Arsenal will be back on this stage with Mikel Arteta at the helm.
Please, please trust me on that.
Please.
They didn’t lose a single game in the entire Champions League this season. Not one.
A penalty shootout is all they were away from immortality.
They WILL be back…
🥺🏆 Mikel Arteta: “It’s one of the best feelings I’ve ever had. I couldn’t watch City game. I could hear noises from inside, then my son opened the door, ran towards me…
…he was crying and he said ‘we are champions daddy!”.
@BeanymanSports 🎥
Jamie Carragher said it perfectly.
By the end of this month, Mikel Arteta will either be considered a genius or a fraud.
Does that not tell you everything that you need to know about how flawed mass narratives are?
Also concerning how many intelligent people go along with it…
It took Pep until the 22nd of March to figure out the best way of playing for his team.
By that time, City were already knocked out of the Champions League by an Mbappé-less Madrid.
This idea that coaches ALWAYS get it right is nonsense.
Less eyes on City. Less pressure.
But the broader point centres around Arteta.
He is the reason Arsenal are in this position in the first place.
He is the reason Arsenal got their highest ever points tally in Premier League history. The reason Arsenal are competing for major titles every season. The reason Arsenal are in the Champions League semi-final for two consecutive seasons. Even though, when he arrived, the club were physically, technically, culturally, and psychologically inept.
Be grateful for what you have. And the fact that you are competing in the first place. With a club that has the fourth of fifth biggest wage bill in the league. With a club that plays by the rules. With a club that says 'no' when their coach or director wants a player for several seasons because of financial limitations. With a club that hasn't won the Premier League since 2004. Or a Champions League in their history.
Imagine if Arsenal lose the league on goal difference and lose the Champions League final.
Should Arteta be sacked? That's what people are discussing. Despite what I've said above.
Arteta is one of the best coaches in the world. In fact, he is the most complete in the world. GOOD LUCK replacing him. Similar to when Klopp left Liverpool. The foundations are so special that the next manager may succeed in the short-term, but all the best maintaining what he built over a long period of time. The only way that is possible is by replacing him with another one of the best managers in the world.
Wake up. Some people don't know what reality is, even if it slaps them in the face.
Hate being part of the Arsenal fan base sometimes. The only fan base that hate on our own team when we are still in all competitions, 4pts clear in the league, and unbeaten in Europe. What happened to supporting our team? Couple of bad games a were fucking booing! Mental 😂😂😅
Arsenal showed how to respond to adversity.
No victimhood crap.
Take the bull by the horn, use things that go against you as FUEL to drive forwards, and come out the other side on top irrespective of that adversity.
I saw no signs of victimhood second half. Proper mentality.