Highbury Hillbilly wrote:elkanofan wrote:Highbury Hillbilly wrote:Why compare Arteta to Klopp or Wenger or Mou? They are from a different era of football and had years to build their style and reputation, starting from the obscure depths of lower division football.
Arteta is a modern era manager that walked into a top job with millions to spend. His tactics and man management should be compared to modern counterparts Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney and Xavi.
Gerrard
Xavi
Rooney
Arteta
Lampard
In that order.
Arteta is no longer the leagues worst manager as Lampard has returned. Rooney has done a great job with the world against him at Derby.
Gerrard and Xavi have actually done solid work in lower leagues and worked with lesser players to understand the fundamentals of management and put their philosophy on average players to help them understand how long it takes for it to settle in, along with the everyday grind of management without the finances to buy anyone you want and premium level players.
I wouldn't even go that far. Lampard got Top 4 with the squad he had, mostly young guys like Tammy, Pulisic, Hudson-Odoi, Reeece James, Mason Mount and Christensen. Missed out on an FA Cup because he didn't have a quality striker, which we did.
Maybe he looks worse in retrospect because he was actually sacked.
Arteta's win over him in the FA Cup and the 4-1 at Emirates which effectively sacked Lampard showed me he's a 1 trick pony basic manager, riding 100% on his reputation who has one system which works well but anything outside of it he's clueless.
His interview after the FA Cup final where he said he 'Didn't know what went wrong' summed up his basic skills as a manager. Arteta isn't that bad, he's awful but not that level terrible.
Chelsea may have had a transfer ban but they had a very good team, even now they still don't have a good reliable striker.
Lampard got the Everton job based on his reputation as a player, as a manager he's basic!