Mikel Arteta, First-Team Manager

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It’s the perfect time to develop Azeez and Patino. They can follow in the great tradition of academy players saving Arteta’s bacon.

[starmandb]

It’s the perfect time to develop Azeez and Patino. They can follow in the great tradition of academy players saving Arteta’s bacon.

So Ray Kennedy saved Bertie mee’s bacon or was a fine player doing his job

[ag6789]

Tough game, but survived. Next few games are winnable but as we've seen nothing guaranteed. But others all round are also struggling, so if we could keep our head, we can get the 4th spot.
Take it game at a time.
But this 3 pts feel priceless after a barren and unsettling January.

[jayramfootball]

Don Mikel rides again

Players absolutely giving their all for him.

[Hypergooner]

Tough game, but survived. Next few games are winnable but as we've seen nothing guaranteed. But others all round are also struggling, so if we could keep our head, we can get the 4th spot.
Take it game at a time.
But this 3 pts feel priceless after a barren and unsettling January.

Good win! Great 3 point!
Despite Artetaballs failings going forward, we do look way more solid and hard to beat than we have for a very long time.
We really need to reserve judgement till the end of the season. My personal view is that they messed up not getting a striker in Jan. Having said that, if we get top 4, we will have a bigger cash fund and better ability to buy talent in the summer.

I'd bang it all on Declan Rice and two strikers.

[BexleyGooner]

I never realised Mikel could speak so many languages. 7 ffs. How do you even have the brain capacity to do that?

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I never realised Mikel could speak so many languages. 7 ffs. How do you even have the brain capacity to do that?

I speak four language and I’m dumb as fck.

[VCC]

I never realised Mikel could speak so many languages. 7 ffs. How do you even have the brain capacity to do that?

I speak four language and I’m dumb as fck.

Alot of the asian languages are similar, i speak two english and drunk when i am drinking

[Nuggets]

I never realised Mikel could speak so many languages. 7 ffs. How do you even have the brain capacity to do that?

If true that's impressive for a cone stacker

[Fran Solo]

I never realised Mikel could speak so many languages. 7 ffs. How do you even have the brain capacity to do that?

He's from Basque region. So, he almost automatically understand Spanish, Basque and French. He has played for PSG, so his French should be all right.
He was a Barcelona youth player. So he should understand Catalan.
He's been in England and Scotland for a long time. That's why his English is much better than mine.
That's five languages already.
The other two are Portuguese and Italian. I don't know how fluent he can speak those language. Portuguese is close to Spain though. Maybe the languages have many similarities.

[Goonerred]

I think non-English speaking people have an advantage over English speaking people where this is the mother-tongue. Firstly, they often learn English in school, so they then speak a universal language. Secondly, if they are from France, Spain, Portugal, and I think Italy, these languages have a similar syntax and verb conjugations. There are two verb conjugations in the English language, but about 5 in the above languages thus you have to learn 5 wordsfor each pronoun. If you are always used to these two another similar language might be easier to learn.

[Jedi]

Will go up again when we buy more players in the summer but looks like the club is finally being ran in a responsible manner.

[theHotHead]

That is good to see, spiralling wage bills and shit football are a terrible combination.

[jayramfootball]

Will go up again when we buy more players in the summer but looks like the club is finally being ran in a responsible manner.

Arteta and Edu are doing an incredibly good job with the squad. Cleaning things up AND advancing our position.

Summer will be important in terms of new signings, so those wages will go up, plus we need to extend a couple of contracts, but I suspect we’ll be paying less than we were even then.

[StockGooner]

This is not to take anything away form the great job in reducing the wage bill, but how are those figures calculated?

The 2020/21 increase was down to what exactly? £600k per week from the prior year? Assuming Auba increase but what else? Gabriel?

This year being a £70m drop so £1.3m a week? Ozil is £300k of that. Kolasinac? Auba gone now but he was still here until this month. Seems too steep surely although I know I'm missing some leavers from this summer but just can't think