Also a manager who spent a lot of money, yet keeps having this image of a manager doing miracles on a shoestring budget
Somewhere around £700m if I’m not mistaken
Mikel Arteta | Lego Pep watch
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Somewhere around £700m if I’m not mistaken
Well - he sort of is - Lip-y
- Second highest paid manager
- highest ticket prices in Europe
- third highest net spend in the world since Arteta took the job.
They are brutal to watch.
Think the Arteta 'project' is now at a major crossroads again, probably for the first time in a few years, he & the club are rightfully being questioned. This could go either way, and it could go either way quite quick to be honest.
My mate is an Arsenal fan and describes them as a joy to watch. Based on our 2 recent games I cannot disagree more!
I hope it all implodes for him. He is possibly the least likeable manager of recent times IMO.
They sing songs for a bloody set piece coach. They're encouraging this rubbish.
Correct me if im wrong but did they even have a shot on goal when it was 11 vs. 11. Just a dreadfully boring team.
I think the goal was their first shot on target.
BBC definitely showed a graphic at one point in the second half showing us as having had 3 shots on target each, and at that point it was 1-1 and Bayindir had saved the penalty and the header.
I think he is more Gobbi than Lippi
12v11* and no, they didn't.
Dear God, Mikel fecking Arteta is actually the second highest paid manager in the world. Arsenal are a deluded club. Hope he stays for years to come.
I’m saying this every season but I hope he stays for a loong time. He’s the perfect fit for Arsenal. Very big ego and not so much to show for it. A mediocre manager for a mediocre team.
Progression without silverware is what they had.
Now, its regression without silverware but with a 50 million ball & chain tied to their ankle.
Josh thought that he was getting Pep's love child, even down to playing a strikerless formation, which is now, so last century.
Lets hope our Ruben maintains his sense of humility—like when he allowed his staff and players to soak in the adulation of the travelling fans while he walked back into the tunnel alone—as opposed to this B-tech Pep who was at the sidelines, in deep thoughts, cooking up more excuses after the game.
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Let's hope they don't get their hands on Isak.
This is quite the take.
It’s literally what happened. I’m surprised there are Arsenal fans who disagree.This game was 5 years ago and this whole time I just thought it was a thing everyone could see was obvious.
I thought it was fair to question him as soon as he went and signed Havertz and thought he was the genius that could turn him into a midfielder. If you take that summer and just sign an actual top level LCM and another attacker the team probably wins the league last season. Instead Arteta became obessed with solidity and morphed the team into a modern Mourinho side and it's continued to decline with a few key injuries and a lack of any sort of attacking threat with Saka FINALLY injured for a prolonged period of time after playing almost every game.
Shame too. I hate Arteta and his antics but that 22/23 team was brilliant to watch. It's like losing the title to City that year just scrambled his brain though.
After years of benefitting from City's cheating, the shock of being on the receiving end must've been quite a feeling.
Christiansen flies into the tackle from the side and slightly behind, both feet leave the ground (pause it at 0:02) and he completely wipes Bellarin out. The rule is not - and has never been - you can recklessly scythe players down as long as you get the ball. Thankfully, Bellarin's stride pattern meant that his weight wasn't on his right foot as the tackle came in, so Christensen's follows through catches him mid-air. If Bellarin's foot was planted (something Christensen has no control over as he dives into the tackle from so far away) it would have been leg would almost certainly have been broken.
He’s literally on the ball half a second before Bellerin gets there. Your description of this actually pretty wild. Scythe a player down. He takes the ball and gets crashed into by a player that overran the ball. He doesn’t take Bellerin out at all. For me Bellerin is the reckless one there. Very clearly.
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Imagine paying sloppy g 6.5m / year
Only one of the players dives into a tackle with both feet. We clearly have very different definitions of reckless, so I guess we can agree to disagree.
Happy to do so.
The most overrated manager in the Premier League?
Easily
Deserves credit for transforming a side that finished 8th into consecutive 2nd place finishes with good point hauls and free flowing football. However, they are now failing to capitalize on City finally being out of the running. This is partly down to them not addressing the key gaps in the team, but also Arteta failing to find the solutions and getting the team to go again. And in their best period they have totally failed to make any decent cup runs at all.
So yeah, the shine is starting to wear off. Whether someone is overrated or underrated is always a bit tricky, but his results should start to be questioned if they slide backwards this year and are once again dumped out of all the cups.
They won't bin him because that's his and their level. They both know it.
He makes the same mistakes that Pep makes but without the squad that Pep has.
Yea. I'm not sure why he's "Lego pep", every time I watch them they are nothing like city.
Free flowing football is a bit of exaggeration.
Under Arteta 700 million pound spent on five goalkeepers,eleven defenders,eight midfielders, four forwards.
In six years just one trophy won and that was five years ago when the Quarter final,Semi final and final was played behind closed doors in that competition.
Yeah, I don’t think so. In the 22/23 and 23/24 seasons they were pretty good to watch. Got around 90 goals in each of them. Especially in the first of those years they were good to watch with Ødegaard, Saka, Martinelli, etc. playing some good stuff.
Next season, if City and Liverpool both fail, Arteta will be right there to take advantage.
If he has any sense, he should just rotate and manage his squad, and focus on the Champions League instead (not likely but still their best bet for a trophy this season), instead of running the likes of Odegaard, Gabriel, Saliba into ground like he did with Saka. They aren't beating Pool to the title with the current available squad, and as Thomas Frank said Pool's football is levels above of theirs and City's anyway.
By the end of the season his name should autocorrect to Lateta.
They played some decent stuff at times, though how much was it having Saka, Martinelli and Odegaard all in great form and being able to play most games, and how much of it was systemic, I'm not quite sure and this season seems to indicate the former. But they did have a spell where they were more fun to watch than the current dross, before they switched to Set Piece FC.
He's becoming more and more like Tony Pulis as the days go by. It's like some sort of weird metamorphosis - his team play like stoke so be needs to take on his mannerisms so it remains authentic