Alkesh
Active Member
Think Arteta has shown in many cases ability to improve on his decisions. Actually one of his better traits.
It's grim now but when the season is evaluated and we go by most people's predictions on this team competing for top 4 and getting to the final 16 in CL it's a good achievement. Dont think any of higher-ups will be asking questions other than how they can back him more.
Maybe after the next season the questions will be asked.
I don't think I'd call it a good achievement, it's more or less the expected one. We knew we had to challenge in the league after how last year went, and getting into the final 16 is about what we should achieve (especially given that we crawled in on penalties against a weak draw).
It was always going to be tough to manage a return to the CL, but I do think the way Arteta's navigated the last two months or so has been pretty poor. The team has largely failed to produce in the UCL, and I think his setup has been overly cautious on a number of occasions in the league.
A manager that gets exactly what you'd expect with the quality of player available should not be considered stellar, or good. It's average.