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
Doesn’t Pedro keep saying we are harder to beat under Arteta? Lol…not even an inch of difference of the previous teams..same old same old
Only Arsenal could lose to this utter shite Spurs team……
Can’t wait for Arsenal fan TV😂😂
Ugly stat on Sky about points lost from winning positions under Arteta. 13 I think it was. 2nd only to Bournemouth.
We just can’t see out games. Poor.
Can’t stand losing to Mourinho. Utter cunt.
I agree this was a very Wenger loss. Tippy tally but ultimately dreadfully weak and shit defensively. Also agree on the missing Holding. Surely he must be a better bet than Kolasinac? He’s had a terrible game in the three at the back. Worse than Luiz and I didn’t think that was possible from anyone.
When is the last time Tottenham beat Arsenal In the league ?
Hmmmm
Arteta said recently he learned much from Wenger and Pep.
All we’d see is he learned too much from Wenger.
First sub at 68” today when any souls in the toilet bowl can tell Pepe struggles.
We still doing fucking side and back passes
They do know there is very little time left right? Fuck sake.. sense of urgency is zero.
Everything about Ateta is just so wrong, players average and slow, always the bad game plan, subs always negative believe me we are going nowhere I repeat nowwhere under this coach get rid asap
Throwing three players into the game at 84 minutes is a bit too much. It will take some time for them to gel
We are handicapped by having a bunch of useless defenders that don’t know how to do basic defending
yeah offer that extension to Mustafi
shit
Leading against Brighton: Choked away three points and cape goatee a kid for caring too much .
Leading against Leicester : choked away three points and blames the refs.
Leading against Totts: what’s gonna be the excuse for choking?
The high grass, the sun was too bright … ah ya it was Emery’s fault 😂😂😂
Yup, all the urgency of a slug, the slug equivalent of Xhaka at that too.
Feel sick that we’re so shit. And more sick that it seems a very long way back for this club in the circumstances. This is a spurs team under the toxic mourinho who have been shit this season and we’ve made them look pretty solid today.
Favourites for the derby ….. my arse !
tbf to arteta we have a pretty awful squad. Even our good players are pretty shit. The only actual good player in our entire team is the goalkeeper and abumayang. Everyone else ranges from utter shite to medicare to inconsitant players. We have some young talent but even they might or might not make it. In short we are a mess. With maybe the 7th best team in the league. I mean who can argue here that liverpool man city chelsea man united lecister and spurs don’t have better first 11’s? We really need to start the protests again and… Read more »
Saka hasn’t done a thing.
Still trying to go thru the middle?? Don’t we have people who can cross??
Welp.
What a way to lose
A bit unfair to throw in the kids too late expecting them to rescue the game.
They took their chance and we don’t.
I just hope we aren’t sticking with this lot next season. Arteta’s game management needs to improve, it’s not looking good for next season.
We absolutely need better players in defense, midfield and attack, basically half of the first eleven.
Fuck off. Too many to state
Very Wenger today and that’s the most damning thing about it. Horrible day.
Mourinho extending his record against Arsenal
What a shameful performance by the team and the manager. JM taking the piss out of arsenal again. For all our possession the cunts had twice our shots on target.
Anyone who’s fair minded can see the growing pains of. Arteta’s managerial career.
We are just seeing the green part of the manager
So.. I’m just saying. When are we allowed to question the man who is in charge? I asked this before the game started. At risk of having egg on my face. But alas. Here we are. Smh.
When Exaclty. Date time and location. When Exactly does the man who gets paid a wage to manage the 3rd biggest club in English football history get held to account?
Cunts!!
Arteta has the game management skills of a blind Retard …
What a dumb ass clueless coach …
Bloody embarrassing
Thank you Kolasinac.
Keep training hard and keep losing points for us because you are always going to start if you keep working hard.
A good poem.
This whole season is making me sick.. and throw in the Covid and no crowd.. has to be the worst season ever. Just make it stop.
