So what’s this… the Patron Saint of Positivity is… me?
It appears so. My role in the community is clear, I am here to make you feel better, to guide you toward the light, to set you on the path of righteousness.
Today, we’re talking about Arsenal.
Some of the commentary post-Burnley has been fucking hysterical. Pull yourselves together comrades. Burnley beat Brendan Rodgers Leicester and took down Manchester United at Old Trafford. Beating them away from home would have been lovely, but it was a tough game and it didn’t end in a pleasing fashion.
These games will happen. The club is being dragged into the future after years in the darkness. That isn’t going to happen in 6 weeks I’m afraid, if you thought it would, that’s on you.
Let’s just remind ourselves of what was going on.
The team stopped running.
Our captain had told the fans to fuck off
Mesut Özil was ostracized, then brought back
We had the worst start in 38 years
We couldn’t defend
We couldn’t attack
Where are we now?
We’re competing in every game. You might not have liked what you saw at Burnley, but we didn’t stop fighting. We dominated the opening 30 minutes, it swung back to Burnley, then we took back control of the last 20 minutes. That’s battling spirit, something we’ve lacked.
The team is working harder than ever. The effort is impacting our second-half performances, but we’ve seen a sustained work rate in games. We press in a structured manner and it’s paying dividends.
We are hard to beat. Yes, we’re not winning games we’d like to be, but we’re also not losing. Pep-ball wasn’t built in a day. The manager has had to make tough decisions, and he seems to have put his first batch of chips on making us more solid defensively. It’s working, we’re far more solid than we’ve been in years. If Allegri had come in, what do you think he’d have done? Arsenal fans have literally begged for someone to pay attention to defensive structure, now it’s happening.
The most pointed criticism has been that our attacking flair has taken a hit. I can’t argue that, but logic would say that strikers that had an outrageous conversion rate last season would help us nick games by a goal. It hasn’t happened. Confidence is very, very low. Mesut hasn’t been using the new space he’s been given and players like Lacazette are living in hell. We have to be realistic, you can’t fix everything at the same time, it’s a process, phase one has been to make us tougher to beat, it’s working, now the manager has to work on phase two.
I think that’ll become far easier when we get a full set of players to choose from. Our defensive options have been bleak, get some pace an power back in the side and things will start to look up.
Another criticism leveled at the manager has centered around him not selling the entire squad in January. Again, this sounds great when you’re thumping the table, but when you think about it, it’s beyond dim.
Clubs don’t do the bulk of their business in January because the only deals to be had are generally quite grim unless you have £100m kicking around. We don’t. Ripping out all of our experience, bringing in 5 players, and hoping it’d work under a new manager would have been a ridiculous ploy.
Edu and Raul, I suspect, are banking on a few things.
1. That Arteta can study the squad and make an assessment of the talent available at the club. Which senior players can be saved, which kids are good enough, and where the gaps are.
2. That Arteta can coach like he did at Manchester City. Arsenal are only as good as the money they spend this summer. If we have no one to sell, we are going to be painfully limited in who we can buy. I think the reliance on senior players is to pump the value of names we’d have struggled to move on in January. If Mustafi plays the rest of the season like he did yesterday, he’ll get a big move this summer. Xhaka is already worth more than the £24m that was offered. Mesut Ozil might show he’s worth a move. Auba will command big money, so could Lacazette and Matteo. How much more do you think Lucas Torreira is worth now? If you bump your sales from £50m to £100m, that gives you a lot more options. So, as much as you hate it, there’s clearly a rationale as to why we’re reviving careers… it’s the long game. So stop getting so irate at the lack of public executions.
3. The good coaching will act as a calling card. The best players want to improve. If there’s someone at Arsenal that can elevate players talents, that makes you a viable option for more names. I think these turnaround projects show that Mikel is more than just the backroom guy at City who put out the cones. If the backend of this season sees better results and more consistency, that will act as a calling card in the same way the Dortmund project does.
