Pretends to know the game. Reads The Sun. Thinks Arteta's system is the holy grail of footballing history. Not interested in league table finishes or Europe.
My top 5 managers of the season, 2021-22:
5) Jesse Marsch, Leipzig/Leeds
4) Philippe Clement, Monaco
3) Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool
2) Mikel Arteta, Arsenal
1) Pep Guardiola, Man City
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Saliba was not good enough for Arsenal in July 2021.
9 months later and he’s playing for the best national team in the world.
Arteta’s decision to loan him out may have saved Saliba’s career.
Arteta shouldn’t be judged until 2028.
The process will take time. No manager can take over and turn a club into a top 4 team without significant investment and time.
I notice a lot of Spurs fans making a fool of themselves in the replies to this.
Arteta, in a 3 year career, has already outperformed Conte. He’s tactically superior and competes with less transfer spending.
I’ll see you in 12 months when Conte is sacked and Arteta wins the PL.
I haven’t made it through 30 seconds of any of these All or Nothing clips without crying.
I can’t believe how lucky we are to have Mikel. It makes me emotional just thinking about it.
The best manager of the 21st century, and he’s ours for good.
That’s United and Liverpool out of our title race.
And it’s almost guaranteed Tuchel and Conte will self-implode at some point. They have a history of it.
Truly, it’s between Arteta and Guardiola for the title.
Arteta has taken Arsenal from a mid-table club to a top 4 challenger with minimal backing from the board.
Imagine what he’ll do when he gets money to spend on his own players.
The Haaland transfer to Manchester City just shows the lengths clubs are going to in order to stop Arteta challenging for the title. It’s unprecedented.
If you exclude the games since Partey got injured, and then remove games where the referee/VAR cost us points, Mikel Arteta has won 95% of all PL games since September. If you can’t see the progress you must be blind
I’d much rather absolutely dominate City for 90 minutes and get robbed by the refs than do what Spurs just did.
Spurs were terrible all game and cheated their way to 3 points. It’s sickening.
Arsene Wenger asks the board for £20m for a defensive midfielder. The board say “recall Coquelin”.
Mikel Arteta asks the board for £200m in a single season. They give him exactly what he wants.
There’s levels to this game. The board know Arteta is better than Wenger ever was.
I'd rather have a manager with two Manager of the Month awards and finish 5th, than have Conte and finish 4th.
Long term who's going to be more successful? Laughable if you think it's Conte.
People are overreacting to this loss. When Arteta was hired, everyone with a brain knew he had to rebuild the club from the ground up.
Everyone knew it would take 5-10 years to take us back to the Top 4. Arteta is challenging in less than 3. He's ahead of schedule.
Smith Rowe is arguably top 2 midfield talents in the Premier League. And that’s being harsh on him.
Arteta and Smith Rowe will be the next Pep and de Bruyne. But with more silverware.
Who cares if Klopp signs a new contract? The future Premier League battle is between these two.
By 2023-24, no one will be talking about Klopp. It’ll be the “Master vs Apprentice” title race.
And once Pep leaves, no one will stand in our way. Mikel will win it all.
I would rather be 8th place under Arteta than in the Champions League under a different manager.
A long term contract for Mikel is worth MUCH more to Arsenal than any top 4 finish.
Tomorrow’s fixture is one of the toughest in Arsenal history. I do feel sorry for Arteta.
A team of youngsters, ravaged by injuries, with no time to gel, against an incredibly exciting newly-promoted Norwich who won the league last season.
A draw would be a brilliant result.
Last season, Arsenal only finished 2 points ahead of Leeds United.
This season, Arteta’s side are 21 points ahead of Leeds.
If you can’t see the progress, I don’t know why you even watch football. It’s clear for everyone to see.
That’s United and Liverpool out of our title race.
And it’s almost guaranteed Tuchel and Conte will self-implode at some point. They have a history of it.
Truly, it’s between Arteta and Guardiola for the title.
If this was Wenger or Emery, then Arsenal fans tonight would be happy with a draw. They’d be saying “Wolves are a tough team”.
Instead, under Arteta, people are saying that it’s a failure to not put 3 goals past them.
Just another example of how Mikel has raised the standards.
We drop out of the FA Cup. United do the same weeks later.
