It’s hard to know where the bottom is for this squad of players. It’s tough to fathom whether the manager can arrest the decline. You wonder if the exec team has the knowledge to intervene and support. We’ve not seen a run this bad since the 80s. We’re rudderless top to bottom. The process is fucked. We are back to being a banter club.
Arteta is in big trouble. This is going the way of David Moyes at Manchester United. Listening to him insist 44 crosses to nobody was some sort of success for the future was painful listening. If you don’t have a striker like Robin, Ade, or Giroud, why would an entire coaching staff go out of their way to ramp up crosses per game by 11.3 since November (James Benge stat)? Last time we came close to yesterday’s number of crosses we at least had Danny Welbeck to aim for (Leicester 2016).
Steve Round said in one of his Youtube videos that in the end, not winning enough games cost him the United gig. Now we’re following that regime’s legendary path to the bottom… literally.
Cross numbers were the least of our problems yesterday.
Arteta is stubborn. He is trying to will a flawed plan into points. Everyone looked at that starting 11 and worried we lacked legs and character. We gave Willian another game to bomb. We started Granit Xhaka despite his terrible form, his lack of physicality, and the absolute nothingness he offers to the squad. We gave Auba another game. The guy is a disgrace. Arsenal.com shouldn’t have run that interview with him in the week where he looked like he was a hostage on day 57 after being asked to denounce his religion, family, and love for nice things. He is not behaving like a captain. Everyone at Arsenal knows this. If your charismatic leader can barely crack a smile, how are the rest of the squad meant to pick themselves up? Leadership is turning up when things are hard, he’s not doing that right now.
The Thomas Partey decision delighted us. He was really solid for the minutes he played. Then something popped, he rolled off the pitch as a counter-attack started, and Arteta tried to shove him back on. It reminded me of that time Denilson dropped to the floor against United and didn’t smother the ball… except Wenger didn’t run on the pitch to pick the player up and kick him towards goal. If Partey has the same injury, we’re deeply fucked. It’ll take longer, there might be all sorts of complications. We’d have just killed our escape plan. We took a risk on our best player and broke him in the busiest month. Unbelievable banter. The worst of short term decisions. We were always a long shot to beat Spurs away. Now we’re a longshot to beat Burnley next week.
That starting 11 showed that Arteta is not learning his lessons. He saw what athleticism offered to the starting 11 in the week and he ignored it. He continues to opt for senior players that can’t play his system. His system might be fucking magnificent in his head or at City, but if the expensive experienced players he has can’t play it, it’s total shit. We thought we were hiring in a manager that could rearrange a motley squad of players to be better than the sum of its parts… it now looks like we’ve hired someone that is wedded to something he can’t do. At least when we shithoused we were competitive.
Arsenal won’t change the manager. The players will go long before he does, but that might be predicated on Arsenal not being in the relegation zone come the end of the month. We are shite. Our players have a long history of pundits bemoaning their meekness. But Mikel doubled down on them, no one asked him to. He gave out the deals, he extended the stay of execution for about 8 players, and he insisted that the things they do at training was the stuff of top 4 teams. Things went to shit in the first 10 games and he excused it by saying he needed 6 players to get back to the top. GREAT, we needed that actioned in the summer, not now.
Hector Bellerin was leaving. He was convinced by the project. We thought he had changed. Yesterday, he dropped his 6th foul throw of the season. HE IS A PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLER AND HE FOUL THROWS. Let that sink in.
The opening 3 minutes of the game was beyond parody. Lacazette was so slow from kickoff he was clattered as he passed the ball out for a throw. Granit Xhaka’s first instinct when Harry Kane burned him for pace was to rugby tackle. Hector gave possession away from a throw. 3 of our most experienced players dropping amateur moments like that, how can you progress with players doing things like this?
It might start with retiring the season and playing the system with players that can do it, even if it’s not at the ‘technical’ level Arteta wants. At the moment, the principles we set out with look like they’re being soiled every week by senior players that don’t give a fuck. How can Mikel be so ruthless jettisoning the ‘bad’ players to the far reaches of nowhere (right decision), but so accommodating for the absolute bums he rolls out every week?
