Özim wrote:It amazes me people are harping on about improvements, looks at the points we've picked up, looked at where we are in the table, look at how much closer we are to the CL spots and look at whether we turn up for 45 minutes or a whole match.
Yes of couse there's been some differences, there always will be with a new manager coming in with different ideas and usually there's an upturn in results as well (which at this point is very negligible), but overall we still are pretty poor, take Auba out (and we need to now as he'll be banned for 3 games thanks to Arteta getting him to do things he's no good at) and we'd be in real trouble.
I admit Torreira has improved a lot, but that's simply because he's playing in his natural position, something almost the whole fanbase could see was needed and that Emery wouldn't do.
Luiz has been decentish but has got away with the same misjudgments he wasn't getting away with before, so it could have been very different, as I said he should be in midfield replacing Xhaka.
Other than players chasing more and the odd decent move for a goal and some of that good old passing sideways we've loved so much under Wenger (can't believe we found another manager who wants to play that way rather than to our strengths) there's been little change.
Personally I'm not impressed and I don't like his support for players like Xhaka which some pretend he has to do, but the truth is he rates the guy, he wanted him at Man City (thankfully for City Guardiola is a better judge of talent), has showered praise upon him and plays him every match (again though it's a disgrace this guy has been allowed to walk back into the team after what happened and 4 years of awful displays).
You Just Know...if a Decisive Manager Like Carlo Anceloti, or FranK Lampard took the helm at Arsenal, [ not that i wanted any of them! ]
They would have been decisive & BEFORE they even entered the club, the Stadium, they would have their people
determine who are the worst players statistically at the club & Sit them on the Bench till January, Out the window & in with New quality
[ As Lampard has done to Old Man Giroud, with No apologies, No indecision, No Clean Slate & 2nd Chances... He knew Tammy could do
everything Giroud can & MORE, Not afraid of Player Power, Head of Football Squabbles etc, He Knows Giroud is SLOW & OLD
& his only skill is being Tall & Strong on 1SPOT with his back to goal!
Tammy can do All of that BETTER, With Pace, Dribbles, also good at Headers etc...
If any one of those guys got the helm at Arsenal, Xhaka would have been Benched & GONE Already in the Window,
From his stats as SLOW, Error Prone player, 7+ errors leading to goals conceeded for Arsenal since his came & that stat was from early last season
I hope Arteta grows in common sense & does the right thing in January, I was really hoping to be rid of Xhaka by now.