Mikel Arteta, success or failure? - Merged thread.

[Limerick Gooner]

He has now completed his transmogrification and gone full mk II.

He is now the living embodiment of latter era Arsene Wenger.

And I guaranfuckingtee you we have at least one, maybe three, years of this egotistical fucking little spacker still ahead of us, because despite the fact that Wiggy Raccoon Head gave him 800 million to piss up the wall, the Kroenke's will fail as owners and leaders exactly where they failed with mk I - not knowing when, nor having the balls, to sack the fucking failing manager!

As much as I blame the Kroenke's for not sacking this geebag, that does not exclude the geebag from my wrath.

He took a decent team that needed really only a couple of top signings two years ago, and he turned them into Wengerball 2.0 in a third of the time it took mk I to turn one of the best teams in the history of the game into a pack of inward gazing weak little piss boys that played tippy tappy to repeatedly struggle to a one nil defeat or - God alordy above speakah onah tha mountainah - a magnificent nil all draw against the likes of Lying Phil Brown's fucking turgid Hull City side.

I look at Ohdeargod and I see Circle Dribbler Hleb in his pomp with ten touches, a sashay to the right, a swoop to the left, another five touches, a nice little spin in a circle for effect..... and a pass ten yards back to the CH. Over and over again.

I look at ENGLISH fucking Deckers (you are welcome to him SteveO mate! ) and I see Arteta himself, a "solid" enough player on his day, but never a game changer, never the midfield general that goes and grabs you a win like Paddy or the chav rat Fabregas did in their peak days.

I look at Fateem Girling and I see.... well, I just see a girlfriend bashing fat useless little cùnt stealing a living tbh.

No point going through them all. You get the picture.
But possibly worst of all (in a PTSD flashback kind of way), the delusional little Lego piece is now talking utter convoluted horseshit all the time - just like Wenger did.

Speaking of delusional cùnts, where's that walking talking head injury Mad Marty Wilson 2.fuckingO?

All we need now is to hear that Xhaka is doing his coaching badges and will take over from Arteta as manager when he is sacked in 2028 having not won a single thing in the meantime.

[Gunner Rob]

there are of course similarities with the latter day Wenger years but there are also a lot of differences.
Wenger kept on winning trophies almost to the very end, whereas cone boy has taken the whole "top 4 is a trophy" crap to another level.

He has of course done a decent enough job in the league in the last 2 seasons, but ultimately has failed and we are now going backwards.
my main concern right now is what sort of squad he will leave behind, and also the wage bill that has apparently rocketed over the past year to £327 million

[falkirk goon]

Did anyone watch his post match interview on TNT Fuck me he has gone full blown Le bulbeye The interviewer was trying to spear him about lack of goals and cutting edge..and also pointing out that the dippers* were away over the hills and far away so to speak..He didn't like it one bit..He bristled just like his hero Wenger used to do when he was cornered..He's a fucking arsepiece..A carbon copy of Le bulbeye but without the trophies in the cabinet..

[SouthcoastGunner]

Morning all, long time lurker, first time poster. Thanks for having me.

In my opinion, Arteta’s teams peaked the last two seasons with the title challenges. He done an admirable job picking us up from where he found us and going for the title but I am very disappointed by the last two transfer windows. The lack of any quality forward signings have ultimately cost us and could even been the difference going further back to the summer of 23.

Unfortunately now I can only see it going one way and that is in the wrong direction. The club and Arteta should have foreseen what might happen if injuries were to impact as much as they did. The squad composition is completely unbalanced and that is down to Arteta and probably Edu.

I can’t think of another manager who has been backed to the hilt with the kind of funds Arteta has and ultimately has nothing tangible to show for it (although we came very close last year)

The last two windows and the way this season has panned out is not to the standards of a big club which Arsenal aspires to be. Arteta needs to come up with some very compelling reasons to keep his job in my opinion.

He may be the guy to pick a club up off its knees and bring it back to a certain level where we are in the conversation for the big 2 trophies. I don’t think he is the guy to cross the line. It would have happened by now ultimately.

Very much up for a change of direction in the summer.

[OneBardGooner]

Welcome to The House Of Fun!

[Retro Gunner]

Morning all, long time lurker, first time poster. Thanks for having me.

In my opinion, Arteta’s teams peaked the last two seasons with the title challenges. He done an admirable job picking us up from where he found us and going for the title but I am very disappointed by the last two transfer windows. The lack of any quality forward signings have ultimately cost us and could even been the difference going further back to the summer of 23.

