He concluded: “Arsenal are still a much, much bigger club than Leicester whether you like it or not and regardless of how recently Leicester won the title. I don’t get it!”ĭurham identified Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers as the tailor-made replacement for Arteta and believes the Northern Irishman is capable of going on and becoming Arsenal’s best manager of all time.ĭurham believes Rodgers would take the Arsenal job and end up being a huge success “And that’s challenging for and winning a Premier League title and getting back in the Champions League and challenging deep into that competition. Now you don’t always have to have had a brilliant playing career to be a really good manager, but I’m trying to find out what made the people running Arsenal Football Club think Arteta was the right man to rescue them from what Wenger had left, what Emery had failed to rectify and take them to where they wanted to be. “This is a guy who never played for Spain. “Or was he really contributing some incredible ideas that made Man City the side they were when they won a couple of titles? “Yes, he was working at Man City with Guardiola, but what was he doing? Was he setting out the cones? Was he sorting out the slides for the briefing room? What was he doing there? Arteta’s trusted at Arsenal based on what? That he was Pep’s mate for a while and dressed like Pep? I think it’s a little bit odd. “Frank Lampard had to go in the Championship to get a job. Steven Gerrard has to go to the Scottish Premiership to get a job. He was a good player, but he wasn’t a great player. “His playing career wasn’t filled with massive glory. “It’s not looking good for him at the moment, it makes you question why he was given the job.ĭurham doesn’t understand why managerial novice Arteta was given the Arsenal job having previously only been Man City’s No.2 He’s been trusted with a massive Premier League job. “I think there’s a lot wrong with Arsenal, but maybe part of the problem is the manager himself. So if someone wants to explain it then please do.
Arsenal are on the right track because the percentages and everything point towards them winning the games so they just need a little bit of luck or they need to sign another finisher in case Aubameyang isn’t playing’.”ĭurham continued: “I don’t know what he’s trying to say with all these stats percentages – I don’t know. “People aren’t going to listen to it and say he’s got a point: ‘Actually I know where he’s coming from. “What on earth makes him think that coming out with all this now is actually going to make people think, ‘oh actually hold on a second no he is the man, he is the right man going forward’. “He’s not a stupid man, Mikel Arteta he’s been in football a long time. 100 per cent of people know Arsenal lost at Everton! Simon Jordan sympathises with Mikel Arteta but questions whether the Arsenal job is 'too big for him' at such an early stage of his managerial career “It’s like he thinks it’s a computer game… ‘if I can come out with these stats and percentages then those will turn magically into points that will send Arsenal rocketing up the table’. “With these percentages that he’s coming out with and this ‘data attack’, as I call it, it’s like he thinks it’s FIFA,” he explained. Speaking on Monday’s Drivetime on talkSPORT, Durham expressed his bewilderment at the Spaniard for using a percentage stat argument in defence of the club’s woeful run of form and says he must take responsibility. “Saying that it doesn’t care because you lose and the only thing that cares and you lose the match and that’s why we’re here.”
There is something else apart from that that has to go our way and at the moment it doesn’t.
“Three per cent against Burnley and you lose, seven per cent against Spurs and you lose. “Last weekend it was 67 per cent chance of winning any Premier League in history, and nine percent of losing – and you lose. He said: “Last year against Everton we won the game with 25 per cent chance of winning, supported by the stats. Prior to that encounter the Spaniard maintained that the Gunners haven’t been getting the rub of the green of late. Arteta is really struggling at the club he’s been in charge of for a year
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