Bodgers didn't do too badly, I seem to remember. No silverware but he did lead to you to a top 4 finish.
He did ok but was well out of his depth and didn't handle the pressure well. Will Arteta? No idea but who's available?
You’ve got to ask yourself why? You would have thought that Allegri would jump at the chance to manage Arsenal. Something isn’t right.
Dodgy as **** imo. It means the coach has to assemble a team from players he hasn't personally picked. Transfer committees are on the large a shambles. Rodgers at Liverpool had this type of set up and we bought some utter ****e that didn't fit with his style. What Arsenal need is someone with character to grab the team by the scruff of the neck and push it forward... this seems a bit flimsy imo.
If you brought in someone like Ancelotti to steady the ship short-term, with the explicit demand that Arteta is #2 with a view to being mentored to be ready to possibly take the job in the long-term, IMHO that could work. Kroenke seems far too conservative to risk taking Arteta (who has no real managerial experience on his CV) , at a time when getting back into the PL top 4 ASAP is a must.
I said on our board that maybe Arsenal aren't looking too attractive to top level managers. They're in a bit of a state at the moment. Finished outside the top four twice in a row, have a team full of players that aren't good enough for their stature and their fans have become a laughing stock due to the way they turned on their greatest ever manager along with the rise in popularity of the ridiculous AFTV. A massive rebuilding job is needed for them and big name managers tend not to favour those types of jobs as it puts their reputation at risk. They often prefer taking over sides that are near enough ready-made for success but for a few needed tweaks. It's probably why Arteta is now favourite because he has no managerial reputation and is up for the task of trying to rebuild them.
Yeah Matth, we get it. You think it's a risk. Care to tell me which of the managers on the european merry go round they should employ? I'll give you an analogy; we took on Moyes instead of Giggs because Moyes was experienced and Giggs was a 'risk'. We will never know how Giggs would have turned out but sure as hell know how Moyes turned out. Arteta is Giggs.
Not just experience though, was it. He had Everton operating at / slightly above their financial power in the PL for several years, so the premise that given so much more resource he could do so much better IMHO was sound. What nobody really understood at the time was the sheer iron will of Fergie in making the 2012-13 squad (some of whom were coming to the end of the road) into emphatic PL winners. Nobody else (even Fergie himself) was going to do the same the next season.
You're missing the point, this isn't about Moyes. By the way, no one understood what Fergie did? Seriously?
Plenty of Premier League experienced managers have failed. Experience isn't everything. I think it's finding the perfect balance of motivation, willingness, tactics, luck and star quality that you need on any given day, over the course of an entire season. As an aside, how many of the Leicester City side that won the Premier League had had experience of winning anything prior to that? There has to be more to it than that.
Plus funds from sales - so if they get rid of Welbeck, Mustafi, Holding, Chambers, Cech, Ospina, Xhaka, El Neny, Kolasinac that's another £5m to play with easily.
