carl_feedthegoat wrote:nottsblue wrote:I suspect he is mentally drained and fatigued from the 17/18 & 18/19 seasons. The energy and focus that was plain to see on the All or Nothing documentary was immense and I imagine it didn't let up in the Treble season.
If this is the case he needs to be honest with himself as to whether he still has the appetite for the day to day grind and to motivate himself and more importantly, the team.
Something is amiss for my money and maybe Arteta was his rock he cant replace.
He still has my support at this stage though, if for nothing else other than how brilliant we have been during his tenure. I think he will see out his contract and take another year out myself. Is this to the detriment of the club? Maybe, we shall see. But I hope we have the class to respect the man who brought us so many titles. Unless his replacement is ready to go theres no meaningful gain to be had by sacking him mid term.
He's making fucking shit decisions week in and week out though isn't he and its impossible to support him when he doesn't learn....some of them are just plain copy and paste mistakes that get pointed out every fuckign time but he still persists...........he did say hes incapable of changing his way to play football and when you have that attitude you leave yourself open to failure.
Facts are , he's only had 2 great DOMESTIC seasons since FEBRUARY 2016 and another one where we ended up being an embarrassing amount of points behind the Dipper winners and among those years hes been a total disaster in the Champions League....spent 100,s of millions and mostly on dross.
Sorry - cannot feel sorry or have any sentiment for a 20 million pound a year manager with that record and certainly cannot support him , not that I have any choice over the matter, just have to watch the same shite till he fucks off and we get someone else in.
He does make poor decisions, you cant dispute that. But for more decisive finishing we would have won yesterday and won at Leeds. The position would then be more favourable. But we didnt finish our chances and we are mid table. For now. We have the game in hand, and Villa at home is eminently winnable.
The striker situation we find ourselves in now, is that his or the DOF fault? Probably a bit of both as these things are never black and white. But he carrys the can and the buck stops at his door.
I dont think last season was as bad as has been made out. Yes we finished a long way behind the dippers, but they had a record breaking season with the FA behind them. We finished second which is no mean feat, you cant win the PL every year, and we have a pot on the sideboard which is never a bad thing and I for one still dont take for granted.
Europe will be his ultimate downfall as that is what he was brought in to win and we are no nearer to success in the CL since he came in. But we were robbed v spuds to be fair.
But in all honesty, though I still support him, if he was to leave and someone like Nagelsmann was brought in I wouldn't be too disappointed. Sometimes managers take a side as far as they can and theres nothing left to add. He isnt far from that I reckon
