After many years of arguing about whether or not Arsene should be our manager we can now turn our attentions to fighting about who should be the next manager. We are even managing to fight about how the selection process is done, never mind who should be anointed.(yes that’s not a typo).
Everyone will have their personal preferences ,and we will all have formed these opinions with what we regard is clear thinking from a position of knowledge. The fact is that we all believe our opinion is right, otherwise we would change it. The problem here is that we are all reaching our conclusions based on entirely individual criteria. So a consensus is basically impossible.
So first we have to establish what we want from the manger that we can pick . The trouble is we all want something different. Not vastly different and of course we all want some of the same things.
I mean we all want to win, right? We all want to win as much as possible at least. But honestly, that is just about as far as it goes in terms of universal mutual agreement.
I want a manager that I like, and like a lot. I have an emotion attachment to Arsene that is probably unique, but I want at least the chance of becoming similarly attached to the next man. I want to respect him as a human being before all else. He needs to have a love of Arsenal FC. I want to admire his football philosophy, his personality and his commitment to values that I hold important. I would like him to be loyal to certain players that I have come to hold dear. I would like him to be handsome with Lego hair and a Spanish accent. I think you know where I’m going here by now?
Of course people will say Arteta has no managerial experience and they are right. But I would say that simply means he has never failed or been sacked. The reality is that this is a major drawback and it would be a huge risk. It would be a bold move.
Ivan Gazidis “What I will say is that it’s important to me that we continue the football values that Arsene has instilled in the club. I want to see somebody who can continue that for our fans. Somebody who will continue to play exciting, progressive football that gets people interested and excited in the games we play. But I also think there is a significant piece with Arsenal Football Club of how the candidate represents the club. That’s important to me.”
“we need to be bold and get the person we believe is the right person.
Then there is Vieira not so handsome and no hair at all. But I am prepared to compromise.
Allegri seems to be the popular choice among the on-line fans. But how many of Ivan’s criteria does he meet? He has been hugely successful at Juventus and would bring a lot of experience and a will to win had is clear for all to see. I would suggest that winning at Juventus is very much par , just like winning at Barca, Bayern, Celtic and PSG. If he brings “par” to Arsenal that will be 4th or 5th. There is however no denying the merits of such an appointment. Certainly the “win at all costs” brigade would be as happy as pigs in shit, and that at very least would give us a short respite from their continual moaning about poor defending.
I think if I was to be held accountable for the decision I would likely take the middle ground and try to get Unai Emery as he seems to meet more criteria than most.
However, what can not and must not happen is that we don’t give the new manager a fair crack of the whip. Many of us will not get the man we would chose, and we have to accept it from the word go. We have to accept that an appointment we would not have made is not an attack on our vast knowledge on how to run a massive brand company. Just accept that the board made a mistake by not appointing your man and try not to point out how much better it would have been had they just listened to you, or worse still me.
*I can’t help myself*
Positively Arsenal 
If you are joining us late Andy did his normal excellent review earlier and should be read first.
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I’m from Malta and half the island here supports Italian teams while the other half supports english teams.That being said half of my friends support either Inter Juve or Milan but the majority support Juventus and they all say that part of Juventus success is down to the CEO who is Guiseppe Marotta he was the brains behind the signings at Juve.I’m not trying to bash Allegri but making him out to be a god of football when he had a lot of help is fucking laughable to say the least.Juve supporters don’t hold him in high regard because most of the success was achieved under Conte whilst Allegri found a good team when he arrived.Also he had a lot of help from senior executives as well.It’s not just down to the manager for a club to win trophies but you need and experienced team behind the scenes as well.
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Completely agree on the Monaco manager, I read he may be available this summer and his recent record should merit serious consideration.
Would be quite happy with Allegri, and have always rated Ancelotti, though it is said he is not what they are looking for.