Here’s an idea he should have adopted this summer. Play the young players instead. Just like Frank Lampard did at Chelsea. The guys that are attached to the club. The guys that want careers beyond current contracts. The kids that have ceilings. If we’d written off this season and binned the idea of yet more short-term fixes, the fans wouldn’t be as angry as they are right now. He promised Willian a Champions League final in 3 years. He can’t even get an accurate cross from the Brazilian.
Can anyone honestly tell me AMN, Reiss, and Eddie could have put in a drossier performance than what we saw against Spurs? I suspect Möller might have been better suited to a system built for Giroud like target practice and he’s never played a first-team game. Would he have bottled challenges? Would he have cowered aerial balls? Would he have been so half-arsed?
Leeds United cause everyone problems because they have a system built to accommodate subpar players. Worse players than we have. Jurgen Klopp said a good gegenpress is better than a number 10. Time to get real, the current players can’t play City football. ‘What can they do?’ is a must-find answer.
That answer should be geared around power, pace, and one-touch passing. We need to get back to the aggressive pressing, it’s shocking that Arteta let it slide like Wenger used to. We need to have actual athletes in the middle of the park. We need to find a modern take on creativity because we’re not getting it with the players we have right now and lobbing the ball into the box will not work without big players who love to rough it with slaggy defenders. If there is a vision of what the football could be, let’s play it, even if it’s only at 80%… because at least we could see where this process could take us.
Cedric has a final ball and he’s fast, I doubt he makes foul throws. Why did we sign him for four years if he can’t play?
AMN marked Mahrez and Traore out of two games. He moves the ball fast, he’s aggressive, he has some flair in his passing. Give him games. Hold him accountable. Make him better.
Reiss Nelson can move. He is fucking rapid. His career depends on making it at Arsenal. Give him minutes because he cannot be worse for the system than a player who complained he didn’t really understand what Arteta wants from him after taking a £250k a week deal.
Would ESR offer as little movement between the lines as Lacazette. Would he give you 4 pass attempts into the penalty box as a #10? Alex was one of our better players and he didn’t do much bar run around with some aggression. There was a moment in the first half when Thomas Partey broke the lines and none of our forwards gave him the movement he needed. Painful viewing.
Auba is droppable. Willian is droppable. Xhaka should be left off the January squad list. If you are not doing it, you should not play.
I know fans think they know best. We mostly don’t. But we do know that a chunk of our players will always let Arsenal down because we’ve been watching the patterns for years. I have said it time and time again, I’d rather watch kids fail who can get better, than watch older players stink out the place because they don’t care.
Arteta was hired as a rookie. We were told to take a chance on his coaching and promise. He should take a chance on players that want to be there. Kicking on with the seniors that have a history of mentally collapsing at every opportunity is unacceptable leadership regardless of how old you are.
Give the Hale-Enders a go. They have a culture, a shared belief, and drive. The understandable mistake Arteta made was being conned by bums, the unforgivable one is continuing with them despite their utter tripe performances.
Ainsley had it right. Get some legs in the setup. Get ‘a little bit of dynamics’ going. Find a way, because that’s the job. The stubborn approach is not yielding results. Big names are taking the piss. It’s time to get a grip. It’s time for shock and awe. It’s time to resuscitate the season because it is about to need an ICU bed, the nurse is revving up the ventilator and we all know that means it’s 50/50 prognosis in the worst of ways.
There are plenty of managers that have turned dire situations around, but most of them have admitted mistakes and made changes. We need that and we need it fast. Arteta looks like he’s unraveling and that’s not good for anyone. Let’s hope the soul searching this week is a little deeper than ‘just do the same thing.’
Fingers crossed.
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Trust The Process.
The last two years have been a blur for me Arsenal wise.
I think we’ve been in free fall and sacking Emery and replacing him with a naive newbie in management wasn’t a wise decision.
Can Arteta turn things around? Quite possibly but will he?
I doubt he’s capable of doing such.
The board are still the major culprits in all these.
Top four?
GeNeRaTiOnAL CoAcH
“If you don’t have a striker like Robin, Ade, or Giroud, why would an entire coaching staff go out of their way to ramp up crosses per game by 11.3 since November (James Benge stat)?:”
Just to increase the number of chances created numbers. I think he has an exec presentation by Christmas and trying to just increase the numbers. Lol
Nope, missed out at the last second just like Emery did – but at least I wasn’t 15th!!
