Well good evening to you ALL.
Big news on the bond front. Stan has paid of Arsenal’s debt foooooooor… stability moving forwards. It doesn’t affect Mikel Arteta’s bleak summer ahead. I mean, really, did you think Stan was just going to drop a cool £100m on the squad to take advantage of the lowest market since the great depression of 1929? Absolutely not.
The AST have an excellent assessment here. My take is that Stan is now getting paid by the club and probably taking a lower interest rate over a longer period of time. Helpful that we don’t have to keep cash in the banks and great that our interest rates are much lower. Still doesn’t mean we’re balling out with the big names this summer.
The North London Derby is coming this week. I expect a proper Mourinho performance. Forget about the bleak football, lack of shots, and general misery around our rivals. He’s coming to party this weekend and the team had best be at their very best otherwise we’ll get beaten and the post-match story will be ‘never underestimate Jose.’
Arteta and Jose have had a similar season. Both picked up teams at low ebbs, both have had a mixed bag with results, injuries and luck. Our man acknowledged as much.
They have had some ups and downs but overall you can clearly see what he wants to bring to the club. He manages the energy, the momentum and establishes a really strong culture in every football club. As well, he makes sure that he wins and he’s won in every single club that he’s been at. Obviously the situation and the timing when he arrived is different than starting a new project right from the summer, but I’m sure he will be successful because he always finds the right way to do it. It will take him a bit of time but I’m sure he will do it.
Still, what can’t be denied is we’ve looked pretty decent and on the up… and they haven’t. We still haven’t had a great 90minutes start to finish. Is there a better time to demonstrate that we are capable? No. The moment is now, so let’s see what we have.
Mikel Arteta was goaded about 7 times into calling Jose a past-it-melt, but he held back, basically saying he’s a world-class manager. Smart move really.
I think a derby has a completely different context to what is happening with the current form and anything like that. I have huge respect for Jose, for what he’s trying to do there, and we know to go there and get a win we’re going to have to do everything really, really well. I’m expecting a really tough game.
I agree. Spurs could be at the bottom of the table and this would still be a tough game. They have a great squad of players and elite talent built to make your weekend miserable. Harry Kane, Son, and Bergwijn can all do damage. I’m quite pleased Alli and Celso are out.
So what can we expect? I think it’ll be a similar approach to the one we saw from Wolves. They’ll defend deep, expect a mistake, and try and kill us on the counter. They obviously have more quality, so we need to be careful. They won’t need many chances to kill us.
This will be another huge game for our midfield and wide players. We need to play smart and stick to the game plan. Hopefully, the team is a little more confident after the first half against Leicester and we take the game to them. It’s a big away game, if we win there, who knows what we might take to the Liverpool game.
Before I go, interesting that some outlets are saying Matteo wants to stay but not apologise, whilst Canal+ is running with the idea of letting Aouar go with an eye on our bad boy replacing him. Swap? I mean, it’d be rude not to have a chat.
Short post today, have a great evening, see you tomorrow! x
In the Jose’s strategy might’ve been
“Just sit back and let Arsenal be Arsenal and beat themselves”
Mustafi embarrassing himself. Shock horror
Sign da ting mustafi. Youre professional and have a great attitude. That’s all you really need anyways…
Since Mikel Arteta was appointed, Arsenal have dropped 15 points from winning positions – more than any other team in the top flight.
Mustafi made Kane look like a playmaker lol lol
Mustafi’s had a tremendous game until Kane ran past him at about 75-80 mins. His brain stopped working at that moment.
The gap between midfield and the strikers is a real issue. Our play is so unattractive and awkward and uninspiring.
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Yep … Exactly. Have to fix it this transfer window. Give me something to look forward to next season at least. And for God’s sake … can we get a defender who can defend set pieces.
Can’t believe we’ve lost to such a shit team
“ Godfather
You’re on an Arsenal blog laughing and revelling in a loss against Spurs you fucking spastic, please spare everyone your die hard fan nonsense.”
I’m laughing at people like you and your ilk who allow emotions and prejudice to cloud your logic.
Arteta ain’t ready yet … we told y’all but we were called Emery acolytes and every other name armed with slanted and fake stats … so focus on your god coach and leave us outta ya grieving
Has any coach blown more leads than Arteta since the restart?
