Well hello angry people. How are you today? I am still a bit bummed about the result at the weekend. It was really bad. Still, we can’t cave. We have to move forward and imagine ways this could be made better.
I think there are two issues we have going on at the moment that need addressing ASAP.
- The system doesn’t produce enough high-quality chances
- The system relies on elite finishing to finish the few chances that are created
- Our elite finishers are out of form, big time
Now, there’s a lot of debate going on about which is the bigger problem there. Are our big names struggling in a restrictive system? Perhaps. But there’s been a little too much good noise coming out of the club to assume that the players are playing badly because they are sad.
The system wasn’t the problem 6 months ago, it was the solution. But maybe too many things have to go right for that system to work. Living off low xG can only exist if you have someone like Auba absolutely on fire. He’s not on fire at the moment, he’s the opposite, and no one else has stepped up.
We’re not going to get back to form by fine margins-ing our way out. I think we need to try something different. We have learnt that fine margins is not good enough for top four. We have learnt that it’s quite miserable to watch. We clearly don’t have the players to be Atleti at the moment.
We do have good players though. We also have a good manager and lots of smart young coaches and analysts. I don’t think we can live in a world where we let Arteta off the hook because he doesn’t have the perfect squad. He needs to move on a new idea. Arsenal simply has to find the right balance.
Fans have ideas as well. I think most of them revolve around taking an L on Lacazette and Willian for a little bit, but there are more, so keep reading.
TOP THINKING:
PEPE: Could the Ivorian be deployed more centrally. We touched on this the other day. It’s a wild idea, but it ‘might’ be wild enough to make sense.
The player is a bit of an enigma. He’s been dross out on the wing. Awful. But what has added to that? Well, he’s generally smashed off the ball, and if he’s not, he has to work his way through a lot of players out wide. Could playing through the middle be better for him? Would it win us more penalties? Would playing off the last defender be better for his style of game?
Could he work well as a two with Auba? Let’s look at what he’s good at. He is a handful, defenders do not like what he represents, imaginative, tricky, with a rocket shot. He’s fast with the ball at his feet, a lot faster than Lacazette, and he smashes low shots like Anelka in his prime. He’s also good with his head, standing at 6ft tall, it’s much better to lob balls at him than Lacazette. His quick passing in tight spaces might work well with Auba.
It’s a stretch, but weirder things have worked… like, Thierry as a striker when he arrived as a winger.
AUBA: No one complained about Auba on the left when he was scoring goals out there. Well, now he’s not. He’s barely touching the ball. Lacazette touched it about 5 times, which Mike McDonald who blogs here called correctly: that means the manager has said don’t pass to him or the players simply don’t trust him. Both bad for him. Lacazette through the middle needs retiring. Auba is at his best, when he’s sniffing out chances in the 6-yard area. He’s a fox in the box and we’ve put him out wide where he’s next to useless at the moment. Let’s put him where he’s going to be most effective.
REISS: Look, he’s a bit all over the place, but he can be a player on his day, and he knows he’s in the last chance saloon. He’s fast, he’s very direct, and he looked good when Arteta started him way back when. Can it be any worse than Pepe or Willian? That’d be very tough. Not impossible though.
WILLOCK: Joe has been given two chances in the Europa League and delivered both times. He has never really done it in the Premier League, but now would be a good time to try something. With Partey in the side, could his quick passing, smart runs, and love for a shot be what we need? Maybe. Sometimes you have to take a player that’s not quite there to give you more balance. All our best pieces on the pitch don’t work at the moment. Could Joe give us something more interesting?
BIG LESSONS: I wrote back in July that you can’t coach character. I still stand by that. Players that consistently let you down will always let you down. Mikel seems to have gotten a little high off of some of the things he saw last season and he doubled down on people he should have moved on.
Now we are where we are and this is the way.
He chose to spend £250k a week on a 32-year-old looking for a retirement deal.
He chose to tie Auba down to a longterm deal in his thirties instead of cashing in.
He and his backroom team did not add a creative loan to the team and they chose to omit Mesut Ozil.
He won’t hide from those decisions, because he can’t, but that means he has to make them work, which is why I am very confident he’ll get it right. Arteta cannot afford to fail in his first job.
As fans, we can either cry like children every time we lose… or we can trust in one of the best young coaches in the world. He is the right choice of candidate. We are the poorest club in the top 8, our squad is still a mess, and we cannot afford one of those fancy managers everyone assumes would come here with limited funds.
