RC8 wrote:
By all means sack Arteta, but it's silly to act all shocked when we field a midtable team, tell them to play like Man City, and they play like a midtable team.
I think it's the fact that no one is acting shocked (indeed, that most could see this coming) that is so damning. We've spent so much money and time on this midtable team, and the most obvious template is not Manchester City; it's very clearly David Moyes's Everton. Which makes perfect sense when you think about it. That's the manager who gave Arteta a chance, the side where he spent a decade of his career, it's where his football identity and a lot of his character as a person comes from. He might have played for Barca's youth team and Wenger's Arsenal and idolised Guardiola as a player, but his tactical ideas as a manager have clearly had Moyes written all over them in huge red letters since the first moment he stepped onto London Colney in a coaching capacity. He's even added Steve Round, Moyes's assistant at Everton and Manchester United, to his own backroom staff.
Predictably, he has done to us what Moyes did to United too. The only difference is we've had the poor judgement to stick with him when it was so clear that he's way out of his depth at this level.
