03 Dec 2019 15:59:24
Well we are not happy with the Everton situation so how do you think Moshiri feels? He and Usmanov wanted a say in the running of Arsenal but did not get it do so sold their shares. Moshiri purchased the majority shares in Everton. Why did a successful buisnessman do this when I am sure he could have found better investments? After putting a significant amount of money into the club he must be totally fed up with the situation.
So now he is in a quandary, the best managers would not come to us, although he might be tempted to try one of them by throwing money at them. He has tried the middle of the road Managers so the likes of Moyes, Hughes etc. are not attractive. So what does he do? Well he should by now be realizing that too many cooks spoil the broth and what has been happening at the club over the past few years is not working, in fact is a total disaster. So a total change is needed and the next decision Moshiri makes is critical for his tenure as majority owner.
Maybe he needs to decide if Brands is the man to lead the club forward. If so then Brands should be recruiting and be the major voice in picking the next manager not the board or Moshiri or his advisers.
Moshiri should then allow Brands to install a model for the playing side of the club, from the academy to the first team, presumably like Brands previous clubs models with emphasis on bringing in young players with potential, and having a longer term strategy and plan.
A Brands and Arteta combination would be ideal IMHO but if Arteta is not available Brands must have alternatives.

1.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 16:31:07
By boxing day we could be in the bottom three and falling behind all the time. I said well before the god awful Norwich performance that to stand any chance of getting even remotely close to last seasons 'achievement' of 8th; Silva has to go. I hope we do well against Liverpool tomorrow, but even if we do this Board have to see the bigger picture and get rid. 3 Teams, same methods, same end result.

2.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 16:31:58
Why Arteta?
He’s not done anything other than be peps number 2 at City, no actual managerial experience.
Apart from him being one of our ex-players (who didn’t leave in best of circumstances) why do you think he would be a good choice?

3.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 17:04:23
For me the problem is not the Manager it’s the quality of the squad and that’s not Silva’s remit that down to Brands if we hired the best Manager in the world tomorrow he couldn’t do any better than Silva the squad is the squad not good enough.

4.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 17:48:44
Arteta because he has been learning from one of the best managers in the world who has stated that he is capable of being the manager of a top club. He is being groomed to take over at City so why wouldn't he be good enough for us? He also has the reputation of getting the best out of players and giving the younger players good advice.
I believe Brands has been instructed to recruit for the short term, not the long term which to my knowledge is his expertise. If recruitment is Brands fault then Moshiri needs to get rid and get in someone who can do the job. My point was that their can only be one boss of the footballing side of the club. We need a revamp of our strategy and both short term and long term objectives. If we continue on the path we have been on we are doomed, new stadium or not.

5.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 18:16:48
Well let's see if City put their money where 'Peps' mouth is shall we?

We are 'doomed' if we settle for 'a pig in a poke' again matey!

6.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 19:31:00
Queroz, Kidd, Walter smith, phelan and steve McLaren were all assistant coaches to one of the best managers we have witnessed since the premiership started and you don't need me to tell you how all those have turned out at management.
Not to mention Clement who worked under Mourinho.

The fact is that more assistants to world class managers have failed than have succeeded so Arteta is a massive risk. Do we need that right now?

7.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 19:54:02
Yes it is a risk Smit, so is appointing anyone, we haven't been too successful with the last four managers who had a lot of experience have we! Time will tell with Arteta, he will manage somewhere and we may look back and wish we had taken the risk.

8.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 19:58:24
Surely Uran it has to be how the squad is managed/ coached.

9.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 20:00:13
''Do we need that right now? ''

No Smit absolutely not mate.

10.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 20:52:31
For what its worth, my opinion is that the club need to stop and have a good hard look at themselves. Why do we keep struggling to make an impact each year despite spending significant amounts of money? They need to find the root cause for this. Secondly, they need to address those root cause (s) . they need to ask themselves what is the goal, what is the strategy to get there and what characters/ roles and structure do they need to implement those goals. Since moyes left (indeed whilst moyes was there) they haven't done that imo. i believe moyes (at the time) was a lucky find for our club. but there was not a lot of thinking went into that decision. From my perspective we seem to have maintained a slap dash approach as far as due diligence is concerned, evident by the buying of 4 number 10s in the koeman era. My point is that I think the wrong people are on the board or being allowed to influence them with duff info, and until there is a fundamental change NOTHING will change.

11.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 20:53:32
Brian Kidd spent years learning from Fergie and was a complete flop as a manager. There's a massive difference between managing and being a top No 2.having saidcthat it doesn't mean Arteta won't step up.

12.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 21:09:16
Look my whole point was that we have to change strategy and the way we do things including who choses the manager. I agree with jcl1878 that a fundamental change is needed. Let the board run the business and have a football expert run the footballing part. Why have a Director of Football if does not make the decisions?

13.) 03 Dec 2019
03 Dec 2019 22:01:25
''a fundamental change is needed. ''
Yes yes, we done that one already everyone is nodding their heads off in agreement Mike .

It's the bit about the 'sorcerers apprentice' aka Arteta Peps No. 2 . getting some of us a bit concerned mate.

14.) 04 Dec 2019
04 Dec 2019 08:57:41
the answer is simple for moshiri to stop wasting his money, stop taking terrible advice and signing managers that aren't ever going to be good enough.