Next Arsenal Manager Watch

Hella surprising out of nowhere this news came today

Like someone said, Arteta was just the smokescreen

At least, it is someone with managerial experience. The langauge barrier might indeed be a bit of problem, will be interesting to see how that goes.

BUMP

First, to recap, it's indicative of @S 's knowledge and predictive powers that he had made a poll with 10 options yet the manager which was eventually hired wasn't even on his list.

Now that Emery has been sacked at last, the search for the next Arsenal manager continues

In the meantime, Freddy Ljungberg has taken on the interim role.
Does anyone have any insight into whether he is capable in any form? I don't think so and no it's not just because I hate him for reasons of female attention

All we know of Ljungberg is that he won the title with the u23 team, all the youngsters who have come up recently (Nelson, Willock, Saka, Smith Rowe, etc.) respect him a great deal, and that he was mainly promoted to the first team set-up to help with the integration of said young players.

He's said to be very encouraging as a coach and likes his teams to be on the front foot. The club rates him highly and apparently he was decently liked at Wolfsburg when he was Andries Jonker's assistant for a little while.

So, impossible to say how he's going to fare in the PL, really. He's a young coach with a lot still to learn and experience.

Rookie temporary coaches ( I mean coaches from youth teams) never perform. Experience Is everything.
I know It Is typical for Premier League (not in Serie A , except for last matchdays.. Milan have sacked a provinciale/average coach for another one... Anything but not a rookie) but I am not convinced on it

Not too convinced either by Freddie but i hope he brings in the new manager bounce at least. Just want Arsenal to play their normal selves.

Arsenal would be stupid to give Freddy the position permanently even if he does great-- agree with Robespiorre. They need Allegri to clean up this mess and sort out the defence.

Allegri said no. He wants to continue his sabbatical.

Poch hopefully

Orny says Pochettino is a „credible option“ whatever that means.

not convinced with the "Allegri said no" reports. Let's hope it's a smokescreen for the dream come true

It's gonna be Slaven Bilic.

Arsenal Fan TV on Sky is as good as it gets for them

Kaladin wrote:

Arsenal Fan TV on Sky is as good as it gets for them

The Biased show with Troopz was amazing today lmao

From what i understand the guy on the right wants Ljungberg as interim + Allegri hired after the season. And the arguments make sense.

Idk what Max is doing these days, probably just living the dolce vita, and it fits the character to refuse an offer in the middle of a season. Approach him for an unofficial agreement then hire him next summer makes more sense. He can dictate which dead wood he wants gone, and it gives more time to develop his strategies and implement his mentality to the squad. Instead of needing results right now to appease the fans.

Don't think it'll be Poch. Not Allegri. Man's need to drop money for Rodgers tbh.

The first page of this thread is great plenty of suggestions there

What if Ljunberg wins all his games, does he stay,?

Mr Nick09 wrote:What if Ljunberg wins all his games, does he stay,?

What does that even mean? If he wins every game from here to eternity, yeah, he might stay.

Well I guess I am asking if Arsenal fans are even contemplating that Ljunberg will keep this job

if he gets us into the CL and we can't manage to get Max Allegri, then yea, why not give him the chance to continue. Who's out there that's that much more tremendously promising at the moment even? If he goes on to be another Ole and fails, we can easily replace him with someone that's available at that time.

It's only a matter of time before the reports of Ljunberg stealing the ball off Sokratis and Chambers in training and screaming "TAKE THE F*CKING BALL OFF ME THEN!" start coming out

Mr Nick09 wrote:Well I guess I am asking if Arsenal fans are even contemplating that Ljunberg will keep this job

Of course. It's the same with Flick. As long as he wins, he has the job. Football is very easy tbh.

The noises coming from the club is that they'd be very happy to give it to Freddie if he proves to be a success. And you know fans love having an ex-player in charge, especially if he's a success.

I think the realistic among us know there's a good chance it won't work out that way, though.

El Gunner wrote:if he gets us into the CL and we can't manage to get Max Allegri, then yea, why not give him the chance to continue. Who's out there that's that much more tremendously promising at the moment even? If he goes on to be another Ole and fails, we can easily replace him with someone that's available at that time.

As we are in a very similar situation (with the exception of course being that our interim has a vastly different standing in German football), I think it's important for the clubs to maintain the default stance that the interim only stays until summer, and THEN a decision is made.
Obviously, if the team shows amazing performances due to his work for the whole rest of the season, he should naturally be a top favourite in that decision, then. Why would you change a winning team at this point?
Still, he needs to prove it over a period of several months, not several weeks, before he can be considered.

What Man United did wrong was that they rushed to permanently appoint Ole in midseason at the moment he had good standing with the fans due that lucky and improbable PSG win, and then with that appointment threw out all their loudly proclaimed plans of a restructuring, DoF-appointing, etc.
Utd are run, like a Wall Street front would be, on appearances, PR, and consumer research, not on football expertise.

Seriously doubt Raul Sanllehi will allow Ljungberg to continue, he‘ll want a Spanish speaking person there.

Jay29 wrote:The noises coming from the club is that they'd be very happy to give it to Freddie if he proves to be a success. And you know fans love having an ex-player in charge, especially if he's a success.

I think the realistic among us know there's a good chance it won't work out that way, though.

I mean for every Frank Lampard, there's always an Ole.

Corbyn. Is available. Hero in London, loved by the players.



Respects the EU(ropa league).

Makes too much sense. Get it done.