This is a tough job. Really tough. This is his first major test of faith. We’ve been drossy all season, we’ve had little to smile about, now it’s time to get smart and take some risks in a better version of Arsenal. It can and will be done. Just keep the faith
Over to you, Mikel.
Arteta yelling at the touchline shows he’s a numpty that isn’t taking us anywhere. If he has no confidence this bunch will listen to instructions already agreed on in training then why bother? No experienced manager will be doing that because they have a plan and would let the players execute it on game day. Dude is a control freak and no wonder the team is playing shit. Top professionals don’t need their coach constantly yelling at them all game restricting their freedom to express themselves. I don’t see Arteta changing anything. Pedro is a fantasist who will hang on… Read more »
Yeah it was to be expected that Szoboszlai would join Leipzig. But given some people’s reaction to that type of signing and where they basically have to wait and see him perform elsewhere and be more expensive before they’re convinced by him he’s no great loss apparently. I think it’s a shame personally that he’ll end up going for less than 20 million while it’s day 596 and we’re still talking about Jack Graelish and his sexy calves
A bit of good news, gunnersauraus is back. Club made a mess, dismissing him in the first place. Can we credit ozil for this??
His calves are spectacular for real though.
Freddie, if Szaboszlai’s agent has his client’s best interest at heart he would probably tell him to stay clear of Arsenal right now no matter the immediate financial upside.
I know I would.
I liked the Arteta appointment but…
It’s over I’m afraid. Rules are rules and he’s broken all the classics:
Failure to manage the star names.
Failure to sign the right players.
Failure to tactic.
Failure to deal with inferior players.
Failure to lead.
There are still plenty of managers out there who could do a job. Nothing wrong with us doing a Chelsea or Real or anyone really and hire and fire every season or two.
Arsenal are dead.
I don’t agree Tom I think Szoboszlai would flourish here and Arsenal would be the perfect club for him to develop even further. Of course he runs the risk of Mikel misusing him or not playing him at all but it’s a risk worth taking I think
It’s actually true that some agents will tell their clients to be wary of Mikel Arteta.
The way Saliba has been treated begs a lot of difficult questions.
How is that a talent of that nature can go to waste in out U-23 squad when we are fielding the likes of Mustafi and Holding ahead of him. Arteta was even set to play Xhaka as full back.
Guns of Hackney
That sauce turned sour on you very quickly, didn’t it?
Dissenter
Yes. But I’m consistent. It doesn’t matter who the manager is or who I backed, if it turns out badly, I will say so. Look, we tried and that’s good! Arsenal getting it wrong doesn’t bother me, Arsenal getting it wrong and not dealing with it does bother me.
There will be no progression.
I thought we had won the transfer window just like we won it last season? Now suddenly we have signed all the wrong players? I don’t buy that. We have a strong squad, just need to get them playing to form and playing well.
Marko, It’s kinda hard to make your case when our offensive output is Boltonesque.
It’s one thing for Arsenal fans to hope Arteta can right the ship, it’s quite another for neutral observers to look around and find no real evidence he could.
Szaboszlai’s next move is probably the most significant in his career from the development point of view. Coming to the very demanding league under a novice manager under pressure not exactly ideal.
I would love to know what Mikel Arteta fans position is if by December Arsenal have more Ls than Ws? 11 months is a long time in football and if this is the best Mikel Arsenal can come up with at this point, it might be best for the Club to cut its loses and get a better manager. Aston Villa game ended 3-0 but it surely remind me of the horror show at OT in August 2011. Every attack from Villa could have resulted in a goal. It was that bad! The final scores in all the EL games… Read more »
Gons
Lolz. That’s like the old Morcambe and Wise sketch with Previn:
You’re playing the wrong notes.
No. I’m playing the right notes…just in the wrong order.
Arsenal are not a good side. Too many mistakes in there.
So Mandzukic is a free-agent and close to agreeing to join Celta Vigo. Could he not offer us a Plan B way of playing this season (Auba play off him; Pepe play off him), similar to Giroud coming off the bench? Haven’t seen him play in years so don’t know if he has anything left in the tank.
Mandzukic? What’s he like on the LW these days?
One train of thought that has been pretty universal on here is that we need to sign players like Szoboszlai before they make the move to Dortmund or Leipzig etc.
Well we seem to have identified one and now because of what I can only guess is issues with the manager and club’s performance he’s not interested.
So happy we’ve got a generational coach whom everyone wants to play for.
