Two days on and the warm glow of a much-needed victory away at United is still very much… well, warm.
In a sign of how ridiculous fan rage has become, we’re currently celebrating a manager everyone was doubting last week as the second coming, while United fans are all correctly suspecting Poch was on Monday Night Football to catch the eye of the United board of directors. The big flirt.
The Premier League is by far the most brutal league in the world. No one is given time to succeed, every club is getting better, decisions are made faster than ever before because there’s so much more pressure to survive/succeed.
This makes me angry… OGS does NOT deserve the bad words.
Give this honest broker MORE time, not less.
I personally think 6 more years would give us more clarity on whether it’s the players that are the problem or his infallible coaching.
It’s the players imo. Has someone like Roy Keane explained to them they are weak bitches? Has Rio shown them what the badge means? Can you really trust a ‘lazy’ midfielder like Paul Pogba who has only won pony trophies like the World Cup?
#SaveOle
Jokes aside, we do need to start to settle into some truths as Arsenal fans. Firstly, there will be bumps in the road as we progress through the season. We will lose games, the manager will make bad decisions, sometimes that exact line-up you think is right might not be picked. That doesn’t mean we should doubt the process. This season is about chasing top 4. Just because we’re not in it right now, doesn’t mean we won’t be towards the end of the season.
Currently, we’re 3 points from 2nd. We have played 4 from the top 6. We have the best defence in the league. That is progress. Even if we’d lost yesterday… we’d still have been in the mix for top 4.
Arsenal fans need to deal with their past. Arsene has gone, he’s flogging books these days. Our manager is not Unai Emery (happy birthday, bro). He can’t hurt you with his white witch now. Arsenal is now a safe space where you can dream. We are not going backwards, the path forwards is clear. The identity is obvious, if not slightly unexpected (did not expect Simeone-Lite out here). The culture is changing game by game. I think it’s quite interesting that professionals tend to really like what is going on at Arsenal because they understand where we were (limp damp handshakes) and can see where we’re heading (strong over-the-top-I-am-dating-your-daughter-handshake). Tim Cahill launched a blistering attack on the embarrassingly dated Roy Keane on this theme.
Love this from Cahill. AFC don’t have better players than MUFC, but MA is betting on a structure, attitude, and thinking. We are a fine margins team until we upgrade talent, but we are evolving game by game.
This time last year we were the uncoachables.
— Le Grove (@LeGrove) November 2, 2020
‘Winning games of football is the key but also understanding when you lose and why you have lost is just as important. Players react to managers that have clear structure and direction.’
Roy Keane looks at our losses as an abject failure, whereas I think most Arsenal fans – though pissed – understand the limitations of the squad and why those losses were happening. It wasn’t a motivation issue, it wasn’t a player leadership problem, and it wasn’t an inherent fault with the system if you believe that we’re playing this way out of necessity. We are a fine margins side this season, that is how we’ll play and it won’t change until we have the players to play like the greats of attacking football.
We should settle into a mindset that reflects our reality instead of breaking cries of ‘ARTETA PLAYS BLAND BECAUSE HIS FAVE EMOJI IS A CRAB’ or ‘TOO NEGATIVE FUCK THE HANDBRAKE’ or my new fave ‘WE MISS GIROUD.’ It’ll make the season much easier to deal with if we can all just calm down and go for a walk.
Part of the drama, I think, is the theatre of the internet. Everyone wants to be the first person to call something. Just look at how many people said ‘I’ve literally been calling Mo Elneny the Egyptian Zidane since he was at FC Basel.’ An example of how this fan drama plays out happened on this blog, people were telling me I had a right to gloat… erm, people, we just beat United… we ALL have the right to gloat. You can’t gloat at your own fans after a massive win. If your willingness to support our success is more wrapped up in your personal fights with internet people, versus, you know, just being fucking happy… then I’d suggest you stop making friends with strangers on forums and ask a friend to intervene (unless the forum is Le Grove then it’s totes fine). Same is true of the weirdos that visit here as a first port of call after we lose. Wtf is wrong with you?
