What's happening to the red side of North London?

Arsenal, the only team to have gone unbeaten in a premier league season. A team that have had legends in the premier league and world football like Henry, Bergkamp, Seaman, and Adams come through their ranks. But all good things must come to an end, and this invincible team ended, meaning new blood needed to come through. Arsene Wenger, one of (many) the best managers in the premier league took the top job of the club for 22 years and left the club in 2018. Since then, the team has been managed by Unai Emery, Freddie Ljungberg, and the current first team manager, Mikel Arteta. This club has had so many good memories in the latter days on the old English 1st decision and the premier league, so why has it all of a sudden just fallen apart? Is it the players? Is it the manager and coaches? Is it the board? Who is to blame for the recent downfall of Arsenal Football Club? I want to give my views on the last 5ish years of the club. Everything said here is my own personal view. Please respect them, cause I will respect yours. 

I'd say since 2015 or around there is when Arsenal really started to have a downfall. Towards the backend of Arsene Wenger's glory days, he definitely did struggle a bit. The team needed new blood, and that's when Arsene decided to step away from the job and hand it over. Unai Emery came in, to everyone's surprise. He had some interesting tactics, but one thing I loved about him the most was he was passionate about the job. Unfortunately for him, it just came at the wrong time. At the beginning of the 2019/20 season, I think it was our first game of the season away to Newcastle, Guendouzi lost the ball in midfield, he got up chased down the man that tackled him and won the ball back. I see Emery just jumping up and down and really encouraging the players. This is when I thought right, this season is our season. Oh, how wrong I was. Unai was a very passionate manager. It's not like he came to the club to screw us over in purpose. It was just the way he wanted to play vs the players he had, it just wasn't working for him and for some reason he just couldn't adjust his tactics to suit our players. Our 4-2 win vs Spurs at home was probably one of our best performances under him. Torreira scored his first goal, 2 penalties, some stupid decisions made by our defence, but the team never gave up in that game and learnt from their mistakes instantly. The stats with Unai Emery included the following: we picked up four wins, three defeats and six draws from the 13 league games that Emery was in charge for in 2019/20, which meant we had 18 points out of a possible 39. That equated to an average of 1.38 points per game and a win rate of 23.5%. During the first 13 league games, we conceded 19 goals (1.46 goals per game), with their opponents managing 218 shots (16.7 per game) and 73 shots on target (5.6 per game). We scored 18 league goals at a rate of 1.38 goals per game, coming from 162 shots (12.46 per game) and 58 shots on target (4.46 per game). And the Gunners had an average possession of 56.23%. The morning after a 2-1 home defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League, Unai Emery was sacked by Arsenal. Leading up to this, he has a series of poor results in all competitions and a winless run of seven games.

Freddie Ljungberg then replaced Emery as the interim head coach while the board decided to make some decisions around who they want to manage the club. No one expected Freddie to be the best manager ever as coming off what Emery had done was going to be hard. The stats, while Freddie was the coach, included: picking up five points out of a possible 15, as he got one win, two draws and two defeats in his five league games as interim manager. That works out at an average of 1.0 points per game and a win rate slightly lower than Emery’s at 20%. we let in eight goals in five games (1.6 goals per game), faced 69 shots (13.8 per game) and conceded 28 shots on target (5.6 per game). The Gunners only scored six goals from his five games in charge, averaging 1.2 goals per game. Arsenal had a total of 50 shots in those games (10.0 per game) and 18 shots on target (3.6 per game), both of which were down from Emery. And surprisingly, possession had dropped to 54.4% under Ljungberg's management. On December 20 2019, Mikel Arteta was announced as the new manager of Arsenal Football Club. The speculation and rumour had become true and the fans were very pleased to hear about this. An Arsenal legend and captain taking the helm of the ship and hopefully using some of Pep's tactics to this team. 

Arteta was the best signing anyone could image. A person who understood the team better than anyone, someone who still knew some of the players when he was playing with the club, Arteta just felt like the right person to bring in, and everyone was calling him the chosen one as the fans believed that he was the man to take the club to the next level. Bringing in a manger like Arteta to the club was always going to be a big risk due to his inexperience. He has visions for the club, a process for the team, and wants to make sure he is at the club for 20+ years like Wenger was. His first job was the make sure that the players were keen to play under him. When he took over, we were in the bottom half of the table, and just before COVID started, we were pushing for 6th to 5th spot on the table. We started off the season very similar to Emery, loads of passion and getting some big 3 points. But when we hit October, for some reason we have just gone downhill again. We have played 11, won 4, lost 6, scored 10 goals, conceded 14 and had 3 clean sheets. The stats show that (apparently) Arteta isn't good enough. But while he is our coach, he has my commitment to him. When #wengerout was going around, I was against it. Even though we wanted him out, he was still at the club, so I supported them. And if you disagree, then leave the club. Your so-called commitment can be used somewhere else. I was shocked when people were already saying Arteta out. He has a vision, he has places he wants to be. When Klopp came to Liverpool, it took him 4-5 years to rebuild to then win trophies. We were lucky that Arteta won the FA cup in his first stint as manager. I have his back, and if you don't, then piss off out of the club. Get used to this every time we bring in a new manager if that's what you want, cause it will. If we keep chopping and changing after every year, I'm confident in saying that I will never see Arsenal lift the premier league in my lifetime. KEEP ARTETA, STICK WITH HIM, AND TRUST THE PROCESS. Nothing is going to be perfect, we may lose our spot in Europe. I'm okay with that. It's going to be apart of the rebuild, and it's something that he can aim for. I'm writing this after our 2-0 loss to Tottenham away, and the number of people saying he needs to go is shocking. They are not true Arsenal supporters in my opinion. Football is a game with ups and downs. If it was all up's or all down's, it would be boring as for supporters. If you were a true Arsenal fan, you would stick with the team, stick with Arteta and support them. Not tear them down and abuse them. That's not football. Stick by Arsenal Football Club, stick by Arteta. He has a vision and he wants the club to do well. It's going to take time. It may hurt for a year or two, but if we stick with him, I reckon good things will come, major trophy wins, getting bac into champions league, big-money signings, etc. It's going to be a slow process, but a 2 steps forward 1 step back is still 1 step forward. Please, is you really care about this club, you will trust everything that is going on right now. Stick with the team. Arteta is a good man, he knows what is expected from the fans as a former captain of the club. Support him. And if you don't, then leave and go to another club. Challenge for you, don't go and abuse the club on social media. Instead, show them your support and encourage them. Let that abuse be the abuse you write on a piece of paper, then tear it up. Please support the team.