Mikel Arteta | Lego Pep watch
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I loved him as a player for us but i've quickly grown to really dislike him. Would hate to see him win the league. 
Funnily enough, he’s never been anything but respectful of his time at Everton and grateful for Moyes’ effect on his career.I loved him as a player for us but i've quickly grown to really dislike him. Would hate to see him win the league.
Good for him. He's still a prick.
excellentI can't stand this prick and what makes it worse is we're nowhere near the level to be able to dismantle his season.
Imagine back in the 2000s having to watch Rafa Benitez win the league.
Imagine back in the 2000s having to watch Rafa Benitez win the league.
Agree with this. Liverpool's general play isn't even better than that of the current United squad - underwhelming.
They're both at similar points and both struggling to put away even the poor teams in the league and they're both scraping results with late goals. I think they're both pretty similar really.
What a deluded post. I hate the cnut same way rival fans hate Bruno. Get it now?
I mean what is this?
You need to watch more of both teams if you think that.
You wouldn’t dare say that to Arteta in person. He’s a hard bastard.
Don't care about his touchline antics, much prefer the distant brooding presence(mostly) of Wenger. But his antics are par for the course in the time of Pep, Klopp, Simeone etc. So energetic that they'll almost get involved in play themselves.
Completely fair rival fans do not like him. I would probably be the same if he wasn't our manager. I hated Mourinho much the same way. On top of it Mourinho had a bit of a god complex. I think he is ever so slightly better as of late. They should have given a lot more yellow cards at the start of his managerial career. He may have toned it down significantly by now had they done so.
The three managers you name come across as weirdos who can't control themselves. Arteta comes across as the kind of manager that practices his antics in front of a mirror at home before doing it on a pitch. Explains how sometimes his timing is terrible. Like when easily dominating at Anfield he goes and pulls some hard man shit in front of Klopp and all that happens is that he riles up 40000 savages.
Mourinho was a different level altogether. He came in, heaped tons of pressure on himself with his talk and spending and then went on to justify the so-called god complex completely. Chelsea players would've run themselves into the ground for him. We hated Mourinho because we feared his teams.
Arteta is a decent, methodical manager who made the most of his initial low-expectation seasons at Arsenal. Good for him. Just seems to try too hard sometimes wanting to be spoken of in the same vein as the top top managers. Rival fans don't really fear his teams in the same way as they'd fear the best teams of Pep, Klopp, Simeone, Mourinho. The others, I hate. Arteta to me is just an annoyance. Somehow even his "I'm ashamed" rant came off more whiny and fake than the classics from others like "the wind deviated the ball".
I attribute this more to temperament than pre-meditation, but other than that, I agree. That was a very avoidable mistake from him (and Xhaka - in a rare misstep in an otherwise stellar season).
Mourinho is in no way comparable to Arteta. Arteta is an out and out gimp.
Celebrate that one you twat.
Liverpool already 1 point ahead of Arsenal and can make that 4 points as they should beat Arsenal in Anfield at the end of this month.
And with their current midfield they'll still finish at least 10 points behind Arsenal. Thiago is always out and they don't have a good enough lone DM to win the Premier League.
They have plenty of midfield options with or without Thiago. Arsenal won't be good enough to win it. Only Man City discovering championship form in the 2nd half of this season will be able to stop Liverpool from winning it.
Their only DM is Endo. They can't control games like Arsenal or City can. This title challenge talk will soon die down, you'll see.
Come on now. Mourinho is a horrendous person. Easily as annoying as any other manager in football. Arteta does run him very close though.
Good ebening!
They’re very thin on the ground in midfield and the quality (aside from Sbozoszlai) is hardly outstanding. MacAllister could be out for a duration of time too.
Van Dijk and Allison are undoubtably class and Alexander-Arnold is brilliant offensively but they do lack depth in defence and any injuries could seriously hamper them, particularly if they progress far in Europa.
They’ve got brilliant forward options, which are pretty much comparable to anyone in the league, so can always pop up with match-winning moments - as shown on many occasions already. I feel like they’re somewhat reliant on that though and could easily have dropped more points in the league so far.
Liverpool have the 5th best starting XI and 3rd best overall squad in the league with the 4th best manager. Not a chance they fluke another Covid title.
I think we've got really good depth in defence, trouble is that Matip and Konate are injury prone. But Gomez used to be top quality and still has that level in him (just a lot more erratic after all his injuries). And Quansah seems a genuine talent.
We actually have the joint fewest conceded and joint most scored in the league so far. Our biggest issue is imo is game control. It's ridiculous how many games we only start playing after we go behind
Not sure where you pulled those views out of..
As for the latter they walked to the title during covid this one they'll simply finish top unless Man City can find their mojo again.
Taking player ability as their highest, City/Arsenal/United/Chelsea/Spurs all have better starting XIs than Liverpool.
Liverpool have a better squad depth than most though which is more important than strongest XI for a season. Only City and Arsenal (since this year) have better squads.
Pep, EtH, Poch, Ange, arguably Gary O'Neil are better managers.
I'm a busy la'.
Watching this whiney cnut lose took some of the sting away from todays loss.