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Official: Mikel Arteta is the new Arsenal manager.

JazzG

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Professional pick pocketers? Wtf. Is there a global league? Prob be an Olympic sport in 4 years.

Artera is a mad man. This will bring joy to our rival fans no doubt. Need to start properly winning soon so we’re not some laughing stock.

Mirth

Sicario2 - Tier 1 Professional pick pocketers? Wtf. Is there a global league?

Yeah, any major European train station

Coombs

Seems clear that it's just good fun.

Don Pacifico

Coombs Fun? FUN!? What on earth are they doing having fun!?

Qwiss

Burnwinter if you watch the Amazon doc whenever Arteta starts with his weirder stuff Auba and Laca are laughing at it. I'd say its a big reason they were binned.

Burnwinter

Qwiss To be fair to them, arbitrary pranks like this are adjacent to weird authority trips. Not sure I'd fancy this kind of gimmick more than once.

Arteta has made us more cultish than we've ever been. Good news is it's a fairly happy and successful cult. He still has a wide stripe of that "no, brother, they'll expect one of us in the wreckage" sort of leadership.

Don Pacifico

New contract until 2027 agreed.

HomeSteak

Real talk. If he fails to win anything this year again, will anyone be angry with him? How many season with 0 trophies are you willing to give him? Is a FA Cup enough ? Or you guys thinking it's title or bust for him?

RocktheCasbah

HomeSteak have to see how the season pans out, innit? Personally, I would find it very difficult to be cross with anything in the vicinity of last season. Obviously something around 80 points would require a trophy to make us all feel better.

Clrnc

HomeSteak I am okay for him to stay as long as he wants as long as he don't drop out of top 4.

daredevil

I'd be curious to see a list of managers people would want us to replace him with. Bear in mind, a few years back people were twerking for Graham Potter and Erik ten Hag.

HomeSteak

RocktheCasbah I have a feeling it will be a little down this year, 80 max. So that leaves us the cups, he has an abysmal record in Europe, so he needs to fix that, we are not winning the CL anytime soon. So that leaves the internal cups for him. He has a bad record there as well, but he needs to fix that.

RocktheCasbah

HomeSteak he has an abysmal record in Europe

This is the thing, one man's "abysmal" is another's "about standard for Arsenal actually"...

But yeah, I concede it could definitely be better!

daredevil

RocktheCasbah

Our quarter-final exit last season was par with the Invicible's, so definitely about standard for Arsenal actually.

We've won the Cup Winners Cup and Intercity Fairs Cup (predecessor to the Uefa Cup/Europa League). Not a lot to shout about.

HomeSteak

RocktheCasbah Well his EL League record for sure was bad. His CL you are right, was on par with the shit Wenger served for years.

He has earned this new contract, in my eyes(I would have gone for 2 years + option for one more but ok), but his next one should be subject to us winning us the league or CL. Cups are nice but thats not our ceiling, not that he seems to be interested in them.

JazzG

Great stuff, guy has played a massive role in turning around this club so important he stays longer and finishes the job now.

Qwiss

Nice to have a bit of good news this week. We needed this sorted as if we had let it go much longer a lot of speculation would've started kicking up. Good to have this settled.

Burnwinter

Good news. There aren't any serious people left who want Arteta sacked or disagree he's been doing good work.

I think even if we fell short again this season, it would take a truly dire outcome to get sentiment going against this man.

This gives Arsenal the platform to try to meet fan expectations, whatever they are.

Qwiss

Burnwinter this contract keeps him with us till 2027, thats 3 seasons. I think at the end of that if we haven't won a big trophy we can start asking questions. Right now he deserves more time.

JazzG

Mirth

Great news, when Arteta signed on his remit was to steady the ship and make hard decisions to put us on the right path - he met that objective. I suspect his second contract asked of him to make us a team capable of challenging for the title and routinely qualify for the CL - he's met that objective. Surely now this contract should be all about winning trophies.

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