ARTETA DIES ON THE XHAKA HILL

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I tweeted this in the heat of the moment.

‘Any other manager would be gone after this’

I deleted it. Weird thing is about 15 people messaged me the same thing. Every single one of them was right.

Mikel Arteta’s fall from grace has been stunning. Only at Arsenal. I can forgive another loss, but not the way he delivered it. The mix of arrogance, stubborn behaviour, and poor delivery was something else.

Xhaka. Willian. Auba. Lacazette. Hector. All in the starting 11. A show of defiance from a manager that ignores history, performance, merit, and behaviour to play his favourites with the biggest contracts… getting punished deservedly by the bums the fans KNEW would fail him? It is NOT unbelievable. It was the easiest script to write. Too obvious to be a plot worth exploring.

I don’t want to bag on Granit, he’s a good guy in the grand scheme of the total bums we have at Arsenal… but he ended Wenger, he ended Emery, and now he’s close to ending Mikel Arteta. Well, at least under normal circumstances he would.

Arsenal weren’t totally shite, let’s be straight on this one. We came out for the second half strong. Granit then moved on the game like deviant that gets off on negative attention, the way he always does, and landed a red card for violent conduct. It wasn’t even retaliation to an attack, it was a reaction to one of his classic slow late tackles.

We went on to lose from there.

It wasn’t a downed tools game, though you might remember it that way. We had 18 shots, 6 on target. That’s a powerful 90 for us in the Premier League (lol). But once again, it was ruined by a senior player that’s been ruining managers for what feels like a decade.

Arteta had choices. He chose not to take them. He wants to die on the same hill as Emery and Wenger. It is clown-like behaviour. It lacks maturity. It is bereft of managerial EQ. It is the move of a suicidal deer actively moving towards the headlights.

He’s not going anywhere though.

I kind of get it as well. How many managers can this group of players down before you start taking action? Problem with this line of defence is Arteta picked the bums despite having better options. He’s trying the same thing we’ve seen 100 times before. An innovator, a man of ideas, principles, and energy… slotting Granit back into his starting 11.

I don’t really read too much into the gossip, but Chris Wheatley reckons Mikel has fallen out with David Luiz. I mean, colour me fucking shocked. I wrote when he signed that he was a player that has downed big managers in the past and as soon as things aren’t going his way, he strops out. You saw it for the City game, he was dropped, then he played like a sulky child. Arteta approved that move. Inexcusable.

Willian, he’s just gassed man. No pace, no hunger… I cannot understand how a whole team of coaches thought £250k a week made sense. It was a sackable decision. What makes it worse is that Arteta can’t admit defeat, it’s December and he’s still flogging an old horse like it has something to give. Couldn’t he just call Petr Cech and ask what he thought of the two Chelsea rejects?

Here’s the thing, bag on Mikel all you want, but any technical director worth his salt would not have allowed those moves. They were traps. Set by a dirty super-agent. Arteta is a capable coach who should not be allowed near transfers. But we let him anyway because we are addicted to making bad decisions.

If the manager isn’t going anywhere, which he’s not, then we need to make changes elsewhere. Ralph Rangnick is without a job at the moment. Is there anyone better in Europe at setting a vision, building infrastructure, and looking after young managers than him? No. There’s not. Arteta should have his power taken. He’s not a rockstar, he’s a talented kid in the garage learning the guitar, someone at Arsenal needs to find him the support he needs and stop shirking the big decision… Edu is not it. Own it.

We’re now at the stage where an incredibly opinionated blogger is looking at another Arsenal wreckage without much of an idea where we go. I don’t even have a bad opinion to give. We are relegation fodder. The fans are out of belief. The squad is a wreck. The manager is out of his depth. No one at Arsenal has the guts or know-how on how to make the project better.

My suggestion? Back to basics. Prioritise hunger, effort, and suitability to the system.