Unfortunately now I can only see it going one way and that is in the wrong direction. The club and Arteta should have foreseen what might happen if injuries were to impact as much as they did. The squad composition is completely unbalanced and that is down to Arteta and probably Edu.

I can’t think of another manager who has been backed to the hilt with the kind of funds Arteta has and ultimately has nothing tangible to show for it (although we came very close last year)

The last two windows and the way this season has panned out is not to the standards of a big club which Arsenal aspires to be. Arteta needs to come up with some very compelling reasons to keep his job in my opinion.

He may be the guy to pick a club up off its knees and bring it back to a certain level where we are in the conversation for the big 2 trophies. I don’t think he is the guy to cross the line. It would have happened by now ultimately.

Very much up for a change of direction in the summer.

Welcome aboard Southcoast. Reading that first post, I think you’ll fit in very well around these parts.

[DB10GOONER]

He has now completed his transmogrification and gone full mk II.

He is now the living embodiment of latter era Arsene Wenger.

And I guaranfuckingtee you we have at least one, maybe three, years of this egotistical fucking little spacker still ahead of us, because despite the fact that Wiggy Raccoon Head gave him 800 million to piss up the wall, the Kroenke's will fail as owners and leaders exactly where they failed with mk I - not knowing when, nor having the balls, to sack the fucking failing manager!

As much as I blame the Kroenke's for not sacking this geebag, that does not exclude the geebag from my wrath.

He took a decent team that needed really only a couple of top signings two years ago, and he turned them into Wengerball 2.0 in a third of the time it took mk I to turn one of the best teams in the history of the game into a pack of inward gazing weak little piss boys that played tippy tappy to repeatedly struggle to a one nil defeat or - God alordy above speakah onah tha mountainah - a magnificent nil all draw against the likes of Lying Phil Brown's fucking turgid Hull City side.

I look at Ohdeargod and I see Circle Dribbler Hleb in his pomp with ten touches, a sashay to the right, a swoop to the left, another five touches, a nice little spin in a circle for effect..... and a pass ten yards back to the CH. Over and over again.

I look at ENGLISH fucking Deckers (you are welcome to him SteveO mate! ) and I see Arteta himself, a "solid" enough player on his day, but never a game changer, never the midfield general that goes and grabs you a win like Paddy or the chav rat Fabregas did in their peak days.

I look at Fateem Girling and I see.... well, I just see a girlfriend bashing fat useless little cùnt stealing a living tbh.

No point going through them all. You get the picture.
But possibly worst of all (in a PTSD flashback kind of way), the delusional little Lego piece is now talking utter convoluted horseshit all the time - just like Wenger did.

Speaking of delusional cùnts, where's that walking talking head injury Mad Marty Wilson 2.fuckingO?

All we need now is to hear that Xhaka is doing his coaching badges and will take over from Arteta as manager when he is sacked in 2028 having not won a single thing in the meantime.

That would be me done.

[DB10GOONER]

Morning all, long time lurker, first time poster. Thanks for having me.

In my opinion, Arteta’s teams peaked the last two seasons with the title challenges. He done an admirable job picking us up from where he found us and going for the title but I am very disappointed by the last two transfer windows. The lack of any quality forward signings have ultimately cost us and could even been the difference going further back to the summer of 23.

Unfortunately now I can only see it going one way and that is in the wrong direction. The club and Arteta should have foreseen what might happen if injuries were to impact as much as they did. The squad composition is completely unbalanced and that is down to Arteta and probably Edu.

I can’t think of another manager who has been backed to the hilt with the kind of funds Arteta has and ultimately has nothing tangible to show for it (although we came very close last year)

The last two windows and the way this season has panned out is not to the standards of a big club which Arsenal aspires to be. Arteta needs to come up with some very compelling reasons to keep his job in my opinion.

He may be the guy to pick a club up off its knees and bring it back to a certain level where we are in the conversation for the big 2 trophies. I don’t think he is the guy to cross the line. It would have happened by now ultimately.

Very much up for a change of direction in the summer.

Welcome on board mate. Good first post. Agree with it all. He did a good job taking us to a certain level but ultimately he hasn't got the experience or the street smarts at this level to take us to that next level, which as dear old Arsene will tell you is the next level.

[SteveO 35]

He has now completed his transmogrification and gone full mk II.

He is now the living embodiment of latter era Arsene Wenger.