Back to the football.
Outside of the Fulham opener, our run has been pretty brutal, where teams like Spurs have had a pretty favourable run. All that will shift at some point, and they’ll start playing beastly games, and we’ll start an easier run.
That’s not happening for a bit. We have to beat an Aston Villa (h) side that is having a great season, then we have to tackle Bielsa’s Leeds (a) after the break, before facing Wolves (h), followed by Spurs (a). We’re not going for the league title this season (sorry), we just need to consistently rack up points, bed in our new players, and push the process along. I’d rather this season be a steady slog of points than the boom and bust madness we’ll no doubt see elsewhere.
If we head into January within spitting distance of top 4, maybe the club will unlock some funds for a creator, even if it’s just a sharp loan deal. I have my doubts though, I think the exec team is wishing next June comes along fast so they can release big names on big money and start to savage that wage bill, but you never know how Stan is feeling these days. We have £650k a week that’ll leave the wage bill next year!
That’s a long way off, in the meantime, let’s make sure we keep things focused on not going too mental when things inevitably don’t go our way this season. There will be ups and downs, but the journey is mapped, and we certainly won’t be needing to shift on our manager anytime soon… so less of the doom.
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Legendary
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I have just posted on previous thread the following. Arsenal need to build a settled team if they are going to progress in the EPL. I believe that there are now SEVEN players who are more or less guaranteed a starting place unless injured or rested. These are: LENO [GK] GABRIEL [CB] BELLERIN [RB/RWB] TIERNEY [LCB/LB/LWB] PARTEY [DMF/CMF] SAKA [LWB/LCMF] AUBAMEYANG [LW] So the 4 remaining starting positions are between CB Luiz/Holding/Mustafi MF Elneny/Ceballos/Xhaka RW Willian/Pepe CF Lacazette/Nketiah I would hope that by end of year perhaps another two slots in starting lineup are filled. By next season I hope… Read more »
Versus Villa I’m more worried that we’ll be hangover from our big win and we won’t be up for it.
This is where managers have to earn their keep and make their team fire on all cylinders. If we show up at 80%, we might not get a single point even.
SidAugust 30, 2020 09:52:37
Sell Xhakalson keep Elneny.
Elneny is better, Xhakalson will fetch more money
Kill 2 birds with one stone.Im telling you for free!
I should be charging y’all for these nuggets!
Villa is a trickier opposition than man u
Pedro “, let’s make sure we keep things focused on not going too mental when things inevitably don’t go our way this season. There will be ups and downs, but the journey is mapped, and we certainly won’t be needing to shift on our manager anytime soon… so less of the doom.” Pedro , I made this point a week ago ” “PierreOctober 27, 2020 15:12:12 Everyone is going into panic mode way too soon.Yes the football is shit Yes we have no creativity. Looking at league positions is pointless, 3 or 4 wins on the bounce changes everything… Arteta… Read more »
I think not having Xhakalson is what has made the bigger difference.
Pedro. appealing for fairness from fans is a contradiction in terms. ‘Fandom’ and ‘Fairness’ don’t go hand-in-hand, it’s not in their nature. Speaking of Wenger’s new role as author, if there was a contest for Most Boring Book of the Season, ‘My Life in Read and Write’ would win the prize. I never made it past the chapter on Nancy (or was it Metz?) And let’s talk about winning something again, not coming second, third or fourth – that’s a cop-out, a brainwash about money. The Sky chat with Poch is a case in point. He didn’t win a damn… Read more »
England’s best
Nancy is where Wenger coached
Metz is 45 minutes away, that’s where I live, both cities are in Lorraine.
Sid the Prophet.
Sid the false Prophet. Lol
But he’s cool though.
Sid the Prophet who doesn’t like to profit.
karim,
Nice location mate. On a piss distance from Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg. Not too far from Paris either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-TgWkKTTg8
Elneny was chastised by Wenger after scoring this goal
Dominik Szoboszlai does look very promising, I’d be happy if we got him for his affordable reported fee.