I hope this is the end of ‘mustafi and xhaka have improved’ bullshit…they should be binned and next season arteta should just be wise and bin the dumb fucks
A very frustrating afternoon.
A very poor way to give away the equaliser, and made worse by us starting very sloppily on the opening stages with loose passes at the back. The warning signs had been there. Had we held on to the lead a bit longer we may have grown into the game in a more dominant and incisive way.
Also a disappointing way to concede their winner, but it was a decent delivery.
That is likely qualification for Europe through the league put to bed.
I take it back godfather. I don’t mind the odd clown.
You’re a bitch slapped cunt.
Godfather –
Eddie Howe has dropped 1 more point than Arteta from winning positions since Arteta took over.
There’ll be bumps with any new manager, especially a novice one, just hope this is all worth it.
Season was a write-off ages ago notwithstanding this loss to the spuds.
Marc Fabre.
👍.
But aggression and recklessness are two different
things?
“I’m laughing at people like you and your ilk who allow emotions and prejudice to cloud your logic. Arteta ain’t ready yet … we told y’all but we were called Emery acolytes and every other name armed with slanted and fake stats … so focus on your god coach and leave us outta ya grieving“ Arteta isn’t ready for what? The guy he replaced had a distinguished managerial record and managed us to mid table you fucking wombat. Arteta has picked up a shit side at Christmas and is putting clear foundations in place that we can build on. We’ve… Read more »
These players are not good enough, clear as day, Arteta will be a great manager at his next club. We are £200m WELL SPENT from top four. At least 60-70% of our entire squad would not get into a top four side.
Champagne Charlie
Says the man whose favourite player is Xhaka, joker…
I genuinely wonder what the few competent players feel in the team putting us in good positions only to have the same imbeciles putting us at a disadvantage.
un na naii
Believe me I am no pussycat. Those who know me well will tell you that I am a
warrior, but I don’t believe in acting that way on the internet.
We can blame the head coach and everyone on the pitch, but the hard facts are that this defeat is down to poor defending by a bunch of headless chickens.
Every pundit on the planet who watches Arsenal recognises the problem and
nothing will change until we recruit more intelligent and disciplined players
in centre back position whether we play two or three cbs in team.
UPTheArse:
You’re one of the reasons I feel sorry for the sheep and goats in your back yard … clearly someone should have blown it into a napkin or a wrist than …. ahh never mind
By binning Guen Arteta is sending a clear message: no fire, no steel. Only pussies.
This is true.
During the invincible era when we weren’t spineless cowards guens aggressive behaviour would have either been encouraged and let slide.
I honestly think going after him for that shows what utter pathetic counts stamps we have become.
No fighting with each other 😂
@Jamie:
“ Godfather –Eddie Howe has dropped 1 more point than Arteta from winning positions since Arteta took over.”
Yikes, Mikel is in “great” company 😩
Arsenal ‘controlled’ possession and ‘dictated’ the game only because Mourinho’s team let us.
This isn’t something new. He’s been doing for a decade.
Its a bit comical to see chest thumping at this perceived ‘awesome improvement’
When all is said and done a Derby like today always throws up moments of tension that can cause a mistake that can change a game. Today’s game for me shows we do need upgrades in key positions to get into the top 6 let alone top 4.
I like the work Arteta has done so far and saw good signs in our mini bounceback after the Brighton defeat, but we have too many ageing, sub par & overpaid players that are holding us back and undermining Arteta’s vision.
Last time we lost someone here had a meltdown, the more you go after his infamous arse the more likely it will happen again
Yet another MOTM performance by Mustafi. LOL. What a mug. But yeah, keeping telling yourselves that he can be coached to be a better player by our world class manager who’s just as deluded as some of the fans.
“Arsenal’s last 27 away games against the traditional ‘Top Six’ in the Premier League:
0 wins, 10 draws, 17 defeats “
Says it all about the soft culture Arteta has to tackle.
This result was our own doing, and that in itself is a perverse comfort despite the infuriating outcome.
Guend should have slapped them on the face with his longstuff
Im telling you for free!
A perfect storm. Crap defenders and a rookie manager. We are one of the great clubs of the world, but have to rely on people like that. Worse Arsenal side I have seen since the 60s. I despair where all this is leading. Arteta is supposed to be ruthless . Not the case today. The team performed as if it were under Wenger’s lax regime.
