Nah, that doesn’t work
Trion would be proud of these mental gymnastics
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Here’s what I said when I was at my most manic high about “Godteta” on 21 Dec:
Depending on the date my take was always something like that or flat out preferring Poch 
You lot can enjoy your cyber posturing all you like but there actually is no contradiction, and I’m totally in my right to criticise Raúl if Arteta turns out the way he looks to be turning out.
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You were a Poch man as well 
Just like @InvincibleDB10 @Aussiegooner and meself
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Yeah, I’m trying to talk myself off the ledge today and convince myself that Arteta can still be good and that these are just early growing pains (but it’s really difficult, that really was just unforgivable, Emery-like incompetence), but tbh I didn’t imagine him failing this way–in all the imaginary possibilities, including him failing worse than Ole Gunnar, I always imagined it being because he just wasn’t that good of a coach/his ideas didn’t transmit to his players, I didn’t really imagine him turning out to be Guardiola’s hand-picked assistant who turns out to have the same conservatism and football philosophy as Arteta 13-14 the footballer and Julien Lopetegui (or more conservative).
Really a low blow yesterday.
Anyways, that’s exactly the kind of shit an interview process should be parsing out, and exactly the kind of shit we could only be guessing at from the outside, so to think I can’t criticise the people interviewing him and in control of that process is total cyber bollocks from the same people who told me I was OTT on Emery, or that he was a good manager, or better than Poch.
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Yeah Poch was my no 1 choice for this club given who was available and the position we’re in.
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Delicious irony.
problem is that he isnt gonna jump at it especially coming from the spuds…just cant see him coming here tbh i think he is waiting on Manu or RM and he wouldnt scupper the chance of working with either of those. Those were the clubs always seemed to be the clubs he wants to manage. Poch has his own issues too. I dunno why people feel like somehow he would have come in and made a massive difference so quickly either especially with this dead squad.
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I think we would have a shot this upcoming summer had we waited. He was obviously wanting to see what his options were first though. But bottom line, mid season your options for hire are much, much lower.
Bottom line for me is, if we don’t get back in the top 4 next season and miss CL for a 5th consecutive campaign then this club is all but dead as a factor in European football.
Look at the Arsenal financials thread, high wage bill, pretty big net spend, no CL football for an extended period is starting to take its toll, we also don’t have an owner to bail us out.
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Sanllehi:
- Wanted to extend Emery’s contract
- overspent on Pepe with resources we don’t have to service his relationship with a super agent
- Was part of a decision making process that destroyed this season by failing to sack Emery when there was still time to salvage the league campaign and allowed the situation to deteriorate into an unrescuable mess
- Continues to waste resources on signings like Soares again servicing a relationship with a super agent
- As director of football at a football club on manager number three of the season, bears the ultimate responsibility for the decisions made this season
- Signed off on letting Ramsey’s contract expire and extending Ozils deal
I’m not saying he and he alone is accountable. He is however, much more accountable than a lot of people appear to acknowledge.
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That definitely sounds more like an opinion than a fact to me. Which is obviously fine haha, but I just don’t see that there’s a confirmed basis in truth there.
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So we should have given Ramsey (a crock) £300-400k a week???
And almost EVERYBODY wanted Ozil’s contract extended.
Pepe was a huge statement signing.
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I’d argue if losing what’s turned out to be a now crocked and overpaid Ramsey as maybe not a mistake.
Everything else in your analysis looks spot on though.
I’m surprised at how many people defend the 72m on Pepe (wrong position to blow all the limited funds on and didn’t hit the ground to improve our position rather than see it drop). Pepe may turn good one day but the outcome to date make this decision look even more odd than it looked at the time.
I think Raul is just a big fat super agent spending machine. Terrible fit for limited resources Arsenal. The cupboards now stripped bare so little hope of a big Summer rebuild.
I’d argue that the Ozil contract was also a parting gift from Gazidis and Wenger as well as possibly a Raul balls up.
I’m amazed though that Raul still has so many defenders on this forum. The guys clearly useless but there you go - what do I know. I’m just an irrelevant old fart these days I guess.
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Absolutely an opinion, if we only deal with confirmed bases in truth on OA then I’ve radically misunderstood the last better part of two decades 
I was just conscious that @sevchenko and @SRCJJ had responded to me above and I hadn’t really elaborated on the points made.
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The strange thing about this signing was that if a winger was the main priority and we had a 70m budget for that position, surely it would have been better to get someone who was more proven at this level.
But even stranger was that we were desperate, and still are, for some quality defenders and yet chose to buy a Chelsea reject, a crocked LB and an unknown quantity in the PL who we loaned straight back to the team we bought him from.
I don’t think it’s possible to run this club any worse than it is, so I have to come to the conclusion that Kroenke is a spurs supporter and only employs decision makers that are also spurs supporters.
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If Pepe was a statement signing then I can’t say I’m especially pleased with what that statement says about us.
For me, as positive as some of our youngsters have been this season, shearing the squad of some of its best experience as quickly as its happened in the last couple of years has not been beneficial. Ramsey and Giroud are particularly players I’m thinking of here. Whether Ramsey would be injured if he were still here we can’t know for sure (although I’ll certainly concede its distinctly possible) but he was also one of our only real leaders.
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Translation:
Stan Kroenke, owner of @Arsenal, will not have been amused that the English club has made losses 
Although it is normal with the dire management of Raül Sanllehí and Edu (and agent Arturo Canales) 
With Wenger this did not happen.
We had a decent summer window and unearthed a couple of gems. Got rid of some dead weight and secured a future world class CB.
In contrast Wenger and Gazidis let go of 150m worth of assets for free, which we are still suffering from.
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Kike marin doesnt half talk a lot of shit.