Fans will forgive young kids faster than they’ll forgive the bums. We’ll happily wait 3 years for a better Arsenal if the plan is exciting. We just need to see a proper plan and some action fast.

My worry? No one has the ability to control this mess. It’s really sad and incredibly disappointing to watch on a personal level. This hurts, deeply. 10 years of weak leadership came at us pretty fucking fast, right?

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raptora

Marc, BacaryisGod lol Per is indeed an option for several games. He will stop the rot for a maximum of 1 month. After that we’ll be in dire need of an experienced hand. Per has a couple of things that will do us very good right now short term. He has empathy, he has standards and contrary to Arteta, he will not have clear favorites, as we’ve seen him fight with Ozil during and after games. He looks like a man of principles and maybe our players will rally for him. He does look meek though, not sure if that’s… Read more »

HerbsArmy

BiG

Fergie had the Arsenal job in the summer of 1986, but the deal-breaker was that as caretaker Manager of the Scottish national side, he had a WC tournament in Mexico to attend.
Fergie asked Arsenal to delay the announcement until after the WC, Arsenal refused to wait, and as we know appointed George Graham.

MGooner

Wengereagle.

Even if Zidane and Pep were great players, it does not mean players would follow them blindly if they were not good gaffers.

The fact is that they were also top gaffers. They are outliers, not the norm.

MGooner

BFG as manager…

oh dear

peanuts&monkeys

I want Arteta gone. Not for losing so many games. But for giving Xhaka the donkey game after game, start after start. This itself is good enough reason to sack him 20 times in next 5 days.

WengerEagle

Paulinho Exactly right. Roy Keane and now seeingly Thierry Henry seem to be two great players that struggle with emotional intelligence/the ability to look outside of themselves. They get frustrated easily and cannot comprehend how things that came so easily to them i.e in Keane’s his insatiable winner mentality, desire to improve, etc and leadership skills and in Henry’s case more his general breathtaking technical and natural footballing ability come so hard to modern players. Was a telling clip of Henry from Montreal posted out a little while back barking at his players in-game and you could hear all of… Read more »

Graham62

Arsenal FC is a complete shitfest.

They’ll need a manager who’s done it and got the T-shirt.

Rafa would be a solid pick.

WengerEagle

Seemingly* Henry

azed

You guys should take it easy on Pedro.

Remember how y’all felt after your high school sweetheart dumped you? That’s how Pedro is feeling right now.

Graham62

peanuts&monkeys

I hear you.

salparadisenyc

Can’t see Arteta finding his way thru this, looks frightened of making the wrong decision coupled with keenly aware of his failures. The players can smell it, the supporters know it and the owners have to be considering options. “I’m sure Xhaka is a good guy” I’m not one for kicking when someones on the ground but i’ll make an exception, Xhaka is a cunt and should not feature for this club again. Perhaps dramatic but he needs to be the example, bin him and sell in January for whatever can be gained. Mikel has enabled the poor on pitch… Read more »

WengerEagle

MGooner Agreed, just meant that it bought them more time were things not to go well. And Barcelona and Real Madrid are two of the biggest clubs in the world with the best players, 90pc of managers succesful there are able to control the team’s egos and get them all pulling in the same direction. Easier for a Zidane or a Guardiola to walk into a dressing room of the world’s best players and lay down the law than it would have been for an average player and club figure historically like Arteta. Vieira or Henry would both be much… Read more »

TR7

‘Even if Zidane and Pep were great players, it does not mean players would follow them blindly if they were not good gaffers.The fact is that they were also top gaffers. They are outliers, not the norm’ When you are a certain Zinedine Zidane you don’t feel the need to impose your authority as a manager. You act like a guide knowing fully well that players respect you anyway. But when you are someone like Mikel Arteta you are too keen to impress, too keen to show and prove that you are the boss and that’s where things go wrong.… Read more »

bacaryisgod

R.I.P Gerard Houllier-seemed like a decent guy and a close friend of Arsene’s, I think.

