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For the past few days and weeks the internet has been flooded with Mikel Arteta(arsenal former player and present assistant coach of manhester city) as the favourite replacement for Arsene Wenger. No offence to Arteta but we need a manager with experience who has already done it all. Giving Arteta the job is proof gazidis and kroenke will always go for the cheapest option. Some arsenal fans will be of the notion that zidane ( real madrid coach) and guardiola (former Barcelona coach) came out of the blue to coach Real Madrid and Barcelona respectively,but both managed Real Madrid's and Barcelona's B teams who play in competitive leagues and also ignoring the facts that both clubs had great stars before they arrive. Before guardiola came to barca they had stars like puyol, messi, yaya toure, Busquets , xavi, iniesta e.t.c
While before the arrival of zidane ,madrid had quality players in Ronaldo, modric, kroos, Ramos, marcelo e.t.c
Wenger himself arrived from Japanese club Nagoya Grampus Eight. The greeting 'Arsene Who?' said more about English football's ignorance than his own CV.
Wenger had more than a decade of managerial
experience by 1996, so direct comparisons with
Mikel Arteta are a little misguided.
Former Arsenal coach, George Graham also impressed at Millwall, winning promotion to the second division, before been giving the arsenal job.
Mikel Arteta as the then captain couldn’t rally his team mates . How will he do it as a manager?” we know not necessarily great players make good coaches but arsenal need a well experienced manager to handle the team.
The Arsenal board should as a matter of fact (if they caint get jardim,allegri,sarri,ancelloti),rather consider employing arsenal legends that have some coaching experience and well respected by the fans(bergkamp/viera) than settling with Arteta.