Arteta could be interesting. smart, highly rated, loves the club, and reportedly an excellent coach, as it is believed Sterling amongst others has found out. If the club move from a one man rules all to a more delegated, committee based approach in an attempt to replace the irreplaceable, a strong team around him might negate relative inexperience. I would imagine specialist coaches will be either retained or bought in, if say Arteta is weak on defence (not saying he is btw), hopefully he, or the appointed man would be working in tandem and harmony with a coach whose strength is defence.
Maybe Arteta might be too close, or even the opposite to some players? one for Ivan and co to decide.
Arteta could be a Zidane, or he could be a Tim Sherwood, or maybe just a genius waiting to blossom who happens to love the club.
His appointment either as a manager, or maybe assistant would not surprise at all.
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i want a manager that talk like arsene. one that is tall and lanky like him. that love arsenal and already at the club. my choice is mertersaker.
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There are two questions – first who would I like as manager ? I would be really pleased if we chose a young, track suited coach such as Arteta, Vieira, Nagelsman, Inzahi, Wagner or even Howe who would be given the chance to stamp a whole new identity on the playing staff and the club.
Who I think will be appointed is a safe pair of hands, and as days go by and the jungle drums remain silent as the grave, the more convinced I am the recruitment is already done and Don Carlo will be revealed in a few days.
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Maybe Don Carlo in place to help a younger successor for a couple of years?
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Totally off topic, but I’ve just read Mesut’s agent’s savaging of Keown and I would say it’s totally deserved. If you are going to dish it out, it’s about time you get a mouthful back!
I’ll come back to the topic another time.
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Whoever the next manager is here’s hoping one or two Rooneyisms (they’re a bit like a back spasms, afflicting the central nervous system) are called in his favour when his players are in the opposing pelanty area.
Now that would be a change (boom boom!).
Nevermind Rooney how about getting a simple foul? Danny was cleaned out twice in the first away match that set the standard, not fouled in the box but cleaned out, twice (L.o.L.isms)!
There it was.
“Misguided””Theatre”, “game management”, I don’t know why these officials don’t understand or use the descriptive interpretation of the word “referee” as in to referee, I mean, they must have heard of it in use, once or twice. Perhaps they have advised to do so by people that Experts in PR? Undeniably so. Perhaps that is just one area where they have been going, so obviously and undeniably, wrong? No need to even discuss the professional inability to use a funting stopwatch. They don’t even know how to describe their own job! “I. Am. A. Referee. I referee sporting contests? No?! Oh. Ok. I think I understand…
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If Arsene doesn’t coach defence,l, then where does one even begin to describe or define the inability to use a stopwatch in a professional sport? Asking for a friend.
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Mandy,
Arteta’ start to life as a coach has already far outstripped the Neville Neville’s of this Earth, in fact they’ll never even come close to what he’s achieved in his first seasons as a coach.
To be fair to Tim he’s done better then the Neville’s too, but then they haven’t exactly set the bar very high. But no baubles there either.
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After the side splitting commission raising decision by the washermen at Man Utd to get rid of the head coach who won them their last title so that they could load up the laundry room to their satisfaction I’d like to see Phelen given another go by a club after his last chance as a manager (different to a coach!) didn’t work out.
but unfortunately he doesn’t appear to have right credentials to keep on popping up on the magic roundabout. Which is probably fortunate for him in the personal moral and emotional sense, I’m just writing as a selfish lover of the beautiful game. Good coaches should be coaching (that last sentence was not a cryptic critique of the Neville Neville’s and everything that they represent but you’re welcome to interpret it that way!).
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Utd getting rid of Phelen after he’d contributed to three titles and two CL finals is one of the bigger stories in English Football from recent years.
Which is why there’s been sweet FA coverage of that story and the consequences bar maybe two minutes on a radio show in the football media these past few years. Got to protect Scudamore’s brand at all costs even in the period when it was eating itself alive.
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< and for those same reasons outlined above it was so good that the club gave over the centre circle to AW, First Lord Sir Bob Wilson, and Gunnery Mastersmith Pat Rice. To the coaches. None of whom really wanted the limelight or to be the centre of attention.
