DiamondGooner wrote:If Arteta gets this team playing decent football ........... that is all we're asking for.
Again, pretty standard stuff.
Until he does that don't expect us to play cheer leader for a guy most if us, including me knew we should never of hired in the first place and yet I still gave him benefit of doubt.
What AFC fan in their right mind is going to be happy about us being 8th and out of Europe ....... not even above Spurs which you treasure so much, it was a complete abject faliure and we beat none of those pub teams you told us about either.
End of story, its not on us to prove anything, again, Arteta simply needs to do his job.
I don't see anyone cheerleading for Arteta.
I see the opposite - and any deviation from the ultra negative is met with stupid crap.
Like I said, the fact is that we have improved since the day Arteta took over, not by much but by a little.
We were actually good in the second half of the season and that is why I am positive.
I like that we are not going after big name expensive stars, instead buying younger players with high potential that can moulded into a team. I have long thought that the difference between so called 'stars' and lesser known players who have the talent required is often just PR and not much else.
I am very excited at the prospect of some of our younger players developing further too. We have some incredible talent.
That's about my position and I simply don't know how that translates into Arteta being 'my boy'.
The several mistakes Arteta has made have been called out by me too - rookie mistakes. That doesn't mean I have to go along with the ridiculously negative picture being painted of him, the club and anyone we sign, might sign, are rumoured to sign, sold, might sell, loaned, whatever.
For some, everything Arsenal has turned into 'it's crap and it's Arteta's fault'.
I do get the emotion of it, but when I see people actually hoping we have a shit season and take huge financial hits as a club just so they can wallow in their own negativity, I just find that totally pathetic. I don't know how any fan can come back from those types of statements. To me, they are not Arsenal fans at all.