Wasi, that’s the point, the stats are clear. That’s when people (we know who they are) make up some nebulous claim of special abilities that us mere mortals cannot appreciate. Guess that includes the Arsenal manager too.
Anyway, no point in fighting amongst ourselves as usually happens after a bad result (we will anyway of course), bottom line is we have to learn and those who don’t or cannot learn will have to be let go.
Un –
“Either way he’s paid to bury these chances and had he we would be 3-1 with 20 mins to go”
Yikes, poor Auba expected to score with every chance! Even Messi the GOAT misses over 80% of the shots he takes. Give the guy a break.
We lost today because yet again, we can’t defend/remain focused for 90 minutes. Nothing to do with Auba’s missed chances. Or VAR.
Shit performance, and carried straight on from the Leicester 2nd half.
That one hurt. Laca’s belter should have set the tone and I thought we would go on and impose ourselves on this shitty spurs side but nope. Ceballos was decent(again) and Martinez for me has proven to be a very solid premier league keeper. Tierney also had a decent game and its good to see him playing regularly for us. Other than that its all quite depressing. Auba should have buried a couple of those chances, Pepe can be infuriatingly inconsistent but Saka needed a rest. Xhaka was solid as he has always been under MA, he’s not the answer… Read more »
Un At best we had 2 clear cut chances today. We were unlucky on 1 of them as the ball hit the post and one was a glaring miss by Auba. But that doesn’t warrant berating Auba. He has 20 goals in the Prem and forwards are always going to miss chances. Just look at the amount Salah and Firmino miss. The problem is we aren’t creating enough chances. And although Arteta has instilled a good defensive structure the brain farts from the dimwits are still going to happen time to time. If we had someone even a tad faster… Read more »
We were 8th when Emery was fired for doing a horrible job in his second season
Arteta has done a fantastic job and has us in 9th place
God help the Arsenal
Alex, we were pretty awful in the early eighties too. Long way to go to be competitive again.
Arteta since he has arrived convinced Xhaka to stay. Persisted with playing Mustafi. Signed Luiz to a new deal. Extended Ceballos’ loan. Gave a player who Soton couldn’t give away for free a 4 year deal. All traits of a world class manager. Am I forgetting anything here?
So. Again. I’m just asking. If Jose is finished. And spurs are in a crisis. Well the league table says they’re 2 points ahead. Leicester about to play tonight. All of that but Arsenal are the team on the up.
Un na naii No offence taken. This was always going to be a tight game and we know how Mourinho sets up and plays against us. Aubameyang had three excellent shots on goal and on a different day he might have scored two. The difference between the two sides today were in defence. We have found an excellent goalkeeper who saved us from conceding at least two more goals but the reality is that our defence leaks like a sieve. The first goal was down to an idiotic pass by Kolasinac and the second by cbs who allowed their defender… Read more »
DissenterJuly 12, 2020 18:00:54
We were 8th when Emery was fired for doing a horrible job in his second season
Arteta has done a fantastic job and has us in 9th place
God help the Arsenal
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This.
Arteta has the summer to sort out the squad.
But I fear he is out of his depth , and who is going to help him?
So he has got to take some risks and he cannot have favorites.
He’s not the one
“We were 8th when Emery was fired for doing a horrible job in his second season
Arteta has done a fantastic job and has us in 9th place“
Not worth the effort for some people, literally make a case against your point within your point.
Emery 8th after 18 months and X amount of investment, Arteta 1 place lower with 6 months on the job and a Jan window.
andy
Its pretty clear Ozil is out of the squad for non-footballing reasons. Again mean no offense but you dont have to be super knowledgeable to know that.
Correct me if I’m wrong but Arteta started Ozil for all of the Prem games before lockdown .
No nebulous superhuman abilities required to see that we were creating more chances and getting good results.
Again no offense meant and we shouldn’t be fighting against ourselves. But fact is that Ozil is the most creative player in our squad and the best option if we want to create chances against low blocks.
And you have to ask why we can have 80% possession and do so little with it. Perhaps it might have something to do with the fact that a significant amount of that is knocking the ball around in our own half or penalty box.
yep.
All our team needs is fucking coaching, nothing else!!
