Life After Emery Begins

[lamby22]

I can't be the only one shocked by this. I mean wtf. He's 45??? I would have had him down for a lot older.

 

[Garrincha]

I can't be the only one shocked by this. I mean wtf. He's 45??? I would have had him down for a lot older.

He was playing up till 2010!

 

[Slartibartfast]

I can't be the only one shocked by this. I mean wtf. He's 45??? I would have had him down for a lot older.

His stint at Valencia aged him about 10 years.

 

[GoonerJeeves]

Seems clear the board is looking for a youngish manager, if they have a profile at all.

 

[Tosker]

You think he's coming?

just gone to 8/11 favourite with all other contenders fading out of the picture, so a fair number of people think so

 

[Slartibartfast]

Slow day so trawling around the internet. I've been looking at specialist coaches at football clubs. It amazes me how few specific area specialist coaches there are in football. It seems to be the only sport that doesn't deal in marginal gains

I play rugby in the Welsh premiership and although it's only semi pro we have a manager, assistant, defence coach, attack coach, lineout coach, scrum coach, fitness coach, kicking coach and skills coach. Plus video and tactics guy. Specialist coaches are also brought in as necessary such as judo instructor to improve tackling and scrummaging grips. We had a top session just last week with a basketball coach focussing on handling and offloading.

From reading about it seems that loads of managers take the lead role in one of these areas themselves. To me a manager should be overseeing it all and delegating coaching and organisation to the best team he can assemble to put his vision/ethos into practice. Analysing what he sees and gathering feedback and picking the side from that.

From that I got to thinking, if the board are willing to put together a coaching team like this then someone like arteta having little experience wouldn't be such a problem as he could lean on his team as to how best get his vision into reality.

Just spitballing....as I said it's a slow day with nearly all games in Wales being rained off

Things have come a long way since the Arsenal coaching staff consisted of just Bertie Mee and Don Howe.

Mee was actually the club's physiotherapist when Arsenal appointed him as manager in 1966. He was rather reluctant to take on the job because he wasn't really versed in the tactics. He forced the club to give him an out clause to go back to being the physiotherapist after a year if it wasn't working out. He recruited Dave Sexton from Chelsea to be his senior assistant and the retiring Howe to coach the reserve team. Sexton returned to Chelsea as manager after a year and Howe stepped up to the senior team. He was really the tactical brains. Bertie did the organization and management.

Arteta's situation would presumably be more the opposite. He's well-versed in tactics by now, but we don't really know how he would handle all the other duties. So a competent, experienced staff would be a must if Arsenal goes in that direction.

 

[say yes]

You think he's coming?

He’s always been the most likely candidate imo.

Doubt we’ll get Potch.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Poch would just be walking into same situation as he did for Sp**s. Years of building a team to compete with minimum funds and then sacked at first chance when it get tough.

I'm not sure if he find that attractive.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Poch would just be walking into same situation as he did for Sp**s. Years of building a team to compete with minimum funds and then sacked at first chance when it get tough.

I'm not sure if he find that attractive.

Arsenal has actually been spending quite a bit of money recently. Sp**s have spent very little and now have stadium debt. In that respect, Arsenal would be a much better situation. He would also have a lot of young talent on hand.

 

[SingmeasongSong]

This is weird, I've not been so active the last theee days, but it doesn't seem like I've missed one bit of news.

3 days without a real update ?
All waiting for post City game, I guess.

 

[GDeep™]

Like I said, all just wild guess work, but start of next week after the City game has gone might be throw up an interesting update with Arteta maybe.

 

[asukru]

So far Freddie is undefeated lol but I don't think he is the solution for us but who knows, let's wait and see.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Arsenal has actually been spending quite a bit of money recently. Sp**s have spent very little and now have stadium debt. In that respect, Arsenal would be a much better situation. He would also have a lot of young talent on hand.

We have been spending on absolute dross in recent windows. It remains to be seen if last window will influence other windows or not, I hope not, but I think it will. It will take many transfers windows to unfold the mistakes we have done in last windows. Which then raise another question, will Pochetto want to work with Raul. Not so sure about that either.

I don't see why we would be attractive opinion for Pochetto unless we are offering super wages but then again, we know we wont do that either.

 

[Sanchez11]

Poch on the way

 

[Joestlaachmkr]

Arsenal has sadly enough become the biggest joke in English football.

 

[GDeep™]

So far Freddie is undefeated lol but I don't think he is the solution for us but who knows, let's wait and see.

Lost to Brighton at home.

 

[Sanchez11]

Anyone else reported the new Nuno interest?

 

[rich 1990]

Lost to Brighton at home.

He's having a shocker today. Compared to Trilly and then forgets that.

 

[GDeep™]

Anyone else reported the new Nuno interest?

Nah the Mail just making it up. They’ll have a new link tonight.

 

[A_G]

Like I said, all just wild guess work, but start of next week after the City game has gone might be throw up an interesting update with Arteta maybe.

What manager do you want???