My manager! Hoping for many more memories with him.
COYG!
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Think he just needs time and a couple of creative midfielders. Still the right man at this current moment.
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We’ve all seen those are needed. But why go after Partey then when you’ve already got Ceballos and Xhaka and intent to use Elneny? It wasn’t like Partey was a outside chance either. We paid his release clause in full.
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Burnley close the gap to 1 point. Stats mike in shambles.
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congrats, another record broken.
we are at Burnley level now
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Burnley with the mighty midfield duo Brownhill and Westwood creating more chances than the Arsenal.
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I honestly believe he is the man to take us forward. His tactics are perfect it’s the players!!!
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I’d like to see Pep come out and claim last year FA semi he had 5% of losing and still lost, and see how Arteta would response.
Eriksen?
Yeah and it isn’t even accurate, which makes it more ridiculous… we have been tragically bad by xG and not even superlative in xGA any more…
I mean we are bottom 5 in terms of xG…
Statman is bad at stats too apparently.
FWIW this season 5th in xGA and 15th in xG.
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We are in a relegation fight. Re-le-gation
Get this guy gone.
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I think people insist too much on lack of experience, lack of tactical acumen, training regiment whatever. The core of the issue here is that there has to be a certain emotional maturity to be able to manage people, a certain level of empathy, an ability to see beyond ego. And if you are not able to communicate well with the players, if you never start someone who feels he should, if you pick favorites, if people sense unfairness in your treatment, you will create grudges, people will subconsciously hate you. Then when you do pick them, they won’t really perform, because they feel like they are working for a bad boss.
And these are not factory workers that you can just fire and replace. These players have lucrative multiyear contracts and it’s not easy to separate from them.
Of course, it goes both ways. I think many of the players have the same sort of lack of emotional maturity. It’s no coincidence that the same thing keeps on happening with multiple managers. But a good manager should be able to fix things. Primarily by communicating better with the players.
The problem is, once a rupture is created between the manager and a few of the players, that problem very rarely fixes itself. No-one will admit they were wrong. But the manager is easier to replace than half the squad.
So these would be a few of the criteria I would look for in a new manager, aside from the tactical, technical knowledge. What was his relationship with players at former clubs? How well respected was he, etc. If things go wrong, a losing streak happens, does he blame the players? You really need a manager the players want to fight for.
I think Wenger was one person who is a good example of great man-management, although he was not perfect either. But many players said he was like a father, obviously respected him and wanted to fight for him. There still were players like Adebayor who came up publicly bashing Wenger, even though he had a few years were he was performing really well and I am certain he had a great relationship with Wenger at the time.
Also, players like Sanchez. Again probably great relationship with Wenger, but not so good communication with the rest of the squad. That’s what isolated him and in time lead to his “burnout”.
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Arteta has 3 more points than Dyche after 33 games. Dyche has a game in hand.
To put that in perspective when Poch got the sack, Emery had one point extra since he’d been here.
No matter how you dress this up it’s beyond salvation now.
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It never was superlative.
Without penalties it’s 14th (Statsbomb).
It’s absolutely incredible that this guy has already manged to talk more shit than Wenger did in 22 years.
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xGA was pretty decent - it still is according to Understat.
We were NEVER good in xG, that is true.
I’m don’t have full access to Statsbomb and Understat seems decent, is normalized (like any), and updates fairly quickly for every game in the Premier league, which makes it the go-to source for me.
Anyway, we have actually been more solid defensively - I don’t see how anyone can refute that. Our GA is pretty good - only 5 teams have better than we do.
FWIW - I am NOT suggesting in any way shape or form we are functional at all… we are crap… total crap… the reason we are more solid defensively is a complete abdication of any football in favor of some Frankenstein monster of countering or defensive solidity first or some nonsense… the worst form of a Mou incarnation or something.
Its just that if you are looking for things that demonstrate stats that outperform our position, xGA and GA do fit that…
What a turnaround that season. RVP carrying us from 15th to 3rd then fucking off to Man Utd.
The delusional ramblings of a lost mind…
Who is he trying to convince here!?
I’m hoping this is just regurgitated from a single interview and he isn’t repeating this nonsense.