Pierre like to remind everyone how sensible he is after a couple good results. A bad one against Villa and he’ll be up to his usual routine:
Pierre October 18, 2020 17:48:46
“Be careful what you wish for they said ….how true., you’ve got the Arsenal and the football you deserve, taking into account how 95% of you acclaim Arteta as a genius for binning Ozil and in the next breath complaining about our lack of creativity…hilarious”
Pedro We have lost three matches this season out of 12 games played. When you consider how many difficult games have been played against the likes of Liverpool [3], Man City [1], Man Utd [1] and Leicester [2] we have had as you suggest a very difficult programme sofar. From a personal perspective there was only one defeat, which was perhaps considered a disappointment and that was against Leicester. Had our goal been allowed I think that the outcome might have been different and we might be second or third in league rather than ninth. As you pointed out previously… Read more »
Rap
Yeah, it’s a cool place but actually I’m heading down south next Jan, Toulon, to be exact. ☀️ 🌊
I managed to agree a conventional termination with my current employer, I just need to find a new job now.
Hope you’re doing good buddy.
Now that we have had dealings with Hertha Berlin( Gwen Dozy) & their previous interest in purchasing Hacker,who knows,maybe we could offload him for a cheeky £ 20 mill plus come Xmas.? Whadya say?
“From a personal perspective there was only one defeat, which was perhaps considered a disappointment and that was against Leicester.”
And for a good reason too.
Leicester were missing 5 starters and everyone knew what Rodgers would do when starting line ups were announced.
Getting outsmarted by the simplest of ploys is not a good look for anyone.
Having a goal disallowed so early in a game is a weak excuse.
Mustafi and Xhaka in a high line against Leicester late in a scoreless game……..well, what can you say….
Under Arteta our issues has not been against big teams willing to attack. Victories against those and in the FA Cup final has shown that He can organise a back to the wall rearguard action. The problem has been when we are facing low bloc team that let us have the ball away from the penalty box. Until now, Arsenal have faced only two teams that plays that style: Leicester and Sheffield United. We lost against Leicester and the game Sheffield could have been a draw if Elneny had not pop in from the right back position with a great… Read more »
I would expect us to win against Aston Villa, Leeds, Wolves and Spurs.
10 point should be bare minimum. We have a better team except for Spurs(but fuck them).
Valentin, both Brighton and Saints are actually good in possession and the idea they will sit back, absorb the pressure and sucker punch you isn’t quite how they play.
Wolves might, but they are also flexible and not afraid to mix it up.
There are only three clubs that absolutely prefer not having the ball against anyone and that’s Sheffield, New Castle and West Ham.
Valentin
Frankly our focus this season is to win games and secure points and less concern about how
comfortably the result is.
If we win it does not matter to me whether it is 1-0 or 7-0. My concern at the moment is the
form of our strikers. Aubameyang, Lacazette and Nketiah need to be scoring more goals than is the case at moment so that they alleviate pressure on our defence.
The Leicester game should have been won. A draw was the very least that we should have
secured in this game.
The disappointment with the losses at Liverpool and City was aimed more at the performance, lack of ambition and certainly after the City match Arteta’s comments than the results.
The Leicester match saw a better performance with a really poor result.
Roy Keane is a moron and he’s on Sky (or what they’d tell you|) because the so called “no nonsense won’t accept any other than perfection” attitude is what fans want to hear.
The truth is he’s a heckler – can’t manage himself but is great at telling everyone where they are going wrong.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1323429939107057664?s=19
You can either love or hate obama but one thing that guy has is that he is a great orator and has that natural ability to just pull attention.
The real Bamford has more goals than Auba
6 in 7 matches
“We will lose games, the manager will make bad decisions, sometimes that exact line-up you think is right might not be picked.”
This is Pedro preparing the ground for Arteta dropping Xhaka back into the team when there’s no need. Pedro is slowly getting a little more balanced when talking about Arteta but he still can’t bring himself to really lay into him when he’s getting something so breathtaking obvious wrong.