Arsenal beat themselves today. AGAIN. arteta was really poor imo.
Who said Mustafi and Luis improved under Arteta ?
Anyone else still doubting that Auba is a flat track cunt?
Mustafi. Luiz. In the defence equals: a loss.
That’s all on Arteta I’m afraid.
Wolves looks like a false dawn.
What a pathetic performance when we went 2-1 down we showed no fight whatsoever.
Worrying times for this club. I think we might go a decade out of challenging for big trophies.
This one is on the manager.
Wet behind the ears.
Awful second half. Looks far too much like the old problems are still there, loads of the ball and do nothing with it. Even our goal was something out of nothing. Piss poor.
Saka a child of Arsenal is gutted he was brought in so late .
Arteta displayed his limitations at this stage
Very very average rookie coach, I repeat get rid asap
Arteta’s team selection and in-game management need improvement.
Nothing new here. We’ve been saying this since the beginning. That’s the risk we took when we appointed a rookie manager.
Arsenal is a team with flawed players and flawed manager.
We’re struggling to close out games
garbage. Tets is easy for experience managers.
Well that’s the season done then.
Midtable beckons.
Might beat Man City if the stars align in the sky.
Can we play Norwich again?
Liverpool is going to be horrific.
Martinez kept us in the game. Kane could have had a hat-trick.
80% possession. No creativity. But we’ll not even keep our most creative player on the bench.
As long as the likes of Kolasinac and Luiz keep working on the training pitch. They can keep dirtying our games for us.
Sauce learning on the job.
Arteta will be smarting, and he should be. Too passive, too comfortable, and ultimately left looking stupid.
We lacked aggression, decisiveness, and the confidence to play through them.
Got exactly what we deserved.
Before the game I asked what would happen if we get done in by the Totts and Liverpool ….Well ….
😂
2 rubbish teams committing loads of mistakes,one team took advantage.
That’s all there is to it.
We probably made a season’s worth of errors in the first 45 mins itself
Bad losing to spurs.
Real shitty losing to a shitty spurs.
All the jokers puffing out their cyber man boobs and Insulting anyone who fails to bow at the throne of Mikel can now keep quiet for a bit.
He ain’t the second coming folks …
bennydevitoJuly 12, 2020 13:51:31 Can we make top 4 with Mustafi and Xhaka in the side? No. No we can’t. Not with Liverpool, City, Utd, Chelsea, Leicester, Wolves and Spurs to deal with. We will always fall short with them as our spine. Lack of pace, bad positioning and marking, lapses in concentration, clumsy fouls and penalties. They will always hold us back. >>>>>> I rest my case your honour. Although, why start with Pepe when he’s not played for a few games whereas Saka has been on fire? It makes no sense. Very disappointed all round and 9th is… Read more »
Kolasinac and Bellerin should not be allowed to play football anymore.
Arteta just does not know how to influence the game using the subs. Too passive himself. Should’ve up the tempo with subbing in the pacy kids.
How many points lost now due to his unsaucy in game management.
Wasi, if you’re referring to Ozil as our most creative player you’re two years out of date. He isn’t, end of.
Anyone still think Mustafi, Kolasinac and Luiz should be here next season?
Will say it again: Arteta knows all about coaching and drills and putting the cones in the right place…
… but he knows f@@k all about building and motivating a team. A leader he is not. No inspiration, no hunger and no desire. This is what happens when you quell the fire in a team.
This is only going to get worse…
I was shocked Not to see Arsene Wenger sitting on the bench instead of arteta. That was so much like Wenger.
There is absolutely no reason for Arteta to keep playing this yo-yo defenders. What was the point of renewing Luiz contract? Because he was blowing hot air in Arteta’s arse? Definitely not for the football.
Nice easy game coming up next against Liverpool then
Arteta again fucked up with his substitutions. Should of brought on Saka at half time.