“If your charismatic leader can barely crack a smile, how are the rest of the squad meant to pick themselves up?”
Because he thinks arteta is shit at creating for him. So doing his best to get him sacked.
“We’d have just killed our escape plan”
More excuses to save fraudteta?
“it now looks like we’ve hired someone that is wedded to something he can’t do”
How do you know arteta can do better with different players. He was an average player and an even average manager.
****The guy is a disgrace. Arsenal.com shouldn’t have run that interview with him in the week where he looked like he was a hostage on day 57 after being asked to denounce his religion,*****
Thats good, thats the old PedRo.
Well according to MA all the stats were in our favour. Except that pesky one about the score of course…
Sid is going to have to change that Diet Pep jibe to Mini Moyes with all this crossing nonsense.
“The players will go long before he does”
Are you serious? Laca has 2 years, Auba has 3 years, Xhaka has 2 years, willian has 3 years……I don’t see arteta outlasting them.
Insightful piece of reading.
Nice one
Arteta has the dubious honor of being shittier than Emery.
Can you get angry with shit? I can’t. I just wish the rain will wash it away.
Keiran Tierney was doing ling throws into the box and that too badly. Remembers me of the days when rory delap of stoke would piss us of with the throw ins….. This is a clear sign that arteta is throwing the kitchen sink and he has not more to offer.
Bankz
Thanks for the reminder. Yup, the board is shit too.
Honestly baffling what Xhaka actually does , not a playmaker, doesnt help us defensively, doesnt keep the ball moving fast , no value in attack. What is he good at ?
3 Rookies in authoritative positions. Learning their trade on the job, making fucking stupid clear & obvious mistakes and wasting limited money at Arsenal. We need people at the top of their game or getting close to their peak. Would VV get a job in the championship as a CEO? E.G as a sporting director anywhere in Europe? Arteta at a top 10 money league team? I don’t think so.
You’re right Peter, Arteta is way too stubborn, that has been his downfall.
Heard Arteta is as good as Vinai’s & Edu’s boss. Surrounded by Yes men. He has so much authority at the club. How did they let that happen?? Shambolic leadership.
Good post Pete.. Really not so easy to come up with a post after yesterday.
Top to bottom, this has been coming for a decade, that’s what neglect and a lack of strategy does. We have the worst owner possible for this situation Arteta seems too scared to put the kids in bigger games. So he is going to either have to adjust his tactics, or put the team in a relegation battle. This club will never gain a place back in or near the elite while KSE continue to suffer shysters, chancers and people just not up to it. How many more things can KSE get wrong? Arteta will stay on, sign a MF… Read more »
Damn. We hate Tottenham
Its time to call Wilshere back then ?
Arteta unfortunately can’t make as many changes as Pedro wishes however right that thought may be.
There is hierarchy at every club within the group of players.
And unfortuntely the hierarchy of players bar one or two at Arsenal are a bit shit and pretenders.
Sack the board!
There is no salvaging this shit show. The bum manager has overseen the worse start in 40 years. Throw him out and build anew as relegation is a real possibility.
We need another David Dein.
We need our own Levy.
This club is being run in a shambolic fashion.
We need a hands on owner. We need an owner who lives and breathes the club. We need an owner who is around the club every other day. We need a clear leader at the club.
We need a Mr Arsenal.
i agree with Ishola. We have lost our Dein. The board turned on him cos he sided with Usmanov, opting to go with Kroenke. Now the whole setup from top down is a joke.
You guys on this blog are awesome. Auba smiles… Fans say he doesn’t care. He’s smiling too much.
Now Auba isn’t smiling. He isn’t captain material.
Gtfoh
Who wants to be Mr Arsenal?
Dangote? Anyone?
Please step forward and save this club.
Sean
You absolutely right about far all our leadership position being occupied by rookies. It’s the blind leading the blind at arsenal. These last few seasons have done incalculable damn to the brand. No more young kids will support the club and over the next decade or so our following will see a sharp decline.
This club needs a firm hand if we are to arrest this spiral and gain a semblance of being a top club, and none of these rookies are up to the job.