Graham

What was it ozil’s agent said – yesterday a toffee today a gunner.

Did anyone not a Johnny come lately wenger fanboy even rate Arteta as among the top 100 arsenal players. For me he epitomised the decline of the wenger years after the legends all retired or left.

vegas gooner

what did ozil do to get benched?

did it have something to do with his ability?

or maybe, and I’m liking this one, he fucked Stan’s daughter Whitney.

bacaryisgod

HerbsArmy-thanks, I didn’t know that about Fergie. Would have been interesting to see how he would have done at Arsenal but then we wouldn’t have had the Michael Thomas moment.

Aussie+Gooner

My sources tell me that Xhaka is not actually a footballer. Apparently he turned up at Arsenal for a job interview in the accounts department but due to language difficulties and subsequent confusion he ended up on the playing staff instead. Rumour also has it that he is a shit accountant as well!

andy1886

The idea that you replace senior players in a crap system with young players in a crap system and improve results is hilarious. Some of it may be the personnel but the main problem is the set up that the players are being tasked to perform in. Remember how Keown coached the likes of Flamini, Eboue, Senderos and Cygan to a CL record of consecutive clean sheets? You can take very average players (and ours are in most cases above average) and with the right set up and coaching make them much better than the sum of the parts. By… Read more »

raptora

No idea why there are still people trying to stay loyal to Arteta. Arteta is a not a special player or personality in Arsenal’s history. He’s not DB10, TH14, PV4, he ain’t Cesc, he ain’t even a Gilberto, a RvP, or a Giroud. He is a player who had his best years in Everton and even then he never ever got capped by Spain. His Arsenal contribution is lower than Ramsey, Alexis, Cazorla. He was an above average player who was never brilliant or considered an Arsenal legend or even an Arsenal star. He has roughly 3 seasons at the… Read more »

salparadisenyc

Big win for ZZ this weekend, didn’t see them getting past Atletico. The La Liga race is on.

bacaryisgod

Aussie+ Gooner

Another theory is that Arsene got a call from George Weah who said Xhaka was his little brother and was almost as good as him. Problem was that Weah was 50 when he told Arsene that.

Marc Faber

For the umpteenth time, please can we stop blaming the players. It is not the problem, and to prove it you only have to do a comparative analysis with our team and Southampton, who are playing good football, on the deck, incisive and possession based when needed, counter-attaching when needed AND sit third (I think) in the PL. Goalies: Leno v McCarthy – both good keepers, cannot split them Back 4: Bertrand v Tierney – Tierney edges it for me Walker-Peters v Bellerin – WP edges it as he is a better dribbler, seems to have a brain and does… Read more »

Jeff

Here’s a question for you all.

I you knew with certainty that Kroenke would fuck off, would you take relegation?

Danny+S

I’ve just stumbled across a source that says Martinelli is on 90k per week!
That’s unreal.

Marc

raptora

I wasn’t for one second suggesting that Per should even be on a shortlist for the managers job – if we needed a caretaker for a handful of matches then maybe (I’m not sure who else in the club would be right) he would be an option but the next manager has to have some experience in actually being a manager.

Snowkid

Raptira

Spot on

Bang average player who couldn’t make it ar barca

Was captain during our banter years

If we were going to appoint a spanish MF as manager it shoukr have been cesc.

Ar least he knows what a forward pass is

Buffalo

Yes Jeff 100percent

TR7

If AFC get relegated, it becomes a much less tempting proposition for any potential buyer to acquire the club. Not to mention the ignominy it would bring to the club. All the prized assests (players) would ditch the club too.

WengerEagle

Ings is much better than Lacazette.

Buffalo

Xhaka a good guy ? On what evidence ? behaves like an entitled petulant punk

Calypso

Not only Arteta but the board need sacking too, they are as incompetent as each other

salparadisenyc

My brother is enjoying watching the fall, told me last night that relegation would be good for us as it finally puts us squarely in for a title.