A marked contrast to the likes of the coaches/plundits/failed former managers/professional critics out there. You can't help but note the difference!
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The discussion about who will come next has been rather mute since the announcement.
I cannot see how it could have been possible to make that announcement when they did, unless they already had someone in place, who ticked all the boxes.
I suspect the announcement was when it was as a way of trying to encourage the players to win the Europa League, but that failed.
AW talked today and on Sunday about how he wanted the new manager to follow the traditions of the club and that seems to have been the theme repeated again and again.
At the press conference on Sunday he said that the new manager was younger than him, I think he may have actually said “was” and that he didn’t want to say anything that might intimidate him. I thought that was a clue as well.
Would any of the superstar choices like Enrique or Allegri take any notice of what AW said or be intimidated by him?
How much younger them him are they anyway?
Would any of them be interested in the traditions and style of the club, or just their own style and their own way to be successful?
I suspect not.
That is why I surmise that the new manager will be an ex-Arsenal player, who will, by nature and instinct know what AW was talking about and who has the love for the club and what he has turned it into to be interested to follow his path.
This indicates to me that it would be either Vieira, Arteta or Bergkamp, or a combination of 2 of them.
They are younger than him and could be intimidated if he started giving advice at this stage.
Both Vieira and Arteta are at clubs who might not like it if they became distracted at the end of their seasons by the publicity an announcement that they were the new manager would make.
I am sure we will be hearing soon.
Like all of you I wait with bated breath and hope that we are not disappointed.
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David Dein (beIN): “The bank manager did not endorse the funding of the Emirates Stadium until he made sure Arsène Wenger would sign a long term contract to stay at Arsenal. Without the money generated from CL football every year, thanks to him, we would not have made it today.
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It seems coming 2nd this year means something, as Manure have reached that great height.
Times are certainly changing.
No doubt, if they win the FA cup it will mean something as well.
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Wenger’s comments from his last pre match presser, from football.london
On how he feels
It’s a bit strange for me. But I’m slowly understanding that it finishes, so I’m adapting now. I will try to finish as well as I can and hopefully not disappoint you for your last press conference.
on how strange it’s been since Sunday
It was very strange and I’m grateful for [Sunday] because you can say it’s sad but if you look at it in an objective way, when you have the privilege to manage a club of that stature for 22 years, you should be very, very happy and say ‘thank you very much, it was a great privilege’. That’s how I look at it.
on how difficult it is for the players to get themselves up for these two games
I must say the players’ attitude was great last night. They were fantastic. I believe there is a special bond in the team. There’s something waiting to come out of this team that is special, that I like very much. Hopefully they can express that next season. If you look at it in a very objective way, we’ve scored 73 goals and will score more certainly, but we conceded too many goals. It’s quite simple to look at what needs to be improved.
on how the next few days will pan out for him
As I said, I will try to do my job until the last minute I work here, and then think about the future. At the moment I don’t at all, because I’m sitting in front of you.
I don’t realise it’s my last press conference because I have just the Huddersfield game in mind, and try to do my job as well as I can until the last minute I’m here.
on if he’s someone who gets emotional
Yes, but I’m very passionate and at a very young age, I realised that if I wanted to survive in this job, I had to get control of my emotions or I wouldn’t survive. I don’t know if you [can] imagine, but at 33 years of age, I was responsible for a top team in France.
I’m 68 today and I’ve never stopped. There’s a long learning process of controlling who you really are. Control the animal that is inside you. That helps me a lot.
I went through some fantastic periods in my life, and as well some more difficult periods. The fact that I managed to keep control of my emotions and my reactions helped me a lot to do my job. Now, after I finish here, I can re-connect a little bit and be a bit more who I am really.
On if we’ve seen the real Arsène Wenger
You have seen the real Arsène Wenger, one aspect of me, which is a desperate guy who wants to win football games. That’s the thing that matters. That’s what is a really big part of my personality.