Guns
Too many mistakes but who’s making them?
Isn’t mandzukic about 35 now? Don’t think he’s the solution.
Marc this place looks at clubs like Dortmund and Leipzig says we should be more like them and then argues about young potential signings being good enough for us because of their age the level of the league that they come from and their potential short term impact. It’s crazy. I kid you not I’ve gotten into arguments with people on potentially signing Van De Beek only to then hear about how poor the Dutch league is to then recently hearing from the same person why aren’t we looking at more players from Ajax. This club deserves it’s fans sometimes… Read more »
Joe Gomez just got injured on international duty with England
Liverpool are damned
‘He kept yelling to the players on the sideline. I wonder whether that helps the opponents too’
This statement explains why you would think diet Pep is very intelligent.
Im telling you for free!
Marko
Don’t conflate matters because you’re incredibly revisionist and only ever present the black and white of a particular argument to keep it simple for yourself.
Nobody has an issue with a Hungarian 19 year old playing football in Austria. Nobody. The comment has been made that it’s asking a fucking shit load for that same 19 year old to come into a football club like Arsenal and be the solitary attacking midfielder at the club. That maybe, just maybe the money we spend right now needs to be on a better player.
Marcus Thuram was another one. I remember when we were linked with him at Guingamp and people were turning their nose up to him and the price and the fact that he was coming from a relegated team. And now everyone wants him after flourishing at Gladbach
They need to go back to five subs very quickly
Players will keep dropping like flies with the way games are coming thick and fast.
#FreeRed
#FreeRedTruth
The comment has been made that it’s asking a fucking shit load for that same 19 year old to come into a football club like Arsenal and be the solitary attacking midfielder at the club. That’s honestly a new argument. So we should only move for a Szoboszlai type signing when we don’t really need him? Seems about right. That maybe, just maybe the money we spend right now needs to be on a better player. It’s 20 million. You won’t find many better 20 million attacking midfielder prospects in world football. But anyway like I said you just proved… Read more »
We don’t have to sign Dominick now
We can wait until he’s worth 50 million and try swapping four players for him. If that fails, we can always blame Kroenke for not spending money.
Tony AdamS is reported to be suggesting That Arsenal had Jude Bellingham’s deal wrapped up until Edu came on board and the deal got lost in the transition.
Surely Mr. Arsenal can’t be lying.
Marko Problem right now is Arteta’s record with young signings. Martinelli – dropped him before his injury even though performing well. Guendozi – under Emery most valuable teen in Europe, now out of loan and we’ll be lucky to get more than £15 million for him. Saliba – even if he’s not ready we royally fucked up loaning him out. Balogun – won’t sign a new contract and will leave for a nominal fee in the summer. I’m sure Pedro can come up with a list of excuses but it’s getting to the point where you have to wonder where… Read more »
There is one more mental nut in my ignore list. Common on the internet. LOL!
Saw that dissenter and certainly momentum and things were lost in Edu coming in and Raul leaving but I never saw anything about us trying to sign Bellingham I only ever saw United and Dortmund. Besides that I don’t think Tony Adams has any real inside line at Arsenal I really don’t
Marc I can’t disagree with any of that. He is so far either misusing or not trusting young players.
“Besides that I don’t think Tony Adams has any real inside line at Arsenal I really don’t”
What about Steve Bould? Its not hard to have connect to this version of Arsenal. All the major players at the Club are novice.
Marko A new argument? What are you talking about? You had a barney with myself and Weagle on the Hungarian because you’re hell bent on our only strategy being to hoover up talented teenagers when we both touted the signing of a senior player that would invariably deliver right now. You know, similar argument that was made pre-Saliba who you again were feverishly wanking over despite reasonable concerns that we were pissing 20-25 mil on a player that wasn’t going to kick a ball for us for at least 12 months. 20-25 mil that could’ve went on a player that… Read more »
Marc you’ll be delighted to hear that apparently Xhaka might be thinking of leaving if his game time doesn’t change in the near future. I know what you’re thinking great right but I bet you 50 quid Mikel will likely reinstate him and it’ll coincide with a new deal for him in the coming weeks before the transfer window
Marko
It’s an observation but it looks very much like Arteta wants players who he can trust to follow instructions and whilst that is to a degree normal Arteta looks like he’s taking it to a ridiculous degree.
The recent match where he had Xhaka and Ceballos move out to the full back positions vacating midfield – I mean what the fuck?
