Jamie Carragher has slammed Mikel Arteta for making excuses and suggesting he could leave Arsenal if they fail to win silverware next season. Arsenal’s
hopes of winning silverware again have been dashed after being knocked out of the Champions League. By Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals. Leaving them without a trophy for the fifth successive season, with their last trophy coming in the FA Cup in 2020.
Despite being knocked out, Arteta insisted his side had played better than PSG in both games and deserved to reach the final.
However, Carragher disagreed, writing in The สนใจสมัคร? คลิกที่นี่เพื่อเริ่มต้น that Arteta was making too many excuses, like social media fans complaining about referees and injuries. And suggesting PSG were clearly the better team.
“A lot of Arteta’s recent comments have started to make him sound more like social media fans complaining. About injuries and refereeing decisions than the manager,”
Carragher wrote. “He said Arsenal deserved to beat Paris Saint-Germain In the Champions League semi-final. But those words came at the expense of many critics. With Luis Enrique’s PSG the best team this year and they excelled in both games. “
Carragher also said that all champions have their problems, with Manchester City also having to cope without Rodri. And Arteta’s repeated references to injuries have not helped.
“The explanations one team gives for their failures become weak excuses for others, especially in terms of injuries. We can go back and look at too many league seasons where the runners-up are talking about how they could have been better if they had been lucky. “
Everyone who is a football fan knows that Rodri’s injury against Arsenal in September was the turning point of the season – it started a series of games that Arteta should have won but ended in a draw. “
Would Rodri have been fit enough to change the title race, and would it have prevented Liverpool from winning the title smoothly? We never know. The important thing is that when you look back on this season these facts become minor, even though they had a major impact at the time.”
Carragher stressed that despite Arteta’s good work and progress, But now there is a decision to be made if Arsenal are to avoid a period of near misses.
“Arteta has a lot of credit and it is fair for him to get more support than calling for a managerial change. “
But nobody understands better than him that the popularity that used to be building an Arsenal team that could win trophies is gone. Arteta has to make next season a success or his results will become just the foundation for the next manager to fill the void.”