Arsenal

[TorontoYid]

Well done for being brave and backing an ex-player. Let's hope he's as succesful as our former legend Tim Sherwood.

I just hope Arsenal get to play European football next season. 2 league matches against Swansea

 

[yankspurs]

Ozil was absolutely correct to speak up about it, it's Arsenal that are the disgrace.

And the NBA(and all their players) who chose China and money over democracy while also trying to seem ultra progressive. DIsgusting, hypocritical and completely unsurprising.

 

[JCRD]

I actually think Arteta would do a good job, he will definitely improve them although it is a low bar.

Vieira on the other hand would not be that great for them.

 

[nailsy]

I actually think Arteta would do a good job, he will definitely improve them although it is a low bar.

Vieira on the other hand would not be that great for them.

I don't know how anyone can say he'd improve them when he's literally got no managerial experience.

 

[JCRD]

I don't know how anyone can say he'd improve them when he's literally got no managerial experience.

Coaching and management are two different things. though...

You can coach a team into playing better being better and even adopt some form of tactic... He will have learnt a great deal fromworking under and with Pep. Id also argue that he seems quite an intelligent cerebral kinda guy... you can tell by how he played on the pitch too.

Now I never said he will sort the club out, i think that will take a fair while but to improve on the pitch? Yeah I think he will do something to improve them...

Time will tell but cant be too dismissive

 

[McFlash]

Coaching and management are two different things. though...

You can coach a team into playing better being better and even adopt some form of tactic... He will have learnt a great deal fromworking under and with Pep. Id also argue that he seems quite an intelligent cerebral kinda guy... you can tell by how he played on the pitch too.

Now I never said he will sort the club out, i think that will take a fair while but to improve on the pitch? Yeah I think he will do something to improve them...

Time will tell but cant be too dismissive

My main concern would be that he has the ability and intelligence, but not the personality or passion.
Its gonna take some big balls to walk into that club and get any form of respect from that bunch of players, especially at a young age.

 

[rossdapep]

Coaching and management are two different things. though...

You can coach a team into playing better being better and even adopt some form of tactic... He will have learnt a great deal fromworking under and with Pep. Id also argue that he seems quite an intelligent cerebral kinda guy... you can tell by how he played on the pitch too.

Now I never said he will sort the club out, i think that will take a fair while but to improve on the pitch? Yeah I think he will do something to improve them...

Time will tell but cant be too dismissive

I'd argue it's much more the other way.

Being an excellent coach is advantagous but it does not take into account the following.

Team selection
Player management
Opposition preparation
Game to game preparation
Squad management
Player morale and frictions
Maintaining morale and harmony - in Arsenal's case boosting morale
Delegating
etc etc

Its why some excellent coaches fall by the wayside as they are unable to do all the other things so well.

It's great being able to tell a player what they are doing wrong and how they can do better but stepping up and managing everything else is really really tough.

 

[JCRD]

My main concern would be that he has the ability and intelligence, but not the personality or passion.
Its gonna take some big balls to walk into that club and get any form of respect from that bunch of players, especially at a young age.

Well not sure if it concerns us because we wnat them to do well or not haha

I catch your drift though... he does seem an emotionless person but who knows maybe that passion etc will come out when he is more involved in a team...

It will be very interesting to see what happens

 

[philll]

Can we all just agree that we want him to be an unmitigated disaster? Or at least bad enough that he keeps his job but doesn't threaten the top third of the table.

 

[McFlash]

Well not sure if it concerns us because we wnat them to do well or not haha

I catch your drift though... he does seem an emotionless person but who knows maybe that passion etc will come out when he is more involved in a team...

It will be very interesting to see what happens

Yeah, I'm thinking that the players they have, just wont respond well to a young, inexperienced manager coming in and trying to change things.
I may well be wrong but while they've got the likes of Ozil, Luiz et al, it's a tough nut to crack.

 

[muppetman]

I know old Shteve isn't well thought of these days but saw this and thought it was pretty sensible - will the players respond to Arteta to do the work involved though?

 

[JCRD]

I'd argue it's much more the other way.

Being an excellent coach is advantagous but it does not take into account the following.

Team selection
Player management
Opposition preparation
Game to game preparation
Squad management
Player morale and frictions
Maintaining morale and harmony - in Arsenal's case boosting morale
Delegating
etc etc

Its why some excellent coaches fall by the wayside as they are unable to do all the other things so well.

It's great being able to tell a player what they are doing wrong and how they can do better but stepping up and managing everything else is really really tough.

He will have people around him who will help with all that and certainly putting into practice what he has learnt will be tough.

It is a huge risk but think lots of people are being too dismissive and that is dangerous. Actually its not dangerous because no matter what we think it wont alter the success of Arteta.

Lampard did well at Derby and whilst it is Derby, the Championship is a tough league but its how he adapted to Management. Im not sure if he had coaching experience beforehand but he has done well. I suspect Arsenal are looking at that and hoping Arteta would replicate that

 

[nailsy]

Coaching and management are two different things. though...

You can coach a team into playing better being better and even adopt some form of tactic... He will have learnt a great deal fromworking under and with Pep. Id also argue that he seems quite an intelligent cerebral kinda guy... you can tell by how he played on the pitch too.

Now I never said he will sort the club out, i think that will take a fair while but to improve on the pitch? Yeah I think he will do something to improve them...

Time will tell but cant be too dismissive

Exactly. He might be a good coach, but that doesn't mean that he'll be able to handle the human side of the job, it doesn't mean that he'll be able to handle the pressure that comes with the job, the media demands, or the tactical side when he has to make the right decisions at key stages in a game. And I'm not being dismissive. He could be great and an instant success, or he could be a complete disaster.

 

[Metalhead]

How many points do we need to be ahead of a team before we are allowed to laugh at them?

Mathematically impossible for them to catch up. Then I'd feel secure.

 

[Shadydan]

Mathematically impossible for them to catch up. Then I'd feel secure.

Another one ignoring last season ?

 

[Metalhead]

Another one ignoring last season ?

I just know from history that never say never.

 

[dontcallme]

Going by our glorious history of throwing away comfortable point advantages over rival clubs, I'd say about 20.

Only If there's 6 games to go.

 

[Pellshek]

And so it begins.

 

[E17yid]

And so it begins.

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Someone needs to take this **** out ASAP

 

[soflapaul]

Looks like the club is trying to prevent an AFTV...... He apparently has an official relationship with the club