Arteta will reach Arsenal milestone against Nottingham Forest today.
The gooners will fondly remember the first game in which Arteta took charge of the Gunners, in December 2019 the Gunners were in the search for a new manager after the dismissal of Unai Emery. Many names were on the list of the hierarchy at the time but as the days and weeks went on, it was becoming clear that Arteta would be the one to lead us forward.
He could’ve joined us earlier if you can believe it, we had an interest in bringing him in over a year prior to his arrival in 2019. He was a potential candidate to replace Arsène Wenger before we eventually went with Unai Emery in the summer of 2018. Fast forward almost 18 months later in December 2019, Arteta finally got the hard task of dragging Arsenal back to the top.
Inside the first eight months of his career, he was looking to be doing exactly that when he won us the FA cup, followed by a Community Shield win in the summer of 2020. Fast forward four years onward however, we haven’t won anything else since. Despite that sad fact, we have taken massive strides in the right direction in those four years. We went from top four aspirants to firm title challengers under him, but the next step now is to finally get across the finish line.
This season hasn’t inspired any confidence in us finally doing that under him but as we get back to action from the break against Nottingham Forest, we will be hoping to get our season on track again. This will be no ordinary game for Mikel Arteta, this game will mark another special milestone in his career with the Arsenal so far. Indeed against Forest today, Arteta will take charge of his 250th game for the Gunners. A journey that started five years ago is still going on strong and though he hasn’t won anything major yet, I still have confidence in him taking us even further forward!
BENJAMIN KENNETH.
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Once again Arteta’s being given credit he didn’t deserve.
It was Emery’s squad which won that fa cup. Freddie steadied the ship too. But most of those players were Wenger’s legacy.
Arteta systematically destroyed that team, including the two worst league final placings of my 44 years.
Not a single player remains from our last trophy. Arteta has won nothing but two prem runners up
Why does he get so much hype?
Why didn’t emery won a damn thing with them then?
If arteta is soo bad then it was a humiliating for emery that novice came half season and won a trophy with his side when he couldn’t.
Well said Ackshay
And went on to finish 8th for two seasons in a row as well as not winning anything after. Not even reaching a semi final of Carling Cup.
Aubameyang won that trophy for us not Arteta. He deserve zero credit as the aftermath has proved.
And it is a well known fact for anyone who was not living under the rock that Emery was on course to win the EL as well as a top 4 finish until players started to lose games on purpose in order to get him fired.
His achievements before Arsenal and after Arsenal has shown to anyone with a thimble of intelligence that Emery and Arteta are not in the same league. I will class Arteta a third class below Emery.
Do you think Arteta will have been able to transform Aston Villa from a relegation contender to Champions League contenders in under two years with a shoestring budget? He would have gotten them relegated!
He can’t win anything with Arsenal with a blank checkbook that he utilizes so well!!!
if he was soo good why did the players turn on him?
why was he not given a blank checkbook when a novice was given one?
why didn’t the board support emery vs the players but supported a novice?
i could use your logic and say the players deliberately lost for 2 seasons to get arteta fired.
same logic arteta was on course to win the league with the youngest squad ever before saliba n tomiyasu got injured in the same game .
Players turning against the coach does not relate in anyway with his tactical ability.
You have to ask Kroenke that question. It’s his money he can give my grandmother a blank checkbook if he wishes to.
Every one is asking that question. And 0 trophies 5 years after shows how a big mistake it was.
Your last two questions are too childish to warranty a reply.
Typical of you, no wonder i stopped replying to any of your comments. Time to start again.
It never ceases to amaze me Ackshay why all those players decided to get Emery the sack.
I’m incredulous actually. Fancy deciding to get an experienced manager the sack. They were on the brink of returning to the CL places through the league
Yes Sue and those same fans turn around and give arteta grief for kicking the whole lot out. If they downed tools then they merited the boot.
See how when u use their own logic against them, they resort to childish behaviour.
i hope Forrest has short defenders today. Ours are not on the tall side for sure.
Our forwards are not on the tall side…