The team is still learning the different and fluid formations and ways of playing the manager has on his iPad. It’s a lot to take on. Of course we’re looking for continuous improvement over the course of the season, but Pedro called it right. There will be highs and lows. We have a manager who we believe can and is still learning. On top of that, we are in a football season like no other before, with empty stands and little pre-season. For instance, we have, what, eight CBs and we’re reduced to Xhaka there, or bringing Holding back early??… Read more »
Leicester are a good team, who did well last season, and who will likely be in the same cluster of clubs as us this season, what they did to us, they’ll do to plenty of other teams, and have already done to other teams. It was a small margins game, against two teams of similar quality. The same as Sunday, had Elneny’s deflection not rebounded off Leno’s face, then onto the post and out? the narrative and mood would have been very different. We live in a society of emotions and overreactions, rather than perspective and balance. We’re one of… Read more »
We live in a society of emotions and overreactions, rather than perspective and balance.
Lol
Rich
The difference between ManU and a couple of the other matches people have complained about is we had a midfield. A big chunk of that was Partey – we haven’t had a player like that for years but just as importantly Elneny showed how much Xhaka slows everything down and sucks talent from the players around him.
Moray
I don’t think we’ll be in the mix for the title this season although I do think the points total this season will be significantly lower than what we’ve seen the last couple of years. This should mean top 4 is a definite possibility – until Arteta puts Xhaka back in the team at least.
I didn’t see Partey playing well in the 1st half against Leicester City. All their players retreated behind the 30 yard line. They gave us the midfield. Our attack was mainly from Luiz long ball to the attackers. Even Xhaka and Ceballos touched the ball more often than Partey.
Last game was completely different. Partey and Mo dominated the midfield. For once, our team played like a top4 team. We were so timid against the Pools and MC.
Marc My guess is as I posted earlier that Elneny will be competing with Ceballos and Xhaka for the final place in midfield assuming we play 3-4-3 formation. Ceballos in my view will play fewer matches in starting lineup than the other two because a] he offers very little end product and b] he is at the club on loan. Elneny had a very good game against Man Utd, but whether he plays consistently like that remains to be seen. Xhaka despite many negative posts on Le Grove is still in the frame to start. I would not write him… Read more »
I have supported the Gunners for over 70 years. All i want is them to put there energy in most games as they did on Sunday. Theres to much rubbish written about them. They still keep winng trophies at regular intervals as they have done over all the years i have bben following them.
Marc I agree, plenty have made the point about how we’ve not won the title since moving away from a powerful and dynamic team of 6ft+ athletes. It only took us 14 years, €50million cash, £200k p/w, to sign a 27yr old entering his prime, to replace what Vieira used to dofor us, the signs look promising. We did almost win at Old Trafford last season to be fair, it was another close game, where we had plenty of chances to win it, that could have gone either way, this game was much more structured though, we looked mature. I… Read more »
Tom,
Brighton and Southampton will change their way they play. Both managers are not afraid of adapting to the opponents. They both know that if they make it an open contest, they are more likely to lose it because we have the better players.
Brighton and Southampton both won against us with that strategy. They will use it again.
Rich
“The same as Sunday, had Elneny’s deflection not rebounded off Leno’s face, then onto the post and out? the narrative and mood would have been very different.”
The same can be said, had Willian’s shot didn’t hit the crossbar or Saka’s header was a foot lower. We were a better team on Sunday. Any fan without an agenda can see that Arteta’s system is being developed before our eye.
karim,
Sounds great! Was about to say that Metz is too far from the beaches and there you are, moving to the French Riviera. Toulon, I checked, is very close to a place I’ve visited 7 years ago – Saint-Tropez. Went there by car from Bulgaria on a sightseeing adventure that went all the way to Madrid so I saw a decent part of the coastline. You are definitely upgrading by the look of it. The whole Riviera is beautiful.
Emirates
I saw your post earlier and agree with most of it. Personally I think Ceballos and Elneny should be in contention before Xhaka who should be consigned to the EL group matches and less important competitions as they come up.