On how difficult he’s found it since announcing he’d leave
It’s difficult because this is my life, every year. I have 20,000 trees out there and I saw every one like that [small] and they are now massive. I will greet every one of them before I leave and say ‘thank you’.
Of course that’s my life, I don’t know anything else, and that’s why it will be difficult. I will leave a club where I can be proud of what is behind me because it has a fantastic structure, fantastic conditions for the next manager.
I think I have been a little part in the development of a club that is historical and that has a huge fan base. I leave the club in the conditions where the future of the club is in a strong position.
On what he’d ask the new manager
The advice I’d give to him is to give his best and respect the values of the club. This club is respected all over the world and I would just like him to bring his own ideas. It will be a different speech, a different way to see the game.
It’s a chance for the players to see something different. As well, on the other hand, I’d say to respect what has been built here and what people care about as well.
You have seen on Sunday, when you speak about the goodbye I had with the fans, is that some of the fans don’t always agree with my decisions but I think they respected one thing: that I was honest, loyal and committed to the values of the club and to give my best for the club.
They wanted to tell me ‘we agree with you on that’. And I would like my successor to do that as well.
On his most cherished memory
Maybe my first title here because i came completely unknown and in my first full year I won the championship.
I would say personally from 2006 to 2015 it was certainly the period where I needed to be the strongest and did the best job, because to accept to commit to five years when you build the stadium to work with restricted resources and keep the club in a position where we can pay our debts back, I personally feel I did my best job in that period.
Not the most glamorous maybe, but the most difficult.
On the match he would change
It’s always the last one – not Leicester because there was nothing at stake – but Atletico Madrid because when you come out of these two games and you think you are out of the semi-final of the Europa League, when you come out of the first leg with 1-1 and it should be 3-0, it is what you would like to change.
Even with my experience, when it was 1-0 in the second half [of the first leg] I never thought it would finish 1-1. I thought maybe we won’t score the second goal, but we cannot concede – they never crossed the halfway line. Always the last pain is the biggest one.
On it not being the Champions League final in 2006
That was in 2006, it is over 11 years ago and of course it is still painful but my last pain, the last big defeat, is that.
On going out on a win and what it would mean
the last result will not matter, I will say to the players, ‘look we have a way to prepare for the future, and the best way to do that is to win your last game and go in a positive mind into next season.’
We have gone through a season of ups and down but they have always created something special and I would like that to come out in the last game by the way we play the game. In fairness thats what they did last night [at Leicester] and I hope that for them… The best way to prepare for next season is to win the next game.
On whether his legacy trophies or the stadium
It is a bit of all of that. I would say that the legacy is what you think is important in the way you behave with your players. I get many messages from players and it was not always [about] the trophies we won together, they are more the human aspect that the players keep and the values of the club that they keep when they go somewhere else.
That is what you want and after that you want the style to play, because a manager has an influence on the way you play football, the idea that you want to give to the game you love; the structures of the club; the way you can influence individual people’s lives, the players as well, all that together you want to have a little bit to be remembered for.
Will you miss the media?
Yes, because nobody will ask me anymore about things. I always told you I love football and I love the game. Every time I can talk about the game with you, I’m happy. I didn’t enjoy many of the press conferences because it was sometimes, for different reasons, to get my emotional response.
But every time I can talk about the game and the things I love in the game, I’m happy. On that front I will miss the press conferences.
Last long-term manager?
It’s a very unique press conference because Ferguson was the last one. I take this opportunity to wish him well. I see he is doing well, and I think he made 26 years and I am on 22. There are some young managers who are already five or six years in charge. But 22? I don’t know. You never can say I am the last one, it can happen again.
On the newly-promoted teams staying up
The Premier League buys all the international players, and the academies have produced some very good players. They go down to the Championship but they are prepared when they come up. I must say the financial power of the Championship has improved as well, so they can buy, even in the Championship, foreign players who have quality.
