Out of 5 phases, Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal project has entered phase 4, and to fully succeed in this new phase, here are things that the club, Edu, and Arteta are doing.
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They managed to beat Bayern Munich and Real Madrid to Kai Havertz’s signature. Convincing the German that Arsenal is where he will reach his peak, to the point that it was Arsenal he wanted.
They have managed to tune Declan Rice to only want them, even with the desire of Bayern Munich and Manchester City to buy him from West Ham. Whenever it was reported, it was always obvious the Hammer favored playing under Mikel Arteta and not Thomas Tuchel or Arteta.
They managed to convince Ethan Nwaneri, who every top PL club wanted to sign, to commit his future to Arsenal and write his name in history as a Gunner.
They are reaching a point where the club is reportedly confident in letting go of top stars like Kieran Tierney, Thomas Partey, Granit Xhaka, and Folarin Balogun, who are tipped to leave. In the previous phases, such players leaving would have left Arteta in a dilemma, but currently, they can leave, and there’s still a feeling the club will survive without them.
The Arsenal team Arteta is going to unleash next season will be better and able to win silverware. Phase 4 is about tasting silverware before phase 5, where Arsenal will be a force to be reckoned with all over the world.
COYG! Trust the process!
Sam P
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While agreeing with nearly all that you say Sam P, I was led to understand that we were going to win the CL in three years.
In fairness, if we take out the season interrupted by covid, we are still, going by your reckoning, two years OVER that three year prophecy.
👍 Final goal keeps being postponed.
Are Havertz and Rice injury-prone
Havertz played 35/38 games last season, while
Rice 37/38.
Make of it what you want about their fitness.
Phase 4 – intergrating an inverted rightback formation coupled with the inverted leftback formation. (& win trophies)
phase 5 – intergrating an inverted centreback formation coupled with the other 2 above formations. (& win trophies)
Phase 6, 7, 8, 9…… (win more trophies)
ALWAYS FORWARD!! (& implement the chaos formation theory)
Phase 4 🫡
Phase 4 extroverted and inverted DK 😂😂
As I say, three years has, seemingly turned into five, not that it matters, just wish the club would acknowledge that it’s taking longer than expected, whatever the reason, instead of elongating the process / plan until we win something.
I’m sure we will see phase 8-9-10 in a few years time Ken 😂
When Arteta came into the mess that was Arsenal. My list of priorities for him were:
A- 2020 : To stabilise the team, stop the downward spiral until the end of the season
B- 2020/21. To give as many players a final chance to prove themselves worthy of wearing and playing for Arsenal.
C- 2021/22: To start purging the team of the bad apples and underperformers while slowly introducing his own players while fighting for Top 6.
D- 2022/23: Buying more of his players and Fighting for a Top 4 place.
E- 2023/24: Seriously Challenging the Top 2.
F- 2024/25: Challenging / going for the title..
But from what happened this season and the financial backing Arteta has recieved from the owners this transfer window, I have now revised my predictions. We are a season ahead so I now expect 2023/24 to be the year we win the title instead of 2024/25. Let’s go for it again this coming season and let’s bottle it..
Arteta has been hitting my expectations so far. The disappointing thing about it all is that for the last 2 seasons he looked like he was overachieving but then at the last huddle he fell off and ended the season on a downer even if the improvements were there for all to see..
I think Arteta has been a very stabilising personality at our club.. we needed that..
Did you make those priorities in 2019 or today when you were writing that comment?
I think he made those priorities before Wenger was sacked
Lol HH ,exactly what I thought
His priorities and predictions “coincidentally” happens to be the club history of the past 4 years.
Takes some doing HH, takes some doing!!
@HH
You wouldn’t have noticed that this has been my expectation list season after season. You were busy ranting about how Arteta will never be in the same class as Brendon Rodgers because Rodgers improves all the players he coaches while Arteta can’t etc.. If you had taken off your Anti Arteta tinted glasses back then then you would have notices some of our comments and expectations for Arteta each season.
But like some of your fellow sensationalists that have replied to this comment of mine you let your anti Arteta bias cloud your objective judgement.
