Okay I am sorry. The Arteta excuses will be used as usual when he fails though.
"Every team above us spent more money", is an excuse that will wear thin pretty easily. I just don't understand why when Wenger and Emery were not excused like Arteta.
OK, I'll try and explain it as best as I see it.
Firstly, let me state that not everyone is Wenger Out, and not everyone is Arteta In. These views aren't unanimous.
I think the Wenger Out lot, and let's be honest many of the rival fans and media, seen Wenger as being past his best, that his tactics were a bit outdated, and we needed a modern coach with modern ideas to help us compete with the likes of Klopp & Pep.
His last few transfer windows were poor, including spending £90M or so on Xhaka, Mustafi and Perez, and then spending £50M on Lacazette only to spend another £50M on Aubameyang 6 months later. You could see this regression on the park, sliding from a Champions League club to 5th and then to 6th, and attending the games themselves were becoming poisonous because of the whole Wenger In vs Wenger Out. It seemed change had to happen to try and unite the club again, as a divided club tends to not be a successful club. The general feeling was sthat the club was underachieving I think, & that with a couple of additions, and new modern coaching, we'd be back up there.
Emery came in, and like I have said countless times, done ok. He got a raw deal from the fans, the players, from Sanllehi and the media. You seen even last season, The Good Ebening still comes out when talking about him. But sometimes when it unravels quick like that, there's just a feeling there's no way back, and that was the general feeling with Emery unfortunately.
Now, as for Arteta, apparently he was Josh Kronke's pick when Wenger was leaving, but he allowed Sanllehi & Gazidas to call the shots. Now he's more active, you can see how they like a young coach they can get behind with their other sports franchises and they like to back them. It was probably Josh that kept Arteta in the job when he was struggling back in 2020. A lot of the crowd wanted him gone (some still do).
However, I also think a lot of the crowd realise that there was something more deep rooted wrong than just changing a coach, buying a couple of players and that would solve all issues. There was an understanding that we had been run poor for a good few years, that the transfer business of those years was shocking, we had a lot of upheaval with Wenger, Gazidas, Emery, Minsilat, Sanllehi all coming in and leaving, & a lot of money was wasted and perhaps we just needed continuity and give a manager a chance to build something.
Now, believe it or not, Arteta isn't getting backed blindly. Football fans in general aren't stupid, they tend to continue to back a manager when they see progress, and they tend to be on a managers back if things stall or regress. From 8th, 8th to 5th doesn't sound big progress, but from 58 points to 69 points is ok. From everything we are hearing behind the scenes, even from your own Rio, the club seem united again off the park. I'm not a match going fan as I live in Scotland, but the atmosphere at the ground is apparently much better, there is a better connection between the team and the players. I think we can see a team that's starting to show promise, but a squad that is severely lacking in quality depth.
The next question is can we continue to show progress, improve the squad further, therefore improving the points total, get further on in the cups and in Europe, because if he doesn't, then yeah, the support will be on his back.
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