Your choice as manager/Arteta Merged thread

[TeeCee]

Actually I said it before you!

[mcdowell42]

Arteta incoming, you heard it here 1st

Are you claiming that as an exclusive mc ?

Ye.

[Henry Norris 1913]

i am hearing increased speculation surrounding arteta taking over - should i be worried?

please let it be allegri, please

[mcdowell42]

Arsenal not close to appointing new manager. No agreement yet on chosen candidate, negotiations at relatively early stage, thorough process ongoing, next week looks unrealistic. Once decided, IG/RS/SM will present recommendation to #AFC board. Arteta among names being considered

David Ornstein BBC sport

[sk-gtfo]

Arsenal not close to appointing new manager. No agreement yet on chosen candidate, negotiations at relatively early stage, thorough process ongoing, next week looks unrealistic. Once decided, IG/RS/SM will present recommendation to #AFC board. Arteta among names being considered

David Ornstein BBC sport

Sounds about right.. spend weeks we don't have dithering then go with a total rookie underwhelming appointment who will play along with Kroenke and the board, a bit like Wenger did.

[A11M11]

Thgey want the season ticket money in before they let you down with a great bump.

[Arsenal Till I Die]

Not close to announcing a new manager but fires almost the entire backroom staff anyway.

[Allgunsblazin]

Let's see how ambitious Wiggy and co truely are?
If they. Want CL then it has to be Maximus Decimus Meridius, no disrespect, but trainee managers are not what we need Vieira et al!..

[Arsenal Till I Die]

I honestly couldn't see myself getting the slightest bit excited if we appoint Arteta. An absolute joke of an appointment if it does happen, to be quite honest. May as well have kept Wenger for a few more years if Arteta is the fucking option!

[Arsenal Till I Die]

You know what, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say now that it's not going to be Arteta (the power of positive thinking ). The primary reasons I believe (hope, pray, beg) that it's not Arteta is because of the very reasons Wenger was sacaked. Money. Image etc. Two years on the bounce we have missed out on the sweet cash-cow that is the Champions League, we have seen a consistently half empty stadium due to piss-poor results and such a cataclysmic disaster of a League season. All of this costs money, it loses potential business and the Arsenal board will not want to continue losing money when there is money to be made. Consider the fact that Spurs have a brand new stadium and get results at the moment, Arsenal won't want the business going down the road. Appointing Arteta would continue to split the fans, it will keep Arsenal in the small time light even more so. That would be too much of a risk for the board to take following this season.

Also, it does seem incredibly unlikely that Arsenal wouldn't basically clear out the entire backroom team NOW if it was Arteta - a man who doesn't exactly have ''people'' to appoint.

[StanKroenke'sWig]

If it does end up being Arteta, and it goes wrong, it opens up the board up to huge protests against them with them probably being ousted eventually. AW will not be there to be their shield. I'm not sure they would open themselves to that.

Then again this is Gazidis and Co

[goonersid]

It’s going to be Arteta lads ! Probably my last choice just ahead of Henry!
We’ll have to get behind him and judge him in May

[Bob Bayliss]

The rumour-mill has lurched in at least four definite directions since TOF announced he was going.

First, it was going to be Enrique; then Buvac; then Allegri; and now Arteta. Just give it 48 hours and we will be on to the next sure thing.

[Retro Gunner]

Seeing how the Club seem to enjoy making decisions that us lot hate, then you better hope they don't take a look at this poll, because just to piss every one of us off......they'll appoint Nagelsmann.

Zero votes....get your money on him now.

[Perryashburtongroves]

Arteta . Might as well try and get in contact with Mike Walker or Brian Horton.