Mikel Arteta, success or failure? - Merged thread.

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Will he ?

Have a statue erected after 30 glorious years service?
9
9%
Be a success, pick up a few trophies and put the club back on an even keel?
28
27%
Be a moderate success, before handing over to a more high profile successor?
20
20%
Be an utter fucking disaster?
45
44%
 
Total votes: 102

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the playing mantis wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:08 pm
Re- read quintons comments sickening... everything wrong with our fan base. Doesn't care about winning. Backed wenger to the end. Are people actually this stupid yet have the cheek to call themselves ARSENAL fans.

The manager is a cog if it's not working you replace it.

F off cnuts
:roll:

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LeftfootlegendGooner wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:07 pm
Retro Gunner wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2025 4:28 pm
LeftfootlegendGooner wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:43 am
Limerick Gooner wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2025 9:08 pm
Retro Gunner wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2025 7:04 pm



Mate, there you go again, you’re absolutely nuts. :lol:

I’ll challenge you to find one post where I’ve said Arteta will be sacked, just one. I’ve said he should be if we win fuck all this season, but have been very clear that he won’t be. I’ve also been very clear that I think he’s got 2-3 more years even if they’re unproductive. So once again, you don’t read what people say, but just project your nonsense and misrepresent/misquote.

Nothing that I think will happen will happen eh? Tell me what I think will happen, but it won’t be based on anything I’ve written on here, but only from your own fevered brain. As for the board being detached from the fanbase…really?? We’ll blow me, who have thought that? Thanks for the heads up. :lol:

You’ll find very few on here who think Arteta will be gone anytime soon or who think the Kroenkes are in tune with the support, but of course, you know what we all think and to hell with what we actually say.

You also seem to think that me and the majority on here are basing our opinions on the Utd game alone. We’ve seen this coming and predicted most of it. I’ve said in here more than once that he’s improved things, but he blew it over the last two summers and any good work he’s done is coming apart at the seams. He’s done, it’s over for him and the remainder of this season will be grim. Sadly, unless it’s an off the scale disaster, he’s not getting sacked and no one thinks so.

You really are an arrogant, condescending and judgemental clown. Most of the guys on here have forgotten more about the game than you’ll ever know and you dismiss their comments and reshape them to suit your bonkers narrative. Given the way that you constantly ignore what people say and quote them as saying something entirely different, I genuinely think you might need psychiatric help. For your sake, I hope it’s just moronic wumming.

That really is it from me. I can’t waste anymore time on the bollocks you come out with.
Spitalfields you say? How about we have a pint one lunchtime. I’ll pop out from my office. Be there in 5 minutes.
:popcorn:

Fight fight fight fight fight :lol: :lol:

A few things crossed my mind here,

How will you two recognise each other :rubchin:

Does Retro wear a red rose ?

Does Limerick walk in the pub sipping his fruit shoot through his Arsenal water bottle ?

Is this like meeting someone on the sports field in school lunchtime for a tear up ?

Or meeting them round the back of the bike sheds for a kiss and light fingering?

Could this lead to the first marriage from two members on this forum ?

Are we all going to be invited to the wedding ?

If so what to wear :rubchin:

If it was a john terry type ceremony do we all wear a full Arsenal kit under our suits :lol:

I'm excited to hear how this all unfolds :D

I mean the meeting place Spitalfields does sound like somewhere out of a Brokeback Mountain type novel :shock: :lol:

Good luck guys, we're all rooting for you :barscarf:

:lol: :lol:
Only just seen this. Very good….but makes me nervous. I thought it was just a pint.

:lol: :wink:
:lol: :rubchin:

Would that be the fabled Marc Almond pint :? :lol:
:shock: :ewwwww: :puke:

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Who's Quinton

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the playing mantis wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:18 pm
DB10GOONER wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:09 pm
the playing mantis wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:08 pm
Re- read quintons comments sickening... everything wrong with our fan base. Doesn't care about winning. Backed wenger to the end. Are people actually this stupid yet have the cheek to call themselves ARSENAL fans.

The manager is a cog if it's not working you replace it.

F off cnuts
Who is quinton? :rubchin:
Its 5 for limericks new user name!!
Harsh. But fair. :lol:


ONLY KIDDING, Limerick! :wink:

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:popcorn:





:mrgreen:

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mcdowell42 wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:44 am
Who's Quinton
On the BBC link. Supports the manager to the end come what may. And did the same for Wenger.. :barscarf:

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LeftfootlegendGooner wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:59 am
the playing mantis wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:08 pm
Re- read quintons comments sickening... everything wrong with our fan base. Doesn't care about winning. Backed wenger to the end. Are people actually this stupid yet have the cheek to call themselves ARSENAL fans.

The manager is a cog if it's not working you replace it.

F off cnuts
:roll:
So you disagree with that leftie?!