Thats quality banter,

Jeff

I would too Buffalo. In a heart beat.

Snowkid

Arteta is making me miss the last few years of the wenger era

Thats how bad arteta is

WengerEagle

Lacazette has been a massive disappointment since his signing if we are being honest.

He was a 30+ goal a season man at Lyon and I don’t think that he has even cracked 20 in a season here once? A barrier that Giroud broke mutiple years who cost us 12m.

Wish we would have swallowed our pride on him and cashed in last summer (2019) while he still had value.

South African Gooner

Faber

great work as always.
And off course accurate.
you have described the basic tenets of soccer management,
quite simply,

Mikel Arteta is making Unai Emery (and he was a total clown) somehow look like Bill Shankly

Leedsgunner

Jeff “I you knew with certainty that Kroenke would fuck off, would you take relegation?” Can’t answer this question in a vacuum… I would like to know who would be taking over. I might go against the narrative on Le Grove but Kronkes have actually given Arsenal FC enough monies to compete for a top 4 place — but the fault lies with the managers and the executives we’ve have at the club. We have wasted and incredible amount and spent it badly. £25m on David Luiz all in…. £27m on Saliba (why isn’t he playing?), £72m on Pepe (at… Read more »

bacaryisgod

Mixed feelings about Tierney speaking out to defend Arteta. I suppose it shows his character but can he really say all the players are behind the manager 100%? Shouldn’t the team captain be saying this as forcefully as our 2nd year left-back.

TR7

WE

Giroud would have been a good partner too for Auba, a perfect foil. He does well whenever he comes off the bench.

TT

I’d even take Wenger as a caretaker manager until the summer…..

Snowkid

TT

Lets not get carried away

Buffalo

Can somebody explain why the club didn’t pay up Ozils contract ? You decide he’s not going to play for the club, you cant sell him or reach a settlement to pay him off so you keep him around as a verbal off field distraction and as the elephant in the room when results go south? Crazy. The people who run this club are complete clowns, it’s so sad we sold out to this mob. Although in many ways glad we are such a mess because that’s what the ownership deserves.

bacaryisgod

Jeff-kind of depends on the new owner. If it was Venky’s or a consortium lead by Peter Risdale I might have second thoughts.

raptora

Marc, I know where you stand. I really hope Kroenke and co have been exploring their options prior to yesterday’s result. They need to set the wheels in motion. It’s untenable really. It reached a point below Emery. Arteta needs help too. He’ll always have the excuse that Arsenal were a rotten apple organization, but if he is left to fail even harder, he might damage his reputation for a long time. It’s up to KSE to finally make a good decision. Go for proven quality. Allegri, Conte, ten Hag gives you stability and a base to build on. At… Read more »

Buffalo

wenger in !

bacaryisgod

TT

The odds on Arsene accepting the caretaker’s job-about one in a million. He would come back if given full control and a 5 year contract. Not sure how many takers on this blog for that scenario.

Calypso

Arsenal have the 2nd biggest net spend in the world since 2018.

Marc

Buffalo

Why didn’t we pay up Ozil’s contract? Are you serious? It’s because we didn’t have the £18.2 million he was owed with a year left.

Marc

Calypso

Well that just isn’t good enough according the AlexanderHenry. We should have spent more than everyone else combined.

Jeff

Leeds, It’s not just about money. The problem with Kroenke is that he’s aloof and indifferent. If there is no hunger at the top, there won’t be any at the bottom either. We have to have an owner that attends games, lives the passion and loves football. Kroenke is the very antithesis of that. We are going to continue to fail. A top manager might give us short term relief but the prognosis for the long terms isn’t good. This doesn’t mean that Arteta is suited to manage Arsenal or that Wenger was fine. Wenger started to fail long before… Read more »

Le Sauce

It’s easier to have footballing knowledge as an assistant when you’re not under pressure. We aren’t seeing any semblance of footballing knowledge in any of his decision making/tactics. We’re in a mess and before we move forward we have to arrest the situation (SACK THE FRAUD) before looking forward.
Edu should be the second to be sacked and not the first. Arteta must go

Left Testicle

Forgive my ignorance but what is meant by ‘generational manager’?

