How good is Arteta? In truth, I think managers are defined by the history that happens around them. This was certainly true for Wenger in his early days, who inherited half of a top squad that had just had Dennis Bergkamp added to it through David Dein's efforts. Where is Arteta's David Dein?
If we win the FA Cup under Arteta, people will start to talk about him as building something. If we don't his position will be tenuous. So there's a lot on him at this moment.
To me he seems to be the right type of manager for where we are at the moment. Tactically he may be weak, but it's hard to draw the line between a manager's tactical nous and the material he has to work with. I appreciate Arteta's steadiness, charisma and humility. He's capable of projecting the image of a club in a slow process of reconstruction to the outside world, and that's something we definitely need.