Elneny should sue Arteta from his days as an arsenal player and Xhakalson for his misfortune as an arsenal player.
“The same as Sunday, had Elneny’s deflection not rebounded off Leno’s face, then onto the post and out? the narrative and mood would have been very different.”
That argument also applies to if Laca’s goal isn’t disallowed against Leicester.
What if is the deepest hole going.
Here is another what if, Gsbriel should of been sent off for commiting a second bookable offence
KSE empire is not cashflow rich, but that was of little consequence because it benefited from long term rise. That trend is now starting to reverse. WallStreet and therefore bankers are reassessing the future growth of brick and mortar business especially commercial real assets. Lots of retail places will permanently close down. COVID has just hasten their demise. Commercial real estate is not the place you want to be for future growth. Based on that I would say that KSE is unliky to fund any special purchase during the TW. It is still a possibility if Arsenal were to suffer… Read more »
I’m calling for consistency from the team, something I feel at the moment, arsenal can not be associated with consistency (in all fairness other than Liverpool no other team seems to be consistent) BUT we should be taking advantage of the situation (most teams not consistent) because I for one thinks arsenal now have players whose quality almost matches the quality of the rivals. ARSENAL: Leno, Gabriel, Tierney, Bellerin, Partey, Willian, Aubameyang. 7 LIVERPOOL: Alison, VVD, Robertson, Arnold, Fabinho, Mane, Salah, Firmino, Henderson 9 CITY: Ederson, Kyle w, Rodri, De brurne, Aguerro, Sterling,Mahrez, Gundogan 8 CHELSEA: Kante, Kai H, Ziyech,… Read more »
Gooner Joe We’re on the right path, I think we’ll improve as the season progresses, there’s a clear structure to what this team is now doing. Last season, I think we were the worst in terms of conceding at set-pieces, this season we’ve signed a set piece coach, a 6ft3 centre half, and whilst it’s early days, Partey looks good in the air as well, so it looks like we’ve tried to address that specific issue. The other thing that leaves me with optimism is the extra experience in our team Partey 27 Elneny 28 Xhaka 28 Ceballos 24 (second… Read more »
Valentin
Agree on the financial effects in football but they apply to Arsenal just as much, maybe more than many other clubs. We’d been losing £20 – £25 million a year for 3 years or so and have now lost £90 million a season in match day revenue when it’s a bigger percentage of our income than any other PL club.
Rich, I know that we’re never going to agree on this but to repeat what I’ve said before we really didn’t ever look like getting anything from the City game whereas we were head and shoulders above United on Sunday. Completely different performances for me.
EPL teams have been doing alright cause it’s the most watched domestic league in the whole world. Make no mistake. Losing stadium revenue has surely hit us really hard. For the club management and owners to get together and saction a 45m pound cash deal in Partey in these dire times, means a lot. We all should appreciate it. We should also not expect much business in the Winter. If we had the ticket money, yes. But not now. It would be unreasonable. Unless Auba gets injured god forbid. However, If we manage to sell someone, I believe we’d reinvest… Read more »
andy
It was also a City missing several top players – to be so timid and then Arteta to say he was proud of the result really wasn’t what we needed to hear.
@Marc, yup, rather than talk about ‘fine margins’ isn’t it better to notice the chalk and cheese performances and hope that Sunday is the future and that some of our earlier performances are the past?
Rich, we overachieved with Emery in the sense that he had no vision, racked up a lot of luck points in the first half of the season, which meant his eventual crash kept us in 5th. But Emery, at no point, overachieved. No one, and I mean no one, would tell you anything good about the Spaniard. He was atrocious. The analysts knew it when they ran his numbers that Raul ignored and the staff knew it when he arrived. Arteta in after Wenger and we’re competing for the league this season. That’s the reality. Andy, we were certainly in… Read more »
Valentin
Brighton have had the majority possession against every PL opponent this season bar one, WB oddly enough, and they played Man U, Chelsea, Everton and Spurs already.