We still have to hope that Edu and his scouting machine is a little more attuned to the market than some of these drab names that are being floated our way by agents like Kia, but at the end of the day, if Raul blows another summer, his job will start to look precarious. Fans won’t tolerate another steady drip of average players with pumped fees. Nor will the Kroenke’s.
Right, that’s me done for today, I’ll be recording a podcast tomorrow when I’m back in New York. xx
Maybe the reason why xG is down for arteta is because he isn’t utilizing torreira in his best position – AM
Hahah
Yeah receding the problem is those 85+ min subs are what you do to see out a result not to chase a game.
You wonder if Mikel is happy with the draws
China 1
It was important that Arsenal resolved issues with our defence in part because
the midfield and attack has been underperforming all season.
Apart from Aubameyang who has just returned from a 3 game absence we have lacked goals all season.
My personal view is that Arsenal need to drop Lacazette and play both Martinelli [RW] and Pepe [LW] alongside Aubameyang [CF].
Somehow we need to resolve also the AMF position because Messrs Ozil,
Ceballos and Willock have failed to create, provide assists and score goals
all seasons in EPL.
Receding
You’re yet to see an awful lot suddenly, vision was 20/20 not long ago but. Funny that.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/03/arsenal-failed-firm-offers-sign-lille-star-gabriel-january-12176234/?ito=newsnow-feed
This is promising, hope we go back in for him in the summer if Upa is out of our reach and Mari isn’t starter material. He’s exactly what we need back there.
Sorry I meant Martinelli [LW] and Pepe [RW].
We need some robust attackers in our front line and midfield, who can’t be bullied easily by teams like Burnley and Wolves. The current crop of players are too soft and tire quickly, and we are being left behind as the Premier League gets more physical. We need to combine skill with physicality. I urge Arteta and the board to work on signing Adama Traore from Wolves before the summer transfer window opens and get a couple more players like him to strengthen our team.
It is plainly obvious what’s wrong with the midfield and attack being so disjointed.
Arteta so far has not tried to resolve it at all, and he seems to be favoring out of form players. To me this is not sauce but poor management from an inexperienced manager.
He said when joining the club has to be ruthless and it’s not happening.
We are in free fall and it has to stop.
Charles before Arteta all I read about was how Arsenal have this fearful attacking force equal to any in the league and just needed the right manager to unlock them. I never believed our attack was all it was imagined to be and I guess some of you are getting round to that or will soon anyway. For now you are battling posters for their views under Emery. If you weren’t on Pedro’s side of the argument ( not that there is an argument because Emery needed to go and we have not really improved as dramatically as some of… Read more »
No problem, Zfree
Receding I’m battling nothing except factoids that are pushed about by those desperate to score a point. Here you are, started off dangling from a tweet Gambon posted and spoke of how xGA has died a death since Emery blah blah. That was outlined for you earlier and the improvement made clear. Now you’re moving onto something else in a desperate bid to land a gotcha moment similar to Azed. That busy trying to posture consistency in views and here you are trying to pick at every thread of Arteta after 6 weeks when you were still polishing nuts after… Read more »
I hope Pedro has a good bulb and spare battery for the light he willguide us towards.
Burnley are a good team. So good they had lost their past 12 matches against us but turned it around this time even if we have been transformed into a better team.
Keep well guys 😉
I know there are a few on here who don’t rate Guendouzi but let’s be honest here, he’s the only player we have(along with Torriera) who constantly goes looking for the ball and try’s to lead us forward.
Not bad for someone so young.
If only he could show some creativity and learn to shoot, we’d have a real gem.
Joe Willock, what exactly does he do?
I know he’s only twenty, but is he really that good?