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the playing mantis wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 3:43 pm
mcdowell42 wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:44 am
Who's Quinton
On the BBC link. Supports the manager to the end come what may. And did the same for Wenger.. :barscarf:

Ah right,sorry I thought it was someone on here

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the playing mantis wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 3:43 pm
LeftfootlegendGooner wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:59 am
the playing mantis wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:08 pm
Re- read quintons comments sickening... everything wrong with our fan base. Doesn't care about winning. Backed wenger to the end. Are people actually this stupid yet have the cheek to call themselves ARSENAL fans.

The manager is a cog if it's not working you replace it.

F off cnuts
:roll:
So you disagree with that leftie?!
It's not that I disagree or agree with it, it's the way in which you disagree.

Everyone has a right to an opinion, it doesn't mean they're cunnts, it's just not the same opinion as yours.

I do agree that if Arteta fails then he should go without a doubt, if not this season then definitely next, I'm giving him some leeway this season, we've had some shite decisions go against us that led to dropped points and suspensions of our best players.

Now we have our best player out for the rest of the season.

That being said he should take the blame for not getting in a proper striker, so should Edu.


Anyhow, I was working years back in Kingston upon Thames and was installing a video entry system in an office block, one office had ten women on phones and the boss (obviously a man :wink: ).

This one woman had a picture of herself with a signed Arsenal shirt mounted on the wall behind her, she was a season ticket holder and said her dad and grandad were season ticket holders and that the picture was hung up in the Emirates for a while in recognition and that she'd met Wenger who presented it.

I said wow, that's great but his time is up now, he needs to go, this went fucking sideways very quickly, one minute she's looking at me as a fellow gooner, the next it's like I've literally just killed her pet cat Tiddles, she was not impressed, literally pointing out he built the stadium and Arsenal in his tenure.

Anyhow I politely disagreed and carried on with the job, after drilling some holes I asked if they had a hoover as some debris had gone over the dust sheet, she then brought me a hoover, I looked at her and then her boss (he knew something was coming) and said "don't these usually come with a woman attached :rubchin: " , her boss burst out laughing and said "mate you're brave, you're outnumbered 10 to 1, you've upset them now" I retorted "well it's not like I've had a cup of tea is it" :lol:

That was how you upset the wenger supporters 8)

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mcdowell42 wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:44 am
Who's Quinton
:rubchin:


Crisp?

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OneBardGooner wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:47 pm
mcdowell42 wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:44 am
Who's Quinton
:rubchin:


Crisp?
An Englishman in New York

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Quinton… :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Inter Milan coach Simeone Inzagi has apparently come out and said that managing AFC would be his dream job 8)

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LeftfootlegendGooner wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:42 pm
the playing mantis wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 3:43 pm
LeftfootlegendGooner wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:59 am
the playing mantis wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:08 pm
Re- read quintons comments sickening... everything wrong with our fan base. Doesn't care about winning. Backed wenger to the end. Are people actually this stupid yet have the cheek to call themselves ARSENAL fans.

The manager is a cog if it's not working you replace it.

F off cnuts
:roll:
So you disagree with that leftie?!
It's not that I disagree or agree with it, it's the way in which you disagree.

Everyone has a right to an opinion, it doesn't mean they're cunnts, it's just not the same opinion as yours.

I do agree that if Arteta fails then he should go without a doubt, if not this season then definitely next, I'm giving him some leeway this season, we've had some shite decisions go against us that led to dropped points and suspensions of our best players.

Now we have our best player out for the rest of the season.

That being said he should take the blame for not getting in a proper striker, so should Edu.


Anyhow, I was working years back in Kingston upon Thames and was installing a video entry system in an office block, one office had ten women on phones and the boss (obviously a man :wink: ).

This one woman had a picture of herself with a signed Arsenal shirt mounted on the wall behind her, she was a season ticket holder and said her dad and grandad were season ticket holders and that the picture was hung up in the Emirates for a while in recognition and that she'd met Wenger who presented it.

I said wow, that's great but his time is up now, he needs to go, this went fucking sideways very quickly, one minute she's looking at me as a fellow gooner, the next it's like I've literally just killed her pet cat Tiddles, she was not impressed, literally pointing out he built the stadium and Arsenal in his tenure.

Anyhow I politely disagreed and carried on with the job, after drilling some holes I asked if they had a hoover as some debris had gone over the dust sheet, she then brought me a hoover, I looked at her and then her boss (he knew something was coming) and said "don't these usually come with a woman attached :rubchin: " , her boss burst out laughing and said "mate you're brave, you're outnumbered 10 to 1, you've upset them now" I retorted "well it's not like I've had a cup of tea is it" :lol:

That was how you upset the wenger supporters 8)
Not specifically about arteta, my issue is anyone who backs the manager come what may over the good of the club is a *word censored* imho! The cult of personality has set the club back a decade with lord wenger. And people who facilitate are not supporters of the club by their own blinkered admission.

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LeftfootlegendGooner wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:54 pm
OneBardGooner wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:47 pm
mcdowell42 wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:44 am
Who's Quinton
:rubchin:


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