Whatever they did in the past against us, I doubt they’ll show us more respect than they did the other four.
Pedro
“Arteta in after Wenger and we’re competing for the league this season. That’s the reality.”
Sorry mate but that’s bullshit – if anything Emery did Arteta a huge favour by putting a fire break between Wenger and a rookie coach giving Arteta some breathing room.
Any manager coming in after a legacy manager is going to have constant comparisons made – a coach with no experience would find that even more difficult to deal with.
“Arteta in after Wenger and we’re competing for the league this season. That’s the reality.“
Pedro, what does that even mean?
“Sorry mate but that’s bullshit – if anything Emery did Arteta a huge favour by putting a fire break between Wenger and a rookie coach giving Arteta some breathing room.”
Yup
Just assuming a Partey – Elneny partnership. Before some talk about selling Xhaka , which is fine, we need to identify backups to Partey and Elneny when they are rested, banned and/or injured. Willock perhaps. Not like for like but may do a job if he’s focused. Ceballos has little end product (eg final passes) as EmiratesS stated. He’s slow and easily get turned. The ability to keep ball somewhat isn’t enough to offset his weaknesses unfortunately. Who else really? Mot ESR, Saka, Nelson. Torreira and Guendouzi left on loans…. Unless Arteta improvises and play Luiz there. On another note,… Read more »
Pedro: “Arteta in after Wenger and we’re competing for the league this season. That’s the reality.”
It’s not a reality. It’s wishful thinking. I am optimistic as well but we shouldn’t assume things like that. Nobody can really tell with a certainty. Arteta is not Pep or Klopp and even their success was not guaranteed when they came to England.
By it’s very definition conjecture isn’t ‘reality’. Even Sun readers would know that.
“Arteta in after Wenger and we’re competing for the league this season. That’s the reality.“
“We have a top four squad” was a stretch imo, “we are competing for the league “ would’ve been a statement justified only after getting high on some mind altering substances, and I’m not sure Arteta’s special sauce qualifies as such.
No Marc, the idea of a breaker manager is bullshit.
Arteta would have given the club focus, he’d not have sanctioned some of the silly signings, and we’d not have conceded 49 goals in season one.
Emery was a shill and we paid for it.
Ryan Giggs is a scumbag. Now that’s reality.
Can’t be just the players this season because Arteta has had opportunities to have more engaging central midfielders in his side as the game against Sheffield United showed. But he choose in the majority of matches not to do this. His error.
And if it is certain player(s) that are the problem Arteta had opportunities to sell the problem player(s) in the past. He choose not to. Again his error.
Tom, firstly, we’d have made the CL in season one. Secondly, we’d have spent money better.
Nothing mind-bending about it Arteta being a far superior coach to Emery… this isn’t a hypothetical now. Emery was a huge, huge fuck up.
Andy
“Even Sun readers would know that”
True
“But Guardian readers wouldn’t recognise it, if it jumped up and bit them”
😂
Ryan Giggs nicked, Maradona in hospital after his party antics… what a week
Raptora, you are not an optimist at all. It takes one bad result and you’re on here complaining like its the end of the world.
Arteta would have had in the CL first season, he’d have shaped the squad around a vision, we’d be fighting for the league after spending 200m properly.
Pedro, The verdict on Arteta isn’t in, if making Arsenal into a title contender was his merit.
The Emery chapter is closed, no need to relitigate.
People you need to cut Pedro some slack today – he’s in a bad place.
Not only is Trump going to win a second term but his first act after is going to be banning Oatmilk!
Pedro Emery struggled with the language, no doubt, and wasn’t backed by the club. But this is a guy who’s had huge success at Lorca Almeira Valencia Sevilla PSG Finished 5th, and got to a Europa final at Arsenal, Hazard settled that final, but as we’ve seen with games against Chelsea, they can go either way, Has also now started well at Villarreal. I have no emotional attachment to Emery at all, but the idea this guy doesn’t know what he’s doing, doesn’t stand up to any real scrutiny. What screwed us at the end of his first season was… Read more »
Pedro
Arsenal were in 3rd place after seven matches last season under Emery, so it’s a little early for you to be saying that “we’re competing for the league this season”. Let’s see where we are come late December or May.
