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Arteta - one more year and that’s it

Burnwinter

Big Willie Since summer 2020 we have the 2nd highest net spend €120m behind Chelsea. In gross amounts we are the 4th highest gross spenders since 2020 but still within €50m of both City and United.

These figures need to be adjusted for nett change in estimated squad value (or some more sophisticated thing). Our squad was valued at about €700m in summer 2020 and is now worth €600m more.

Sicario2

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Sicario2 good interview, and I always liked Ally McCoist.

Qwiss

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert can't stand him on co-commentary.

CPM

Mikel said "Athletic Bilbao" in that, forty lashes for him.

MistaT

Interesting interview.

Seems they must know each other a touch? good camaraderie.

The music seems pulled right out of Succession.

"We're very lucky that players want to come to Arsenal now".

"I see margins for improvement everywhere"

JazzG

MistaT Seems they must know each other a touch? good camaraderie.

Both are legends for Rangers 😉

TambourineMan

Henry is right. He clearly doesn't like Arteta but it doesn't change the fact that he is right. Henry has been there and done it for club and country - he knows what it takes and we need Arteta to start being more aggresive. We have the squad to do it so let's just fucking do it.

Burnwinter

TambourineMan [Thierry Henry] clearly doesn't like Arteta

I don't think that's clear. From what I've seen of his comments past couple of seasons, Thierry's been consistent—he praises what Arteta's achieved but says a major trophy should be expected by now.

That's what most fans think? It's what I think.

And then of course Thierry amps up the tension a smidgen because hey, he's working in media, and he has to act like he respects Jamie Carragher for a living.

There are a few more negative variations out there:

Arteta doesn't deserve praise and never will, he never should've been backed this far, we've spent a kajillion quid on an empty cabinet and man hasn't paid his dues. [Name of Legendary Unavailable Manager] would already have won four league titles with this bankroll.
I'm going to insinuate Arteta should already have been sacked, even though I don't call for it openly or with any conviction.
I don't like Arteta, I don't like his Lego™ barnet, I don't like his ugly bitch mum, it's obvious [Name of Crucial Player] hates him, Salt Bae joke …

I don't think Henry is near any of those.

Qwiss

TambourineMan I think people need to understand the mentality of guys who've been to top of the game and who've won things for Arsenal. They don't accept excuses or second best, their single minded view of sport is what made them successful. So I don't think its a "he hates Arteta" situation, its just that he expects more. Just listen to him talk about pressure "its a pressure that you want". So he doesn't think putting expectations on an Arsenal manager is a bad thing, he sees it as something that should be welcomed.

Meatwad

arteta just has trauma from his playing career.

Cannon

The thing I have a problem with is where were all these ‘no excuses’ people when Wenger was conning the club and the fans for over a decade.

Meatwad

Cannon
even when we were good under wenger he was pulling bullshit like us getting our culos blasted 6-1. i remember thierry scoring to tie it up 1-1 and revealing a message on his shirt (can't remember what exactly right now) and then 5 straight goals from red nose's cunts. depressing and embarrassing shit. that liverpool result might have been upsetting, but i wasn't embarrassed. i remember when mourinho was all the rage it was all about drawing at your title rivals and winning the home games, that's what pragmatic winners did, not wenger though.

shit, i have too much trauma as well.

QuincyAbeyie

Cannon where were all these ‘no excuses’ people when Wenger was conning the club and the fans for over a decade.

Did you miss "Wenger Out" which originated already before he had money to spend?

Big Willie

Meatwad i remember thierry scoring to tie it up 1-1 and revealing a message on his shirt (can't remember what exactly right now) and then 5 straight goals from red nose's cunts.

Bro I'm I remember we had some absolute trash defenders on in that game. For sure I remember Luzhny playing RB, Stephanovs playing CB, and maybe even Grimandi playing as well. Yeah, no way we should be losing that much but that was a severely depleted defence.

But either way, in response to @Cannon , Arsene had a load of goodwill in the Bank by winning us the double in his first full season then obviously another double and the invincible season (even ignoring FA Cup lone winning seasons) and even then he was hounded out of the club with people being Wenger out from as early as 2011 or so.

Cannon

Trauma is the word. Don’t wish to rant about Wenger (you can read my old posts!) but I rather the win the PL with Artetaball than hear praise from frauds about Wengerball and how oh so sexy it was. 🙄

Frankly I don’t care much for Henry’s opinion. He is rich, successful, entitled and totally disconnected from average fan experience. I still get rage when I watch that 8-2 loss to Manchester United and Wenger sitting there like a muppet! Arghhh!``

Cannon

QuincyAbeyie I meant the pundits and former arsenal players who now never seem to miss an opportunity to critique Arteta. I only Tony Adam’s but his were more like rants rather than analysis/punditry.

Big Willie

Cannon I meant the pundits and former arsenal players who now never seem to miss an opportunity to critique Arteta. I only Tony Adam’s but his were more like rants rather than analysis/punditry.

Well for one, that was happening. Merse, Alan Smith and numerous others were on the tv all the time ripping into Arsenal and talking about how Arsene is living in the past and his style of football isn't cut out for the modern game etc, etc.

In any case, you would not see many former players ripping into their former managers on TV, and given Arsene was in charge for so long, almost all Arsenal adjacent pundits on TV played under him at one point or another. Same would go for Arteta if he somehow found himself at the club 10 years from now and the pundits and former Arsenal tv personalities were the likes of Gabriel, Raya, White etc (all those who will probably have retired by 2035 for example). Even more so if he's won trophies with them as their manager.

Cannon

I just know a good thing when I have it and I know when someone is trying to bullshit me. I’d rather have Henry say Arteta deserves a lot of praise for where we are than pile on the ‘no excuse BS’ like other pundits. Maybe he is only saying it because he really wants Arsenal to win it but I doubt it. Maybe he could have said it in a different way, like look at where manager round robin and false sense of entitlement has led Manchester United, but then he too has to get paid as a pundit. How come no one ever talks about pool plonking in 300 mill on top of a winning side and should have no excuses?

Also regarding that 8-2. If we had money to get five players after that loss then we had money to get players in before that loss. Playing Arshavin upfront so we can get Chamakh for free, persisting with almunia because we won’t pay 1 mill extra for Mark Schwarzer, waiting till end of the window so we could save a few weeks wages, these were crimes! Some of you may have forgotten those ‘glory’ years but I haven’t.

RowJimmy

4/5 clean sheets. The only goal we've conceded was Szoboszlai's once-in-a-career free kick. What's the PL record for fewest goals conceded in a season?

Segway

RowJimmy 15. Set by Chelsea. That will be a tough one to beat to put it mildly.

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