The thing I didn’t get from yesterday was how long arteta Sat on his hands. Lacazette has looked off the pace for ages, if he didn’t want to risk denting his confidence by replacing him at half time fair enough but at sixty minutes he could have brought on pepe, and moved auba up top with martinelli on the left. He could have put eddie.on instead for lacazette. He could have matched Burnley with a 442 and played lacazette and auba together with martinelli an pep e on the wings. Bellerin and Xhaka could have sat back and defended as… Read more »
I watched Ozil in the first half the brains there.
But a couple of runs from him he was clearly struggling
for breath and was virtually walking for 5 minutes after.
As has been said he is clearly not built for the modern counter game.
Has a premier club made a worse contract decision than Ozil.?
Players looked leggy as a result of the increased work load. Will only get a clear reflection going into next season, after Mikel has put them through a proper pre season.
Just a note for those who kept arguing that Kurzawa was terrible at left back. He has been voted in the Ligue 1 team of the week after this weekend performance.
Just proves that because somebody who can hardly use Google posted that Kurzawa was a terrible player does not make it true.
With Tierney, Kolasinac and Saka injured, we are lucky that our next game is in 2 weeks, otherwise Cedric would have been thrown in with very few training session with his new teammates.
Ligue 1 team of the week eh….the ultimate rubber stamp of a players quality that. Against the mighty Montpellier, a man down from minute 17. We did buy a player who made the bundesliga team of the season and most can’t wait to see the back of him. But I guess that pales significantly compared to ligue 1 team of the week. Everyone can watch the French league not just French speaking folks with Senegalese wives. Everyone here pointed out on his day he was an okay player but nothing special or of the age that should interest us on… Read more »
JDavey, “Has a premier club made a worse contract decision than Ozil.?” I can give you two in the EPL on top my head. Spurs giving that monstrous contract to Adebayor who then spend publicly and privately mocking the club. In the end they had to pay him off to leave. ManUtd buying Sanchez and giving him an absolutely bonker contract before realising that his legs and appetite for the game were gone. ManUtd getting ransomed by Paul Pogba’s puppet master Mino Raiola. Inflation have wiped the shock value, but Leeds under Peter Risdale were synonymous with profligate. At a… Read more »
Receding,
I never said that Kurzawa was a world beater, but he was never the absolute terrible player that some, you included made him to be. I wrote that he was suspect defensively, but not worse than Kolasinac, but that he was slightly better offensively.
I also said that the main advantage is that we could then trade Kolasinac and make a neutral operation from a football perspective and a gain of £10 millions financially.
BTW, my wife is not Senegalese, but Ivorian. Please keep up.
Couldn’t care less if she was Taiwanese so nothing to keep up with.
Bringing up Kurzawa and ligue 1 team of the week against a one man down Montpellier was pointless too….that ship has sailed and I am happy we didn’t board it…yet anyway
Some don’t rate him, same way you don’t rate Pepe….live with it.
Why so much backbiting and general yapping about Arteta after 6 weeks.
Just a lot of gobshites spouting off.
No wonder other clubs laugh at you.
Me? No one laughs at me, because I don’t do girlie knee-jerk reactions.
You know what, I reckon Bumford / Susan is lurking here incognito.
Interesting angle on the Soares transfer.
Believe this is from Ornstein in the athletic
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EP2s52dX0AEiZHg?format=jpg&name=medium
Valentin 19.16.
Wow.
I did not realise Sanchez was on the same money as Ozil.
I know who I would take right now.
Lol after dropping a 2/10 in the French league cup the other week, pleaseeeeeeeeee
Bats 20.17.
He’s playing in Italy.🤪
James he means Kurzawa not Sanchez
While we are at it I will take Sanchez over Ozil any day.
One dropped a level and you can see it hurts him and he wants to get back to his best. The other believes he has always been at his best and its everyone else’s fault he isn’t been appreciated
Bats my sincere Apolgies.
At my age keeping up or
In fact keeping anything up is not easy.😳
It is a pity we sold Gabriel. I would have him back.
