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.

Burnwinter I’m an Arteta truther but after Wenger I also know the dangers of holding on too long if someone fucks around. So those are just managers I’m aware of in the event that Arteta fucks around. He best find out

The kind of thing that would change my mind swiftly on this would be if Ødegaard or Saka had a public dispute with Arteta.

For me we’d have to drop out of contention for two seasons, or if we saw disputes as Burnsy states, or if we start losing players like when guys like Cesc and RvP jumped ship.

Claudius Gyokres, Osimhen, Solanke, Toney, Isak, etc We need 2 strikers. How do they compare to Jesus?

Burnwinter if we drop him now we're back to square one. I have my criticisms of Artefacts a, he has his blind spots but calling to change manager now is just nonsense.

Qwiss you know how I compare transfers. Can only discuss Solanke and Toney from this list as they made actual moves. Toney is earning £500,000 a week, so let’s end that discussion with immediate effect.

I think Solanke is better than this version of Jesus, but then you enter the zone of would I rather have a 6/10 player like Solanke in the hand or the money available to go after some of the other targets folks have mentioned in case they become available, like an Isak, Williams, Gyokeres etc.

Qwiss If you're gonna bang on ominously about "Arteta has to deliver" you've gotta have your "or else" ready otherwise you're just shit-talking.

Qwiss 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.

We don't need a reasonable signing up top, we need someone to lift our level or a shit hot prospect. We tried for Sesko and couldn't get that deal done. The only strikers imo who were clearly better than Havertz that moved this window were Mbappe and Osimhen on loan.

Anyway our problem isn't to do with our striker, our problem is not signing a top class wide player but most importantly not signing a top class CM who can control the game. I think Merino will play a role for us but he is more backup than starter imo. I think Odegaard's injury has also exposed that we are short there and we let ESR go and Vieira go on loan.

Gazza M that's the point though we don't seem to cut this kind of run out, seems to follow a pattern and relies on near perfect run to get us back in it which we've managed but it's always a massive ask. You could easily drop a few more points and you're well off the pace and there is no way right now at look like a team that won't drop more points.

Burnwinter

For the record I don’t want Arteta out, hell I like Arteta but I just want some damn accountability. It’s a results based business. Results = trophies.

End of the season if we don’t win a trophy he comes under the spotlight.

I would even take finishing 2nd and winning the Carabo Cup because at least that is tangible progress and gets the monkey off our backs.

Guys, I just hate being nearly men, really pisses me off. Don’t want to be a glorified Spurs which is my biggest fear.

daredevil exactly, otherwise I should drag Edu for not signing Raphinha who has been linked with us a few times and is now the top performing forward in Europe. And I can arbitrarily add any other name I wish to beat down on those guys.

Claudius the job is to sign players, not to evaluate players other clubs have signed. Your criteria don't make sense.

Every player can be signed. If they say no, then you've failed to sign them. The magnitude of that failure is debatable, but it's not just something we have to accept without criticism.

It's a bit weak we didn't sign a dangerous forward in summer, but we went in pretty hard for Sesko, and we likely enquired about others. Olise is the achievable great signing we actually missed out on I reckon—but we would've had to beat Bayern to the punch. Gyokeres scoring one goal from open play against City doesn't at all mean he'd tear it up in England.

Rest of our signings were absolutely fine, even excellent, but we've lacked a settled selection through the midfield this season as well as missing arguably our best player. Kinda like City have had Rodri and Stones out and they've just lost four in a row ...

Burnwinter Gyokeres has a stellar championship goalscoring record. Those normally transfer to the top league. It's proven.

But the topic is not about specific player, but rather the lame excuse that there's nobody to sign.

If we want someone we will get him. We just chose to prioritise areas we thought were more important as usual.

City have the world's best striker and have four losses in a row in all competitions.

Clrnc

A less than 1-in-2 record in the Championship is not a stellar record.