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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13 pts in 11 games, 15th in the league and Pedro starts his piece with “It’s hard to know where the bottom is for this squad of players.” Clearly it’s all on the squad. Auba is a disgrace, Laca was slow, Bellerin fouled a throw in, the current players can’t play City football, Our players have a long history of pundits bemoaning their meekness. Wonder why didn’t the same apply to Emery who never got the complete backing of the club, had players signed, and let go off above him and against his advice. Round 11, we had just drew… Read more »
Thought experiment contd:
Barca bloggers and some fans, thinking Arteta is a generational leap forward, turn on Messi et al for not being Giroud.
“Some of you have clearly never dumped a girl before and it shows.Arteta has to go now.Not next week. Not in 3 months.Now.”
Such a great point KAZ. Arsenal fans cannot let things go, first arsene, then Ozil and now arteta.
Also it will be a poetic ending for arteta if he is ruthlessly pushed out the same way he did to some of our players.
Did anybody tell the team and Arteta that Giroud doesnt play for us anymore? We suck at set pieces and corners so badly I don’t even bother watching it. I know things were bad with Wenger at the end and same with emery, but this is a bad as the team has ever been. Auba looks like he doesnt have a drop of confidence and might as well be benched. I reckon we start the europa team in the PL and play yesterdays lot in the Europa league, though that would be a slap in the face to our second… Read more »
I would have taken this Arteta as a player. We got the watered down version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp5pJfIPdy0
I honestly don’t get all the posters who every day are having a go at Pedro from his hyping of Arteta.
At the time Arteta represented a radical change of direction for a club that was stuck in stasis. Arteta was an unknown, exciting prospect. Lots of supporters were crying out for a radical change after Wenger and then Emery.
And early days, he SEE
Marc,
There was a tweet since delete published before the game that David Luiz barely passed a medical test on Wednesday and that in view of the result he should not be playing football for at least a further week.
Anyway if a week after the collision David Luiz is still not in a fit state to play, how can people still argue that it was the right thing to continue playing him for the rest of the 1st half?
Valentin
You can’t and questions should be asked of the club doctor who examined him and passed him off as OK to continue playing.
I honestly don’t get all the posters who every day are having a go at Pedro from his hyping of Arteta. At the time Arteta represented a radical change of direction for a club that was stuck in stasis. Arteta was an unknown, exciting prospect. Lots of supporters were crying out for a radical change after Wenger and then Emery. And early days, he SEEMED to be something good. That FA cup win.really felt special and like something the team could build on. Sure I agree, now is a fine time to get the knives out. But let’s not forget… Read more »
Sid
Interesting comment about the situation between Edu & Arteta. A lot of people blame Edu and Arteta is trying to scapegoat him to divert aggression aimed at him. It is very true they do not see eye to eye and now it must be Josh who separates them.
The players want the manager gone. It’s clear as day. Has been obvious for a while. He fked up loaning Matteo, he royally fked Saliba in the ass, he fked up getting Willian to play in Pepe’s position giving up on him, he benched Martinelli, he played Willian right after the Brazilian fked the club and went to Dubai, he fked up by playing Xhaka after he pushed Tierney and hugged the opponent instead, he fked up by risking Luiz’ health when his head was cut open and bleeding, he fked up by rushing and pushing Partey. he fked up… Read more »
Arteta isn’t a fraud, the players and Edu are. Of course he was complicit in handing out deals to people who were seeking retirement benefits, he was conned and not a fraud though. The way out of this hole is to go the Chelsea way of taking chances with the youngsters and writing this season off. Do not buy players in the winter window, store that for the summer and see what this squad of young players can actually do. Retire the first teamers to Europa League. Cut out the dead wood. We are stuck with Auba and Willian for… Read more »
Arteta is a janitor pretending to be a ‘manager’. A clueless and hopeless individual whose lack of any visible game plan has been exposed for all to see. Arsenal need to do what is in the best interest of the club, to save any kind of season and to dismiss him immediately. He is way out of his depth and it is clear to see that the team do not trust him at all. Poor decisions and awful team selections are so evident. With games against Burnley, Southampton, Everton, Manchester City and Chelsea coming up and realistically slim hope of… Read more »
John
Pedro gives as good as he gets often beasts posters.