Can we get the inside scoop on the ozil transfer day dealings
PLEASE!
Eddie Why so much backbiting and general yapping about Arteta after 6 weeks.Just a lot of gobshites spouting off. No wonder other clubs laugh at you. — Other clubs are not laughing at us because we want our manager to win more football games. Other clubs are laughing at us because of folks who say stuffs like “Arteta has come in, brought in defensive structure, improved every player, and boosted morale of everyone at Arsenal” even though we’ve only won one game and drew winnable games. Worse, those fans have been saying “Crystal Palace is hard, Sheffield is hard, Burnley… Read more »
Pedro
Do you really think the rest of football managers are naive or stupid..
Mustafi playing a few good games will not fool other managers to bump up his value by 10 m to be the must have defender..
verdict mustafi July will be RTC
Reduced to clear.
Same goes with xhara. Although I think we will keep him this summer.
Verdict
Yellow sticker price will drop during summer.
James
Ozil likes the nightlife 350 a week gives you…
Him done.
RSPC but if Switzerland win the European Championship.
Then his price might spiral up. Perhaps.
.
RSPC yes he looked like he needed a respirator a few times.
Graham 62
The Willock enigma is one of all youth players.
Used to bossing it in the u18 games
The postition they play there is not the nessecaraily the role they will play first team.
Youth need clear instructions otherwise they will drift out of games.
I think Wilcox is meNt to be a box to boxman,
James
Good call
Maybe that’s what 5he club banking on.
Emery started well and towards the end he completely lost it, the players have to be accountable as well..too many individual errors costed us games and points. and that penalty at totts, had auba scored, could have practically put us comfortably above them in fourth /third place and in the champions league I am convinced that petr cech along with Koscielny and AMN costed us that Europa final..they were really awful and pathetic. Overall it was very close yet so far … This season started the same way it ended last season and got worse Emery had to go. I… Read more »
On the outside then?
I could use the break!
😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
Wow!
My comments didn’t post and I thought I had the treatment already🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Should eventually come though.
Like I was trying to say:
I hope Mikel starts winning and Pedro doesn’t have to continue spinning against reality like Bamford does for Emery.
RSPC
You could be right but Willock still has to develop a personality on the pitch.
Martinelli has one and also shows an inborn desire and hunger that Willock/AMN/ Nelson/ Nketiah/ Smith-Rowe need to replicate.
Saka has something special, which I hope Arteta can help to develop.
Rspsc, yes, other football managers are stupid. Just look at the crazy deals that go down every window if you need reminding.
Arteta can’t be considered a good coach if he continues with Lacazette
Anyone watched said benrahma from brentford?The guy is absolute mustard and almost always beats a man on the dribble ala mahrez-ish.I think he is quality but he looks to me like those kind of ‘remember him?’ players eg michu,taarabt,amri Zaki,gamst pedersen etc
Here’s an interesting link I copied from Arseblog, about how a professional set looks in a well-run club.
Anyone think we are close to this?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/unknown-liverpool-backroom-analyst-who-16320524.amp&ved=2ahUKEwiZxpP2trbnAhXFoFwKHT0vAnIQFjAOegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw2VvWOwAm7wM-ixe4-Z2QUP&cf=1
LuisjoFebruary 3, 2020 22:45:23 Arteta can’t be considered a good coach if he continues with Lacazette —————— What would you suggest he did with a 50m asset, stop playing him until he recovers from his slump by ……………not playing? It’s a tough spot for Arteta to be in. On one hand he needs results but on the other he needs to maintain, or increase the value of players. At least ones that aren’t completely lost causes yet. The league is gone for us, so it makes sense to try and figure out who can help us give it our best… Read more »
Receding,
“Couldn’t care less if she was Taiwanese so nothing to keep up with.”
Then why mentioning her and her nationality in your original message if it is irrelevant and you don’t care?