Snowkid

Lets not double down on a terrible decision by making another

Leedsgunner

Pedro Remember when you told me that Arteta was going to be the manager of Man City after Pep? Still think that? I wish Aretea well, but this is getting ridiculous now. Losing to Burnley? Is this why we moved to the Emirates? The funny thing is Xhaka is utterly and completely a problem of his own making. Granit was a man out of the door after Emery… but Arteta convinced him to stay. I wonder what he thinks of that decision. Arteta might be a good coach but he’s a poor judge of character and a absolute shocker when… Read more »

Marc

bac

“Mixed feelings about Tierney speaking out to defend Arteta. I suppose it shows his character but can he really say all the players are behind the manager 100%? Shouldn’t the team captain be saying this as forcefully as our 2nd year left-back.”

Who do you think told him to do it?

bacaryisgod

Raptora

It really is fairly chilling to think how little Arsenal are prepared to make a change. Vinai was raving about Arteta about 3 days ago. If there was an inkling they were considering a change then Vinai would have bee a lot more circumspect. Then there’s Edu. No-one should trust him to recommend a new manager although Vinai is a huge Edu fan also.

Then we’re down to the board. How much knowledge is there on the board. I would argue very little.
This is a dumpster fire of epic proportions.

bacaryisgod

Marc

I think he meant what he said but he seems the kind of player who gets along with everyone but won’t be fully aware of the extent of the unhappiness of some of the players in the various cliques.

Snowkid

Left

Think pep. Fergie. Jose

Buffalo

marc decision to keep him will cost more than 18m and of course arsenal can find 18mil if they so wish.

Leedsgunner

Jeff

“We have to have an owner that attends games, lives the passion and loves football.”

Who like Mike Ashley? Ask Newcastle fans how that’s working out.

I could care less whether he attends the games in person as long as he doesn’t AFC as a unfeeling financial asset.

AFC is a living club with real fans, real history and deserves more than we are receiving you and I can agree on that.

Ashwin Gunner

WHO CARES

ARTETA HAS SAUCE. he is the best manager to walked on the face of this earth. he is next to no one…

Le Sauce

Pedro, it can also be XHAKA DIED ON ARTETAS HILL.
He was already on the way out and his career with us looked finished till his Lord and personal Savior gave him a second chance with the promise of improving him. Fast forward to a year and it is clear to everyone that Xhakas case is closed at Arsenal with no hope of any resurgence again

Valentin

WE Henry’s clip was heavily edited to make it look he is constantly berating his players which is not true. All his cheers and encouragement were taken out. The beef he had with one player was that he kept blaming another player for his own mistakes: Holding on too long to the ball, missing the opportunity to pass and then very vocal in complaining that the teammate is not moving free. The player has since acknowledged that he was in the wrong. Both for blaming his teammate and for not trying to pass in first instance like he had repeatedly… Read more »

Leedsgunner

*doesn’t treat

Left Testicle

Cheers Snow KId.

Dissenter

Did anyone read that Vinai interview where he basically stated that Arteta will get it right because of his experience as a player.

I assume that Josh Kroenke if flying in pretty soon because they have put a pack of amateurs in charge of their billion dollar enterprise.

bacaryisgod

Jeff-good point on Kroenke.

As I live in the States, I watched the NBA Playoffs over the summer. There was Stan and Josh in their executive box watching nearly every Nuggets game and brimming with pride as the Nuggets went on a deep run.

They are passionate owners, just not in our sport.

