with injuries to, basically, everyone except William Saliba & Thomas Partey this season.

                            We can sit here and say we should be good enough to cope, but I don't think it's unreasonable to say this season has been a lot. And it's likely that whilst the team is in sticky form currently, we are actually even better than we were last season. So where's your breaking point for getting rid of a manager who is improving us year on year?

                                Burnwinter
                                What he wants or doesn’t want is immaterial. He has to deliver period.

                                Who would I replace him with? How about the guy that beat him on Wed night

                                    RocktheCasbah

                                    No mate. Forget bad luck as every season we can rationalise what we didn’t win. We should rationalise why we will win. We can always make excuses every season. 2022-2023 it was because Saliba got injured, last year it was because we were bedding in Kai. This year it’s injuries and red cards.

                                      RocktheCasbah I recognise that this year has been tough injuries, marginal decisions etc going against us that do make a difference. But that's why I'd you get the conditions that favour you which I think you could probably argue in terms of the team we managed to get a pretty good amount of that for the two years prior it's so important to finish the job in those seasons and win because inevitably it's going to be hard replicate that but least because some of the variables are out of your control. So I look back on those 2 seasons at the moment and think have we missed our chance already.

                                      I think the view on Arteta would be based on do we win something this year. I don't think a league cup is really in the bracket of a good sign but if we delivered that then I think you could make the case that you are on a road to winning more. If we don't win anything then for me the 5 year plan and investment would have to be running behind what we are aiming for and there should be questions about is Arteta capable to take us to the next level.. He's got us here in the mix but there still is a question can he take the final step.

                                      I accept changing managers it's risky but you shouldn't choose not to do it just out of fear. If you want to reach the point is winning things you do have to take risks. I would be seriously considering it at the end of this season if we end up without any trophies and the minimum objective for the next season has to be to deliver one of the big trophies that has to be the target.

                                          awooga83 I think we're all agreed that we're now in the delivery phase of the Arteta project. The new contract he signed earlier this season, I'm sure, comes with the view that trophies are now required for another contract to come his way.

                                          To me, this gives him the next two seasons to deliver them (and we all know that when we're talking about trophies we're saying PL and CL). I do believe the PL is still on this season, despite our early travails, City are clearly weaker without Rodri and I don't believe I was looking at the PL champions when Liverpool came to town 2 weeks ago.

                                          The bigger thing for me is the CL. IF Arsenal are serious about winning this, how do they go about it? I think we've got a lot right, but our attack as is isn't going to get that job done. What's the plan to get it done? Is there a plan? I assume there is, it can't now just be to wait for Martinelli to get to Saka's level.

                                          I have no issue with Arteta being replaced if he has genuinely taken us far as he can (and can be replaced by somebody better), I just don't think this is the right time to be assessing that - not, in fairness that that's what you're suggesting.

                                              Sicario2 - Tier 1 Mate we were in the Europa League final the year before Arteta took over and the same team won the FA cup a year later. You’re making out as if Arteta took charge of Everton.

                                              Yes, progress is all well and good but what metrics would you use to define a good season? Challenge again and come up short?

                                              When does he have to actually deliver or are we just happy with ‘progress’ aka being nearly men.

                                              He took over a club who hadn't won a game in 2 months, had a squad full of players who were quite happy to undermine the manager and not give a fuck and generally the squad was full of garbage players. Is there a single player who left from that squad who you'd want back? You talk about that season we finished 5th, we were like 30 points off top place. Getting into Europa cup final and getting battered in the final by the team that finished a few points ahead of us in the league isn't something to be proud of. We were conceding 25+ shots against teams like Watford and hanging on for dear life.

                                              I'll define the season in May not in November. Yes the pressure is on Arteta to deliver that is fair criticism. What I do find bullshit is this idea that unless we win the title the season is some kind of failure and we should get rid of him, I'm sorry but I'm not having that when you consider what we were up against. The bare minimum for me is being in the title race until the very end and getting into the latter stages of the CL.

                                              Sicario2 - Tier 1 Who would I replace him with? How about the guy that beat him on Wed night

                                              Inzaghi is a great coach but if we had won the match on Wednesday I bet you wouldn't be saying the same...

                                                  RocktheCasbah I think all fair points and particularly in the champions League and Europe Arteta has really struggled in those competitions. To be fair Arsenal have underachieved generally in these but his managerial machine like approach which has done well in the league does not seem to have crossed over to the more tactical battles of European football. Porto, Bayern, Atalanta and inter away we've failed to score and really not looked very threatening so that's something more then a bad day and seems to be more about our approach to these games. Maybe against better opposition that marginal game strategy can come unstuck a little too easily.

                                                    JazzG How many strikers moved in the summer that would have improved on Havertz?

                                                    Are we back to this nonsense? There were half a dozen players who either moved or could have been moved that would have been reasonable or better signings.

                                                        Qwiss being? And how have they performed versus Havertz in the last year?

                                                            Qwiss

                                                            Who?

                                                            Artem Dovbyk? Alexander Sorloth? Serhou Guirassy? Kylian Mbappe? Julian Alvarez?

                                                              Sicario2 - Tier 1 Who would I replace him with? How about the guy that beat him on Wed night

                                                              Go on then. Yes or no, you'd replace Arteta with Inzaghi in the following situations:

                                                              1. Now
                                                              2. Last summer
                                                              3. Next summer (if we don't win the league or Champions League)

                                                                  Burnwinter would look at guys like Xavi, Motta, Michel etc before him. Options exist as long as we continue to build the playing personnel properly.

                                                                      Claudius I'm surprised anyone would even consider replacing him at this moment. We'd have to drop off a lot further this season with evidence of dressing room issues for me to think of it.

                                                                      Beyond that if KSE is not lining up a new coach and structure and plan and spending, all this "he has to deliver" stuff is just posturing. Arteta always has to deliver. I've been anxious about us closing out a title with this playing group since at least 22–23. It's pretty tragic we've only come close twice, but it's Arteta who gets the credit for us getting so close.