Well happy Friday to you ALL.
Not a lot in the news today. A couple of journos saying Arsenal are interested in Thomas Partey, but the club doesn’t have the cash at the minute. SHOCKER. It’s exactly the same issue standing between me and Mercedes-Benz SL ‘Pagoda’ and a house in Saint Tropez.
Think that’ll be the theme around Europe this summer. Which is why I find it weird we’re also being linked with Tagliafico for £20m. I think even those numbers are excessive for the moment.
That we’re being linked with a left-back is odd just in general, unless the club is sure that Tierney is going to be a problem in the long term. He’s quite young to be written off as a crock, but we have been here before with plenty of players. Still don’t understand why we’d look for an expensive left-back if we have Saka. Martinelli makes the most sense on the left of midfield next year and if Saka is a top 3 left-back in the Premier League, it’d be odd to remove him. Do what you’re good at, not what you’d like to be good at (AMN rings a bell here).
Training appears to have started at most clubs, Kante is the latest to refuse to train, with Deeney as yesterday’s big name to say NO. I wonder what the deal is at Arsenal? Any dropouts? Mesut, Xhaka and a couple of the others have young kids and seem to spend a lot of time with family. Be interesting to see how this shapes over the next few weeks.
I’m also very excited to see how we come back. Arteta took over a burning heap of shit, now he’s had two months of ZOOM lessons with the players, now he’ll basically have 4 weeks of intensive preseason like Emery did when he first joined. Can he get an improved response?
*prays to god*
He’ll have all the component parts he lacked at the start. All his defenders will be back in the mixer, which will give him the power and pace he needs from wide positions and also the recovery pace we’ve lacked at times. He’ll technically have ‘first half of the season’ Mesut Ozil, which usually does a lot better. We’ll also have drilled youngsters. They’ll all be a little bit smarter, more confident, and hopefully, fitter.
We’re moving from a ‘plug the holes’ strategy to a more attack minded approach. Well, I hope we are. Being hard to beat is wonderful. Keeping clean sheets is a delight. However, I think the team is better than that. I’d like to see a bit more boldness to our game. We need to move the ball faster, our combination play needs to be less clunky, we need more goals. There needs to be a bit more imagination out on the pitch.
These final 10 games are important, but I don’t think we need to grind them out. We have a fully fit squad to choose from, I hope we can be more aggressive about how we approach the final games.
It’ll still be very tough to make the top 4, but not impossible. Everyone has had time with their players, all the names are returning, and some of the teams that were struggling will have long forgotten their stuttering form.
Arsenal needs to hit the ground running. Win 7 out of 10 games and we’ll be in a good position to make something happen with Europe.
What would YOU like to see for the run-in?
Guns.
100% agree.
I watched Martinez at under 21,he was heads and shoulders above others.
Osimhen and Chukwueze played for Nigerian under 17 that won the world cup, and they’re tearing up Europe now.
I watched the last under 17 and by far the best teams are the Brazilians and the French teams. I’ll practically take anyone of their top 15,the teams were that good.
Seems Man city got Jan Couto from the Brazilian team already but there were so many ballers on display.
We need to look far and wide. It’s a must.
Watched 2 games today.
Very impressed with the German officials.?
But nothing’s the same without the crowd.
I dont think Pepe will ever make it as a CF
His size, and his complete lack of a right foot would be horrible.
if anything, try him as a 10… but even then, the same issues result.
Dude is stuck as winger until he learns to use his right to cross, , pass and shoot with
Graham, I think the unique circumstances add a certain interest to the last 10 games but to be honest Arsenal playing under any circumstances will always have my full attention. The players, despite not playing with a crowd, will know that they are being watched by millions on the TV and have their professional reputation to play for, as well as for their teammates. In a strange way, it may take the players back to their formative years where they were playing football without an audience and playing with full commitment and passion. You don’t have to watch Graham if… Read more »
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Where’s red truth these days…
serving time with her majesty .?
What’s with this wild praise of Arteta?
‘ Don’t be so pessimistic
Emery is gone. The last 10 games of this season are going to be really enthralling’
Arteta couldn’t even manage a simple last 32 tie against Olympiakos.
He still has a lot to prove.