Habesha Gooner

FFS pedro Arteta needs to be sacked. He is the reason he is trusting some of the bums you mentioned. He is not learning. He is so arrogant that he picks the out of form players just because they are seniors. He deserves to go. If he stays, We are losing the next three games. He might be saved because bellerin and Xhaka arent playing the next couple of games though. But he has shown his non negotiables are crap. He has his favourites. And he needs to lie in the bed he made. We need the sporting director to… Read more »

Dissenter

Has Xhaka apologized to the manager, team mates and fanbase yet.
Remember the non-negotiables, Arteta trashed Pepe publicly, the lad came out pretty quickly to apologize.

This all points to a lost dressing room., except for Mari, Tierney and a few loyalists.

raptora

Valentin,
What about that other video, of Henry trying to discipline a Monaco player during a press conference. Looked pretty humiliating if you ask me. Egotistic methods don’t go a long way.

Kris

When Wenger left I thought Xhaka would follow soon.
Then Gazidis gave him a new contract within a month of Wenger leaving.
Emery was the next hope, but actually made Xhaka captain.
Arteta could have sold him, but kept him.
Disaster.

Marc Faber

@South African Gooner: cheers mate, appreciated.

Ashwin Gunner

During first international break, we are 6 points of the top… Now guess what. we are 5 away from Relegation

Le Sauce

Dissenter

You really don’t expect xhaka to apologize after his manager said his brain dead decision was borne out of passion. You don’t apologize for that do you
Imagine it was Guendouzi or Saliba who did that

salparadisenyc

For me the owners flaw isn’t spending, they’ve spent big. Its having the nuance to get the right people in place to run the club, really been a car crash since they took over. With the big next generation triumvirate exploding, we’re now somehow run by Vinnai, Edu and Arteta.

This club has the 8th highest net spent over past decade in Europe, ahead of Real Madrid, Liverpool and Bayern. Let that sink in.

raptora

I’ll never know how Joe came up with the name Snowkid. Probably cause of the snow in Canada? The “kid” part is very rich of him though. Wishful thinking right there.

Ashwin Gunner

Never slate your players in public. That is Mourinho managerial playbook. Look at Pep, he defended Augero event when he was caught catching the lineswoman..

Manager should be there to support our own players and not treat them like this.
No wonder the best maanger on earth does not have any respect.

Words+on+a+Blog

I can’t believe the level of disrespect to Arteta and Pedro around here.

Arteta is much, much more than a generational manager.

If he somehow is allowed to at stick around and take us down to the Championship- he will in Arsenal terms be unique, epochal, transformational, doing something no other Arsenal manager has done before him.

And Pedro is the diamond eye who found him, sold him to us and defended him when things weren’t going so well.

Thank you Pedders. Eternally grateful.

Valentin

Jeff, It is not that the Kroenke do not care about Arsenal, it is just that they don’t get the concept of club like the rest of the fans do. They thought that they bought an UK based sport franchise. In the US, Fans are unhappy, just move the franchise into another city and gets new fans. Try doing that anywhere else. Wimbledon tried to move to Ireland and even now nearly 2 decades after they moved to Milton Keynes they never really caught on. Also they come from a business model where long term asset appreciation is the game,… Read more »

Le Sauce

Ashwin

There is no shame in what has happened to Arteta. This is his first job and he has had valuable experiences to learn from especially about management. He either goes down a level and manage a smaller club or does a Gary Neville and become a pundit after all he’s a smooth talker

South African Gooner

‘Progressive’ PedRo still backing this rotten Arteta regressive regime.

the irony.

Jim Lahey

Is Xhaka the worst player we have had?
Who got as much game time and was worse?

