Mikel Arteta | Lego Pep watch

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I just don’t know how he’s accumulated such an amount of good will from so many? He’s only ever been an assistant to Pep and this is his first management role and he’s doing absolutely abysmally. If he at least had a track record of previous success you could understand why they might persist. Just a really bad manager and Arsenal have a long road back.
 

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Less than 0% chance of Benitez going to Everton, he knows how much he's still loved by us, still has a lot of affection for the club and won't jeopardize that for just another PL midtable gig.
I look at the thread title, so why is he called Lego Pep? What did i missed?
I would say cause he’s like a easily breakable, fake pep.
 

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Anything but a win against Norwich and you’d think he was done.
A. Conte just commited to Sky Sports Italy, according to Di Marzio. Maybe Conte is still available, I don’t know? Worded as a loan deal to Sky untill his next dugout from Di Marzio.
Conte will wait and take city job. It will be perfect for him.
 

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Arsenal are definitely sticking with him at least for this whole season when they are still buying all these players for him whether they are good enough or not, they aren't exactly cheap. 150M for the lot they bought!
 

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What's the Maitland-Niles stuff about? He wanted to be loaned to Everton but Arsenal said no and now he's banished to training with the youths? What's the thinking behind that?
 

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How are these stats skewed when he played a fair chunk of his games as a centre back?

Im seeing stats like these, but I'm not sure if they impress or not? :wenger:
 

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How many talented players has he alienated/let go, while holding onto and buying dross?

Playing Holding, Kalasinac, Xhaka, Chambers, Soares... So bad it could be a money laundering front.

He's so unimpressive on all fronts. Even on days when Ole gets clearly out-coached, you can compare this with the squad he inherited and see the improvements. Arteta has zero redeeming features.
 

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Arsenal are definitely sticking with him at least for this whole season when they are still buying all these players for him whether they are good enough or not, they aren't exactly cheap. 150M for the lot they bought!
Unless we have an unbelievable reaction and go on a winning streak, there is no chance he lasts the season. Every signing are "manager sacked" proof. All very young with potential that any coach could use.
 

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Of the 92 professional clubs in England, Arsenal are one of only two clubs yet to score a league goal this season. Granted 2 of their first 3 games were tough but that's damning.
 
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The thing with Maitland-Niles who's one of the few players who can give decent performance. More than few Arsenal supporters say he's the most underrated one from the squad, not to mention a workhorse in critical situations.

Arteta should just forgive him and start working together to save the club from absolute shower fest this season. It's gonna most likely end like with Ozil. Arteta will be blocked on social media by few players.
 
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The thing with Maitland-Niles who's one of the few players who can give decent performance. More than few Arsenal supporters say he's the most underrated one from the squad, not to mention a workhorse in critical situations.

Arteta should just forgive him and start working together to save the club from absolute shower fest this season. It's gonna most likely end like with Ozil. Arteta will be blocked on social media by few players.
He can give a decent performance and be a solid option covering RB and CM. But workhorse is maybe a step too far. He suffers from persistent lapses of focus be it against Brighton or City. He just seems incapable of staying in the game the whole time. Combine that with the fact that he likes to takes tricky/risky passes and you have 1 or 2 bad mistakes a game.
 

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He can give a decent performance and be a solid option covering RB and CM. But workhorse is maybe a step too far. He suffers from persistent lapses of focus be it against Brighton or City. He just seems incapable of staying in the game the whole time. Combine that with the fact that he likes to takes tricky/risky passes and you have 1 or 2 bad mistakes a game.
Sure, he'll make mistakes as everyone else, but at least he doesn't seem the type to capitulate easily. That makes him very likeable and sometimes as positive aspect as Tierney.

His performance vs Chelsea on loan at West Brom was enough sign to make him important player and from looks of it, he just want to play regular football.
 

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The thing is from the first 3 games I am not surprised they are bottom. Two games were tough and the first game away to a newly relegated side is never easy. It's the shambolic work in the transfer window that gets me. Absolutely no quality bought yet they have spent so much money. They could have easily bought a spine with £170m. A club based in London, off a COVID season where most European clubs need money. Their GK, CB and CM needed upgrading and they have bought worse players in whilst keeping Xhaka, who's already been sent off this season. It's terrible management by the club.
 

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Why is that? What makes you think we wouldn't have got someone like Emery?
"Might".

At any point in time a mess can be made of an appointment, but the structure has changed several times so the decision makers have changed with it.

But what we do know is that a mess has been made.
 

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Arteta successfully pulled Arsenal out of relegation zone today. Story of the day belongs to him.
 

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Another win and his job is secured until Christmas, if not longer.
 

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Great result.

Keeps the fraud at the club.

Can see them dropping points in their next 2 league games however.
 

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Arsenal ownership is one of the worst out there. For 10 years they have neglected the team and have not been willing to buy quality players. It has been cheap solutions and or free agents for Arsenal. And unlike other big teams they have been selling their best players to other big clubs. Only when the ownership has been put under real pressure they have spend some money.

They are 3-4 years behind top 4. Even Leicester, Tottenham and Everton is getting better than Arsenal.

Watching Lego Pep murder this team further and the ownership being ok with it says everything about them.
They've actually spent a fair bit the last few years, the problem is that they've mostly spent that on rubbish. Pretty far away from the Wenger days when they constantly would buy talented youngsters and turn them into world class players
 

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Can't be a good sign when they barely scraped a win against a side that have been the whipping boys by other clubs already this season
 

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They've actually spent a fair bit the last few years, the problem is that they've mostly spent that on rubbish. Pretty far away from the Wenger days when they constantly would buy talented youngsters and turn them into world class players
Wenger actually signed a fair few flops even in his prime, it's why the 'invincibles' had poor squad depth.