Mikel Arteta

[Michael Tsui]

Good guy, give his best years to us, and left for a price that was largely in our favour. But if you are asking whether we should consider him as our next permanent manager then its way too soon for him.

 

[WA Toffee]

and how much he gets us. Especially when we helped him with his problem (unwell child)

So maybe he’s in the frame - discuss.

What is there to discuss? He has never managed a team, therefore has zero experience making it impossible to discuss the merits of him getting the position.

 

[n01efc]

Yes yes yes yes yes, he is the best little Spaniard we know

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

What's Sandro Pistone up to?

 

[ToffeeTim]

Cause there's nobody better
Than Mikel Arteta
He's the best little Spaniard we know

Ohhhhhoo Ohhho ohhhhhoooo

 

[Milkman]

Don't get the rat shouts at all, think some of you are too precious. Arteta was just competitive, he never disrespected the club off the pitch.

He was also one of the best players we've had in the past 20 years. Barmby was a rat. Lukaku is a rat. Arteta is not a rat.

 

[ToffeeTim]

In top 3 players I've seen for the club

 

[orly]

I hope he takes over and reintegrates McGeady into the side

 

[phil_t98]

He owes me money. seriously

 

[Vaughan]

strikes me as someone who will be the new Poch, Vilas Boas, Pep style young fashionable manager in a few years time

But don't think we should be going for him jsut yet

 

[Roztitute]

He owes me money. seriously

Do tell

 

[Vaughan]

also he must be high up on the best players to never win an international cap list?

 

[jceverton]

strikes me as someone who will be the new Poch, Vilas Boas, Pep style young fashionable manager in a few years time

But don't think we should be going for him jsut yet

That's my opinion as well, smashed his coaching badges from all accounts. The fact that Pep took him on with no experience tells you a lot. We should be tracking his progress and be ready to move but that will be a few years down the line. Great that he's learning from Pep because I think he's the best around.

 

[bluestevon]

That's my opinion as well, smashed his coaching badges from all accounts. The fact that Pep took him on with no experience tells you a lot. We should be tracking his progress and be ready to move but that will be a few years down the line. Great that he's learning from Pep because I think he's the best around.

Think guardiola will have possibly known him from way back when arteta was at the barca academy as a kid. Interesting that he went really heavily after getting him to come city though, word is he's very clued up coaching wise

 

[LydiateLee]

I absolutely loved Arteta. What a midfield that was with Cahill and Pienaar. Add to that a defence made up of a young Baines, Jagielka and Lescott and it is a travesty that we didn't do better with that team.

Imagine Lukaku upfront ahead of that lot.