between this ^^^, and this:
and this:
i donβt give a shit what anyone else says, arteta has done an unbelievable job, heβs one of the five best managers in europe, and this club is and always has been headed in the right direction from the moment that arteta was hired. this club has so many goddamn toxic fans, so many people who are only happy when theyβre unhappy. fuck all that. i could not love or support a club more than i support this club, and anyone whoβs still bitching about the state of things can fuck off and go root for whatever dumbass mls team went and hired gregg.
just like arsene wenger, no one is doing more with less than mikel arteta. no one. itβs really cute that forest and brentford are in the top half of the table. holler at me when they finish second in the epl, thrash real madrid, go to the uefa semifinals, and go actual years without losing to any of the top 6 epl teams, all while missing 1/2 of their starting xi for 3+ months at a time. itβs been an unparalleled job by mikel arteta this year. no other manager does this much against those odds. none.
we are about to enter phase five of artetaβs five-phase plan, and itβs the phase where we establish ourselves as perennial contenders for every major trophy, a la man city, liverpool, barca, madrid, etc. we no longer look up to these teams, we square up with those teams. and this isnβt overly optimistic, homer-fan bluster; iβm the last guy who does that sunshine pumping crap. this is the natural next step based on the trajectory the club has been on for five years. this is exactly what weβve been building for. the final pieces of the team are arriving soon, and the final pieces of the plan come next. iβm so pumped for the future of this club. the epl and uefa cl titles are now realistic goals for the foreseeable future. if you arenβt extremely hyped for the immediate future of this club then you might not have a pulse. weβre on the doorstep, and weβre kicking our way in. COYG. π΄βͺοΈ