Wished: One Lunatic | Arseblog … an Arsenal weblog

Morning.

It stays very quiet because of the lack of Arsenal. I’ve to confess I’ve just about switched off. I don’t even know who has performed within the FA Cup.

I ought to take a look.

Haha, Sp*rs. Blimey, Maidstone United beat Ipswich.

There you go. I’m all caught up.

Elsewhere, count on months of hypothesis from likes of Sport and El Mundo Deportivo about Mikel Arteta after Xavi introduced final night time he’d be stepping down at Barcelona in the summertime. He stated:

You usually really feel there’s lack of respect, you’re feeling that your work just isn’t appreciated. It wears you down terribly, by way of well being, of psychological well being, your temper, your emotional state. I’m a optimistic man however the vitality goes down, down, down, till the purpose at which you say: it is senseless. It is senseless to proceed. That’s how I clarify it.

Being Barça coach is so tough. You see how they kill you, they criticize you, it impacts you.

He’s not precisely promoting it to to any potential candidates, is he? To not point out the membership itself is one thing of a multitude. Camp Nou is at present being renovated so that they’re enjoying their house video games within the Olympic Stadium at Montjuic, the recruitment has been scattergun and abysmal, the funds are a shambles to the purpose that they’re promoting future TV rights to remain vaguely liquid, and there’s that entire factor the place they paid thousands and thousands to a man on the refereeing committee which has apparent connotations/implications.

In some unspecified time in the future down the road, I wouldn’t be in any respect stunned if Mikel Arteta fancied the Barcelona job, however he’d be an absolute lunatic to even take into account it now. And no matter you would possibly say about him, he’s positively not that.

Nonetheless, there are two massive jobs accessible now, and will probably be fascinating to see how they’re crammed. Timing performs a component, clearly, however we all know ourselves that the flawed man on the flawed time can have a severe influence on a membership. I’d again Liverpool to make the suitable resolution greater than Barcelona although. The plain factor for Barcelona to do is embrace the chaos they discover themselves in proper now, and appoint Jose Mourinho. Not for the nice of the membership, however for simply how humorous it will be for the remainder of us.

Elsewhere at the moment, Arsenal Ladies are away to Liverpool, Tim has a match preview for you right here, and we’ll have the report and all of the post-game protection over on Arseblog Information. And at AFCON, Mohamed Elneny’s Egypt tackle DR Congo within the Spherical of 16.

Proper, I’ll depart it there for this morning, however keep tuned for an Arsecast Further which we must always have for you mid-afternoon in some unspecified time in the future.