Not sure if managers are charismatic but they need good leadership skills, which was what Emery lacked, and we knew that after his handling of big personalities like Neymar.
Was watching this and was struck by the number of similarities we've seen from Arteta, that I now wonder if we will see a 4231 rather than a 433 as expected.
y va marquer wrote: I was so desperate to see the back of Emery that I briefly, seriously, considered Rodgers as an option. Dark days indeed 😆 When you’ve got the ball 65-70% of the time, it’s a football death for the other team. We’re not at that stage yet, but that’s what we will get to. It’s death by football. You just suck the life out of them."
I was so desperate to see the back of Emery that I briefly, seriously, considered Rodgers as an option. Dark days indeed 😆
When you’ve got the ball 65-70% of the time, it’s a football death for the other team. We’re not at that stage yet, but that’s what we will get to. It’s death by football. You just suck the life out of them."
😆 He was incomparable in that era. The envelope!
y va marquer wrote: 😆 😆 True. I was so desperate to see the back of Emery that I briefly, seriously, considered Rodgers as an option. Dark days indeed 😆 I've come to my senses since then. When you’ve got the ball 65-70% of the time, it’s a football death for the other team. We’re not at that stage yet, but that’s what we will get to. It’s death by football. You just suck the life out of them."
😆 😆 True.
I've come to my senses since then.
😆 geez yes I was in that head space for a while too Y - dark days indeed. Some of the media loved / love Rodgers as well, and he's done pretty well at Leicester. But Arteta already feels miles better.
What the hell is with that huge book? Bloody hell. People need to learn when to say no to the marketing department.
That has to be Photoshop ffs 😆
https://www.football365.com/news/mikel-arteta-one-thing-every-manager-craves-arsenal-community-shield
How long until he is properly linked to Barca? This is my biggest fear.
We may need to extend his contract with us?
He is a sensible hire. Barcelona don't do sensible. We should be fine.
He’s already got one of the best gigs in management.
No top manager is going to Barca.
There is a reason a manager Everton fired is their current manager.
Their squad needs a massive overhaul. They've wasted 500m in the last 4 years.
Financially there were hanging by a thread before the pandemic.
I would normally say yes to all that but Arteta played for the club as a kid so the pull will be different. Not sure if he grew up in Catalonia as a kid as that would make it even harder.
Anyway hopefully something not to worry about in the short-medium term but if he is seriously linked with a big club in the continent say in 12/18 months time it means he has done very well for us.
I don't think Arteta has enough political connections for Barca to fall back on him in near future.
Every source is linking Xavi as the nailed on candidate if/when the next elections happen.
The only club I would be worried about is Real Sociedad if they get purchased by some real money owners.
https://statsbomb.com/2020/09/arsenal-season-preview-2020-21/
This is a great season preview from Statsbomb. Echoes many themes I’ve said before including the need to fix squad age profile, have much more complementary squad pieces (eg fast defenders), and reduce overlap in building the best 11.
The most illuminating thing though is our rapid decline in XG differential mainly due to Emery. Also has great statistics on Aouar. Must absolutely get him. But he is really negative about a Partey deal. For understandable reasons.
I just really do not accept the notion that a 27 year-old is an old player. It's ridiculous.
It’s not that he’s an old player. It’s thst you’re buying a player with no residual value. If we were putting the finishing touches on a title team, that would be fine. But while we are building, we want to have as many players as possible who will grow together in their peak years. And if we make any mistakes, we are free to trade them. When we buy Partey, that’s it. We’d better be riding him to a title in the next 3-4 years. It’s a very narrow commitment. The big problem for Arsenal is that it’s not a one-off. Our team is full of really young players and really old players. With only Pépé in the middle.
So let's add another in Partey. His value will be maintained if we perform well. You can't perform well without good players playing well, and inexperience and potential don't grow together like we imagine. They grow from having the right environment around them. The best a youth project gets us is 4th. We need to increase squad value, and ESR playing with Partey behind him increases his value. I really believe that.
I’d argue Partey is exactly the profile of player we’re missing development wise. Lots of priming young players all over the pitch, a few older heads but very few who are in their prime years. Midfield is the one area that needs to be on point for the whole season.
Coombs wrote: So let's add another in Partey. His value will be maintained if we perform well. You can't perform well without good players playing well, and inexperience and potential don't grow together like we imagine. They grow from having the right environment around them. The best a youth project gets us is 4th. We need to increase squad value, and ESR playing with Partey behind him increases his value. I really believe that.
Partey won't resolve our creativity issues and neither will ESR ahead of him as either #8 or #10. Likewise buying Aouar is also a plan for the future rather than the immediate/short term.
goon wrote: I’d argue Partey is exactly the profile of player we’re missing development wise. Lots of priming young players all over the pitch, a few older heads but very few who are in their prime years. Midfield is the one area that needs to be on point for the whole season.
You could also argue that a player in his prime is needed for getting us into top 4 before the young players don't want to continue their development here anymore.