Even Emery was unbeaten against Spurs !
Andy
If you understood football you’d know he is the most creative player in our squad.
If you dont understand football , then maybe check the numbers. He is Still our most creative player.
We had about 80% possession for the starting 15-20 mins in the first half and a total of about 1 or 2 shots
We threw away the match. Arteta continues to play Kola who is just horrible. I don’t buy the left foot-right foot theory. A bad player is a bad player. Holding is every bit a better defender than Kola. Ceballos was so good. Arteta could have put in one more midfielder with Xhaka and push Ceballos up the pitch. Ceballos playing high would have brought Laca and Auba in to the game. As for Pepe, he is a player who can produve a couple of good moments but not an overall influential player. Should be used as a sub. Saka should… Read more »
They just said we have lost 21 points from winning positions. Sound about right. Moments of horrible defending is our curse all season. . The David Luiz specialty, basically.
I don’t know.. must be time for a drink.
Godfather, you call yourself an Arsenal fan yeah ??
😂 Is what you do when we lose to scum ??
“ Only a Mummy’s boy would make that comment.”
Only a bastard who hates their mother would keep talking about Moms
Dont get this Arteta hate? Kola and Mustafar gave this game to Spuds.
There is no coach in this world that will make Kola use his brain and make good forward pass or backward that is not chance for opposition.
Also, Mustafar has some serious concentration issues. Those 2-3 dives while covering Kane were embarasing. Yes, new contract on him, but on 10k a week. Play like noob, paid like noob.
Midwest Literally the only thing I was looking forward was to seeing when the season resumed was Martinelle play. He then gets injured before it starts. I honestly think we are funked the one positive people talk about is our youth players but I think willock and Nelson are shite. Tierney remains to be seen and Saka and martinelle is quality but we can’t pin the clubs hopes on them. We aren’t exactly the young ajax side that made it to the champion league semi finals. We are in continual free fall. We went from champions to competing to top… Read more »
Godfather
You’re lapping it up at the sight of an Arsenal loss to Spurs?
Proper fan you are pal, good to see you so happy pissing “😂” all over the place.
Arteta’s game management needs MAJOR improvement.
Shouldve subbed Kolasinac at HT.
Pepe and Bellerin should have been bench warming by 55 mins.
“ Godfather, you call yourself an Arsenal fan yeah ??”
I’m a real fan homie, but I’m sick and tired of fake ones who don’t know shyt about football and think because they can post slanted stats it makes them feel part of the fellowship
In spite of Arsenal 78% possession, Spurs had more chances. We been saved by Martinez. By the way he is much faster than David Luis
Not getting this 3 Subs thing.
Another poster said the same.
One change was needed Pepe off
Saka on.?
You cannot play the two together.?
Both are like skittles both are eased of the ball
with ease.
Cellabos is another one a slight nudge and he’s
In the grass a lightweight nightmare.
“ GodfatherYou’re lapping it up at the sight of an Arsenal loss to Spurs? Proper fan you are pal, good to see you so happy pissing “😂” all over the place.”
Try harder Charlie … it’s all you got …
Holding has been good whenever he’s played. How is Kolasinac keeping him out ?
For everyone saying Ceballos shouldve been moved up the pitch.
Ceballos is very very bad when playing with his back to goal. He needs to play in a deeper role to be effective and he was very effective today. He did his best . One of the positives from today.
Yeah let’s focus on those who sounded the alarm early rather than the coach and the minions who could see past their hatred towards Emery
The gap between midfield and the strikers is a real issue. Our play is so unattractive and awkward and uninspiring.
London-
It’s depressing no matter how you slice it up.. there are glimmers of hope occasionally but not enough. Just want to get this season over with honestly.
Haven’t posted here in years. Just had to pop in to post that what I’m sure all of you have posted. Mustafi TRASH. Him getting another contract would be blasphemous.
Its fair to say all our defenders are poor including holding. Not counting Mari yet because he is still new, but he has failed test.