Graham62, Willock and the other kids have personalities. It is just that they don’t have the same visible style of play than Martinelli. Some will show hunger, some will show control, calm and restraint. Some will play like a energizer bunny for 90 minutes, others will play in a mix of stop and go. Fans will then be drawn to players who match their preferred personality. Obviously you are attracted to the more expansive style of play. Some people will be attracted to that hunger that Martinelli is showing. Others may not. Dimitar Berbatov never ran like a man possessed… Read more »
Pedro
It will be bigger than the Hatton garden heist if we get anything near to what we paid for mustafi, and xhara…
I admire your optimism that this manager will turn it round.
I know it’s coming close to Easter but saying the manger is improving the financial power of players is like that gut Jesus turning water into wine and feeding 5000 with a loaf of bread and two tins of John West.
But I’m prepared to give the guy a crack at the role till end of next season.
Graham62
Can’t argue with any of 5hose points.
Fully agree .
Pedro “Show the same patience you were going to show Emery… 4 windows, 18 months, £200m” Arteta needs time surely. But you make it sound like he won’t benefit from those windows and the £200m or so Arsenal spent purchasing players. He’s inherited the immensely talented Guendouzi, the terrier that’s Torreira, the sublime Luiz and PapaSok the Greek Undertaker. Not forgetting the impeccable shot-stopper, Leno and the wonder boys from Brazil and Scotland. Plus – I almost forgot – the fleet-footed Ivorian and the Varane clone that’s joining up next season. That’s not a list of players to be scoffed… Read more »
Pedro has gone from Emery finishing 5th, and losing in the Europa final is failure. To Emery should 100% be getting top 4 with this squad. To Arteta has improved our XG, even though we’ve only out shot our opponents in 2/9 games. Things will get easier with a full set of defenders, I don’t remember Emery getting this type of leeway…. 8/21 points in progress, because we’re hard to beat…. Xhaka’s value has improved from £24million, to what? £24,000,001 Lol Mustafi has had plenty of good games, 90% of what he does is good, it’s the regularity of his… Read more »
Rich, that’s not really the narrative, is it?
I said we should sack a manager taking us nowhere in the summer. He took us nowhere. He was fired.
…
Now we’re 6 weeks into a new project, one that was picked up mid-December after the worst start in 38 yeras, now I’m defending the job he’s doing against people that have a really difficult time understanding the difference in situation and that context is important.
Ox has become the type of midfielder that we missed. He can drive the ball forwards and can scores from 25 yards out.
I’m all for giving arteta time but if he continues to be this reactive manager who will only make changes when we concede then he will fail big time. Where was the balls to really go for Burnley this weekend? I’m devastated because I saw this game as a must win for a top 5 finish. Don’t get how anyone could be happy with a draw to Burnley. Look at our attack, the in game management fked it up. Or are we to fear and set up defensively against bottom teams if they have a run of 2 undefeated games… Read more »
“Show the same patience you were going to show Emery… 4 windows, 18 months, £200m”
Well, since Arteta isn’t likely to get another £190m to spend in the next three windows, it’s safe to say he’ll be absolved from your criticism then.
I’m sorry Pedro but whatever happened to this is a top three squad talent-wise, top four at a minimum- something you were proclaiming last summer.
Why would Arteta need to spend another £200m ,unless his remit is to win the league now…………which it isn’t.
Tom, that squad spent 18 months being decimated by Emery.
Did I clear that up?
lol Pedro u called Raul Don after summer T/W. What happened?
Pedro “Tom, that squad spent 18 months being decimated by Emery.” How can you even say that with a straight face? You are so far gone up in the Arteta’s hype that you have lost your way objective-wise. You write like all of Emery’s reign was bad, which is grossly untrue. We narrowly missed out of 4th place because of an end os season collapse and reached the final of the EL. There were brief periods of emery ball that had the home crowd chanting “we have our Arsenal back” so that statement of yours is just plain wrong. In… Read more »
Dissenter, how you can sit there with a straight face and defend someone that oversaw the worst start in 38 years is the real spectacle.
