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Official: Mikel Arteta is the new Arsenal manager.

Claudius

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I’m sad about how things ended for him here. I actually worry. As much as we pine for an AM, since Emery, all of Mkhi, Ozil, Iwobi, Ramsey have failed here. What is the next AM going to do differently?

Meatwad

i think that says more about serie a.

Claudius

He was good in Bundesliga and struggled in United and Arsenal when both clubs were highly turbulent. Going to Serie A is not a guarantee of success. Ask Eriksen, Pedro and Sanchez, for example. Mkhi is a player who can be highly productive in the right environment

Clrnc

I think he suits Serie A, but Mkhi was criminally underrated here by a lot of people too.

He is hit and miss and very annoying on his bad day, but he is also a productive player.

Qwiss

Meatwad wrote:
i think that says more about serie a.

Just what I was thinking.

jones

How come Eriksen who was much better can't buy a start at Inter then.

Mkhitaryan has always been extremely streaky but he's on a red hot patch at the moment, taking shots at goal with either foot from 30 yards out shows you a player who's as confident as he's ever been right now. His last season at Donetsk and his second at Dortmund were similar.

Big Willie

jones wrote:
How come Eriksen who was much better can't buy a start at Inter then.

Mkhitaryan has always been extremely streaky but he's on a red hot patch at the moment, taking shots at goal with either foot from 30 yards out shows you a player who's as confident as he's ever been right now. His last season at Donetsk and his second at Dortmund were similar.

He's a good player like you said. Seems like a flaky version of Bruno to be honest. End product player with goals and assists and forcing things to happen. Problem is Mkhi joined a very inconsistent team at Arsenal who just sacked Wenger and were chopping and changing formations under Emery. He had a similar time at United.

I really wanted him to join us when he was at Dortmund and was pissed when United got him. I was also happy when we signed him even though he didn't have a good time here (he definitely wouldn't be doing well with us under current circumstances either).

Despite that there is still a good player that can work within the right team like he is now.

Qwiss

Wenger said something a couple of months ago about players who play when you are winning 2-0. I think Mhki is that kind of player, fine when everythings going right but when the chips are down you can never rely on him. Wenger of course was talking about the current team and my immediate thought was Ceballos.

Claudius

Is that true of Ceballos though? He was one of our best players in operation restart.
And each time he's come off the bench recently, he's seemed like one of our more aggressive players, trying to get play flowing.

Big Willie

Apparently Arteta's quotes regarding the % chance of winning stat came from our own statisticians and "takes into consideration a number of factors including chances created and possession in relation not just to current form but the entire history of the Premier League".

Dunno what's worse, that our statisticians are somehow coming up with arbitrary stats like this or the fact that Arteta is using this to justify recent results.

Claudius

Liverpool have all kinds of random stats like this and people call them brilliant because they're using it all well and winning.

The only problem here is Arteta can't coach. I wouldn't care if he went out and sang for his press conferences if we were winning.

AAStyle

I don't know if this was reported before but here it goes:

“There are people that are very contagious and can transmit a certain level of energy,” he said, in an acknowledgement of the dressing room splits which have undermined his efforts to rebuild.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/soccer-news/mikel-arteta-divides-players-categories-23203566

He is basically accepting that the dress room is splitted and that there are toxic characters. In my opinion, the fact that he is stating this publicly shows that he has completely lost it.

Big Willie

Claudius wrote:
Liverpool have all kinds of random stats like this and people call them brilliant because they're using it all well and winning.

The only problem here is Arteta can't coach. I wouldn't care if he went out and sang for his press conferences if we were winning.

Last year we won the game against Everton with a 25 per cent chance of winning, you win 3-2. Last weekend, it was a 67 per cent chance of winning, and a nine per cent chance of losing, and you lose. Three per cent against Burnley and you lose, seven per cent against Spurs, and you lose

Seriously Claude, this has to be some of the most contrived set of stats I've ever seen. How would they even come up with something like that? It goes against everything we've seen with our own eyes in the games.

QuincyAbeyie

Big Willie wrote:
Arteta wrote:
Last year we won the game against Everton with a 25 per cent chance of winning, you win 3-2. Last weekend, it was a 67 per cent chance of winning, and a nine per cent chance of losing, and you lose. Three per cent against Burnley and you lose, seven per cent against Spurs, and you lose

Seriously Claude, this has to be some of the most contrived set of stats I've ever seen. How would they even come up with something like that? It goes against everything we've seen with our own eyes in the games.

Damn, Arteta really going hard in his pre-match interview:

Big Willie

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Big Willie wrote:
Seriously Claude, this has to be some of the most contrived set of stats I've ever seen. How would they even come up with something like that? It goes against everything we've seen with our own eyes in the games.

Damn, Arteta really going hard in his pre-match interview:

Damn you Quincy. I actually thought that was a link to a new press conference with Arteta hitting out at everyone.

Claudius

The numbers don't lie. That's all Arteta's trying to say.

Big Willie

Claudius wrote:
The numbers don't lie. That's all Arteta's trying to say.

I don't think there's any truth in what he or the numbers are saying.

QuincyAbeyie

Claudius wrote:
The numbers don't lie. That's all Arteta's trying to say.

Numbers lie all the time because people use them the wrong way. Correlation vs causation etc.

Claudius

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Claudius wrote:
The numbers don't lie. That's all Arteta's trying to say.

Numbers lie all the time because people use them the wrong way. Correlation vs causation etc.

I’m just echoing your lunatic video

Big Willie

You actually watched it? As soon as I saw it wasn't Arteta I turned it off in disappointment.

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