Arteta has been dragging his feet.
He should have let the Xhaka sale to Hertha Berlin go through when he first come in.
At least Emery had set the scene by the end of his tenure that Xhaka was going to be sold.
It’s great that Partey is now on board but Arteta fucked up over Xhaka.
And we still don’t know whether Arteta is going to continue to fuck up over Xhaka by still calling on him too many times as the season continues.
He should have sanctioned that sale to Hertha Berlin. Big error.
So what did giggs do? Beat the Mrs? Why do I feel like he’s done it before
Fire Fauci! Fire Fauci! Fire Fauci! Fire Fauci! Fire Fauci!
Gooner Joe, it’s a little far down the line to talk about Emery’s success.
He was a joke.
Valencia players thought he was weak. PSG players thought he put the club back two years. Arsenal players gave up under him.
He is a shit manager that only landed a job at Arsenal because of a super agent.
The verdict is in with Arteta, he’s a better manager than Emery, and he’s done more for Arsenal with less money in a shorter space of time.
Marc, Biden bringing it home today… Trump is over.
lol, Emery really set the scene by giving him the captaincy and putting him in a setup so bad he was booed by his own fans.
Pedro
What happened to no politics on the blog?
Arteta has got the team fighting and added steel to the team. He has actually got very good results against good opposition. What he cant figure out yet is how to break down teams that defend deep. I think he is also using the same approach to teams that are less threatening as a top opposition. We need to take more risks in pushing bodies from midfield up the pitch when we face teams like that.The top 4 isnt just decided by winning against top teams. It is also decided by winning most of our winnable matches. If he fixes… Read more »
lol Joe Biden.
Such poor choices for leader of the country for the US.
Mind you we have bungling Boris and frightened eyes Keir.
Azed, democracy is at stake today.
Supreme leader trolling his own blog the real supreme leader trolls North Koreans loool
Arteta in after Wenger and we’re competing for the league this season. That’s the reality.
I think you need to look up what reality means.
Arteta would have had in the CL first season, he’d have shaped the squad around a vision, we’d be fighting for the league after spending 200m properly.
Sounds like he’s got no excuses for this season then.
Pedro
“Emery really set the scene by giving him the captaincy and putting him in a setup so bad he was booed by his own fans.”
He was obviously laying traps for him.
Setting him up.
Give him more responsibility and his shitness will be even more exposed as it was.
Clever move by Emery that.
It was the old boy Wenger who is the main culprit in all this by bringing to the club in the first place and making him a first team regulat right from the off.
Im tellin you for free!
Ish, Machiavellian move… I like it.
Marko, if you follow the Emery story on… now we have a badly shaped squad, and no money. So, that’s kind of the excuse, because as I’ve explained many times before to you… variables change and so do expectations.
Still think we’ll be right in the mix for top four come the end of the season.
Marko, sounds familiar right? I wonder if he’s got any other sister-in-laws he could poke while he’s at it too???
I think Emery over achieved in his first season regarding results. It is the second season he really had no results to show. Our football has been pretty boring for a long while now whether it is Emery or Arteta. It still is but now we have some steel to show for it. Our players were crap and some of them are now being phased out. A xhaka, Mustafi spine has now been replaced by Gabriel and Partey. Arteta is definitlet the beeter coach but we definitley had squad Poverty.
This is good.
https://firsttimefinish.co.uk/2020/11/03/the-inside-story-of-dominik-szoboszlai-hungarys-great-hope/
definitley the better*
“Marc, Biden bringing it home today… Trump is over.“
Pedro, even if Biden wins Trump won’t be over. He’s the genital herpes of American politics and he won’t go away.
Anything other than a landslide Biden victory and this country will be in a dark place for a while.
It’s depressing nearly half the population still supports this demagogue but that’s who we are right now I suppose.
History won’t be kind.