Marketing people have thick skins because marketing is not an exact science thus rendering results that cannot be guaranteed.
Sales are far more quantifiable enabling acute accountability.
That Pedro thrives in such an environment and runs a successful and enjoyable blog is testament to Pedros durability.
Banter is Pedro’s middle name: ask Marc if you need further clarification. 😉
Confidence plays a huge part in football and it is extremely low at the moment. We’re actually working it into decent positions but they’re making the wrong decision or the final pass, touch, finish is just not there. Nothing is coming off and so they’re trying to force it hence all the crosses recently.
I’d start Aubameyang on Thursday. He needs a few goals no matter who it’s against. He’s world class at sniffing out a chance but average everywhere else. He’s a fringes player. Low touches. He’s never going to take a game by the scruff of the neck.
“Sure I agree, now is a fine time to get the knives out. But let’s not forget that there was a time that Arteta LOOKED the part and that was extremely exciting for a lot of supporters.” Agreed, but as others have claimed that it was still Wenger’s Arsenal when Emery managed the 22 games without a loss streak, maybe now we can claim it was still Emery’s Arsenal when Arteta won the FA Cup? Fact is that Arteta was given ABSOLUTE power. Club showed it in every possible way they could. Arteta has said it many times he has… Read more »
Im sure you’re right, Tony. Marketing is full of wolves, not sheep.
I don’t know. I was just trying to say that tons of people were hyped on Arteta early days. FA cup win, the team suddenly looking tough on defense, signing Partey, convincing Auba to stay.
I mean, if that didn’t get you hyped then you’re probably a miserable bastard.
GladwinDecember 7, 2020 13:03:45
Arteta isn’t a fraud, the players and Edu are.
Are you actually for fkin real? Jesus Christ…
Are Pedro’s views swayed by the amount of potential posts the site might receive?
I wouldn’t like to say.
Some good points earlier about how badly our club has and is being run. I doubt anyone on here has much confidence in Vinay or Edu, or really any of our board except our new lawyer friend. We handed a rookie coach a three year contract and doubled down on him when he was promoted only a few months in. We have made bizarre and critial bad decisions when it comes to transfers, terrible decisions tactically and with regard to picking players. A lot sits on Arteta who is a great example of someone who appears confident who really is… Read more »
Gbat
The transitions are so slow by the time the final pass is made the intended player generally is marked by one or two defenders.
This is down to Arteta’s failings playing at a snail’s pace.
One and two touch football creating urgency through the channels is not in Arteta’s remit.
The other inhibiting factor is the world and its sister know Arteta wants 50 crosses per game so set their defensive lines out wide.
Bravo Arteta!!
Watch out the mighty Dundalk. You’re heading for one almighty spanking on Thursday evening.
In more important news…
Bellerin talks ‘rainbow laces’ with gay gooners.
https://www.arsenal.com/news/hector-bellerin-and-gay-gooners-chat-rainbow-laces
if AMN was Spanish he’d be starting…
El Spliffo.
Never thought I would live to see gunners in bottom six
Sorry Pedro but Arteta won’t make it. Hes not just too stubborn but he also hasn’t got the ability to be a good manager. Add to that the fact he’s an awful judge of a player. He will be removed shortly once we drop into relegation trouble and its certain we will with theses useless chokers that make up the first team. The amateurs that run the club need to splash out on a real manager, back him or face the consequences. Theres not one team in the league who I would fancy us to beat nowadays.
I’ve no problem with rainbow laces Hector, but how about supporting gay rights by donating £10,000 every time you commit a foul throw from now until the end of the season?