No more sauce it’s time to go Mini Moyes thanks for fa cup memories die is cast
Pedro Respect. Now that’s what a good post is all about. You’ve actually conveyed your anger and frustrations towards Arteta. As I said yesterday, no other manager in world football would put GX in his team. Bellerin is an embarrassment and Cedric should take his place. Auba should be dropped. Balogun and Nketiah should be paired against Burnley and give Nelson his chance. AMN should be playing, no ifs or buts. Willian should be sidelined. Let ESR blossom.Give the youngsters a chance to prove themselves and show that they are men. Arteta needs to act or it’s curtains for him… Read more »
Ishola70
We need our Roman.
Tbh I dont wanna sack Arteta right now (only if there is a real threat of relegation!) Stick with him the whole season and take stock of the damage and sack him then. By that time contracts will expire of many deadwoods, he wont be allowed to extend Laca’s contract ,Mustafi ,Xhaka , Ozil gone . The whole evil axis dismantled. Bring back torreria , build a defensive team . Buy a creative mid and play the kids .
Good article Pedro It’s true that fans would be much more accommodating if we were watching the youth play hit and miss. We’d be frustrated but we’d understand and also know the senior players aren’t any better so there’s not much to lose. Nelson AMN Saka Martinelli ESR all deserve regular game time right now. Saliba probably as well. I bet if we went for an aggressive 4-3-3 with all those players we’d play better football, score more goals and be more fun. We would lose some games, but at least we’d have something to buy into as the kids… Read more »
Yeah I’m not a fan of Cedric but he’s not worse than Bellerin. Cedric at RB and AMN in midfield would give us some much needed legs
This Partey:
(A 100% out and out mercenary.)
Arsenal have lost 4 of the 5 matches he has played
Arsenal have lost 3 of the 4 matches he has started
Got injured in 2 of the 4 matches he has started
Arsenal have scored 1 penalty in all the matches he has played
£50 million and £200 000 a week and then traipses off the middle of the pitch against Spurs when they are on a counter attack.
And folk question Ozil’s attitude?
Hate saying it but Kane is so much a better player than Auba who now needs dropping
Well done Pedro good post we are at that point now ,the system needs a jolt and as you say we have nothing to loose now.
Granit Xhaka, Willian and Bellerin MUST be dropped with immediate effect.
AMN, Cedric and Pepe ahead of them.
If Arteta persists with the same set up, he’ll have to suffer the consequences.
I’ll never understand how Pedro motivates himself to write when things are this rubbish.
More drive than most of our starting 11. Bravo.
Are we just a cup team?
One off games. Is that all we’re good for?
When xhaka should’ve been booked after 2 mins of the game yesterday it was such a ‘sigh’ moment lol.
Even the commentators on my stream started to get irritated saying all he does is foul by the second half. ‘What does he do? God knows how he gets away with so much fouling’ lol
This guy was our captain lest we forget. And told the fans to fuck off 😂😂
Pedro
Spot on about Auba. Yes he is frustrated I’m sure, but he is also a lazy, selfish mercenary. It any other club he would have been stripped on the captaincy, but look at who we have had as captains in recent years and it is absolutely cringing!
A captain raises their game and tries to raise the games of his team mates. Has Auba ever done that?
Can you lot name any other club where a player is trash for 5 years, tells the fans to fuck off and is still a start? It’s like the textbook definition of banter
How many players do you see us signing in January. And lord knows how long partey will be out.
Jamie.
I think it’s because he is painfully aware he spent the last 24 months (including the whole Emery reign) hailing Arteta as a generational and transformative coach.
Yes it’s a disgrace Bellerin can’t even take legit throw ins and not great that Tierney’s long throws are more Fosbury Flops than Delap arrows – but who picks Bellerin and who is responsible for coaching them.
Look at Klopp – already with two of the best full backs in the world he hired a throw in coach to make them even more effective.
Arteta out
Pedro out
China1
A core problem that typifies everything that is wrong at AFC.
Mr Granit Xhaka.
Arteta has zero credibility by playing this donkey.