And I guaranfuckingtee you we have at least one, maybe three, years of this egotistical fucking little spacker still ahead of us, because despite the fact that Wiggy Raccoon Head gave him 800 million to piss up the wall, the Kroenke's will fail as owners and leaders exactly where they failed with mk I - not knowing when, nor having the balls, to sack the fucking failing manager!

As much as I blame the Kroenke's for not sacking this geebag, that does not exclude the geebag from my wrath.

He took a decent team that needed really only a couple of top signings two years ago, and he turned them into Wengerball 2.0 in a third of the time it took mk I to turn one of the best teams in the history of the game into a pack of inward gazing weak little piss boys that played tippy tappy to repeatedly struggle to a one nil defeat or - God alordy above speakah onah tha mountainah - a magnificent nil all draw against the likes of Lying Phil Brown's fucking turgid Hull City side.

I look at Ohdeargod and I see Circle Dribbler Hleb in his pomp with ten touches, a sashay to the right, a swoop to the left, another five touches, a nice little spin in a circle for effect..... and a pass ten yards back to the CH. Over and over again.

I look at ENGLISH fucking Deckers (you are welcome to him SteveO mate! ) and I see Arteta himself, a "solid" enough player on his day, but never a game changer, never the midfield general that goes and grabs you a win like Paddy or the chav rat Fabregas did in their peak days.

I look at Fateem Girling and I see.... well, I just see a girlfriend bashing fat useless little cùnt stealing a living tbh.

No point going through them all. You get the picture.

But possibly worst of all (in a PTSD flashback kind of way), the delusional little Lego piece is now talking utter convoluted horseshit all the time - just like Wenger did.

Speaking of delusional cùnts, where's that walking talking head injury Mad Marty Wilson 2.fuckingO?

This post made me chuckle on a number of levels mate - memories of Hleb...the man who could beat himself 3 times in the same move and end up back in his own half. Old Daddy Daycare Odegaard is definitely doing his best Mister Twirly impression, coupled with all the leadership credentials that Gallas and Almunia showed when they wore the armband under There's Only One.

What else can be said about Sterling. We signed some well and truly laughable c.unts under Shit for Brains but this invisible handbag wearing little helmet has somehow managed to upstage them all

You can't blame English Deckers for choosing England mate - I wouldn't pay the 50 quid for the flight every time Oireland came calling either!

The only good thing that has come from Legohead morphing into There's Only One Part II is the "good old day" memories that have come flooding back from this place. Just missing my old mate HostGator and the time machine has worked its magic

[DB10GOONER]

He has now completed his transmogrification and gone full mk II.

He is now the living embodiment of latter era Arsene Wenger.

And I guaranfuckingtee you we have at least one, maybe three, years of this egotistical fucking little spacker still ahead of us, because despite the fact that Wiggy Raccoon Head gave him 800 million to piss up the wall, the Kroenke's will fail as owners and leaders exactly where they failed with mk I - not knowing when, nor having the balls, to sack the fucking failing manager!

As much as I blame the Kroenke's for not sacking this geebag, that does not exclude the geebag from my wrath.

He took a decent team that needed really only a couple of top signings two years ago, and he turned them into Wengerball 2.0 in a third of the time it took mk I to turn one of the best teams in the history of the game into a pack of inward gazing weak little piss boys that played tippy tappy to repeatedly struggle to a one nil defeat or - God alordy above speakah onah tha mountainah - a magnificent nil all draw against the likes of Lying Phil Brown's fucking turgid Hull City side.

I look at Ohdeargod and I see Circle Dribbler Hleb in his pomp with ten touches, a sashay to the right, a swoop to the left, another five touches, a nice little spin in a circle for effect..... and a pass ten yards back to the CH. Over and over again.

I look at ENGLISH fucking Deckers (you are welcome to him SteveO mate! ) and I see Arteta himself, a "solid" enough player on his day, but never a game changer, never the midfield general that goes and grabs you a win like Paddy or the chav rat Fabregas did in their peak days.

I look at Fateem Girling and I see.... well, I just see a girlfriend bashing fat useless little cùnt stealing a living tbh.

No point going through them all. You get the picture.

But possibly worst of all (in a PTSD flashback kind of way), the delusional little Lego piece is now talking utter convoluted horseshit all the time - just like Wenger did.

Speaking of delusional cùnts, where's that walking talking head injury Mad Marty Wilson 2.fuckingO?