“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. “ Pedro, Partey walked off the pitch while Arsenal had the ball and was standing next to Arteta just as Bellerin was still driving the ball deep into the final third. Arteta turned to the bench to call for a sub and as he looked up he realized the counter was on and then pushed Partey back on. This sequence of events shows clearly Arteta… Read more »
Now would be most appropriate time to sack Arteta. Delay it further and it makes things worse.
The lot of us had seen this coming a month and half ago when we lost to Leicester at home. We had 3 wins and 3 losses at the time. The losses were vs Pool, City and Leicester so not really super bad results. But it was the horrible football that went beyond results – boring, ugly, robotic, lack of creativity, lack of ideas sideways passing. And Arteta would speak how we’ve turned a corner and how happy he is about the progress we’ve made. ?????? We were 16th in shots per game, 13th in shots on target, outplayed by… Read more »
Yesterday was one of my worst day with Arsenal. We lacked firing power and coordination. We urgently need a supporting striker to support Auba. I’m scared things can only get worst if care isn’t taken. I pray I’m wrong.
Oh Pete, you bitch!
“we haven’t scored an open play goal in 9 hours””
11 hours actually.
But it’s the players fault.
I got the impression was getting frustrated with Xhaka towards the end of the game and started to drive forward himself.
*Gabriel
I got the impression Gabriel was getting frustrated with Xhaka towards the end of the game and started to drive forward himself.
Marc, Valentin
It common knowledge you can’t assess concussions pitch side during a two minute, high pressure game situation.
The entire protocol is a joke..
Pedro An honest piece. Also, I agree the club won’t sack Arteta this season. Whether that’s the right thing to do or not, it’s irrelevant because it won’t happen. Also, although I’ve pretty much given up on Arteta but who’s to say we’ll be better off with what would surely be a stop gap. It didn’t work with Freddy. The hope until the end of the season is that Arteta sees sense and changes tack. As you wrote: ‘Play the young players instead. Just like Frank Lampard did at Chelsea. ‘ Absolitely right. ..because it’s not always about results. Last… Read more »
Marketing is actually a business of strategy, idea and instinct. Of the three, strategy is the most important because it guides your ideas and instincts. Pedro’s ideas and instincts were unguided from a strategic point re Arteta and hence the song of SAUCE.
On the other hand, there are timelines and datas serving as guage for success or failure in marketing. So Chairman Pedro is doing something right or hiding inside a good team, else he would be a fulltime blogger by now.
It’s a minimum 10 minutes by a Dr in the dressing room in Rugby Union, Tom.
Marc ‘It’s not the players, it’s the manager’ That’s a remark that shows total unawareness of the situation. The expectation that yet another new manager will wave a magic wand and, in a twinkling, all will be sunshine and roses. Get real! Agreed Arteta has not performed in a sensible manner. The major problem he faced WAS the players, a dejected disjointed bunch. Sadly, the players are still the major problem. He gave them a chance, brought fresh ideas, and they performed reasonably well, winning the FA Cup. His mistake in the summer was not to proceed with the elimination… Read more »
Arteta’s decision making is the reason I don’t have much sympathy for him. Bellerin hasn’t looked like a modern RB and teams constantly attack his side, draw him out of position and that forces Holding to vacate the middle. It’s the same gameplan. Xhaka can’t turn with the ball at his feet, Ceballos lacks the technical ability. Lacazette offers nothing. Ozil wasn’t the answer but if you’re going to get rid of him you better have an answer.
The difference in treatment of Willian, Ceballos, Lacazette compared to Ozil, AMN, Cedric, Saliba is maddening as well.
But for all that jargon Bris does it guarantee results?
I’ll give you a clue the answer has two letters.
Pedro is enjoying holding his position no matter how misguided it now is.
It’ll depend on Pedro’s agenda how long he holds fast. He was in it for the long game with Gazidisgate.
