also, defining success, or a coach’s job being “impressive” based solely on winning trophies is the dumbest possible way to support a football club. just be a madrid, bayern, and psg fan and call it a day if that’s how you feel. this isn’t binary; this isn’t “win a trophy and that’s impressive (see: this terrible tottenham team/season), or don’t win a trophy and you suck”. that’s such a fanatical, childish way to look at it.
the transformation that those of us who’ve actually been paying attention to arsenal have seen has been amazing. the stability and competitiveness of the club is night and day from what it was when arteta arrived- night and day. he got rid of all the deadwood and terrible contracts, he’s recruited and signed a ton of young talent who are still entering their primes, and he has the club set up to be competitive for major trophies for years to come. we’ve gone from old and terrible david luiz and sokratis at the back to young and burgeoning saliba and gabriel, for example. and he’s had arsenal playing better and advancing farther than 95% of the league without having any support from the board to buy the strikers he’s wanted (which is about to change now that we’ve dropped edu for andrea berta).
that’s impressive. if you’re only impressed by trophies then ghats certainly your prerogative, but it’s dumb. it means you’re more impressed by ange and tottenham than arsenal and arteta. just a painfully stupid way to assess “impressive”.
TIL that UT Football has had exactly 4 impressive teams. damn.