Marko
That happens and I’ll move from #sortitoutArteta to #fuckoffArtetaandtakeXhakawithyou
A new argument? What are you talking about?
The point where you talked about if we signed Szoboszlai he’d be coming into a set up where he’d be the solitary CAM at the club. That was a new argument I never heard you say that before
Never really rated Grealish up till about 6 months ago.
Yeah if we could afford him, I’d say let’s go and get him. But I think that he will go to City or maybe even Liverpool.
He’s 25 now, imagine what he will like in say 2-3 years time, when he hits his peak.
We don’t have any players at our club with his attributes. We are crying out for a player like him.
Marko
We literally dont have an attacking midfielder at the club, its been written about numerous times in the last 6 weeks. Whoever we sign in that void will, for a time, be the only viable AM at the club. Kind of the whole point to the scepticism over a teenager being the answer.
No doubt he’ll answer the same questions Saliba has in his 15 months officially as an Arsenal player. I know I’m more than convinced we couldn’t have benefitted from another player for that Saliba money…
You know, similar argument that was made pre-Saliba who you again were feverishly wanking over despite reasonable concerns that we were pissing 20-25 mil on a player that wasn’t going to kick a ball for us for at least 12 months Oh you mean the arguments where people were pissing and moaning about us signing up a highly sought after young player cause they thought it was eating into our meagre transfer budget that summer only for it to end up costing us something like 5 million making those concerns look silly. Is that the argument you’re talking about? Also… Read more »
No point signing players when the ones we already have are so badly misused.
I know I’m more than convinced we couldn’t have benefitted from another player for that Saliba money… Charles I think you’re confusing the quality of the player with how the current manager at Arsenal is woefully misusing the player. Saliba is and should be a viable option for Arsenal right now must like there’s a few players currently at Arsenal who are viable options to make a difference right now at Arsenal only they’re not because of the manager. I don’t blame you for thinking Saliba is shit that Auba should have been sold that Pepe is average and should… Read more »
Just in case you didn’t get it up top we actually have players at the club who can fill in at CAM (we seen it against Sheffield United for example) only Mikel doesn’t want to play with one. At all. He prefers…whatever it is that we’re seeing regularly for some reason
Marko You’re still trying to defend the Saliba signing as per its immediate application? He hasn’t kicked a ball for us and been on the books 15 months, you really are blind as a bat when you fancy a player. Gabriel cost us 22 mil, don’t embarrass yourself further to claim we couldn’t have gotten a player of that ability to come in instead of Saliba – who is living on a future reputation and not one of the moment where its most fucking relevant. “Yeah considering that Sancho is a right winger and you mentioned a bunch of CAM’s… Read more »
“I don’t blame you for thinking Saliba is shit that Auba should have been sold that Pepe is average and should never have been signed that Ceballos shouldn’t be kept on cause right now the manager is making them and others all look that way“ I wish you’d get what i thinking right for once, I dont keep it a secret on here but alas you still struggle to accurately represent it. – I dont think Saliba is shit, i think he was the wrong player to go after given our needs. It’s been proven as much to date. –… Read more »
You’re still trying to defend the Saliba signing as per its immediate application? Okay. I know this is really tough for you to acknowledge because I dunno you just love to argue and are pretty bamford-esq when it comes to being open-minded or wrong about things but not everything in football is immediate. You look at Martinelli for example you think we brought him in for an immediate impact? You don’t think there was a long term plan there and potential future saleable asset in mind? You don’t think Real had that in mind when they bought Varane from Lens… Read more »
“Mustafi agent confirming he’s leaving Arsenal on a free. Yet he’s in our EL squad and PL squad but not the young defender we paid £27m for. Also, in Jan last year we were told no players would be able to run their deal down at Arsenal. Absolute comedy club.”
From twitter.Am sorry but anyone who thinks leaving out saliba was the right decision should be slapped.You can’t tell me that the dude isn’t capable of playing against irish pub teams and norwegian farmers.
Pepe is not a good fit for Arsenal, what does that mean.
He has two lega a pair of eyes he’s not an invalid..
Marko stop wasting your time,Pedro already decided that Saliba isn’t ready and guendouzi is a petulant child so naturally his followers think the same too.