A few years ago, the Championship players were not prepared physically. But that has gone. In the lower leagues they produce the same intensity physically as the Premier League, and sometimes more, so the physical difference has gone completely. They all have good managers now as well, they are educated and prepared, and that’s why they survive.
And, especially in the first year, they are ready for a fight. They know from the first game of the season they will have to fight to stay in the league and that creates a bond and a desire and readiness to fight until the last second. You talk about Huddersfield, they had to go to City, to Chelsea, then play Arsenal At the moment they haven’t lost one of the games. That is absolutely exceptional. You would think, my friends that will be zero points in the first two games, and they made two points.
Biggest changes in the Premier League
There’s two aspects I would say. The Premier League has created many jobs, when I arrived we were 80 at Arsenal, we are today 700. That means from a private little company where you know everybody, we have gone to a normal company with an HR department where everything has to be processed and regulated.
That’s not down anymore to your initiative, but every single decision has to go through a process in an over-regulated society. It’s sometimes discouraging, so the human aspect has dropped a little bit. On the other hand the financial power of the clubs has become huge. On the other hand, in 20 years the ownership has changed completely.
If you look at the ownership when I was arrived and what it is today, it has become completely world wide. England does not own the clubs any more, it’s much more international.
The world has become globalised and open, so the competition is worldwide with the players as well. These owners buy players from all over the world. The Premier League has become a world-wide championship.
The next evolution? Maybe I will see you in a few years and you will certainly have a European league over the weekends. A domestic league will certainly play Tuesday/Wednesday. I think that is the next step we will see.
Do you remember your first press conference?
I remember how bad my English was! And the curiosity that people had about me, because I came from nowhere. But I completely maintain what I said there, one of my jobs was to keep faithful to the qualities I had found here. The world has changed, the players are richer as well. I tried always to maintain the tradition and values of this club as much as I could. Overall I believe I was not too bad.
What do you still want to achieve in your career?
I had a personal fight with myself my whole life – to be as good as I can be and I will continue to do that.
What was your best team, 1998 or 2004?
2004. Their achievement, nobody has done it since in the Premier League. I loved the team in 1998 because I found some players had quality much better than I thought they were when I arrived here.
They were very intelligent as well. And they were an experienced team. After, we added a bit more exceptional quality in 2002 and 2004. Overall, maybe the Invincibles.
Reception you’ve got from opposing fans surprised you?
They all love me now. It is a pleasant surprise. People respect somewhere that I tried to play football in the right way and I tried to give pleasure to people. The most important thing when you wake up in the morning is to go ‘oh, I watch Arsenal today – I have a chance to see a good game’.
That is basically what I tried to do: to give people an experience in life that is not every day. Every day is not a pleasure. I think football has a responsibility is to try to give some people a special moment in their life.
You do not always manage unfortunately to do it but at least you have to give them the hope they can see something special and can be transported somewhere that they do not always experience on a daily basis.
Why 8.45am press conferences? Open to managing England one day?
First, I like that you have to get up early because I know in the press nobody likes to get up early. They usually start at 10 or 11am. So to make you suffer a little bit as well. And I know if I start early, you will not all turn up so it will be a bit easier for me.
And will I manage England one day? I don’t know, honestly. I don’t know. I have had the opportunity but at the moment I am behind England and Gareth Southgate. Hopefully he will stay for 22 years.
On Manchester City
They will be the team to beat next season. If you look at the number of points they made and the difference between them and the others and they glide well through financial fair play, it is a club who has a great manager, a great team and anticipate all the problems.
I think they are forward-thinking and will be the team to beat next season.
On if he will follow the Premier League after he leaves
Yes.
On if he will go to the World Cup
I will watch the World Cup, I will be at the World Cup at the opening game and I watch of course the Premier League.
When I wake up in the morning I look first at what kind of game is at night and that will not change.
On if he is happy he has had a ‘long goodbye’
I enjoyed some aspects of it, yes – and not all.
It was not always easy to cut slowly with what you do everyday and always you want to do it as well as you can and you don’t want to forget to thank people who deserve it.