China1 “When xhaka should’ve been booked after 2 mins of the game yesterday it was such a ‘sigh’ moment lol.Even the commentators on my stream started to get irritated saying all he does is foul by the second half. ‘What does he do? God knows how he gets away with so much fouling’ lolThis guy was our captain lest we forget. And told the fans to fuck off” And yet this group of players from last season many of whom are still around voted foe Xhaka as one of their leaders. This tells you a lot about the group of… Read more »
We’re in the weird position where the most important figure at the club right now should be the Tekdek, because everyone can see we’re in need of a wholesale rebuilding, and reimagining, of the playing squad. The whole point of the division of powers was that the manager was expendable, and behind the scenes there were senior executives ensuring continuity and providing an improving canvas to work with in spite of how the last coach / manager may have failed. Our ownership seem to have forgotten this, and the playing, personnel, and management executives seem to be culled in waves,… Read more »
Torreira Guendouzi and Ozil in midfield would have been so much better. Mind you, all are still arsenal players by the way.
Time to get rid of this clown Arteta.
Elmo
“It feels like we are very much dependent on Tim Lewis miraculously appearing as a David Dein figure.”
Tim? Mr Lewis?
Whoever the fuck you are save us now.
Fuck players and managers.
We want a leader. A Mr Arsenal.
Be our Mr Arsenal Tim.
We will worship at your feet Tim.
Let’s all agree, whether you’re a former AKB, WOB, SOB, MFI, CIA, B&Q, M&S, TSB etc etc, if Arteta plays Granit Xhaka against Burnley, he should leave the club.
Do we all agree?
GX, Bellerin and Willian play, then bring out the handcuffs.
At the Brighton home game last season, 5th December, Freddie’s first home game in charge, I thought I saw the worst Arsenal team performance I’d ever seen, in more than 45 years!. Zero confidence, so porous through the middle of the park, completely devoid of any idea of what to do with the ball, how to move it forward, zero confidence, the team was absolutely shite. I seriously sat in the stands for 30 minutes after the game wondering how we would avoid relegation, it was that bad!. I couldn’t see where another 3 points would come from and I… Read more »
Great article Pedro.
For me, Arteta’s authoritarian act doesn’t wash on the likes of Guendouzi, Pepe, Partey when he absolves any blame from the usual suspects. They all need to be held accountable, and if your going to have favourites make sure they’re the most reliable players that are putting in 8/10 performances at least, weekly.
Yes agreed.
Lol at turning on your best player and highest goal scorer the last two years, someone who’s basically carried the team on his own if you will.
Like Auba is supposed to create chances for himself and still put the ball in the back of the net. You don’t create chances, you don’t score and it’s on the manager to effect a system that maximizes the traits of his best player and not lump in balls into the box like he’s prime Fellaini
Once again, the fault is largely the players. It doesn’t matter that the setup (coach’s plan by the way) sees our midfield anchors deployed as left or right backs when we attack. It is players fault they have to remain there and not try to make something happen up front. Gaddemit, I’m sure genius Arteta implored Bellerin/Tierney to stop those crosses and rather dribble pass 3 spurs blokes before laying gold-edged chances for Auba/Laca to finish off. Is that too hard to ask? The twats refushed. Arteta should give them the Guendouzi treatment to remind them what it means to… Read more »
Gary with all the s’s presents a rock-solid argument.
All great tying to be the super fan and support the manager whatever that means but some have seen these results coming from a mile away. We got away with it due to the good cup run last season but at the beginning of the season especially after the West ham win, some said not creating chances wasn’t sustainable as it was a carry on from last season in the league but that got over looked and now here we are playing some of the worst football in all the divisions in English football. We put in more crosses into… Read more »
The older fans here were terrified that with Wenger staying way past his sale date that we’d end up like Nottingham Forest and guess what, that is exactly what’s happening!
Can we get relegated or are Fulham, Burnley, WBA and Sheffield U just too shit to let that happen?
Back in the middle 70s, Spurs and Man U got relegated.
Shit happens.
Long term solution is of course Kroenke sells to somebody who cares but until that happens we’re in for very dark days (+ Spurs are top…….).