This post made me chuckle on a number of levels mate - memories of Hleb...the man who could beat himself 3 times in the same move and end up back in his own half. Old Daddy Daycare Odegaard is definitely doing his best Mister Twirly impression, coupled with all the leadership credentials that Gallas and Almunia showed when they wore the armband under There's Only One.

What else can be said about Sterling. We signed some well and truly laughable c.unts under Shit for Brains but this invisible handbag wearing little helmet has somehow managed to upstage them all

You can't blame English Deckers for choosing England mate - I wouldn't pay the 50 quid for the flight every time Oireland came calling either!

The only good thing that has come from Legohead morphing into There's Only One Part II is the "good old day" memories that have come flooding back from this place. Just missing my old mate HostGator and the time machine has worked its magic

Aahhh the venerable old boy, HostGator.... how I miss that lurch in my stomach when I'd log in and see his cute little head and think "oh fuck it has all kicked off again on the forum!". Fear not, I think we are cruising nicely back towards those days under the Spanish David Brent!

As for English Deckers, I may be being a bit harsh on him but for 100million we should be getting a Vieira, not an Arteta. And you'll recall during Arteta’s time as a player with us, only myself and (IIRC) you and (I think) augie, maybe one or two others, gave him any credit for being our most reliable midfielder for two good seasons, before his legs went. And he was that, reliable, solid. But never top class, never a game winner. More and more Deckers is reminding me of him. And honestly that's not enough for 100m.

[Retro Gunner]

He has now completed his transmogrification and gone full mk II.

He is now the living embodiment of latter era Arsene Wenger.

And I guaranfuckingtee you we have at least one, maybe three, years of this egotistical fucking little spacker still ahead of us, because despite the fact that Wiggy Raccoon Head gave him 800 million to piss up the wall, the Kroenke's will fail as owners and leaders exactly where they failed with mk I - not knowing when, nor having the balls, to sack the fucking failing manager!

As much as I blame the Kroenke's for not sacking this geebag, that does not exclude the geebag from my wrath.

He took a decent team that needed really only a couple of top signings two years ago, and he turned them into Wengerball 2.0 in a third of the time it took mk I to turn one of the best teams in the history of the game into a pack of inward gazing weak little piss boys that played tippy tappy to repeatedly struggle to a one nil defeat or - God alordy above speakah onah tha mountainah - a magnificent nil all draw against the likes of Lying Phil Brown's fucking turgid Hull City side.

I look at Ohdeargod and I see Circle Dribbler Hleb in his pomp with ten touches, a sashay to the right, a swoop to the left, another five touches, a nice little spin in a circle for effect..... and a pass ten yards back to the CH. Over and over again.

I look at ENGLISH fucking Deckers (you are welcome to him SteveO mate! ) and I see Arteta himself, a "solid" enough player on his day, but never a game changer, never the midfield general that goes and grabs you a win like Paddy or the chav rat Fabregas did in their peak days.

I look at Fateem Girling and I see.... well, I just see a girlfriend bashing fat useless little cùnt stealing a living tbh.

No point going through them all. You get the picture.

But possibly worst of all (in a PTSD flashback kind of way), the delusional little Lego piece is now talking utter convoluted horseshit all the time - just like Wenger did.

Speaking of delusional cùnts, where's that walking talking head injury Mad Marty Wilson 2.fuckingO?

This post made me chuckle on a number of levels mate - memories of Hleb...the man who could beat himself 3 times in the same move and end up back in his own half. Old Daddy Daycare Odegaard is definitely doing his best Mister Twirly impression, coupled with all the leadership credentials that Gallas and Almunia showed when they wore the armband under There's Only One.

What else can be said about Sterling. We signed some well and truly laughable c.unts under Shit for Brains but this invisible handbag wearing little helmet has somehow managed to upstage them all

You can't blame English Deckers for choosing England mate - I wouldn't pay the 50 quid for the flight every time Oireland came calling either!

The only good thing that has come from Legohead morphing into There's Only One Part II is the "good old day" memories that have come flooding back from this place. Just missing my old mate HostGator and the time machine has worked its magic

Ah yes, but to have it feeling REALLY like the dark old days under the Old Fraud, DB needs to email an apology to Red Member and invite him back on to the forum.

His insights into our current mess would have this place in furious meltdown in no time. Add a splash of Highbury JD and Babatunde and it would truly be the good old days.

[DB10GOONER]

He has now completed his transmogrification and gone full mk II.

He is now the living embodiment of latter era Arsene Wenger.

