One big deal to be sealed today. Give Arteta a chance before writing him off….

If there’s one thing Great Britain does well, it’s pomp and ceremony. Royal Windsor, the perfect location for one of our own to get married today will be busy. Busy with folk from the world over, all there just to see Prince Harry tie the knot. He and Megan seem the perfect couple and I wish them all the happiness they deserve. Come on, he’s a Gooner, just like his Gran so we’ve got to support him. Personally, I love him, he comes across as a good guy, a cheeky chap who does a lot for many causes.

As far as Arsenal goes, not a lot is happening really as the hunt for a new manager goes on. There’s plenty of rumours of course which is to be expected but until the club make any official announcements, like us, the media, journalists and all are just putting two and two together and coming up with…… Mikel Arteta. Again though, it’s understandable, certainly after Pep Guardiola made it clear that he and Man City wouldn’t stand in the Spaniards way should he be offered the job. Add to that other managers staying at the club they’re already at, options are becoming fewer by the day. Max Allegri has apparently been talking about how Juventus are already preparing for next season, hinting along the way that he’ll be the guy managing them. Saying that, it wasn’t that long ago that Arsene Wenger was talking about next season at Arsenal either but look where he is now, gone. David Ornstein says the Italian shouldn’t be totally ruled out, not yet anyway.

I’m the the job is Mikel Arteta’s and if it is, what a way to kick start his managerial career it’ll be. Might have been more tricky had Wenger left having just won the league, Europa even, but after a number of years of dismal performances and little to shout about, whoever becomes the next Arsenal manager has an ‘easier’ job than he might have. Better football, entertaining football, an organised defensive unit, a bit of steel and competitiveness and we’ll soon feeling a lot better about all things Arsenal. Can Mikel Arteta bring that to the squad? Why not? Of course, he’s got zero managerial experience, that’s why.

For how long have we been asking the owner/board to do something, how long have we wanted change, something different, a new broom, new outlook and different tactics? New coaching staff, new ideas and someone who can make us as good defensively as we can be in attack. Or calling for Ivan, considered by some (reading around the Internet) to be useless and doing nothing to justify his astronomical wages, to get on and do his job. Well, he made his change views quite clear. He then backed up his words by bringing Sven Mislintat and Raul Sanllehi to the club and clearly he had an input into the departure of Arsène Wenger and subsequently, put the club in a position to change and to move forward. Bingo.

Yet still there’s grumbling as Arteta is not good enough, or rather not experienced enough yet the poor bloke hasn’t even been given the job yet. Similar has been muttered about Cazorla, Henry or anyone else linked to the Spaniards management/coaching team. News flash, just because a sports journalist writes about something, it doesn’t mean it’s true. Just like the £50 million budget supposedly available for the new manager, where’s that figure come from? It’s more likely to be rubbish than it is truth, that’s for sure. Logic alone suggests that.

I’m all for wait and see. See who gets the manager/head coach job, see who joins him within the managerial/coaching team and see how things go    from there.

After all, it’s got to be better than no change at all and another season like the last few.

I wonder who our captain will be, now that’s something different to grumble about…….