AlexH
‘ Also, I agree the club won’t sack Arteta this ‘
You keep repeating thus line over and over again
The club won’t sack Arteta if we show improvement but if we continue this tail spin, he’s going to have to be sacked.
We may drop down to 16th if Brighton win today, isn.t that low enough for you.
Raptora
’11 hours actually. But it’s the players fault.’
You can blame the manager for tactics etc but of course it’s the players fault if they miss chances. We haven’t had that many but the good ones we’ve had aren’t being taken.
Tony
American professional sports have about 15 minutes and have to combine at least 3 concussion protocols to increase the accuracy of the screening, even then they still don’t get it all right.
Football is just still in the dark ages.
Luiz should have come off for footballing reasons because he couldn’t head the ball afterwards.
Get rid of Arteta and we can still make top 4 even with these shit players.
I believe that I’m a reasonably measured poster.
This is how I see things.
At this point, I would give Arteta until 2 January 2021.
We play against Burnley, Southampton, Everton, Chelsea, Brighton and WBA.
If we win 3 or 4 of the SIX games, maybe give him time.
If we lose 4 of these games, sack him on the spot.
I hope our directors are working on a plan already.
I know that the Kroenkes are always shy of the trigger, but what then happens if we draw Burnley at home and go on to lose against So’ton, Everton and Chelsea, thereby dropping to maybe 18th? The Kroenkes just shake hands with Mikel and say merry Christmas?
“I hope our directors are working on a plan already.”
These would be the people that sacked Emery and hung Freddie out to dry? If so I wouldn’t count on it….
Allergi is open for the job
https://www.justarsenal.com/multiple-title-winner-linked-to-arsenal-again-as-arteta-continues-to-struggle/266074
Gbat: “You can blame the manager for tactics etc but of course it’s the players fault if they miss chances.”
16th in shots per game, 16th in shots on target per game. Roughly the same squad that under Emery had 25 goals in 11 games, now has 10 goals in 11 games. Same players but have now stopped performing under Arteta. Is it not his actual job to extract the maximum out of our squad? I assume sitting 15th in the league is where we belong?
Calypso
Are you on the gin?
Get rid of Arteta and maybe top 10.
Would you take that?
Rob,
Goal was scored after a corner, and scored by Gabriel. Are you telling me that our CB went there in an open play situation? Thought so.
“Banter is Pedro’s middle name: ask Marc if you need further clarification. 😉”
I thought it was twat!
Tony,
I believe the answer you were looking for is actually three letters in block forms.
FUN FACT
Pedro’s real name is Malcolm.
Graham, We are still just 8 points of top 4. Get Allegri in now and I can assure you Calypso is not drunk. Our team is not the best, but we still have Laca Auba, Pepe, Saka, Tierney, Gab, Partey, Elneny, Nketia, Nelson, AMN, ESR, Balogun, Martinelli and two January purchases to give to Allegri. And fact is that 3/4 of the teams in the league don’t have better. Act now and we can catch them all in the top 4 race. But you know Arsenal will only act when the ship is long gone, if they act at all.… Read more »
Mr. DT is so mad at Bellerin it is so funny to listen to his YouTube video. At least something to cheer me up.
Raptora
Why are you listing shooting and goal stats? What’s that got to do with what I said about missing chances?
So you’re saying it’s not a players fault for missing chances? Saka missing his one on one or Lacazette missing a free header from a few yards out is all the managers fault?
Nelson,
I saw that too. Made me chuckle. And the ‘Fam’ guy is now in the States?!
Rob,
Friendly bit of advice. Your opinions would come across better, and have more people agree with you, if you toned down the abuse a little. There’s a good chap.
Mikel actually saying to the camera that football in 2020 is about the quantity of crosses into the opposition’s box should make Pedro immensely proud.
Dude didn’t even pause to think that everyone would just line up their players in the wings for crosses in thousands if it were that simple.
