NieThePiet
Loves Overhyping Our Rivals
Sadly many aspects changing my opinion into the "New Manager Bounce" direction.
Emery lost the dressing room and Arteta created a new full team spirit with his wish of mentality. He gave every player a new chance, the team was motivated again and played every game with 100% motivation. He tried some new tactically things and the other clubs haven't excactly know, what they had to expect against Arteta's team. Probably some thought, that we would play something like Wenger/Guardiola-football, but in reality it was more influenced by Moyes.
Good motivation can give you a good spell of results, but longterm it isn't succesful. Other teams know how Arteta wants to play now, it's pretty easy to read and it's no problem for them anymore. Normally it's Artetas turn to change things again to make it more difficult against us, but i haven't seen much of it so far.
Players get frustrated, because they aren't getting chances, while other players are allowed to play every week despite not performing. In addition you have special cases like Özil, Guendouzi and Saliba. I wouldn't be surprised, if Pepe has no chance for a comeback like Guendouzi. Arteta threw him completely under the bus to distract from his errors and the team performance.
I can accept, that we don't have the quality for the Top 4. But the team quality is better than we are watching nearly the full season. One day we will sign an offensive midfielder and after some weeks we will discuss, that we are lacking quality on another position again.
We had a goalscorer, who scored 20+ goals for so many consecutive seasons and i'm not even sure he will get around 10 goals this season.
Emery lost the dressing room and Arteta created a new full team spirit with his wish of mentality. He gave every player a new chance, the team was motivated again and played every game with 100% motivation. He tried some new tactically things and the other clubs haven't excactly know, what they had to expect against Arteta's team. Probably some thought, that we would play something like Wenger/Guardiola-football, but in reality it was more influenced by Moyes.
Good motivation can give you a good spell of results, but longterm it isn't succesful. Other teams know how Arteta wants to play now, it's pretty easy to read and it's no problem for them anymore. Normally it's Artetas turn to change things again to make it more difficult against us, but i haven't seen much of it so far.
Players get frustrated, because they aren't getting chances, while other players are allowed to play every week despite not performing. In addition you have special cases like Özil, Guendouzi and Saliba. I wouldn't be surprised, if Pepe has no chance for a comeback like Guendouzi. Arteta threw him completely under the bus to distract from his errors and the team performance.
I can accept, that we don't have the quality for the Top 4. But the team quality is better than we are watching nearly the full season. One day we will sign an offensive midfielder and after some weeks we will discuss, that we are lacking quality on another position again.
We had a goalscorer, who scored 20+ goals for so many consecutive seasons and i'm not even sure he will get around 10 goals this season.