gamechannel wrote:theHotHead wrote:Power n Glory wrote:
Moyes took over last season when West Ham were in the relegation zone. He saved them from relegation and West Ham sacked Pellerini to appoint Moyes. There wasn’t a turnaround from the same manager.
Villa is a different story. They were playing Championship football the league before. I doubt there would have been a major outcry for him to be sacked if that were our position.
I agree with this, those are 2 entirely different scenarios to ours and Arteta's starting position. The only squads that are better than ours are Man City and Liverpool, I can't honestly say that Chelsea, Man U or Spurs have a better squad than us, Leicester, West Ham, Everton and Villa definitely don't have better squads than us. The fact that Arteta has got a decent team playing like chumps is not the fault of the players, especially when you consider that this squad is better thean emery's last squad and Emery's last squad is better than Wenger's last squad !
Who would I take from Chelsea ? Maybe Mount but I prefer ESR, Havertz doesn't get a game, Werner doesn't cut it for me and neither does Ziyech. Partey is better than Kante.
Who would I take from Man U ? Fernandes, Pogba, Rashford, Wan Bisaka. But at the same time I think Auba, Gabriel, Leno, Partey, Saka and ESR get into their team too.
Who would I take from Spurs ? Kane, Son, thats it, all their other players are no better than what we have.
If anyone tells me Leicester and Villa have better squads than us I know they are either wumming or just trying to stick to their argument and not give ground. The Leicester players I would take are Vardy, Barnes, Maddison and Perreira. Again I think Auba, Gabriel, Saka, Tierney and Partey get into their squad.
Their formula is simple. Suck off Artetas nuts when we win and blame the players when we lose. You won't convince them. He dresses up in those European fit turtle necks and jackets, uses an iPad, barks instructions from the sidelines, pretends as if he knows what he's doing, has a hot wife, uses buzz words like process, non-negotiables, tactics etc and has good dark hair. That's enough for them to collectively scream like little school girls, "OMG! MY MANAGER!!"
See this is the problem when you can’t read or comprehend anything, you just throw out hyperbolic bullshit that isn’t true.
Arteta is the same whether we win or lose, a rookie manager learning his way making some mistakes and doing some things right. We have to hope he does more of the latter and less of the former since it looks like the board have no intention of moving on from him. When we win you might get a few ‘don mikel’ comments as a joke to those who spend 24 hours a day slating him but that’s all it is. The squad is shit when we lose and still shit when we win, it’s good enough for about 8th so currently the combination of Arteta, odd Covid season and 500 red cards has us about 2 places below where we should be...that’s not enough to be foaming at the mouth and making drastic decisions over. I know it sucks and we’re not used to being in mid table but this is the reality of a neglected squad for 5+ years, the mistakes Mikel has made haven’t stopped us being top 4.
For me it was clear all summer we needed a creative CM over the Partey type, this is still a huge hole in the team as we couldnt afford one and I expect it to be addressed as #1 priority this summer. Mikel has until the end of the season to prove he deserves the chance to buy that player and have another window to improve the squad so that we can actually compete for top 4.
If we get that CM and hopefully keep Partey fit then we have a 10x better midfield for season, that alone I’m hoping will massively improve the quality of our play. The other big problem to solve is getting Auba firing again. Should we stick with Mikel into next season and still see shit football despite another window then his time will be well and truly up.
Anyway, back to sucking Mikel’s balls I go I guess...