I will repeat what I posted earlier on previous thread. Arsenal are in a complete mess an this is not down to the manager or individual players. This is an ongoing problem going on for more than a decade. 1. We have owners who are distant landlords. I have no doubt that they mean well, but they lack the knowledge, passion and more importantly focus to correct what is going on in London. They have in my view too many interests and sports franchises to devote time and money on Arsenal. We need owners who are focussed on our club.… Read more »
Arsenal have always had a small club mentality. Every now and then they pretend their one of the big boys. But that hasn’t been the case since the thirties. It was a huge risk to employ Wenger but it worked but then he was left to stink the place out when he should have been dumped around 2008. No big club sticks with a manager who can’t win the league for a dozen years. Then their was the stadium. Hey if we big a build stadium the supporters will believe we’ve got ambition. I think we’ve seen through that lie… Read more »
“huge number of cunts”
“Emotional control of a child some people”
Surely you can see the irony in using those words in the same post?
Artetas managerial influences…
Stubbornness from Wenger
‘Style’ of play from Moyes
Fashion sense from Pep
The tactics of shithousing against the big teams was okay even in the league because you get lucky with stuff like that but not against the inferior teams, not against teams we should be beating. Not seen anything that looks like what we are supposed to be as a team under Arteta, no pattern or style of play or anything resembling one and while the squad isn’t perfect and while we still have wasters here most of whom the manager decided in his wisdom to keep last summer, we shouldn’t be playing as badly as we’ve been all season. Every… Read more »
Turned Auba from a striker into a left winger
Turned Lacazette from a striker into a ’10’
Andy 1886
Or when he says some people know nothing about football and then says we gave nothing away yesterday
But it’s nice to see Arteta posting even if he is hiding behind a different name.
Oh please spare me the whole it’s not the manager’s fault and it’s the owners and how they need to sell up before we are competitive again, that’s just utter rubbish.
We have spent money, stupid money on painfully average players, not saying the owners are perfect but we’ve spent a shit ton of money on wages and transfer fees that’ll make some premier league teams jealous. We’ve been wasteful and made some horrible decisions.
We’ve had/got the Partey injury.
I think we’re a Gabriel injury away from a relegation battle.
I’m sorry but Arteta is out of his depth at this level, no point pining for him to play the kids if he’s just going to coach them to play the same way. He has been given far to much power and responsibility bearly a year in to his first managerial job. Arteta is starting to look like a rabbit caught in the headlights, what I’m struggling with is his stubbornness to keep trying to play a system that doesn’t suite the players we have. I truly believe the Arteta source era is coming to slow painful end sadly.
ES
“To conclude I believe that the only way out of this mess is for the Kroenke family to sell the
club to someone with the knowledge, focus, passion and resources to put the house in order.”
This is the only way.
The current set-up couldn’t piss in a pot.
““I saw my team full of desire, passion, dominating completely the game, creating all the chances, creating all the situations,” Clearly Arteta saw a match that i did not. This much i know, he played a not ready for prime time Partey and now he’s crocked but good. He inconceivably started two players who have been horrible pretty much all season, in Willian and Xhaka. He continues to persist with Auba who cant even be bothered to basically show up any longer. Arteta got schooled by Mourinho, right and proper. Mourinho got his lineup right and Arteta again, got his… Read more »
he dropped his 6th foul throw of the season
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Actually his 5th but even one at this level is pathetic..
Stan Kroenke didn’t reject money for AMN whom he didn’t want to play bar in stupid cup games.
Stan Kroenke doesn’t pick the players
Again, not the greatest squad but definitely not one to be playing such turgid and unacceptable football that match unacceptable results too. The new manager has not made any single decision that instills any kind of confidence that he is the one to take the team forward
Bats
It’s not just about throwing some money around.
You need someone at the the top of the helm who actually cares and is fully invested and that just doesn’t mean pennies invested.
The current set-up is shit regardless of money being spent.
Look at Man United. They are failing as well and surprise, surprise their set-up is shit as well.
They can get away with it more though because they are the bigger brand.
ES I’m not so sure the owners are soley to blame,we bought badly xhaka instead of Kanye,laca at 50 m since 2016 the owner has invested in the team not forgetting 100 m on Pepe and saliba
Bats look at the current set-up.
Josh Kroenke = a twat.
Vinna = a rookie CEO
Arteta = a rookie manager
Edu = never had a job equivalent in europe before.
It’s a fucking joke.
