Ricky1985 wrote:See, when you have a frankenstein squad littered with poor players, ill-suited to any one type of football, you're always plugging holes somewhere in the team. Robbing peter to pay paul. Just as it has been for 10 long years at Arsenal.
But let's pretend it's all Arteta and his ineptitude. Then it's really easy to solve our problems, we just get a new coach and "prime" Aubameyang and the 20-goal man Pépé will start tearing teams to pieces.
I think that's far more likely to happen than Arteta suddenly turning into a top manager personally.
Look, you can't blame everything on whoever came before him when the issues we encounter every weekend are of his own making. Just today Xhaka signed a new contract despite being 29 in a month and having two years left to go on his old deal. That's the new midfield signing who's going to make us great again, after playing virtually every minute (barring suspensions) of the last four years that have taken us out of Champions League and now out of Europe altogether.
Every era of a club has a player that defines it, and Xhaka defines these last 5 years of Arsenal just like Fellaini used to define the post-Ferguson years for Manchester United. Any manager who extends him when his current deal already takes him into his 30s is clearly a fucking idiot.
Everything good about this Arsenal squad was already here when Arteta arrived, and a constantly injured and underperforming Partey aside he has added nothing of value since. He has just burdened us with more of the kind of players we were desperate to get rid off: old, overpaid, no-talented footballers who have no right to play for a club at this level. It's not just incompetence: we're being managed by con artists and grifters whose only quality is that they know how to advertise themselves. We're living through the episode of The Simpsons where a bloke turns up and sells them a monorail.