Today’s outcome is down to having three “headless chickens” in defence. So long
as Arsenal rely on these players we are always going to be vulnerable at corners,
set pieces and on the counter attack.
.
Yes Mustaphi looked like he had never played
football before with those challenges he is a week of the pace
New contract shows the position the clubs in.
*Failed the eye test*
Godfather,
Glad that you care more for a bit of beating your chest in the playground than seeing your team beat their fiercest rivals.
You’re a fucking clown.
Sorry Wasi, no offence but you are talking rubbish. Look at his stats, one goal, two assists and ONE big chances created this season. Official PL numbers btw. Most creative? Two assist and ONE big chance created.??
Don’t give me that ‘he does things that only us super knowledgeable fans can appreciate’ garbage, Ozil is a waste of space, Wenger realised it at the end, so did Emery, Freddie and now Arteta. I’m sure that isn’t a coincidence.
GET rid of Luiz, Mustafi and the that other clown. God how crappy can they play? That first goal was the epitomy of what has been Arsenal for the last decade. GET some defenders or they are pissing in the wind.
Champagne Charlie
Don’t turn it around and blame fans for pointing out the obvious, your master lost, deal with it.
I need educating on our style of play, we don’t press, we don’t play with any tempo, we are not defensive. What exactly is our style of play?
I don’t think you can really blame auba he has no service.
And he doesn’t just score tap ins he has scored some serious bangers for us.
At the end of the day your strikers need service.
Un na naii
On this occasion I have to disagree with your analysis of Aubameyang who had
three excellent shots on goal including two from distance. On a different day
one might of gone in rather than hit the post and the other was a wonderful shot, which Lloris saved.
“ Godfather,Glad that you care more for a bit of beating your chest in the playground than seeing your team beat their fiercest rivals.You’re a fucking clown.”
UpTheArse …. nough said about ya
Season Over. Luiz is well respected with the young players and bla bla. Next year he should only be here on a mentor-type role (like Per’s last year). NO WAY HE SHOULD START A PREMIER LEAGUE GAME FOR US NEXT SEASON. Bellerin needs to be binned off to whoever’s interested. Soares showed in the 6-7 minutes he was on the pitch that he is better technically than Bellerin. And defensively and physically theres not much difference. Get in Sarr. Dont get in Sarr. Kolasinac cannot play ball and is the probably our weakest point when trying to keep the ball… Read more »
Was it Valentin who was taking the piss with a new contract for Mustafi comment ? So still advocating a new contract ?
This is a club/side in transition. Incredibly frustrating stuff but we’re dictating possession? controlling games and conspiring to lose points ourselves.
That’s a massive change from conceding 30 shots to sides and looking lost at sea. You can comfortably build on what we’re seeing, but that’ll get readily ignored by the mob who are still scorned over their ex.
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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.
“ Champagne Charlie Don’t turn it around and blame fans for pointing out the obvious, your master lost, deal with it.”
Thanks Red for pointing out their hypocrisy …
Stop blaming the players. We have no drive or BITE in the team. Why would you? When a player shows the aggression we need, he gets punted to the reserves. Watch the end of the United game and the fire in Keown and Lauren and Vieira as they harrassed Van N. Under Arteta they would have been binned. You need fire and steel in your team if you want to play beautiful football. We have not had that for over a decade and Arteta who played under Wengers silk only teams doesnt get it. By binning Guen Arteta is sending… Read more »
Emiratesstroller
“Today’s outcome is down to having three “headless chickens” in defence. So long
as Arsenal rely on these players we are always going to be vulnerable at corners,
set pieces and on the counter attack.”
You forgot to mention the headless chicken coach.
Andy
No offense taken.
Theres nothing super knowledgeable about reading key passes and chances created stats.
Maybe its too hard for you do that.
Never said he should start if Arteta doesn’t want him to but he should be on the bench nonetheless.