And this fucking joke set-up has been allowed to form under the ownership of the Kroenkes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikel_Arteta Simple question if you were senior execs/owner of one of the richest clubs in the world that was floundering from mismanagement for the past 14 years and therefore looking to hire a manager/head coach to turn the club around with somewhat limited funds compared to its rivals consistently playing in the CL, would you hire from Arteta’s above wiki depicting an unremarkable playing career and zero managerial experience? Or would you hire a seasoned manager to steady the ship in the mode of Ancelotti or Rafa Benitez or similar? Having made the wrong decision to hire a young, stubborn… Read more »
I have to say it Pedro, but if Arteta cant get anything out of the Senior players and has to resort to playing the Junior players, then what again was and is the purpose of his hiring again?
“Positive front foot performance, beaten by a wonder goal and a key midfielder walking of the pitch to allow them half a pitch to run into. Not all doom and gloom.” You clearly weren’t watching the same game as I was Spurs had Aresnal under total control. How many real efforts did Lloris face? Mourino knew exactly how the game would play out and as for the two goals the first only happened because the defence were like rabbits caught in headlights they didn’t know wether to twist or stick As for the second Spurs were allowed to overload the… Read more »
I mean after all The Arsenal is only a multiple billion pound business.
Ishola I fully understand how much better we would be with actual football people at the helm but you can’t blame the Kroenkes for certain decisions that have to do with the playing side of things. We had the Kroenkes in charge and got to a European final not so long ago with a manager many Arsenal fans thought was utter shire and now we’ve gone and replaced with a rookie who looks so out of his depth it’s worrying just how bad we have been. A manager who knows what he’s doing with whatever funds we’ve had at our… Read more »
I mean we’ve seen even shit teams come from two goals down to win or at least draw but somehow it’s okay Arsenal lost because we “didn’t give anything away”…. Never mind we didn’t create anything of note all 90 mins
Besides being shite our naivety never ceases to amaze me the 1st goal bad enough but the 2nd truly unbelievable piling forward like the last minute! They score ref blows for half time game over. Bellend has gone, Holding will never be good enough and how many chances can Grant Hacker have?
Let me see
Two goals
The managers hopeless naivety with a game plan that played exactly into the oppositon’s tactics
Bragging rights in north London
Spot on post. How ainsley doesn’t get into our midfield and get a chance I don’t know. Xhaka has had so many chances now and always let us down. Ainsley has faithfully played out of position and done a job even though he didn’t really want to and broken into the England squad to boot. Time to give give him a crack in the middle and give him a few games at that. It was painful to watch yesterday, it was like a cat playing with a trapped bird. I don’t blame arteta for everything. Some of them are not… Read more »
Bats
“A manager who knows what he’s doing with whatever funds we’ve had at our disposal and we’ve had some should have us doing so much better”
Well it’s never going to be one of the best is it with set-ups like we see atm.
The “best” is going to be getting to finals now and again of secondary cups like the FA Cup and Europa League.
Arteta was a desperation buy by a desperate despot manager at the last minute of a TW.
Now it’s looking like a managerial desperate hire simply not up to the mammoth task of rebuilding the team and club’s finances to help keep the sponsors in place.
Wonder what the sponsors are all thinking now?
Imagine what yesterday’s lineup would have done to Molde if Arteta hadn’t instead gone and played a lineup of kids instead?
Hint – Play the kids Arteta, the so-called Senior Players are playing like Senior Citizens.
I have not suggested that Kroenke family are totally to blame for Arsenal’s demise. I am sure that they mean well, but the reality is that they are not the right people to run the club. They have too many other sports franchises and projects in USA to devote time and money on Arsenal. Arsenal need owners who are 100% committed to Arsenal. Football is not just a business it requires a high degree of passion and people who understand the culture. Personally I don’t think that there is any top class manager who can solve our problems with the… Read more »
Nice piece Pedro, The only way to get any will to support Arteta at the moment is if he admits he got it wrong with the youth and the system Start from stopping rewarding underperformers like xhaka, willian, Auba, luiz, kola and Bellend game time Didn’t like how he handled the situation with promising young prospects like Guen and Saliba Didn’t like the way he handled Pepe progress Didn’t like extending luiz contract The one thing he did half right was ostracizing Ozil, he should have brought in someone better or at least developed one of the youth players and… Read more »
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“Arsenal need owners who are 100% committed to Arsenal”
Shouldn’t be hard to understand should it.