If Arteta doesn't hit the ground running, I can see it going very badly indeed. Could genuinely be relegation potential. No one has a clue what his head coach chops are.
He has no experience managing an entire group on his own, nor the pressure and expectation of a totally disgruntled fanbase. He's only coached in cushy positions, as far as I'm aware.
I really hope it goes tits up.
Hiding to nothing, and cant think of how it will go well (Ill wait a few months and see if this one comes back to bite me...)
His "excellent coaching" all happened under one of the greatest managers in generations with an oil funded fantasy football team.
Going into Arsenal will be a night and day experience in comparison.
Their squad is basically brick, with all the talent reserved for the forwards who are all temperamental to say the least.
Not only is the squad poor, its also ill balanced and has a deeply ingrained terrible attitude. The very definition of a petulant fairweather team.
For a top manager, an experienced manager this is a big job with no guarantee of success.
For a rookie? I think the odds are stacked well against.
Even if he really is the dogs danglies, he will still be on a steep learning curve, and will still make mistakes as he learns the job - WHILE having to completely rebuild a club (something plenty of experienced managers just dont have in them).
It looks to me, on the face of it at least, to be absolutely ripe for disaster.