And I guaranfuckingtee you we have at least one, maybe three, years of this egotistical fucking little spacker still ahead of us, because despite the fact that Wiggy Raccoon Head gave him 800 million to piss up the wall, the Kroenke's will fail as owners and leaders exactly where they failed with mk I - not knowing when, nor having the balls, to sack the fucking failing manager!

As much as I blame the Kroenke's for not sacking this geebag, that does not exclude the geebag from my wrath.

He took a decent team that needed really only a couple of top signings two years ago, and he turned them into Wengerball 2.0 in a third of the time it took mk I to turn one of the best teams in the history of the game into a pack of inward gazing weak little piss boys that played tippy tappy to repeatedly struggle to a one nil defeat or - God alordy above speakah onah tha mountainah - a magnificent nil all draw against the likes of Lying Phil Brown's fucking turgid Hull City side.

I look at Ohdeargod and I see Circle Dribbler Hleb in his pomp with ten touches, a sashay to the right, a swoop to the left, another five touches, a nice little spin in a circle for effect..... and a pass ten yards back to the CH. Over and over again.

I look at ENGLISH fucking Deckers (you are welcome to him SteveO mate! ) and I see Arteta himself, a "solid" enough player on his day, but never a game changer, never the midfield general that goes and grabs you a win like Paddy or the chav rat Fabregas did in their peak days.

I look at Fateem Girling and I see.... well, I just see a girlfriend bashing fat useless little cùnt stealing a living tbh.

No point going through them all. You get the picture.

But possibly worst of all (in a PTSD flashback kind of way), the delusional little Lego piece is now talking utter convoluted horseshit all the time - just like Wenger did.

Speaking of delusional cùnts, where's that walking talking head injury Mad Marty Wilson 2.fuckingO?

This post made me chuckle on a number of levels mate - memories of Hleb...the man who could beat himself 3 times in the same move and end up back in his own half. Old Daddy Daycare Odegaard is definitely doing his best Mister Twirly impression, coupled with all the leadership credentials that Gallas and Almunia showed when they wore the armband under There's Only One.

What else can be said about Sterling. We signed some well and truly laughable c.unts under Shit for Brains but this invisible handbag wearing little helmet has somehow managed to upstage them all

You can't blame English Deckers for choosing England mate - I wouldn't pay the 50 quid for the flight every time Oireland came calling either!

The only good thing that has come from Legohead morphing into There's Only One Part II is the "good old day" memories that have come flooding back from this place. Just missing my old mate HostGator and the time machine has worked its magic

Ah yes, but to have it feeling REALLY like the dark old days under the Old Fraud, DB needs to email an apology to Red Member and invite him back on to the forum.

His insights into our current mess would have this place in furious meltdown in no time. Add a splash of Highbury JD and Babatunde and it would truly be the good old days.

I think our current manager said it best recently.... "over my dead body".

[TeeCee]

Playing biggest Deccus as left 8 is as stupid as Arsole Wanker playing Arshavin as a winger!

We have the 2nd best no. 6 in the world and don't play him there! What next? A defensive midfielder as a no.9 FFS?

[augie]

As I have often said, I dont do social media (facebook, twitter) much cos it can sometimes wind me right up, but lately I have been looking at it more often and I swear to god the shite that is on it would have the sanest person reaching for the shotgun It is one thing defending the inept cone boy and captain invisible (the two hot topics lately), but the manner in which they are doing it is beyond cringy, and it has to be said that most of the defenders seem to be african or from asia and that cant be a coincidence ? I know it might seem ironic me saying this cos I am Irish (therefore technically a foreigner too), but do these "fans" live for AFC as much as someone who has AFC running through their veins like most of us do ? It's not that this is a racist rant or anything, but I get seriously fcuked off reading crap from people telling us that we should fcuk off and support someone else, when I'm thinking that they probably did support someone else up to five years ago These people have a platform on social media and are using it to defend legohead on absolutely everything, and deflect the blame on the board, referee's, etc etc, and some are going so far as to proclaim him as the best manager in the premier league in the past 3 seasons (I shit you not) despite winning ZERO trophies Fans of other clubs are reading this nonsense and taking the piss out of us about how deluded Gooners are - I'm embarrassed by at all and lose the rag and it takes all of my willpower not to tell them to fcuk off and support orlando pirates or some shit club like that

[DB10GOONER]

Playing biggest Deccus as left 8 is as stupid as Arsole Wanker playing Arshavin as a winger!

We have the 2nd best no. 6 in the world and don't play him there! What next? A defensive midfielder as a no.9 FFS?