Yes. We need patience. It has been a very disturbed year and a half and the squad was in a shocking state when he arrived.
That has been the case for every single club in football and is not unique to poor little Mikey.
We’re adding real quality with the likes of Partey, Odegaard and White. Eventually we’ll have many players of that calibre and who are fit for purpose.
Arteta has shown that he’s incapable of getting the best out of quality players so this is redundant. Aubameyang - once a prolific scorer can’t buy a goal under Arteta’s management. The same Partey and Odegaard you mentioned were largely underwhelming last season. There isn’t a single player you can say has improved under Arteta, not one.
If you were to ask Arteta if he’d like to get rid of Auba and Laca replacing them with someone like Vlahovic he’d say yes in a world where that would be easy to do. It’s not though. Any manager would struggle with what Arteta inherited.
I might’ve considered your point had he not given Aubameyang the biggest contract in the club’s history.
He inherited a squad that finished 5th and reached a European Cup final and turned them into 8th place specialists. Any manager would’ve struggled with that squad? Highly doubt that. Emery did better with that squad.
Ok he’s made mistakes along the way, but he’s a rookie and you’d expect that. Important thing is he learns from those experiences. Appointing Arteta was never about going for a quick fix, it was about investing in his potential.
Arteta is not learning and hasn’t shown signs of being capable of learning. Arsenal should never be a training center for aspiring coaches. We’re too big of a club to continue investing and showing patience with a failing rookie whose ceiling is unknown.