We draw against Burnley. United do the same weeks later.
There are levels to this game. We set trends, dem man copy.
Arteta took on a Titan and came out unscathed.
Not many managers will go to Brighton this season and put up such an impressive display. We’re just so lucky to have Mikel.
Gabriel Jesus was on 3 goals all season until he heard Arteta was interested.
He scored 4 on Saturday and in a CL semi final tonight. That’s how much players want to impress Mikel. That’s how much it means to play for him.
Pep is taking his tactics to beat Liverpool straight out of Arteta’s playbook.
Arsenal dominated Klopp’s side for the better part of 180 minutes and Pep’s noticed. The apprentice is teaching the master.
Arsenal are quite clearly better than 4 of the teams in “Pot A” of the Champions League.
Even the “best” teams the Champions League can offer would hardly be a challenge for us.
It’s a disgrace that UEFA don’t permit qualification on a talent basis.
Superb first half from Arteta. Controlling in posession. Dominant in all phases of play. Creative and free-flowing.
This might be the best football Arsenal have played since late Wenger years. I'm sitting here, glued to the screen, enjoying every second of it.
180 minutes into a CL semi final with a goal lead and you lost the tie… Mikel would have subbed on Holding at the 80th and Arsenal would be into the final already.
Just another way Arteta is proving he can react better than the “big” managers.
Arteta is currently the best manager in the league.
If Pep or Klopp were better than him, then why didn’t they win Manager of the Month? It’s because they’re not. They’re inferior.
Making my first ever trip to the Emirates tonight to watch this liquid Artetaball live. My flight lands in 2 hours, I will be doing autographs at the Clock End at half time. See you all soon.
If Declan Rice isn’t convinced by the Arsenal project, then I’m not convinced by him.
Only a player who is worried that he isn’t good enough for the top level would choose a place on City’s bench over being Arteta’s star man.
People don't get it. The Arteta project is a do-or-die affair for Arsenal.
Finishing 8th is the present and future of football and the best clubs in the world are led by coaches dedicated to losing as many games as possible.
Arsenal are determined to join them.
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I’m very grateful to have reached 5,000 followers.
Just as Jesus Christ fed the 5000 with five loaves of bread and two fish, I will feed you all with true footballing knowledge and understanding.
You may laugh now, but my teachings of Arteta will have their own Bible.
Everton are a top, top team. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mikel told the squad that it was a free hit. Tonight won’t decide top 4. We were still so impressive.
Everyone thinks that they’ll sign the best striker this year.
Juve think Vlahovic is the best.
City will sign Haaland and think he’s the best.
Real Madrid will sign Mbappe and think he’s the best.
We’ve got a bigger talent coming in. Back from loan. Balogun is better.
Today's victory over Brentford displays exactly what I've been prophesising. The system works, regardless of the opposition. Mikel will take us back to the top.
Today it's against Brentford's B team. In a few weeks, Spurs. Next year, Bayern or Barcelona. No one will stop it.
Wow. Since Arteta was finally backed with Ramsdale and Tomiyasu, we are 2nd in the league.
People laughed at us for suggesting we’d be top 4 contenders once Mikel had his signings. They just don’t get it. We’re back.
Barcelona failing to keep possession in the final 20 minutes. Coincidentally, Aubameyang came on with 25 minutes to go.
Who's surprised? Not me. He's useless for any top team.
10 years ago, Arsene Wenger let Ashley Young embarrass him as he lost 8-2 to a rival.
Today, Mikel Arteta embarrassed Ashley Young to push Arsenal further into the top 4.
The two managers are incomparable.
If I were Edu, the first thing I would be looking at in this window is replacing Gabriel.
We have title-winning players in every position except centre-back, but he’s the weak link.
I would walk to Manchester myself and offer him in exchange for Maguire. That wins the league.
I can’t wait for the episode on the Anfield away match in the Carabao Cup.
To outsiders with no footballing knowledge, they’ll see a 0-0 draw.
But behind the scenes, in the brain of Mikel Arteta, this was a performance 2 years in the making.
We tactically demolished Liverpool.
Arteta making the intelligent decision to dip out of the FA Cup early on purpose.