So Sancho has never played central? (He has….4 times already this season). And all those mentioned have never played on the right hand side for Dortmund? They have, too many times to go review. Meanwhile how many of those Arsenal players are going to be a number 10 type for us? Nelson? Martinelli? Pepe? The only one is Willian, who its been suggested can play there despite him being a wide forward for his whole European career. Again you’ve literally brought up players that aren’t similar to Sancho and now have doubled down with saying that he can play centrally… Read more »
Marc, I think that there is two fundamental problems with Arteta: 1) Arteta does not trust players with unpredictability. So he would rather have a player who will not bring any danger upfront but will follows the instructions. Hence the benching of Saliba who was known in France to run with the ball into the midfield. Hence the treatment of Willock not even on the bench for EPL game. Willock will move ahead of the ball to get to the end of attack and that will leave an opening. The problem is that in order to win, you need to… Read more »
Marko Nobody needs long term strategy spelled out to them, you’ve not stumbled across an original thought here only to explain it to a corner of the internet unburdened by the truth of it. But the irony of you talking open-mindedness and understating of strategy when you’re utterly incapable of digesting the points made about the necessity for the here and now. We bought a 25 mil teenage defender and loaned him back to France when we missed out on top 4 and needed to buy a defender of note. Still he isnt ready. You still cant put your fingers… Read more »
Marko
Who are all the CAM options at Arsenal?
So again, you’re utterly blinded by the fascination for some hyped youth player in Europe and ignorant of the needs of the squad. So this whole argument is about us potentially signing up a young CAM but apparently it’s ignorant of the needs of the squad. It’s also worth pointing out that your stance on here and now had you making arguments in the summer as you backed the Willian signing and honestly as of right now that’s making you look foolish . then in 6 months you’ll be calling Arteta a shit-cunt because he cant get us firing. No… Read more »
Still he isnt ready. You still cant put your fingers in front of your face and get ‘four’ with that? Really? Who says he isn’t ready? The fuck wit who’s getting the formation and personnel wrong on a consistent basis? Who hasn’t given him a chance whatsoever? Who convinced Holding to stay and has him first choice and who brought back in Mustafi to the team and offered him a new contract is that who we’re trusting in this scenario? Fair enough. I don’t wave Mikel pom poms so I can safely say I can see what’s going on. Who… Read more »
Charlie
“Who are all the CAM options at Arsenal?”
There’s one I can think of..
Daniel altos
“.Am sorry but anyone who thinks leaving out saliba was the right decision should be slapped.You can’t tell me that the dude isn’t capable of playing against irish pub teams and norwegian farmers.”
Charlie and jamie do…give em a slap from me..cheers.
All I know is that we know live in an arsenal world where Mikel gets deserved credit for coming in and (initially) doing well to get a response and improvement from some players. But everyone else who didn’t improve it’s because of the player. Mustafi… Mikel you did great on improving him… Saliba… doesn’t get a single minute of game time well that’s not Mikel’s fault there it’s obvious that it’s the player. Might have to rethink how we judge players going forward if Mikel is involved
Before bemoaning a lack of CAM Arteta has to show that he wants to go with a CAM. If Willian isn’t capable to play CAM why oversee his signing. If AMN isn’t capable to play CAM why block his transfer away from the club. If Ceballos isn’t capable to play CAM why did Arteta oversee another loan period for him at Arsenal. If Willock isn’t good enough to play CAM at this time what is he doing at Arsenal and why isn’t he on loan if he is deemed not good enough yet. Why get in Cedric if you want… Read more »
According to @David_Ornstein, #Arsenal rejected a substantial bid from Roma for Alexandre Lacazette towards the end of the transfer window.
Sounds about right. I hear Mikel still pines for his first kiss to this day
He has overseen situations where it looks like CAM is down his list of priorities.
No no he’s forced into that situation I hear.
Didn’t it come out last summer that prior to Koeman joining Barcelona and actually valuing Coutinho that we decided to target Willian instead of Coutinho. So it kinda adds to Mikel not really being keen on a CAM. It backs up what we’re seeing honestly
AMN has breached the non negotiables with this comment a few weeks back , so don’t expect too many appearances from him anytime soon
“The squad’s behind Mesut, we’re a team,’ That’s always going to be the case until Mesut decides to make his decision on what he wants to do and what he wants to say.”
