Jonathan Johnson, a journalist, has provided an update on the talks between PSG and Mikel Arteta regarding the Parisian club’s managerial position, which occurred several weeks ago.
The news of Arteta engaging in discussions with PSG came as a surprise to Arsenal fans, as they learned online about their manager’s interaction with the French club, which was in need of a new manager at the time. However, Arteta ultimately decided to remain loyal to Arsenal and is now poised to lead them into another campaign.
Arteta has shown his commitment to Arsenal and believes in the project he is involved in within the London club. Therefore, the chances of PSG enticing him away during this transfer window were extremely slim.
According to Johnson, it appears that PSG’s intention was not to secure Arteta as their immediate manager. Instead, their aim was to establish contact and lay the groundwork for a potential future move. This suggests that PSG may have been considering Arteta as a long-term managerial option, rather than an immediate appointment.
Johnson wrote in his exclusive column on Caught Offside:
“I think this approach for Arteta, while never a particularly realistic move now, does perhaps lay the ground for PSG to move for him in the future, because when you’ve played for PSG and end up being a high-profile manager, that counts for a lot in the club’s eyes.”
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Arteta is now one of the best managers on the continent and the Spaniard will probably leave Arsenal one day, but we expect him to stay put for now until at least after he wins some more trophies for the club.
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The way things go in football, it is as easy to see Arteta leaving as it is staying for another five years. The club just signed Kai Havcertz, and is on the cusp of signing Declan Rice and Jurrien Timber.
That kind expenditure creates expectations, but the Gunners are likely to lose a number of players who played a big part in their 2ns place finish. Granit Xhaka, Thomas Partey, Rob Holding, and Kieran Tierney are all likely to go.
Every Arsenal supporter in the worrld is excited about he possibilities. Declan Rice is an awesome player. Hsavertz is a goos player and solves certain issues for Arsenal. Timber is one of the most highly rated defenders in Europe.
However, these new signings create instability on tops os already existing angst. William Saliba had supposedly agreed terms on a new deal, but has not signed. If I were him and saw the team sign Jurrien Timber, I’d be more than a little worried my place was at risk. With Havertz coming in, what does Fabio Vieira do? What about Trossard? He pushed to leave Brighton when he was not used by De Zerbi. If Havertz takes his minutes and Martinelli comes back and plays 3,000 minutes again, does he go? Takehiro Tomiyasu has to be wondering if he has a future. If Emile Smith Rowe was not worried about his place in the side before Kai Havertz was signed, he must be now. How can Reiss Nelson possibly imagine himself stepping onto the pitch after Arsenal spent 65 million for a player like Havertz when he barely played before he arrive?
These are all players who contributed to Arsneal’s success last season, and they all have goos reason to be worried.
Rice is a direct replacement for Partey.
Havert has shown some abilities, but Xhaka scored nine goals, his best as an Arsenal player. Can Haverta match it?
Kieran Tierney was pushed out of the team by Zinchenko, but when he came in, there was no drop in left back performance. We all saw the drop when Kiwior came in at left back. Can Timber do as well? Who gets dropped if Timber comes in at center back? Gabriel? Saliba? Would either of them a Brazil and France international respectively, accept a squad player role?
One of the major issues for all of these players is that Mikel Arteta has shown no ability or willingness to rotate his squad. If you’re in the first XI, you’re in. If you’re not (Emile Smith Rowe) you’re out and forget about any game time.
Pep Guardiola’s genius is that he keeps a squad of 24 world class players happy by rotating, motivating, and supporting. He said Kyler Walker had no future, then used him four straight games. Aymeric Laporte, John Stones, Akanji, Ake, and Diaz all got time.
If the Gunners scrap to a 6th place finish, and don’t make it into the Champions League in 2023/24 would Arteta survive?
I reject this post as untrue, as players WANTto play in a rich and deep squad, as they know that gives them and their club the best chance of a trophy.
I dislike this constantly trotted out false theory that such and such aplayer, if he is not in the IMMEDIATE first eleven might wish to leave..
Its true only for those players who lack personal ambition and who know, in their hearts, that they are not good enough.
ESR will plainly NOT be among that number and to suggest SALIBA might consider himself at risk, is ludicrous negativity on a Dan Smith scale. The same applies to MA and to all self posituive and maturely sensible football people.
Negativity is a retrograde expression of harmful doubt and, though sadly common on JA, is harmful and wrong
My whole way of looking at team building is a polar opposite one from this ill thought through post. Of course players come qand go, that is normal and in the natural cycleof all clubs.
But to misconstrue that normality in the way that paul35mm has done is, sadly for him, simply not true!
When the gaffer was appointed it coincided with the highly decorated Ancelotti appointment as the new Everton boss, surely the safer bet would have been the reverse there.
The gaffer once played and captained Arsenal, but he was very much a legend for his former club under the old fox David Moyes, and with all respect to the Merseyside team, it would have regarded as the smaller job but ideal.
So with the vast experience and several European cups under his belt, surely Ancelotti would have been the man to take the gunners role and the much less experienced and youthful Arteta would still be thrust into a huge job managing Everton
Ofcourse football doesn’t work that way and now that the gaffer is embarking on his fourth season in charge of the gunners, it’s clear to see that Kroenkes and a certain fan that call himself Loose Cannon who thinks the gaffer is some kind of magician is vindicated.
Although successful at Everton but with no loyalty, Ancelotti never hesitated to jump ship once a better offer came, and the club have already had to replace his replacement , leaving them unstable and stagnant.
Arsenal on the other hand has made enormous leap to have gotten real close , it is almost criminal for the gaffer to even hold a conversation with PSG about jumping ship at this time, after the trust bestowed on him
It all depends if the manager is ruthless in actions and words. The trio of Auba, Laca , Ozil being considered as “stars” and the lesser ones like Mustafi, Kolasinac and Xhaka let down “legend” Mr. Wenger and the legendry EL specialist Unai, then in all probabilities Anchetoti would have failed here too. If a manager cannot control big egos, his downfall is just a couple of games away. Unai is doing a fantastic job with Villa as he did in Spain because there are no spoilt brats with big egos in those clubs. Arsenal needed tough men like Mikel or Pep or Klopp or Mou at that point of time. Mikel has improved the culture and ethics, if he leaves now I’m sure Alan Pardew or Nigel Pearson would take the fight to Man City in England or Europe with the team Mikel has assembled