Now you think that what I wrote is some kind of new revelation. That’s what I hoped for Emery, Ljumberg and Arteta. I just wanted someone with a fresh set of ideas to come in and completely change the poor player culture that had been allowed fester. I have always said that we need to give the manager authority over our spoilt brats and allow him to build his own team. I have consistently said that I am ready to wait 3-5 years if I can see that the manager is competent and progressing our club.
Isn’t it?
When Arteta came in and stabilised the club and won the FA cup. That was 2020. And if you want you can go back and check out some of my comments going back 2020/21.
That’s been the difference between some of us and you the Group throughout this Arteta tenure. Some of us have been going on about “Given the manager time. We will not win it all in a year or two. It’s a process. Let Arteta build his own team etc”.
That’s all we have been saying throughout while you guys as always wanted it now or he should be sacked. Why do you think we continue to support and give Arteta more leeway to this day?
Just look back at my comments of what I expected from Arteta in 2019.
I wanted the same for Emery but the sensationalists did not give him an inch..
He won the FA Cup with the claimed deadwood that were all apparently rubbish and still playing Emerys style remember!
Winning the FA Cup does not show the strength of a team. It’s a cup competition.
Leicester just won it about 2 years ago and they are now relegated.
Portsmouth won it and got relegated.
Arteta won the FA cup with that team but what did it prove? It did not show the strength of quality of the overall team. We were still a rubbish mid table team that won a cup.
Wigan won the Curling cup and got relegated
Do you remember Birmingham beating is in that Carling Cup final? What happened to them after? Got relegated.
West Ham just won the ECL but are they are great team?
Even Spuds won a Carling Cup in 2008. 😊
Etc.
The consistent league table is the real measure of a team’s quality and strength rather than a cup.
Isn’t it?
Goonster, how far had Arsenal progressed in the FA Cup under Emery, before Arteta took over?
How did Arsenal under Arteta fare the following season when they faced “star studded” Villarreal under Emery?
@Ozziegunner.
I don’t get your point. Elaborate.
I can hear the sigh of relief that they are hitting your expectations.
There must be enormous pressure on them to deliver on a level that you would find satisfactory.
@GAI, @SueP etc have been on somewhat the same page in expectation as me. I think you should read some of our comments going back into the early Arteta months..
Thank you Goonster
It was over optimistic of Arteta to think he’d being doing great in the CL in 3 years when he got the job. However, it’s better than saying the opposite! He obviously hadn’t had the time to evaluate his squad. It’s also so easy to forget how Covid affected the league in terms of transfers. We couldn’t give away some of our high earners who were clearly in charge of the dressing room.
For me, Arteta whilst not delivering on hiS 3 year pledge, brought back much needed pride to the club. To say otherwise is total nonsense.
@SueP
That CL in 3 year talk I never took seriously.
It is the same old nonsense that new managers come up with. I bet you Pep promised a CL in short period of time at Bayern and City, but look how long it’s taken him to win it a City and he never won it at Bayern.
That’s why I prefer honesty and not this pandering and over promising.
I am an individual that can’t stand Sensationalism. It cringes me out. Arteta saying that he was going on win us the CL in 3 years was a stupid and sensationalistic thing to say.
That’s why I can’t stand catchphrases like “So and so is the best in his position. Or So and so is the only world class player in our team blah blah”.
But anyways. I am happy with Arteta as he had kept hitting my personal expectations season after season. So I have had no need to overly criticise him. The time I will start to overly criticise him is when I feel like he has stagnated and not progressing any farther.
“They are reaching the point where the club is reportedly confident in letting go of top stars like Teinrny, Xhaka and Partey’
No Sam P, not so fast where not out of the woods yet, recently someone has been toying with the idea.
If we proceed down that route, we will be caught again with our pants below our knees.
Your last paragraph, not a pretty sight from what I hear Gunsmoke, but as it’s not on the official website, I’m not going to believe it!!
His👍🏻👍🏻
👍👍 Gunsmoke and ken, why weaken the squad needlessly?
Ozzieguner
Actually the opposite.
Gunsmoke, how does selling players, who played last season in a team finishing second, not weaken the squad?