We aint getting nowhere until the halfwits are driven out and are replaced with proper players.
Need to sell Ozil, Xhaka, Mustafi, Kolasinac, one of Laca/Auba to get anywhere near competitive.
What makes anyone think all th teams above us wont add to the existing squad?
Chelsea and Manu are just a Van Dijk away from challenging Pool/Citeh next season, and we stick to the dross that led us down to 9th place in 3 years.
This blog has got toxic how can a lot of you blame the coach. M A inherited a group of players that is not fit to challenge any top 6 sides also he has had little time due to Covid to implement his ideas but is obviously proving difficult due to some brain dead defenders also no midfield to speak off. Seems like there is a lot of top coaches commenting on this site perhaps they may be able to apply for the post once the fan base has hounded him out give him time Rome wasn’t built in a… Read more »
Before the Leicester game I said a draw and three losses are coming up. Still on track. So how many more games/losses does Arteta get before we can start judging him? Or he gets a free pass because this season is still a write off?
Un –
We scored enough to win today.
The game was lost in our half, not theirs. When this longest preseason in history ends and the real test next season starts, we aren’t getting back in the CL without improving our defense/central midfield beforehand.
Anyway, it’s only football. Heading into the garden with lagavulin and a cohiba. Sun’s still out, things could be worse.
Mourinho did the standard bus tactic and let Arsenal have all the possession. The worrying thing for fans has to be watching what Arsenal managed to do with that open invitation. No inventiveness, no guile, most of it was sideward and backward passes with no plan or vision.
So what exactly is Arteta ball?
Champagne Charlie
“Emery 8th after 18 months and X amount of investment, Arteta 1 place lower with 6 months on the job and a Jan window.”
13 games into a season is not 18 months , dickhead.
We can complain and lament all we want but if Arteta continue with the spine of this team next season,no magic will take us forward we will either stagnant or regress and interestingly it will be at a very fast pace because all the other teams around us won’t wait for us I hope he is talking up all those players with soundbit of contract renewal so we can sell because they will definitely laid him down when it matters most A lot of our defenders are just error- prone and this is exactly why we can’t move forward,and it’s… Read more »
“Arteta has the summer to sort out the squad.”
He already did, Dave… Luiz, Ceballos, Mustafi, Mari, Xhaka, Soares are all here to stay. The future is bright. The sky is the limit.
That’s how utterly shitwe are. Spurs fans smashed us, fuck off arteta piece of dogshit.
Thanks lego, that is how utter shit we are.
Turgid affair. We might look slightly better defensively with this system build to negate the weaknesses of our CBs and poor CMs but it makes us impotent through the middle and bereft of creativity. Even with the advantage of numbers they’re still capable of fucking up. Kola and Mustafi needs to be binned and better midfielders has to be brought in that we don’t have to sacrifice our attack to compensate for their lack of pace and positioning. Very good goal by Laca today and Auba was unlucky hitting the bar. Pepe getting stick as usual but was dangerous end… Read more »
Un
Yea, wish Emery was still here.
Seems so long ago we were at home to Southampton in his last league game and Laca scored a 96th minute equaliser to make it 2-2 after they peppered our goal with 21 shots.
Much prefer the euphoria of snatching a draw from defeat than pissing away winning positions.
“So what exactly is Arteta ball?”
To hope and pray that a bunch of idiots he signed / convinced to stay don’t fuck up and cost him his job. So far the idiots are succeeding. But Arteta is just as much to blame as his players ’cause he’s the one coaching and picking them.
Upstate
Not excited with those players, he needs to get rid of the dross.
Love the irony!
@James Wood
Recklessness is the evil twin to aggression. You want the latter, but have to accept sometimes you will get the other.
A great manager knows how to recognise the fire in a player and shape it into something to behold.
“I’m disappointed that he’s not done better with the squad available but I have total faith he will have us a different beast next season”.
I agree with the first part of the sentence, Un. Not so much with the second one. Arteta is not the guy to take us forward. And I’m afraid it will be painfully obvious next season when we are just as shite.
When people say Arteta inherited bad players don’t they realize that Emery inherited the same players?
My grouse is that Arteta isn’t the innovative deep thinker that Pedro and his ilk have portrayed him as.
