Mikel Arteta, success or failure? - Merged thread.

[OneBardGooner]

BREAKING: The charge to Mikel Arteta brought by the FA for his comments made after the defeat to Newcastle United have been found to be NOT proven.

I'll drink to that. Well done Mikel.

Good news indeed

In the written reasons for the charge not being proven, it was revealed Arteta claimed that: "The word 'disgrace'...'has a very similar spelling and pronunciation to the Spanish 'desgracia'.

"The Spanish word has connotations of misfortune, tragedy or bad luck rather than the connotations of the English equivalent which suggest contempt, dishonour or disrespect.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67719803


Are there any Spanish words that sound similar but mean different to fat, bald, blind, cheating bastard of a referee ?

El C.unto.

[A11M11]

maldito cono

[Stuart L (2)]

maldito cono

https://www.citylifemadrid.com/spanish-curse-words/

[DB10GOONER]

"Elite manager" my bollocks. Fuck him off and get someone in who puts the team ahead of his fucking own ego.

[the playing mantis]

He will die on a hill of zinchenko, odergaard and Jesus as striker (Jesus can do a job as playmaker or wide no issue but awful striker) and to a lesser extent Ben White...but tbf we only criticise whites fwd play as the fwds are shite

[augie]

"Elite manager" my bollocks. Fuck him off and get someone in who puts the team ahead of his fucking own ego.

Well said that man

[TeeCee]

I keep reading about how teams stop Arsenal..... Double up on our wingers, deep block etc etc.

Then I think about Arteta saying he wanted us to be unpredictable..... And yet the way he plays/teams he picks/formations he uses are 100% predictable!!

How about playing Martinelli central and telling Jesus to stay wide left? How about playing Saka as the left 8? You know, don't do EXACTLY the same thing game after game after game ..... How would teams react after spending all week planning on how to stop Saka/Martinelli wide and the game starts with them in completely different positions!? Yeah, let them double up on n Jesus or Trossard....but be unpredictable for fucks sake, don't take short corners instead of long and think that you're 'mixing things up'
Fucking drop Zinchenko, it's NOT WORKING!!!! Give Kiwior a run of half a dozen games, play Saka as a left 8, mix it up because we are not playing well game after game.

[A11M11]

Or switch the wingers and get the midfield to make runs into the box as it's pointless looking for Jesus there , he's waiting for a back heel from Odegaard . or Pikk huer as my Norwegian friend calls him.

[BFG4]

Far too many pathetic people(who long for the Wenger days) have now attached a hero worship onto a manager who has done fuck all to earn it. The squad that has been assembled after 4 years is massively unbalanced and despite all the money spent, there are holes bigger than the grand canyon that need filling.
I get the feeling that last season gave a false representation that title challenges will be the norm but in reality it will be back to the top 4 days soon enough. Kroenke is a prick but he has given Arteta alot of money to spend and this season alone we have seen him spunk away 65 million on Havertz all while ignoring the gaping hole that is the need for a proper striker. Just a thought but why make a novice the manager of your club when every mistake since has been due to the clubs own incompetent decision 4 years ago

[Nick Nack]

^^^The last three posts sum things up quite succinctly.
And we haven't brought Diet Pep's fucking awful in game management into the conversation.

How often has he made predetermined substitutions instead of making tactical changes. His idea of tactical is either like for like or chuck loads of midfielders on

[augie]

Here's the thing, and believe me I am not having a go at anyone here when I saying this, but a lot of lads on here have been (understandably) enjoying taking the piss out of other managers and suggesting that they heading for the sack, and here is the reality of their situation in black and white -

ten haag has manure 8pts worse off than they were at this stage last season

eddie howe has geordies 9pts worse off than this stage last season

ange has the scum 3pts better off than at this stage last season despite some horrendous results recently

All amusing reading until you read that el basque has AFC TEN POINTS WORSE OFF than this stage last season despite spending over £200m last summer - how are those under managers under pressure when this bluffer seems to be getting a free pass ??? No team has suffered a bigger decline (points wise) than we have, and this fool is clueless on how to remedy it imo

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/25192429 ... newcastle/

[Retro Gunner]

Here's the thing, and believe me I am not having a go at anyone here when I saying this, but a lot of lads on here have been (understandably) enjoying taking the piss out of other managers and suggesting that they heading for the sack, and here is the reality of their situation in black and white -

ten haag has manure 8pts worse off than they were at this stage last season

eddie howe has geordies 9pts worse off than this stage last season

ange has the scum 3pts better off than at this stage last season despite some horrendous results recently

All amusing reading until you read that el basque has AFC TEN POINTS WORSE OFF than this stage last season despite spending over £200m last summer - how are those under managers under pressure when this bluffer seems to be getting a free pass ??? No team has suffered a bigger decline (points wise) than we have, and this fool is clueless on how to remedy it imo

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/25192429 ... newcastle/

Ah yes augie, but will you please stop talking about things as trivial as points. It won’t be long and just like his mentor, Mkll will be telling us about last night’s illusory domination, expected goals, dodgy VAR decisions .

He’s been found out and it’s going to get messy. You’ll know he’s getting desperate when he tosses ESR, Nelson etc into the mix more often, hoping that those poor bastards who he’s been ruining, might pull his arse out of the fire.

I always have the feeling that he’s a vindictive fucker and if things really do start properly coming apart, then some of the players might turn. He won’t get the loyalty that Wenger got, due to the Fraud being a soft touch.

It’s over for Diet Pep (nice one Nick Nack) and before anyone gets out of their pram, this opinion is not just based on last night’s horror show. There’s been lots of comment on here about other clubs shithousing their way to points, but we’ve been doing it all season and in the end you run out of rope.

[falkirk goon]

"Elite manager" my bollocks. Fuck him off and get someone in who puts the team ahead of his fucking own ego.

Well said that man

I concur wholeheartedly lads.Weve dropped 8pts from our last 4 games and it looks to me like the slide is well underway.Were at Fulham sun then it's the dippers at ours in the cup(I can see them turdholing us tbh) then we have 2 weeks off before Palarse at ours on the 20th.The trouble we have is that everyone has worked us out and El beige doesn't have the know how to change things I wonder how much the useless fucker has spent since he was appointed Not counting any sales just how much has he spent? And we're nowhere near challenging for anything

[Retro Gunner]

"Elite manager" my bollocks. Fuck him off and get someone in who puts the team ahead of his fucking own ego.

Well said that man

I concur wholeheartedly

And I conc……..oh, you know the rest.

[falkirk goon]

"Elite manager" my bollocks. Fuck him off and get someone in who puts the team ahead of his fucking own ego.

Well said that man

I concur wholeheartedly

And I conc……..oh, you know the rest.

You concur with my concurring of the concurring

Fuck off El beige