Jamie Hamilton
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So maybe he can't really win in that sense.
But yeah, I think there's the style in which Arteta goes about setting his team up and certainly with their on-the-ball actions.
brings about a lot of this negativity.
And also on the pitch, right?
We've mentioned it as well.
When it comes to the crunch in situations where players need to take control and solve problems, maybe they don't feel that they have the autonomy to do that.
And is that a fatal flaw?
I think it's a significant problem.
I think that Arteta maybe symbolises the most of modern coaches, of this hyper-control type of approach.
We mentioned solving a problem like the City's press in the Caravan Cup final.
Players can drop deep.
Players can move around and interact and get on the ball.
It doesn't always have to be a pre-planned process.
So there's all these things interacting together.
But, you know, if they win, you know, Arsenal fans are going to be happy.
So for me, it's not his style that we've seen this season isn't something that I think is going to be the way that football is going to develop.
I don't think youth academies and curriculums are going to be picking up on the style that they did Guardiola's Barcelona and saying, OK, this is how we develop better footballers.
And I think the ceiling of it in terms of emphasizing set pieces is relatively low.
So if he was going to, you know, if he's going to continue, which I agree, I think he, you know, almost certainly will, then it might be beneficial to open it up to some other possibilities in his attacking style.
Yeah, you've given Frank a lot to think about there.