Weak manager, horrendous tenure, now we are paying the consequences.
Rollen, I was… I’m a fan, sign a 72m player out the blue and I will call pretty much anyone a Don.
Tom, that squad spent 18 months being decimated by Emery.Did I clear that up? ———- No not really. Emery took a “top four squad” according to you and massively underachieved. Arteta has taken over the same squad and once given time should get them to where you thought they should’ve been in the first place , right? Why would he need to spend any funds let alone 200m? Especially when Arteta is supposed to be the better coach. You make it sound like Arsenal players now have PTSD and might never recover from the Emery trauma and that’s why we… Read more »
Tom,
Emery tanked spent 18 months breaking the squad, culminating in the worst start in 38 years.
The squad is being rebuilt properly, after being picked up midseason. That’s not happening in 7 games. You can’t fix that much damage in 6 weeks.
GOOD EBENING EVERYONE
For anyone whose ever played sports at an elevated level, you’ll lnow how bad runs work w a weak manager, they don’t end. End of the season emery started shitting the bed and didn’t stop til he was put down, a bit too late for anyone w half a brain. Expecting arteta to turn things golden immediately is bullshit, just plain bullshit. We all know the offense is suffering while the defense is cohering, IT ISNT FUCKING ROCKET SCIENCE. Lets see where artetas at after 18 months should we get that far. Then all this absolute bullshit can be put… Read more »
AMEN ZACH YES SIR
Forget top 4! Does anyone watch other games that do not include Arsenal? If you did you would see that most of the other teams in the EPL put in. Even if they don’t have the ‘quality’ players that we have, they work hard to overcome these ‘deficiencies’. Even Norwich are trying! Why do Arsenal players appear to lack energy and commitment? Very few of them put their bodies on the line for the team, pulling out of challenges on the ground and in the air, turning their backs on shots, being second to the ball etc etc. This disease… Read more »
The squad is being rebuilt properly, after being picked up midseason. That’s not happening in 7 games. You can’t fix that much damage in 6 weeks.
Agreed , Arteta needs more than 6 weeks to turn this around.
But for the rebuilding part – what’s there to rebuild if the top four ingredients were already in place?
Lets hope this blogger doesnt dig a hole of Bamford proportions.
You heard it here 1st!
Tom, we have 5 players in the final year of their deals. 3 are on loan. We’ll have to reshape the squad for a manager that plays a different style.
Ok Pedro, I’ll let you have the last word even though we’re not that far apart.
My contention being mainly that Arsenal always needed more physical presence through the spine of the team.
Wenger failed addressing this, Emery and his bosses continued that failure and unless Arteta rights this oversight, he will have a hard time succeeding.
On another note, I take it you are stateside since you up at this hour.
If you’re ever in Chicago let me know I could take you out to some cool places for dinner or drinks.
You sound like a good guy.
Tom
Finally landing yourself a date? Good on yah.
Jokes aside, pedders really does sound like a cool bloke.
Haven’t seen him but I imagine he looks like a tall Spaniard with long blonde hair, who goes around in flip flops on a bicycle.
Haven’t seen him but I imagine he looks like a tall Spaniard with long blonde hair, who goes around in flip flops on a bicycle.
Funny, that’s exactly how I imagine him.
Why do you think I offered ?