If life was back to normal and the fans were in the grounds and Arsenal were in the same position as they are now, Mikel Arteta would be in deep deep shit. This week has been a reality check for those of us ( Pedro) who saw Arteta as the next coming. Suddenly, things don’t ‘feel’ right. We can all see they don’t look right, but when you start to sense problems within the.club, you have to start thinking that Arteta is on dodgy( can I say borrowed?) ground. Things are not right and, imo, it’s got nothing to do… Read more »
Marko “Didn’t it come out last summer that prior to Koeman joining Barcelona and actually valuing Coutinho that we decided to target Willian instead of Coutinho. So it kinda adds to Mikel not really being keen on a CAM. It backs up what we’re seeing honestly” The Ceballos loan extension is the real indicator overseen by Arteta. You can’t tell me that there is not one up and coming CAM in world football that we could have loaned in and he comes in the door and Ceballos leaves out the same door. But no Arteta extended the Ceballos loan. A… Read more »
we have people saying things like ‘he isn’t ready’ or ‘we don’t know how far he is in his development’ then you wonder how they know this and even if he is ready as I said before anyone who believes that Saliba isn’t capable of facing dundalk and molde is a troll. Deschamps was giving glowing tributes to Fofana,a player who just came in and started playing in epl matches.
“It’s also worth pointing out that your stance on here and now had you making arguments in the summer as you backed the Willian signing and honestly as of right now that’s making you look foolish” I backed it ON TOP of prospective business in Aouar/Coutinho and Partey, because he’s been an excellent player in the league for the last 7 years and it made sense because Pepe was woefully underwhelming last season. He’s been shit to date and needs to step up, but why he was brought is obvious to all. Especially given he was a bosman. An irrelevance… Read more »
Charlie
“I’m asking you who is available to play as a 10 for Arsenal right now?”
I can still think of one
“According to @David_Ornstein, #Arsenal rejected a substantial bid from Roma for Alexandre Lacazette towards the end of the transfer window.”
I’ve repeatedly taken the view that Ornstein is just another full of shit journalist – usually to be told he knows / has a good track record etc.
If we turned down anything around £20 odd million for Laca then we’ve got a serious problem with Arteta – we’ve seen to many occasions where he’s stopped a player leaving now for it not to be a coincidence.
Pierre
The question was right now – Ozil can’t play right now he’s not in the PL squad.
It just gets boring.
Well, what do you know, the global pedo ring is a real thing, except its epicenter isn’t Washington based pizza parlors but rather New South Wales , where 16 men were arrested on 828 charges of sexually abusing children.
Has anyone heard from Rich lately?
All this narrative that things have been impossible for Arteta.
It’s been impossible for him to get in a CAM after he has been at the club for just under a year.
It’s been impossible for him to play anything resembling progressive football.
It’s bullshit and is only done to excuse him.
Marc,
Whether you agree with Arteta’s personnel decisions or not he’s made enough of them to warrant the opinion this is his squad now.
Tom
“Has anyone heard from Rich lately?”
Stop it already..
Stop poking the bear.
Tom
Definitely – everyone would be happy to say it’s still going to take some time to get it 100% as he wants it but you just keep hearing about turning bids down for players who are either not good enough or back up.
Xhaka – £25 million
AMN – £20 million
Laca – £? million
He can’t seem to make his mind up.
Valentin, I agree with what you said. Arteta does not like players improvising and showing initiative and creativity. I am convinced of this as it stands right now. There is no other explanation. These pros have been playing the game since they were able to walk pretty much. Do not tell me that they do not know how to play attacking creative soccer and have the ability to take on players…. Wenger would take this team and you would see a very different attack. The triangles will come back and more middle attack as well. We are so one dimensional… Read more »
Arteta is a keeper
Boris Johnson is a skilled politician
He just repositioned himself from pro-Trump to pro-new guy with one fluid move.
I was thinking about this earlier today and I am more and more convinced that Arteta has set up the team to minimise and mask the players weaknesses instead of setting up the team to maximise their strength. If Arteta wants to succeed he needs to move on from this and learn that you have to play players in their best position, at least to start off. My worry is and the problem that we have is that Arteta is dead stubborn. I really hope that he learns to be flexible. But he needs to learn this now. If he… Read more »
You nutter keep saying he needs to do this and do that. Arteta ain’t doing shit. Keep dreaming. You know its gonna be the same team sheet next game and the next and the next until he is sacked. I’m taking a break from watching any live games until this circus ends. I’m good with highlights and no interest in watching 90 mins of parking the bus and a loser screaming and flailing at the touchline.
@izzo
“I’m taking a break from watching any live games until this circus ends.”
Same here and me being in the US and having a years subscription to peacock I watch those highlights as well as MOTD & MOTD2 from P2P sources. Life is too short to spend 90+ minutes on watching as you said this circus.