While our rivals are scrapping for a trophy, we’ll be waltzing our way into 2nd place. Without them even noticing.
I surely can't be the only one who finds football just so dissatisfying if Arteta's not present?
You could feed me the biggest derbies across European football in consecutive showings but nothing gets blood flowing towards my genitals as rapidly as 90 minutes of Artetaball.
In terms of long-term effect on Arsenal’s status as a club and European stature, combined with Talent ID and tactical influence:
1. Chapman
2. Arteta
3. Wenger
4. Graham
Only thing separating Chapman from Arteta is the time period. Easier to be revolutionary in the 1930s.
You shouldn’t judge Arteta on games like last night. Stressful matches under the floodlights on national TV are never going to be easy to cope with for such a young side.
Judge him on matches like Norwich, Watford and Burnley. Those games show what Arteta is trying to do.
Arteta managing to hold this Nottingham Forest side to a 1-0 margin, while only using 17 year olds from the academy, will probably go down as one of the best underdog results we've managed this season.
And people laughed at our 'defeat'.
Second half was brilliantly played by Arteta. As usual, the players tried to lose the game for us, but his tactics were just too good. We're never losing again.
I just know that yesterday after the game Auba broke the silence in the dressing room and apologised for the miss. Ødegaard and Laca stood up and told him to not worry too much. The others join and they start making out with each other. That’s how our squad is now, I feel. Erotic
I would rather lose both games but dominate City, than do what Spurs did.
Spurs might have taken 6 points from 6 against Man City, but Pep himself admitted he had no answers against Arsenal.
We were much more impressive than Spurs in those fixtures.
I’m seeing people tweeting about how top 6 wouldn’t be a success?
Anything above 10th place would be an amazing season for Arteta considering the conditions of the season. Handed an awful squad, not being allowed to spend any money, and the FA clearly against him.
Arteta has coached this first half to perfection. If it wasn't for Nuno Tavares, Arsenal would be sitting back, 3-0 up, comfortable as you like.
I've always said this squad needs another £250m spent on it before we can judge it, and it's always true.
Nottingham Forest have spent more in this one transfer window than Arteta has spent in his entire career.
It’s not a level playing field. But somehow Mikel has turned Emery’s relegation side into a title challenger.
This Aubameyang debacle has proved what I've told you before:
Arteta is already better than Wenger.
Arsene would have let Auba walk all over him until he had no control of the dressing room. Mikel laid down the rules. He told Auba 'Shape up or get out'.
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If Saka doesn’t believe in Arteta, then we shouldn’t believe in him.
I’d sell him at the first opportunity. Left footed wingers with little end product are easy to replace. I’d promote Omari Hutchinson and we’d forget about Bukayo by the end of the year.
How, in all honesty, can Edu expect Arteta to challenge against teams like Burnley without spending £150 million more?
Arsenal have always struggled against Burnley, and you think Mikel can just come in and change that?
No manager in world football would be able to cope with the number of key injuries and poor refereeing decisions that Arteta faces on a weekly basis.
There's a reason the FA are against us.
Because they're scared of what Arteta can do.
The media bias is insane. Apparently, our friendly victory against Brentford under 18s doesn't count because "They're just young boys". But then they go on and beat Manchester United a week later? Make up your mind.
You laughed at me. You mocked me. You called me a nonce.
Gabriel Jesus is the best striker in Europe and the fact that Mikel convinced him to join shows how elite his talent ID is.
Gabriel Jesus’ 40 goals this season will win Arsenal the Premier League. Save this tweet.
If Arteta can't use his full first XI, then the rest of this season is simply unfair.
I propose terminating the league at this matchday and recalculating a final table based on points-per-game (PPG). That's the only option which truly reflects managerial ability.
Find it absolutely disgusting how all of these worthless, tiny clubs turn into 2009 Barcelona when they face Arsenal.
It’s everybody’s cup final to play against Arteta, you can tell how much the media and England hate him for his success.
Rather upset at this morning’s links to Osimhen. Not complete enough for Arteta’s system.
We should be targeting the likes of Haaland or Mbappé. Not mid tier forwards with limited output. We can offer the most exciting project in European football.
Chelsea have just sold Arsenal their best attacker for well below his market value.