He’s been pushing the club to hold unto the same.players that are stinking out the place. All they need us 2-3 good games for Arteta to start to pressure the club to re-sign them.
I’m yet to see good sauce. I have to admit that he’s steadied the ship and we are no longer in free fall.
Arteta’s greatest job for me is to get rid of error- prone players in the team,he can structure the team in order to cover our defensive weakness quite good and fine but no matter how solid that structure is you are just a mistake away from conceding a goal which can easily sap the confidence of the whole team
Today after AL score that audacious goal few minutes later Arsenal happened and the rest is history
The best thing Arsenal can do is hold their hands up and admit it was s mistake to sack Emery so prematurely and give the job to a deputy…
Arteta isn’t going to binned off this early and that’s fair enough, but if you replace a coach you do expect the new coach to do better with the same resources or what’s the point? It’s not about new players, you have to compare apples with apples.
Emery didn’t work out, Arteta will get more time. I’m less worried about his coaching skills and game management (which will improve) than I am about his judgement on players. Luiz, Xhaka. Mustafi – that sort of judgement could get him sacked.
This whole yeah but last season we were 1 point off top 4 with Xhaka and Mustafi doesn’t wash.
The other teams are not standing still waiting for us.
Man U looks a different beast with Fernandes, Chelsea is doing some serious power moves so far with Werner and Ziyech and are being heavily linked with Havertz.
We’ll be left in the dust if we persist with players that has average as their upper limit.
This blog has got toxic how can a lot of you blame the coach. M A inherited a group of players that is not fit to challenge any top 6 sides also he has had little time due to Covid to implement his ideas but is obviously proving difficult due to some brain dead defenders also no midfield to speak off.
Hibee
You must be new here. Player poverty is a myth according to some folks.
Surely, it’s worth trying a back 4 of:
Tierney – Holding – Mustafi – Soares
Or anything without Kolasinac and Luiz.
A bit stupid this tiff with Guendouzi if Ceballos and Xhaka can’t be rotated with Torreira. Those two have done ok lately but they must be getting knackered.
Arsenal are going through a separation with Emery and having an entanglement with diet Pep
Im telling you for free!
Looks like Bournemouth are going down. Not a huge fan of their gaffer but I’d still go for Howe/ Arteta swap.
Un na na having a go at the teams leading goal scorer 2 seasons in a row( a shit team mind you) guess Auba also has to.come to midfield to create chances for himself and also be in defence to be all action
Come on now ! Arteta has done a good job in terms of the way we play, our stability and build up. Still a lot of work to be done but clear improvements for all to see. What he is lacking in is in game management and player selection. In game management will improve with time but if he continues to back the likes of Kola, Xhaka and Mustafi, he will make the life difficult for himself.
CC
“Emery 8th after 18 months“
That sums up your inability to see the forest for the trees. You were horribly biased against the former manager and terribly biased in favor of Arteta.
What would it cost you to admit Emery’s first season was a close miss at 5th and his second was worthy of being sacked?
No hope for us under Arteta Everything about him is just pants
For all of those who are blaming the players, we can agree to disagree.
But if Arteta continues we will see the continuation of this shitstorm. Players will be sold, players will be bought…
… but the football will remain the same. Bland, predictable and shockingly fragile.
Arteta may eventually come good
It’s not unsurprising that he’s still trying to figure out his shit on the job. It’s has to go from assistant to head coach mid season.
Hope he’s a fast learner.
“That sums up your inability to see the forest for the trees. You were horribly biased against the former manager and terribly biased in favor of Arteta.“
I wouldn’t go there, you’re really not equipped for that convo.
Do explain my bias?
The fact I stated Emery fucked the season beyond measure and should’ve been sacked only for him to be sacked? That’s bias? Or judging matters correctly?
Same with Arteta, do tell me the bias?
Fully expect this is yet another convo you’ll run a mile from.
Still boils down to having so many error prone players as the spine of your squad, it will always always end in bad results. Your Mustafis and Xhakas and Kolasinac will not and should not be the “spine” of your team, you go nowhere with that lot always starting games for you or starting crucial games for you. Now no one is saying build a squad full of super stars but you always want players least capable of making brain dead choices in your team, good for the occasional league cup match or running down the clock when winning but… Read more »
“but if you replace a coach you do expect the new coach to do better with the same resources or what’s the point?”