There are some people here who I employed 20 years ago who did fight for me every single day so it is not easy to say goodbye.
On if a part of him wanted to wait until the end of the season to see how it went
Yes, of course.
Because there was more questioning as well, you do not feel the same adhesion to what you do and when you stay here for such a long period you question yourself ‘is it time now to go or not’ – when you don’t feel that especially on your side you have somewhere to open your eyes and ears.
We live in a society where people want quick change and that has changed in recent years.
On if he has booked a holiday
Not yet, honestly no. I don’t know what I will do, maybe go to Russia.
On what he will do in the next couple of weeks
I have some work to do in France on Monday, Tuesday and after I will come back on Thursday and clear my office and that will be it – after that I don’t know.
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so its this day week that Arsene Wenger will clear out his office at Arsenal, the day his stay at AFC comes to an end.
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Report: Musah strikes as 11 schoolboys make debuts in Arsenal U18s’ draw with Chelsea
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Arsenal 2 (Clarke o.g. 34, Musah 52) Chelsea 2 (Campbell 36, Thompson 85 (pen)
Arsenal faced a strong Chelsea side in the FA Youth Cup final recently, but this last league game of the season was a rather different encounter, with both sides agreeing to field their U15 teams.
With players unavailable for both teams and Chelsea in the midst of a hectic schedule, an arrangement was made to give schoolboys the opportunity to impress at this level, while the venue was switched from London Colney to the Blues’ Cobham training centre.
Just three of the Arsenal players involved – Yunus Musah, Mazeed Ogungbo and Miguel Azeez – had prior experience of U18 football, with eleven players making their debuts during the course of the game.
Hubert Graczyk, Finley Stevens, Alex Kirk, Zane Monlouis, Levi Lang, Charlie Patino, Tyreece Briscoe and Daniel Oyegoke all started. Meanwhile, there were first call ups on the bench for Alex Lankshack, Kido Taylor-Hart, Luke Plange, Malcolm Ebiowei and Ovie Ejeheim, with the first three of those entering the fray at some stage.
Arsenal took the lead in the 34th minute when Chelsea’s Joshua Clarke turned the ball into his own net, but the Blues pulled level shortly afterwards courtesy of a goal from Rio Campbell.
Musah scored in the second half following good work from Briscoe as Arsenal took the lead, but a late penalty from Max Thompson saw Chelsea earn a point.
Arsenal team: Graczyk; Stevens, Kirk, Monlouis, Ogungbo (Lankshack 46); Azeez, Musah; Lang, Oyegoke, Patino (Plange 75); Briscoe (Taylor-Hart 61). Subs not used: Ejeheim, Ebiowei.
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Wenger clearing his desk, wow, now that is poignant.
Finsbury, agree, Arteta seems a natural coach, reports from city indicate that, I also remember how he and per helped Wenger steady things in the difficult Autumn when they first arrived. I have long thought his destiny was a future role at this club, if his destiny is now, I welcome him with open arms. My gut feeling, it will be a man of some sort of Latin persuasion, but what do I know, and doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be delighted if it was an ex player. And Arteta is both an ex player and of Latin persuasion
Paddy could work, but not sure he has always put this club first, but that’s in the past, but if he is manager, I back him unconditionally.
But really hope it is not Thierry, no reason to believe it will be, but hope it isn’t, on a number of levels, unless maybe as a forwards coach.
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Eduardo, thanks for posting that transcript of AW’s last press conference. I watched it earlier on Arsenal.com and they’ve actually published it word for word! Colour me shocked as that is not the norm for the MSM. Misquoting is their usual speed. Clearly it takes Arsene leaving for them to finally give him the respect he deserves. He will be missed. The intelligence of his comments are head and shoulders above anything they are going to get from any other manager in this league.
