As Gooners, we expect Mikel Arteta to have some expectations of his Arsenal players, which is that they give their all on the pitch and gift him win after win.
As a Gooner, we don’t expect Arteta and the boys to make any demands, it should be the other way around. Nonetheless, Mikel Arteta has hinted that if his team is strong enough to challenge for the title, he expects two things from us Arsenal fans. He asks us to trust him and the boys, to believe that the team is strong enough to compete in the league, and not to believe that they are doomed without any winter transfer windows (because there is a chance no signings will be completed).
Aside from that, he wants us to show love to the team since it would boost their confidence and prevent them from doubting themselves. With them, the Spaniard is confident in what his “strong team” can do, as he indicated.
When asked if we can still challenge for the title, Arteta said: “We will try our best. We need to make sure our players feel trusted and have the confidence. If they are doubting, that is not helpful. We love the players we have,”
In the end, as Gooners, we have no choice but to support the squad in good or bad times.
We may believe that we can only expect them to win week after week. However, we also have a role to play in leading this Arsenal team to victory. We’ve got to stop the “We want this player to join” noise and be like, “We are strong; we can win this thing.”
With only the Premier League and the Champions League to focus on and no FA Cup or Carabao stress, the fixtures should be manageable with the players we already have, shouldn’t they?
Sam P
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Glass house over here from the 1 that doesn’t trust the fringe players that have been under his tutelage for years.
Very well said
With injuries,suspensions,intensity,consequence or pressure of a competition and tactical switches comes rotatiotion at this stage of the process. Not all the squad has a role in the starting 11, and it’s a welcome idea for his boys. Not sure why anyone should have a problem with that given it’s what has kept that harmony amongst the team and most importantly working for us in the right direction as we look to mount a proper challenge this season. Not sure who are those not trusted “under his tutelage for years” though.
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Can’t really be bothered, all this seems a very passive way of the old “sit down and shut up” attitude. Don’t question, criticize, or point out obvious flaws, just eat what we give you.
Had my fill of that from previous years. Remember no DM for a decade? or how about only GK Cech that Summer because the squad didn’t need more additions?
No, I put the club first above players and managers. It is up to them to perform, not fans to make good with less.
I strongly support MA’s view. Supporters SHOULD support, or else be mere fans!
Does that go for the likes of Havertz, Elneny, Raya and Xhaka then Jon?
Your posts on the above players indicate you speak with a forked tongue – as you were with Ozil, Aubameyang, Guendouzi…. the list goes on and on and on!!
“Forked tongue” ia such a deliberately chosen and very old fashioned cliche KEN!
What I speak is truth as I perceive it. In the case of the former players you list, as a supporter of AFC, I passionately believe none has been necessary to bring here at all.
RAYA has real talent IMO but was not needed, though a top level striker CERTAINLY WAS AND STILL IS.
So quite why MA wasted such a huge sum on HAVERTZ AND HIS WAGE CONTACT is puzzling and needs to be challenged by those like all of us on JA who care for our clubs success. Your later list were all players whose attitude to being an Arsenal playe stunk to High Heaven and, together with many others, I PRAISED MA for swiftly doing the right thing and getting two of them them out. He was IMO rather late with Ozil, as you know from my constant posts back then.
What I have done is to support our current manager and even defend his mistakes , mistakes which I OF COURSE SAW AND SEE. And mention too, as it is important to do so,as they are there and therefore true!
But I also see his many strengths and how hugely he has improved our team and team attitude since the dog days of AW.
Finally KEN, IT IS PLAIN THAT AS A HUMAN BEING, I do change my mind when the evidence changes.
Some might consider staying true to ones opinion when it is patently out of date and exposed as thoroughly retrograde and harmful to AFC is the REAL mistake. As those who defended Ozils idleness and AW’s last several drifting years did, so drearily regularly!
So what your actually saying then Jon, is that your merely a fan, rather than a supporter.
Glad you cleared that up.
It is difficult to support all the players all of the time especially when the usual underachievers continue to underperform. Once we kick off we always support but that does not mean we are happy with the lineup.
I think it swings both ways.
The players should try their best in every game regardless of whether the result goes their way or not.
I have not always seen that this season.
You have to remember that without the fans there would be no Arsenal FC and the likes of Saka and Rice and even Arteta would not be earning the fortunes they are.
Come to think of it MA has no ****king business demanding anything to be honest…
Being a supportive fan when things are going well only helps no one. The fact they’ve shown what they’re capable of last season, coupled with the football on display, shows they deserve all the support to get back up when inevitably down, as it’s a COMPETITION not birth right. Entitlement is never the way to go.
I think MA has every right to demand support from the fans and supporters.
It’s obvious he demands alot from his players even when some are not at his desired level, we can only push them and hope that the best of them begins to manifest.
Last season’s support was brilliant with all the player’s songs and the anthem and all. I bet Arteta wishes he had that support all of the time. Arteta respects a strong fan base as you can see from his thoughts about Anfield
Well said Jon.
Ditto!!! from my corner. ANYONE CLAIMING TO BE A SUPPORTER should do just that and SUPPORT the team. Those who don’t should be honest with themselves and with us by admitting that they are mere FANATICS (in the NEGATIVE WAY SHAPE & FORM).
I fully understand why Arteta has said what he has.
Games that should have been won were not and this adds to frustration from the support base and he is attempting to address that before it becomes an issue and distracts the players from the job at hand.
He is hardly going to say some of the players aren’t good enough or that he has come up short himself in a couple of areas. How good for confidence would that be?!
I listened to Troy Deeny, who had berated a player. It was like a hatchet job and Forest Green sacked Deeny a few days later. It’s about respecting your squad and giving the supporters a reminder that a raucous crowd helps their performance.
Arteta has had 100% support at The Emirates from the beginning of last season, so I’m not sure what he is on about quite frankly.
His name rings around the ground at regular intervals and, when he’s been booked, the crowd rise to support him immediately.
The only unsupportive fans I now off, are those on JA, who need a scapegoat (Havertz, Xhaka, Elneny etc etc) to blast day in and day out!!
. Perhaps MA has been reading some of the BS that comes the way of certain players, because he cannot claim he and his players aren’t getting it at the Emirates.
How does Arteta expect fans to trust some of the players he selects, without merit while good players languish on the bench? What is it that he is going to extract out of Havertz, Nketiah, Soares, El Neny? Man City, Liverpool, MUnited and many other teams recognise young talent and actually play them in their winning senior squads. Why does he want fans to affirm his lousy selection criteria?