Do you really think players nowadays can be convinced because of clubs vision or goals?
Havertz was convinced by that fat salary. It’s not like he was to Chelsea what Mbampe is to PSG or Haaland to Man City.
I heard Declan priority was to stay in London and the only club willing to pay his fee, give him fat salary and is on the upward spiral is Arsenal.
Happy for all the signings and looking forward to a successful future by the way.
Arsenal’s transformation over the last few years is based on the successful implementation of the phases of Arteta’s plan. This puts Arsenal in a position where we can bid for the likes of Rice.
Signings please.
Not players linked, players close to signing or players wanting to come.
You cannot name them in your squad.
👍👍👍
Think the gaffer could be going into phase 4 remarkably well, I read somewhere that the gaffer has a 59% win rate at Arsenal, that’s excellent as that would have make him the highest in Arsenal history.
That’s incredible that means that we have a lot of people doing the right things at the club.
In the team a lot of players contributing immensely and especially the support that we have, which in my opinion, had absolutely transformed the team with that energy, so am really happy and looking forward to stage 4.
There was never a five year phase. It was a three year phase to be in CL in 3 years and start competing for the premier league. Where has 5 phases magicically come from?
That’s why you shift the goalposts Reggie, so you can claim whatever you like.
For several years there have not been clear goals or standards to reach. It used to be top 4 under Emery and Wenger.
Is the rebuild complete after this window? Is the process concluded with added depth this window? Are the standards hopefully back now of top 4 minimum?
Always talk of culture and philosophy, time, money, & support given after nearly 4 years; time to speak of expectations after a rebuild of over 600 million spent.
Unfortunately for Emery he failed to keep us in the top4 or win the Europa league. Without being harsh, nor did AW who I laud for most of his tenure
There is never an end to a regenerating process. One assumes now that rebuilding from a dismal low after both the above left must be classed as done and dusted. We keep building on that going forward.
Arteta had set out a plan in phases and has alluded to this on occasion. He has also indicated that the plan had 5 phases.
Arteta has clearly transformed the club over the last few years. The transformation so far is related to the implementation and outcomes of the phases.
I am not sure where the phases have have come from must of missed that
Most of us are pretty happy with the progress we are making on a d off the pitch.
Football we play has been good to watch
Fans are back behind the team
AFC as a club seems to be united again
BUT
we need to turn that new energy into silverware
Only 4 cups to go for as the charity shield doesn’t count in my opinion
With my gooner hat on
CL, LEAGUE , FA CUP, LEAGUE CUP
realistically
League, FA Cup, league Cup and slim chance at a shot at the CL
Stay In the race for the last 10 games and win at all cost ( Aussie style)to close off the final 30 points
Last season we were better then the season before at the end but this season coming we need to dig deeper and MA has to improve his tactics to see us over the line.
Onwards and upwards
👍
Allanball08, I am always amazed at English hypocrisy 😁.
Arteta has occasionally alluded to the 5 phase plan. Of course, for many fans all they want to see are trophies and good football.
This is understandable. What is getting fairly ridiculous is the debate over whether Arteta had a plan in the first place.
Arteta needs the appropriate squad depth to see us over the line if we are in a similar position next season. There is very little wrong with tactics that can get us to lead the PL for most of the season whilst playing great football.
Great that the club is moving forward but aren’t this season’s incomings more than minor adjustments and an acknowledgement that the original process wouldn’t work and needed fine tuning.
That picture of Odegaard, Rice and Havertz was mesmerising. I want Zinchenko to be a part of that soon. So that, the memory of Ashley Cole as the greatest LB in Arsenal history can be replaced.
Mr Ram, settle down. Whatever Zivchenko brings to the Arsenal team he can never be put on the same level as Ashley Cole when it comes to ability. Losing Cole set Arsenal back five years, Losing Zivchenko won’t mean much in the great scheme of things.
We were said to be ahead of schedule when talking about the title challenge last season. Now we’re gearing up for our next challenge. Arteta never said phase anything that is fans counting a full seasons transfer window as a phase. Arteta’s process is in effect when training his players it’s not just about incoming and outgoing. His footballing and life philosophy is the major part of his process