Re the next guy, I’m struggling to say who I would want as I don’t really know enough about any of the candidates being bandied around as I don’t follow their teams. I know who I don’t want, but probably best not to say as I will have to support whoever the club selects. I must say I am surprised no one is suggesting Giovanni Von Bronckhorst or Remi Garde? The former in particular has played for Arsenal and Barcelona, is an experienced manager and ticks all the boxes outlined by Ivan.
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Sami Mokbel, of the Daily Heil, a reporter with reportedly reasonable links to the club is writing that Jens and Steve Bould will be staying on as coaches, with others leaving.
Mr Mokbel interprets this as a sign that it will be a coach that will work with a backroom team put in place for him, as opposed to a top European coach who will insist on his own backroom team, and probably de,and a kings ransom for the pleasure.
So maybe I am wrong about Latin types, Maybe it will be a relatively inexperienced ex player to take the job, despite what happened at Walsall, now is your time Merse!
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Just imagine if it was Patrick Vieira
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A wild and wooly thought…if AW wants a real challenge…go manage Barnet. Their old ground was at the end of his road; the new is close; he has good connections with them; their manager is leaving and he has enough loot to do the job for free…and after Arsenal and Accrington, Barnet are my favorite club….i played at Barnet Lane.
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Excellent piece although far to gracious to opposing points of view than many will be.
I have long considered Jardim an excellent manager although he sometimes courts controversy.
Maybe I’m not ambitious, maybe I’m softening in my old age but on my list winning would not be right at the top, even though it kills me when we lose and I have the hump for days.
Wonderful football is what I want to watch and although I love to see top class players from all the world it’s players coming through from our youth team that really excited me.
In the end though I agree whomever it is has to be given a chance
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if PV4 becomes our next manager wouldn’t it be the first time one of the top english clubs appointed a black manager
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David Dein: “The bank manager did not endorse the funding of the Emirates Stadium until he made sure Arsène Wenger would sign a long term contract to stay at Arsenal. Without the money generated from CL football every year, thanks to him, we would not have made it today.”
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The club dithering again – Wenger with his last game in charge just 48 hours away and the board still not announced an appointment – Stan Out – Gazidis Out –
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Ian
2014: PR campaign to attack the manager and club kicked off in earnest in Feb/March. Little blaggers and sychophants all in in the club they support, Arsenal win the cup, the manager signs up, the screeching stops for a few weeks.
2015: PR campaign to attack the manager and club kicked off in earnest in Feb/March. Little blaggers and sychophants all in in the club they support, Arsenal win the cup, the screeching stops for a few weeks.
2016: PR campaign to attack the manager and club kicked off in earnest in Feb/March. Arsenal lambasted all season long for not being as good as Tottenham, finish above Tottenham in the league, runners up, the highest league position for some time. The screeching stops for a few weeks.
2017: PR campaign to attack the manager and club kicked off in earnest in Feb/March. Little blaggers and sychophants all in in the club they support, Arsenal win the cup, the manager signs up, the screeching stops for a few weeks.
Without a change in the club’s business model and structure that media owned by people which exhibit a strong ideological abhorance and clearly do no approve of, any new manager will not be given a chance.By the media or their sad little sycophants.
Unless a new manager’s first act is to, perhaps, possibly, to sign up Phil Neville as assistant coach and to offer a semi-retired pro 300k p/w (500k p/w today?) contract. Stranger things have happened: The Damned Utd sacked off a triple title winning head coach (fergies bad hip and all) in favour of the aforementioned gimp. Yes. We did laugh. The story wasn’t covered much in the 24/7 footy media, but many, many football fans up and down the land doubled up with stomach cramps.
Phil Neville’s, position and status in English football, at his darling FA is a far more entertaining and amusing topic then who a manager at any club may or may not be.
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< one Neville in the clubs or with the national team.
The other in the broadcasting studio (gave up on not coaching defence on long throws)
It's the old Neville Neville double double. We first saw this sanctioned and allowed/encouraged upon Reyes. A strong and ongoing pattern.
