Arsenal will still have to pay us compensation for Mikel. If Mikel decides he wants the job then I would put a clause in it, that Arsenal are not allowed to buy any of our players unless they are willing to pay a premium of 25% over our asking for the transfer, for e,g. Arsenal want Sterling our fee would be say £160m so Arsenal would have to pay City £200m. Maybe better still they are not allowed to buy any of our players at all.
I still think this move is to early for Mikel as he has only been coaching for 2yrs at the most and it is a big jump from coaching to managing a big club like Arsenal., and being expected to go out and start winning some trophies more or less straight away
This is like giving an 17 yr old the keys to a Lamborghini.
Talk about in at the deep end...
He has never managed a team ffs!!
People say Pep just continued with Cruyff's way of playing. Without doubt, Cruyff inspired Pep, but also without doubt the short quick passing with a purpose and winning the ball back rapidly, all done with a dose of flexibility is, at its most extreme, purely Pep.It's not actually our method. City didn't invent positional play and nor did Pep. Pep has of course adopted and adapted ways of playing - he's an ideas thief by his own admission - and synthesised them into something that is his own interpretation and that will keep evolving but knowing the method(s) in of itself is no guarantee of success but it might help to make football more interesting and entertaining if more coaches adopt the ideas Pep does. What they won't have is his mind and his ability to read games and dissect opponents: that is a very rare gift that our manager is blessed with and what I suspect we will miss the most when he goes.
Could screw his managerial career from the off though, so his outlook also.That is Arsenal's look out. If he does go, who would blame him. Chance of a lifetime, that might never come again.
People say Pep just continued with Cruyff's way of playing. Without doubt, Cruyff inspired Pep, but also without doubt the short quick passing with a purpose and winning the ball back rapidly, all done with a dose of flexibility is, at its most extreme, purely Pep.
People say Pep just continued with Cruyff's way of playing. Without doubt, Cruyff inspired Pep, but also without doubt the short quick passing with a purpose and winning the ball back rapidly, all done with a dose of flexibility is, at its most extreme, purely Pep.
Everyone needs to take a risk at some point, just like Pep did when he took on the Barca job. I do think that Arteta should have taken some youth games last season though, if his aim was to go into management asap.Could screw his managerial career from the off though, so his outlook also.