This… thank you, Andy. Exactly what I’ve been saying or trying to say just in different words. Emery was shit. But so is Arteta, I’m afraid. World class manager wouldn’t be playing the dross that was out on the pitch today week in and week out.
“but if you replace a coach you do expect the new coach to do better with the same resources or what’s the point?“
How is “better” measured? Because those goal posts seem to get shifted regularly.
Crap defenders ,noobie manager. Today was classic Wenger – Moureen game.
Without clean out of usual suspects Arteta will fail.
“What he is lacking in is in game management and player selection.”
Only two of the most important traits of a good manager. Which Arteta clearly is not.
End of 2020/2021 season that’s when the jury comes in. It will depend on how fast he learns and what players he decides to place his faith in. When he does drop some of the big games the club has to back him because the dressing room will be split, they can easily decide to stop playing for him. I hope for his sake he doesn’t buy all the hot air and believe he took over from an idiot, there is a lot to learn from Emery’s last few months here if he is smart enough. Some of this lot… Read more »
Batistuta
‘ Anyway, hope Arteta isn’t deluded in his own ability in thinking he can improve certain players because he’d be out of a job sooner than later making such choices’
We have to just wait and see
He’s been pushing for the club to keep some of the weenier players. He’s risk averse and not that much of a change agent.
We’d be comfortably in the top.4 had the board not hastily sacked Emery.
Arteta is clueless and has actually overachieved for someone as wanting as him.
Receding
Ozil is one the problems that Arteta shouldn’t have had to deal with.
He should have been banished from the club after the petulance he displayed in Baku. Some people thought it wasn’t so bad because Emery was such a poor manager and was deserving of such an outburst.
Instead he let the sore fester and now he’s still a problem tweeting about ‘loving the club’
Tierney was marking Alderweireld for their winning goal.
Great idea that.
“Still boils down to having so many error prone players as the spine of your squad, it will always always end in bad results.“ Yes, not exactly rocket science is it. You get better people, they deliver better results. Even Pep and Klopp got nowhere until they overturned half the underperforming squad. Speaking of Pep, he’s the man who got rid of superstars like Ronaldinho, Deco and Eto’o at A club like Barcelona. While his much hyped assistant wants to cling on to Mustafi and Xhaka. Its one thing doing big talks in front of cameras. Entirely different to back… Read more »
Wow, it is literally an Emery Recovery clinic in here.
RT
“We’d be comfortably in the top.4 had the board not hastily sacked Emery.”
LOL. Come on, now, Red… no way… we’d be in 5th.
Un
Was tongue in cheek at the drivel emerging from the Emery fan club.
“Tierney was marking Alderweireld for their winning goal.”
Starts with coaching, doesn’t it?
I have to say that Arteta carries part of the blame for this loss. What he sees in Kola and fields him every game. He is such a bad player. Why not replace him by Tierney or holding and plays Saka on the left. Pepe was just getting into the game and he subbed him out. Saka is only average on the right. We lost from a corner. The coach should have trained the team to defend set piece. Other than that, we played a decent game until they scored the 2nd goal. On another day, Auba or Pepe could… Read more »
Diet Pep fanboys have overplayed their Emery card
We have Upstate, RH, Dissenter, and Red… all major Emery fanboys, all stating they can’t see improvement.
Quite something. I haven’t seen a single analyst, pundit or explayer with that view.
We either have a group of advanced thinkers or a bad case of the Emeryista Ghouls gunning to honour their fallen general.
“We have Upstate, RH, Dissenter, and Red… all major Emery fanboys, all stating they can’t see improvement.”
I’m pretty sure Upstate was never a fan of Emery….
Pedro
Still think Mustafi, Luiz and Kolasinac are coachable?
Wilder and Sheffield United are comfortably smacking Chelsea around. Dyche and Burnley are holding Champions to a 1-1 draw, in their own house nonetheless. And we are losing to one of the worst Spurs sides in recent years. Who’s got a better manager, I ask you?
And to think our next two games are against Liverpool and City?
Good luck Arteta
Upstate
Who was it you wanted in as manager?
Un na
Even the best players miss chances, the defeat had nothing to do with Auba but more to do with the same set of players who have been letting down this club since they got here.