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it’s Friday, a friend sent me a bad joke for some reason (is there any evidence I enjoy poor puns and lame jokes!), and as it includes hot air as a topic that neatly sedgeways into the legandary plunditry of Phil Neville or Joey Barton, lucky us eh!
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A woman in hot air balloon realized she is lost.
She reduced altitude & shouted to a man below..
“Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend to meet him an hour ago but I don’t know where I am.”
Man below replied :-
“You are in hot air balloon 30 feet above the ground. You are at 41 degree North latitude & 59 degree West longitude.”
Lady :- “You must be an Engineer !”
Man :- “How do you know ?”
Lady :- “Everything you told me is technically correct but useless & the fact is I’m still lost.”
Engineer :- “You must be in Top Management.”
Lady :- “Ya. How do you know ?”
Engineer :- “You don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You have no technical knowledge. You made a promise, which you’ve no idea how to keep & you expect people beneath you to solve your problems!”
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Don’t understand all the Vieira love in, he left in van persie like circumstances and has exactly endorsed the club since.
I certainly don’t regard him as an ARSENAL man.
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Mr Wenger has shown PV love, he is not in the habit of doing something like that on a whim.
Remember where the previous coaches have come from.
Josh has done the same thing with some sucess in NFL, where he went against the grain.
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It’s not often that others make jokes that raise more groans and complaints then mine but I think Jack Wilshere has out done me today:
“Unfortunately the Mrs. didn’t like the name Arsena” (for his newborn daughter).
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Are you being serious?
You don’t get the Patrick Vieira love in?
You do know who he is ?
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It seems Wengers contribution to English football will be debated in Parliament
Nice gesture, but not really much to debate on an issue so clear
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I’ve seen many idiots side with Keown on his character assassination of Ozil, purely cos Keown happened to be lucky enough to be part of Title winning sides, in their eyes this makes him a more important and better player than Ozil, and gives him the right to say what he likes about Mesut, seeing as MO has not won the league with us.
so for them players lucky enough to be in title winning teams/squads are better players, regardless of their limitations or contribution, than those that played for Arsenal in non title winning years, regardless of how good they are/were. Edu a bigger AFC legend than Brady or Ramsey, Cygan better than Koscielny, etc etc
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Arsenal Fixture News@AFCFixtureNews
2h2 hours ago
Sundays match away to Huddersfield Town will not be shown live on TV in the UK.
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Apparently our u23 coaches, absent from final the other night, have been suspended after allegations of bullying.
My instincts are to defend them, but fact is don’t have a clue either way so best just wait and see what happens.
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reports that there was a coaching staff meeting today and that goalie coaches Gerry Peyton and Sal Bibbo have been let go as has first team coach Neil Banfield
London Evening Standard reporting that 23 Manager Steve Gatting, and his assistant Carl Laraman, who missed the U23 cup final earlier this week, done so as they were suspended, over allegations that they bullied players, leading to Marcus McGuane leaving us.
now reports suggest Freddie Ljunberg is coming is as new U23 manager.
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coming out of the same reports about the staff meeting, is claims that AFC have made major progress in moves for our next manager.
it would make sense that any of the coaches being let go would be done so with the agreement of the next manager.
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former Chelsea and West Ham manager Avram Grant was at London Colney today. He is friendly with Arsene, so was probably there for him.
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As I have said before about Arsenal , as hard as they try (They do try) they are not golden.
I have previously alluded to somethings that have happened in the past and somethings that have happened much more recently.
There are changes happening.
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What I mean it was not just Marcus McGuane
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Seems it wasn’t not just Mcguane but it was not Mcguane full stop.
Just tweeted he has not been involved in any investigation nor made a complaint. reiterates he had wonderful 12 years at Arsenal, called article inaccurate and misleading.
His name has now been removed from article.
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The coaches are not sacked for a made up story
This is a real problem that has been happening at Arsenal.
Which the club is dealing with
The player has made his position clear
Not all the coaches are leaving for the same reasons
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Sounds like a very busy day at the club. Wonder if the new manager is closer at hand than some reports suggest?
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