DCM

I just read this on leadership in a post-Covid world:- The Greatest Leaders Confront The Brutal Facts (But Never Lose Hope). Jim Stockdale was an American Vice-Admiral captured and imprisoned during the Vietnam war. He was held and tortured for seven years. Stockdale said the first people to die in captivity were the optimists, who kept thinking things would get better quickly and they’d be released. “They died of a broken heart,” Stockdale said. Instead, Stockdale argued, the key to survival was to combine realism and hope. Crisis leadership falls apart when leaders embrace the extremes: pessimists only see the… Read more »

alexanderhenry

Pedro Agreed overall but this: ‘If the manager isn’t going anywhere, which he’s not, then we need to make changes elsewhere. Ralph Rangnick is without a job at the moment. Is there anyone better in Europe at setting a vision, building infrastructure, and looking after young managers than him? ‘ ..is where I disagree. You put a lot of belief into arsenal being run like Football Manager on PS4. Radical restructuring, lots of technical staff, data analysis, analytics, people sitting in front of screens with those headpieces on etc etc. Forget all that. Right now is not the time to… Read more »

Leftside

Xhaka hasn’t apologised, he knows he doesn’t have to because he will walk straight back into the side after his ban is up…as long as Arteta is manager of Arsenal Football Club.

Valentin

Raptora,

The full Monaco video was funny. It was more like an father exasperated by his messy kid than anything else. The full context is that before the extract, there was a conversation about respect and keeping the place as spotless as when you arrive.

Sotongunner

Jeff – re relegation and the kroenkes. Yes a 100 times yes.

South African Gooner

AH

****Benitez or someone similar as an interim might work. It’s boring, it’s not the hi tech arsenal you wanted but right now, I’d be happy with that.*****

Nowt wrong with boring,

The less ideas these bullshitting managers have the better- just get someone with a modicum of common sense and who does not spout continued nonsense will do.

We need a ‘Dean Smith of Villa’ type- and he has to be the most boring manager around.

he is good at his job though.

alexanderhenry

Jim Lahey

I would say pound for pound, Xhaka is a candidate for arsenal’s worst ever signing.

We’ve had plenty of other duff players but he cost £35 million, is on over a 100 grand a week and has been played consistently despite his litany of mistimed tackles, horror tackles, rugby tackles, non tackles, sendings off, losses of posession, lack of creativity and childish attitude.

He is far too slow and utterly unsuited to this league. The only aspect of his game I rate is his shooting from distance but he never does that.

We must get rid.

shaun

He has to be brave now and play the kids and at least try to change things , he has no choice now and can’t play xhaka or bellarin , dump Auba ,Laca and willian .Play Cedric at RB brings niles into the middle , play ESR and Balagon with Saka as a front three and see how they go because the young ones will still give everything and won’t be into any political downing of tools bull shit , but he has brought this on himself and made bad decisions starting with the keeper situation , then Saliba then… Read more »

Marc

alex

For once we are both in agreement on something.

Xhaka is a terrible terrible player.

Habesha Gooner

I wouldn’t mind Benitez for a little while. He is boring but he knows how to build a team. The most we would get with him in the next couple of seasons is 4th. It would be mid table this season too. We could have him while we sign some good midfielders and clear the dross out. We need to get rid of Xhaka, Ceballos, Ozil, Sokratis, Mustafi, Luiz, Kolasinac, El neny, Torreira, Lacazette, Chambers and May be bellerin too. We need the football director to do that. If we do that then we can go for a more ambitious… Read more »

Samesong

‘I have nothing against this player,’ Evra told SkySports.

‘But I am sorry it is time for him to say: “Do you know what guys, I have done enough here, I am hurting the fans, I am hurting my team-mates, I am hurting the manager, let me go away

Samesong

Evra on Xhaka

salparadisenyc

Xhaka was serviceable at times last season due to system.

Terrible when a more expansive approach investigated, he’s been abysmal the whole way thru this season. Shockingly poor.

alexanderhenry

Marc

Thanks.
You’re a season ticket holder right?

raptora

Samesong,
Sounds like something Arteta should say.

raptora

Now it makes sense. It’s a good nickname, Joe.

Roy

Stop the count !