Gabriel Jesus Sets Clock Ticking on Arteta

Gabriel Jesus' arrival at Arsenal sets the clock ticking on Mikel Arteta.

Notes on Manchester City 5-0 Arsenal: Arteta’s Cooked

A 4-1 win at home to Norwich City after the upcoming international break can't be enough for Mikel Arteta to keep his job. Not after the Arsenal manager presided over yet another car crash in a meaningful game, this time losing 5-0 to old boss Pep Guardiola and Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on…

Overthinking is the Guardiola/Arteta Curse

Pep Guardiola from Santpedor had an idea. Shame it wasn't a particularly good one. There was a sense of inevitably that Guardiola's decision to play without a true striker nor holding midfielders in Saturday's UEFA Champions League final against Chelsea would end in disaster. It surely did when Kai Havertz score what proved to be…

Arteta Loyalty Test Incoming

Joan Laporta is back in as Barcelona president, so the rumours of Mikel Arteta also returning to the Camp Nou aren't going anywhere for the foreseeable future. In fact, the Arsenal manager could be due for a tricky test of his loyalties in the very near. Laporta won the election on Sunday night to earn…

Tariq Lamptey Would be a Very Guardiola-Style Signing

Mikel Arteta obviously paid close attention to how Pep Guardiola built Manchester City into a Premier League title-winning juggernaut. Arteta is apparently ready to take a page from his old boss and rebuild Arsenal the same way, full-backs first. Arsenal are one of the teams growing increasingly keen on Brighton's young flier, Tariq Lamptey. So…

Barcelona, Laporta Could Solve Arteta Dilemma

Barcelona's a name every ambitious manager wants to see on their call-sheet. We'll find out how ambitious Mikel Arteta is if the latest rumours are to believed. Barca want to hire their former midfielder as manager if Joan Laporta wins the upcoming presidential election and returns to power. That's the word from Gerard Romero at…

Arteta’s New Way of Asking for More Time and Money

Mikel Arteta has solved a tricky problem. He's got an answer for those Arsenal fans who think he should be producing better results now, not in some far-off halcyon land when the "project" has come to fruition. Arteta's wised up. He's realised if he doesn't call it a project, he can continue to adjust expectations…

Riqui Puig and a Profile of Hope for Arsenal

There may be hope for Arsenal under Mikel Arteta after all. If not hope, then at least an identity could be forming, somewhere, off on the horizon. What's the source of this new-found optimism? Info from transfer shamus Fabrizio Romano, who revealed on his Here We Go podcast that Arsenal tried to sign Riqui Puig…

Arteta’s Shamelessly Passing the Buck

Mikel Arteta, you are shameless. The Arsenal boss wants loadsamoney, after admitting he's six players short of being able to play a 4-3-3 formation geared to attacking football. It's a good job Arteta didn't come to this grim realisation 10 games into a Premier League season. Otherwise Arsenal would really be in deep shit... What…

Arteta’s Trade-Off Killing Arsenal’s Entertainment Value

Mikel Arteta has made Arsenal better defensively, but improvement at the back has come completely at the expense of what his team produces going forward. Arsenal's one step forward, two steps back shuffle under Arteta was perfectly encapsulated by Saturday's 1-0 loss away to Manchester City. Losing by a single goal at a venue where…