The Financial Fair Play rules are having a huge impact on their transfer activity and we’re taking advantage.
In any normal window, Chelsea demand £120m for Havertz. Now, they’re forced to sell.
When Wenger lost 3-0 to Crystal Palace, no one cared. When Arteta does it, it’s “embarrassing”.
When Pep takes 1 point from 6 vs Palace, no one laughs. When Arteta does it, they think it’s hilarious.
All this tells me is rival fans are scared of what we’re about to become.
Wow. This might be the most impressive team talk I’ve ever heard.
No wonder players run through walls for Mikel. If he was alive back in the 19th century we’d talk about his oration today.
If he was alive in the early 20th century he’d have become the wartime Prime Minister.
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I give it 3 months until Klopp gets sacked.
He took Dortmund down to the relegation zone before walking and he’s going to do the same to Liverpool. He’s also sending them into financial ruin at the same time giving out mega contracts.
Richarlison for £60m is a horrible signing.
He genuinely wouldn’t even be a back up option at Arsenal.
Is he better than Nketiah? No.
Is he top 6 quality? No.
Will he be loaned back to Everton within 12 months? Probably.
Very glad we have Edu & Arteta in charge of transfers.
People don't get it. They think of everything by the results: a CF is bad if he doesn't score, ignoring all else he's contributing. And God save you if you say anything against them when they're scoring.
But I'll say it—Mo Salah Has Been A Flop This Season.
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🚨🥇| The 10 clubs that will announce the return of the Super League today:
🇪🇸 Real Madrid
🇪🇸 FC Barcelona
🇪🇸 Atletico
🏴 Manchester United
🏴 Manchester City
🏴 Chelsea
🏴 Liverpool
🇮🇹 Inter
🇮🇹 AC Milan
🇮🇹 Juventus
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If you only count matches against the bottom 6, Arsenal are 2nd in the table.
But some Twitter geniuses will try to pretend we’re not building towards being a Champions League winning side.
Ignore the haters and embrace reality.
People laughed at me when I said Liverpool were already out of the title race. Who’s laughing now?
Arsenal are 7 points ahead already, and can you really see Arteta dropping 7 points for the rest of the season? I don’t. He’ll drop 4 at most.
Arteta knows that Ole is on the verge of being sacked. The only way to keep Ole in his job this weekend was to lose even worse on purpose, so that the United board think Ole isn’t as bad.
It’s mind games from Mikel.
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Today is the day when the footballing plebs, the norms, the uneducated, are finally taught what Artetaball means.
Arsenal are going to come flying out of the gates and I wouldn’t be surprised to see us hit 6 or 7 goals past Palace.
It’s the start of a new era of football.
It’s impossible to judge Arteta until he can start an entire XI and subs bench of all his own players, all £20m+. Anything else is unfair.
No other manager would be able to just inherit a squad and challenge for top 4. When has anyone else had success without making 20 signings?
If Vlahovic isn’t convinced by Arteta, he’s got something wrong with him. Low IQ or an intent on destroying his career. Let him bring on his own downfall.
Once again, the FA decides Arteta is too threatening and takes it into their own hands.
Disgraceful refereeing which is designed to attack Mikel personally.
The fact that Unai Emery, the worst Premier League manager in the 21st century, walked through the 'CL favourites', tells me all I need to know.
I genuinely can't see any team in Europe being good enough to stop Arteta next season. He's taking home the CL trophy.
Tavares > Perisic.
Lokonga > Bissouma.
Cedric > Spence
Turner > Forster.
Guess which club is having the “perfect transfer window” and which club is being mocked in the media?
Arteta’s goal last night was to replicate Wenger. He knows these players haven’t been the same since Arsene left, and in losing at Goodison he hoped it would reinvigorate the players to the top 4 finish that Mikel deserves.
He gets closer to passing Wenger’s legacy every game.
It's undeniable that England are being held back by Southgate. I'd love to see Mikel at the helm of the Three Lions.
Once he's won the Champions League here, I think he'll take the England/Spain role and pick up the World Cup for his trophy cabinet. And people want him sacked...
If Raphinha chooses Tuchel over Arteta, it doesn’t matter what his footballing ability is, his IQ is clearly under 30.
He’s not worth £65m if he’s that much of an idiot.