Tom,
In an interview one of the leading sport concussion specialist stated that often a minimum of 10 minutes is necessary for symptom to show and when they show they can be missed.
That’s why he recommended that even if a player pass the rugby HAI protocol, a second and third be administered at half time (if first half), at the end of the game and 45~60 minutes after the end of game. Plus another test and CT scan 3 days and 10 days later.
Football and their how many fingers do you see is a joke of a protocol.
If we delay for another 4 or 5 games we are fucked and the new manager will.strughle to get into the top 4.
No one has said that we have an amazing squad – the only people who have come close to that were the Emery out crowd when he was managing.
What is a simple fact is that the current squad is considerably better than 15th in the PL after almost a third of the season.
Gbat: “So you’re saying it’s not a players fault for missing chances? Saka missing his one on one or Lacazette missing a free header from a few yards out is all the managers fault?” If they are getting half a chance every other game, then I guess it’s not the players fault? Maybe, just maybe it’s the managers job to set up his team in a way that they get more and more chances to score from? Surely? Our xG is 11.73 meaning we are underperforming by less than 2 goals. This is the 15th lowest in the league with… Read more »
“Football and their how many fingers do you see is a joke of a protocol.”
Especially when a good number of English players can’t count to 10.
How Rob is allowed to post but Marko isn’t surely makes a lot of sense.
At least Emery’s one tactic – overlapping full backs cutting the ball back across goal suited our strike force – it was just ridiculously one dimensional and predictable.
Arteta has taken Emery and raised him a level – one dimensional, predictable and completely unsuited to our strikers.
I see the font of football knowledge SuperCunt is back. Of all the decent people to die of Corona yet this cunt gets a pass. Shame
“This squad is shit and unbalanced, I don’t think that is actually disputed is it?“
Whatever happened to “this is a top four squad and not making the CL places would be a clear Arteta failure “?
Oh Jesus! Can we all just calm down a tad?
SuperRob
Why so abusive?
Raptora
It’s because supernob is up Pedros bum so he can call anyone he wants a cunt and get away with it.
Left testicle
This is our worst start in forever and some people have never seen Arsenal in the 15th place after 11 games.
So get used to this frenetic pace of angry comments.
Super Rob is just here for the abuse. He doesn’t discriminate and just sprays abuse everywhere.
He has value to Pedro right now so he stays
Marko wasn’t binned, he’s probably just taking a break. Who would blame him?
Dissenter, I get it but some of the abuse is needless and a bit too much.
On second thoughts, why am I trying to police Malcolm’s blog?
SuperRob
There’s banter and there’s your disrespectful garbage.
Show some respect or slither away.
Your choice.
“He has value to Pedro right now so he stays”
Very much echos of CG when he was making borderline racist comments about Emery and Malcolm let it slide.
Dissenter,
You think he’d have the power of will to resist coming back after our recent performances?
He’s been binned before several times I think. Probably in the bin again would be my guess.
While Pedro nailed his colors to Arteta mast , Super Rob handcuffed himself to Arteta and threw away the only key, and now that his idol is sinking he’s thrashing about a bit.
Pedro will pop along later and think who’s this Malcolm bloke? Sounds like my kinda guy.
The hope for many was that he was Pep Jr or ‘Diet Pep’.
What we’ve actually got is a mini- Moyes. Hilarious for the neutral that are always on the lookout for a meme team.
20th in the PL for chances created, let that fucking sink in. Less creative than Dycheball and Bruceball.
Allegri: “Now I expect (to work again) in Italy, but it is difficult, or in England.” It is NOT ‘difficult’ for him to find any job in Italy, but he surely wants a team with a big budget, so you can forget about him coming to Arsenal. Anyhow, I hope Arteta has learned from the Austria Wien game, and was just a bit too careful again at Spurs due to fears of getting mauled like United were. I think the next 3, 4 games will see an upturn in our performances… But I got to say, my most disappointing moment… Read more »
You can appoint Klopp now ffs & he won’t get this squad anywhere near the top 8.