Lol
All this rebuilding and style talk is all very grand and throwing the Emery smoke bomb will do for the rest of the season, but if Arteta … 1. Continues to pick players based on seniority not on form 2. Can’t change games from the touchline once the opposition start getting on top 3. Continues to rely on players running more to impress him rather than playing to any coherent plan 3. Can only get us passing fluently when the opposition give us all the space in the world 4. Doesn’t do anything tactical to improve our chance creation stats… Read more »
All this 200m worth of talent thing 72m of the money is on Pepe, Arteta doesn’t rate him too 27m on Saliba who hasn’t kicked a ball for us yet A further 23m or so on Torriera who is okay but really nothing special A good chunk of it on Sokratis who should never have been bought 7m on Guendouzi, a kid ,great one game horrible the next like all kids Where is this 200m worth of talent we should have set the league alight with? Other expensive signings Lacazette…Emery got a tune out of him last season Aubameyang..won the… Read more »
Not to mention Tierney who the jury is still out on frankly… Unless Emery broke his shoulder in the locker room no PTSD there.
we should sell Auba and ÖZil and add some flair to the midfield.. Kolacinac
is our biggest threat from the left ?? Mabey Laca is also losing it and needs a new
challange. For some of the funds we should looking for a big ugly brasilian
goalkeeper.
I cant believe the lack of realism from our fan base. Alot of bad things have happened to our squad over the last 18 months of Emery. Its going to take longer than 6 weeks to fix. 1. He made our defence worse than it was under wenger with arguably better players. The amount of shots we were conceding put us as a bottom of the league team. Our shape and balance was awful ability to even pass the ball was destroyed. Dont get me started on playing from the back. Arteta has set his stall out on better defensive… Read more »
Pedro
where these players emerys’?
One of the most glaring fact people miss is that we thought Arsenal under Wenger was worse at the end . No fucking fire or bite , worst away record. Then Emery came , added some signings . And at the end of Emery’s tenure he made that team even worse then Wengers . Amazing to think that Arteta can turn this around midseason in a month . Get a grip guys .
It is abundantly clear that those running Arsenal in recent years have grossly mismanaged the club. The question now is whether the new management [not talking about coaching] is any better. RH has highlighted some of the poor decisions made by the club in the transfer market. Obviously there is always going to be a risk when you bring in players. This is not an exact science. However, there are measures which you can take to mitigate the risk. Arsenal have recruited a lot of players in recent times who have turned out to be very poor outcomes and that… Read more »
James Nobody is suggesting that Arteta can pull rabbits out of hats in 6 weeks. But the problems identified by many on Le Grove relate to the here and now, utilising the players at hand ie team selection, formations, fitness, substitutions, game plans etc. These are all basics that need to be addressed now! When planning any business venture you set immediate, short term and long term goals. Immediate goals are what can be done at the present time with the assets to hand. Short-term goals have an operational component containing action plans for the immediate future ie player purchasing,… Read more »
R.S.P.C,
You are nothing but a primitive roughneck with no respect for other people’s religion.
You beastly gutter goer.
Man for man we can agree we have a better squad on paper than utd. We can agree to this, yes? Looking back When Ole comes in after Jose. The uptick or the “bounce” they received was dramatic, impactful and obvious. The player’s disdain for Jose directly converted into optimism and enthusiasm. They started running and pressing again. We had the same situation where the players “stopped running” for Emery. So When Arteta comes in, the same uptick in performances occurred like it does for most teams. This is a terrible situation to be in. They only like you (arteta,… Read more »
The thing with you guys here is you love to react, you never bother to help prevent an undesirable situation but would rather sit on your fannies and watch things go in the wrong direction, but at the very first harvest of that wrong direction, you all come out gun blazing, demanding excellence. What a way! Mikel can’t give what he doesn’t have. He never led even a B team until he was handed a big team with big problems. The club, in my opinion, purposefully got busted at Mikel’s door to sample your reactions on social media. Most of… Read more »
“And against Burnley on Sunday afternoon, the play-maker was once again virtually anonymous, having just one shot on goal, registering 51 touches, and losing possession 12 times as per Sofascore” “Mesut Ozil hasn’t assisted a Premier league away goal in 2 years. Lacazette hasn’t scored a Premier league away goal in almost a year. One plays as chief creator and the other plays as centre forward and we’re out here scratching our heads as to why we struggle to score away..” “Mesut Ozil’s last goal assist in the Premier League away from home came the day before he signed his… Read more »
‘When the novice gets his first taste of rebellion, entitlement and indifference, we’ll see who was weak. The Europa League finalist or the Agrostologist.’
