Chequebook Manager Philosophy, seems to be the only modern concept in football.
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Spot on, mate.
I’m glad we’re not a sacking club, but this is f’ckin shocking now. Anger has led to indifference and back to anger again now (for me) after Saturday.
We’re f’ckin shit, and it pains me to type that out in the full knowledge that it’s true
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The presser was so awful… yikes.
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Arsenal are victim of fraud on this one. The man is nowhere near ready for PL manager position.
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He’s gone off the deep end. Pushing underlying metrics as some sort of justification for why we’re losing is ridiculous.
@BizzySignal I guess we don’t even know if Edu has the authority to fire Arteta. We assume he does but after Arteta’s promotion to manager, it’s unclear. If he can fire Arteta then it looks like total cowardice on Edu’s part. Why fire a coach right before the window and put the spotlight even more on yourself as DoF? Better to keep the underperforming manager, sign some scrubs and then cut the manager loose later. There’s obviously no long term strategy in place, the summer signings showed that so Edu’s probably just looking out for himself.
His appointment is one of those things that I guess could work in American sports. You have a really young coach and a really young GM. But going from Brazil to Arsenal is a huge step up whereas most GM hires were former staff from within the league (NBA, NFL, etc.). It’s not hard to see why Stan would try this because on paper you have a young dynamic trio of people at the top of the organization. The problem is that they’re all proving themselves not up to the task, aren’t on the same page and we can’t wait for them to learn.
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An actual good team would use their advantage to create more on the counter. You should be happy with the goals scored, sure, but if you’re only scoring from low % chances, then don’t expect to keep that up for a long time.
Everton didn’t create much, and still scored two goals. That’s too bad, but this happens to every team out there. The opposite will sometimes happen as well, with you getting away with conceding chances for fun (see the games against West Ham and Leeds ).
He doesn’t actually have a case to make, if he really wants to talk about numbers.
The team is 15th in the table, with the 15th best expected goals difference. 16 open play goals conceded, with 17 expected goals against. There’s no meaningful bad luck to speak of.
Besides, it was the so called xG merchants who never believed in Arteta. Journalists, fans, former players and tactics bloggers, were the ones who were calling him a genius. 
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Laughable we’ll spunk 30-50m on players but not a manager of calibre capable of unlocking this lots potential 
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I like Arteta as a player and as a coach he always had an air of confidence about him, but he doesn’t know how to fix this team.
He thinks his methods are working and he’s using stats that don’t reflect the context of the game. He needs to be relieved of his duties. Hire a competent DOF while we’re at it.
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The best example of this was Spurs match imo, where literally just because we ended up with 70% possession you saw commentary from people like Gary Neville saying we’d played well. How on earth is having the ball “playing well” when the other side have the lead for most of the contest and know they can just let you have it because you can’t do anything?
It’s a little scary that Arteta thinks we had a 7% chance of losing a match that we would’ve probably lost something like 8 times out of 10 had it unfolded the exact same way.
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No other club, not even a low level club, would tolerate this nonsense but our board have a history of hanging to, and employing, managers that aren’t good enough.
We also seem to get managers that are as lacking in new ideas as the board’s.
So we’ve had underwhelming managers, picking the same dross players, repeating the same mistakes and backed by a board who’s lack of urgency is renowned through out Europe.
The funny thing is that is exactly what I can’t stand about him.
He is just style over substance.
What I saw, when he first arrived, was someone who talked a good game but who had never actually managed a football team, and I’ve never liked him, especially when I think who we could, and should, have had.
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This was always the problem with Arteta hire for me.
What would the club end up looking like too the rest of football if it didn’t work.
Emery was poor but all clubs hire bad managers. Nobody does what Arsenal done here.
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next season we will be challenging for the EPL title…you just know its damn true :pepe1:
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Everton did not hire their former player in Arteta. They hired Anchelotti instead.
Even Everton is most ambitious than us these days.
Feel so low…
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When you’ve hired a person who’s won trophies at multiple clubs and managed at some of the biggest in Spain and France, you can at least accept it didn’t work out with a person who was at least qualified. Arteta was never qualified for a club this size.
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Mikel is a huge fan of XG for me that means Mikel stays 
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@Craigie does make some very valid points though, as much as I’m a fan of XG game play and situations are important, I remember saying this to mates after the Spurs game when Son scored the wonder goal then decided to park the bus.
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Getting trolled by Impact’s admin now.
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All I feckin care about, is the 100% chance, this twat will get sacked soon…
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Fuck it… this fucking moron doesn’t know what comes first what comes 2nd/less important.
Watch the fucking game, read the play, then use XG and/or StatDNA as additional.
Not fucking the other way using XG and StatDNA or fucking statistics first.
If it is stats first, we don’t even need to hire a fucking manager, just get a stat/math guy is enough.
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