Reason because we are shite!
The money has been there but horrendous recruitment & contract renewals over the last few years has left us with a bunch of hasbeens, mediocrity & a total shitfest of a squad.
Nothing will change until we offload most of this current squad & replace with Arsenal quality players!
Also why are we giving 3-4 year deals to players over 30, it’s Bollox!
Left
As far as I’m concerned Kim Dumb Pedro is dead – long live Kim Dumb Malcolm.
Expected so much more from Arteta than he’s shown this season, thought we’d see tactical adaptability, selection based on form regardless of status, inspired players willing to do whatever it took for result. Yesterday didn’t feel at all Emery, felt like Wenger at his low going to battle with Jose and committing same mistakes knowing what was coming but a less sexy version. Fact Mou is now with Spurs and their top just adds venom. Great post up Pete, much to take on board but when broken down to the basics it’s definitely teetering towards Arteta not being able to… Read more »
I saw this post on another blog from a.poster called ‘Glen Helder left foot’
‘ Sorry to say but Arteta is finished, he is displaying too many traits of a bad manager
1: Has a blind spot for certain players, no matter how bad they play… Check
2: Constantly changing the team and formation to no effect… Check
3: Afraid to trust young players, always goes for the conservative safe option… Check
4: Starting to sound delusional after games… Check
Is it Malcolm in the middle?
Malcolm is very much on the left, I would think.
When people give that existential excuse of ‘this club is broken’ which is true
Do they realize that Arteta has doubled down in every error possible and he’s making the club worse in an alarming way.
Initially when the errors started, I was all for let’s give him a chance provided he can learn from his errant ways.
He’s pig-headed and won’t change, he’s set in his dumb ways and dodges responsibilities.
Left T, swinging his brinjal, lmfaoooooo
Signing bad players is excusable, hell even dull football is excusable,
so much conflict with so many people in less than an year at your work place is a red flag.
What if SuperRob is a made up character by Pedro. He defends his own ideas vigorously while he’s free to call the people that don’t agree with him names without having the stain of doing it under his real moniker, and maybe it’s supposed to give the blog more traffic.
Pedro’s D.ariano of some sort.
*** CG/ SA gooner .I recognized your value on this blog a while ago, praised you and got dog abuse for it. You tell the unpopular truth that’s often too jarring to go down well. You have been more right about Arsenal than most of your detractors Keep jamming and don’t stop so long as Pedro keeps you on*** Thanks Diss, I am the sharpest , most perceptive observer on here by a mile- although The G, Pierre and Guns of H run me close. Our demise has not been hard to foretell. You ain’t got to be Einstein –… Read more »
Raptora,
That has crossed my mind in the past with other ‘posters’.
Raptora,
Maybe this is a real life ‘Trueman Show’ and you’re the only ‘real’ poster. The rest of us are really Malcolm under different monikers.
Is anyone really expecting 3 points out of Burnley at the weekend?
Sooner see it being a shithouse draw with about 5 shots on target from both teans combined, Burnley with more attempts and chances.
If we lose that will be 4 PL home matches lost on the bounce, surely a modern record?
“20th in the PL for chances created, let that fucking sink in. Less creative than Dycheball and Bruceball.” I think it was after the City game a poster was talking about fine margins, how close the game was, and cohesion would grow as the season went on. I predicted the cohesion would actually get worse as the morale drops to rock bottom and we are seeing it now. You can’t ‘bank’ things in football, and take for granted you’ve got a certain issue sorted, and ignore them will addressing other aspects (such as fluidity/chance creation). While Arteta has tried to… Read more »
LT,
Please don’t mindfuck me into thinking there’s a part of me that’s SuperRob and Don of all… With most of the others, I could live with.