And now you just published fact.
I honestly can’t understand what took possession of Pedro.
Arteta was only fit for a stable ‘problem less’ Ranger/Celtic or Derby/Man City B team to start his career, but Pedro insisted he was fit for a crisis covered Arsenal. You don’t speak the English grammar without first exercising the English alphabet.
Gentlebris, in your real life are you usually right? What makes you so certain that Arteta is not going to work out? You accuse Pedro as though he was the man who appointed him. Did you want a fire fighter appointment or someone who could radically change Arsenal in the medium to long term? You are representative of a group of supporters who appear as though they would rather be right and for Arsenal to do badly, than to be wrong and for Arsenal to be successful. Just because Pedro went fully behind Arteta’s appointment way back and you disagreed,… Read more »
Arteta with Emery
One thing that I noticed about this farce,this debacle Arsenal are currently in. Nobody talks about Tottenham anymore. They have been better than us for at least 5 years. They were below us this season. Now they are comfortably above us. They have a dinosaur manager and have lost the most prolific striker in the prem. Yet somehow, they are better off than us. How is it that Arsenal fans are just happy to go along with this? When did it become “ok” that spurs are just better than us? Pos Team P W D L GD Pts 1 Liverpool… Read more »
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Spot on! It has become the new norm to accept mediocrity. I watched the Spuds game after ours and they are well ahead in terms of effort and commitment. This is not acceptable in my mind. They to have under gone similar trauma – new stadium, new manager, loss of key players, new recruits etc but don’t appear to be too phased by this. Why then are we? Can someone please answer this question.
Versus
You’re right, rock bottom is where Emery left us..
He left the team with
No defence
No midfield
No offence
No creativity.
And no confidence.
Let’s see where we are in the league by the end of March.
I expect to see us in or around the top 6 with the gap narrowed on Chelsea and in the chasing group.
I expect to see us in the quarter finals of the FA cup and still competing in Europe.
I expect to see us still undefeated and improvement throughout the team.
And unlike the know nothings on Le Grove, I am really looking forward to the last 4 months of the season..
Personally I think Ozil is one of the main issues in this squad.
Imagine young players looking up to him, sitting on his fat contract and doing virtually nothing for it. What a role model.
I think summer will be the time. We can get rid of a few of the cancerous personalities in the team and have a freshen up. Clear out the stink of mediocracy and the players that came for a pay day more than trophies..
Danny S
“Clear out the stink of mediocracy and the players that came for a pay day more than trophies..”
Will just point out that these so called players who came for the pay day have won more trophies than 90+ % of teams in the league.
These players also reached a European final and a league cup final.
Q. How do you know Arteta won’t work? Good question. Counter question. Q. How do you know Hiddink, Ancelotii, jose, allegri or pochettino won’t work? See you’ve trapped yourselves backing this amateur appointment. Because theres no evidence to suggest he will be or won’t be successful. What you ‘new age’ kids don’t realize is that those same vague undefined parameters can be used for any counter view someone else may introduce. Basically every reason you have to back Arteta i can use the exact same reason to back any other manager. Why. Because if we convert Artetas experience into digital… Read more »
Fred “Arteta needs to sort this asap, and no, I don’t mean on the training ground, he needs to start picking a team that can actually get points on the board.No more negating our best attackers so to accommodate Laca. No more Ozil chances, he’s had about a million of them now and does nothing.If the season really is a write off then start playing players with a future at Arsenal to get them ready for next season. Can’t be any worse than we’re seeing now.” Slightly contradictory there fred . You want a team that can get points on… Read more »
James great comment @ 07.50
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Your last comment at 10.49.06 would have done Emery credit .
Gibberish from beginning to the end .