Well hello my darlings.
A huge game for Arsenal this weekend. Everton could very well give us a total spanking and make this the end to 2020 we didn’t deserve.
I’ve been doing the rounds with people this week. Things are not good for Arteta. He’s lost a lot of goodwill over the last three months and palming it off on being a new project simply doesn’t jive with most.
It’s bad decisions.
We’ve put too much faith in players that always fail us.
We made a horrendous decision on the contracts of David Luiz and Willian. The rumours about those two canvassing Edu to bin Mikel are probably untrue, but they perfecty capture the disgusting deal with the devil we did when we invited Kia to be our real Technical Director. Average people on big money trying to sway the direction of the club, this is what happens.
We are making poor decisions on the pitch. There was a clear vision for how we’d play the game last year. Now we’re shape-shifting every week and it’s all looking a little bit Emery. Arteta needs to work out what the fuck he wants to do.
We also have a discipline problem. Our red cards have been shit. Getting mugged by Theo is hardly trying to rip Neil Ruddock’s head off. Dumb mistakes by players that should know better. The most notable bit that many aren’t talking about is the junior players all apologised to the fans, but Granit Xhaka still hasn’t. Fuck him. Get him out in January and put his career at Arsenal in the waste disposal. He shouldn’t play for us again.
I’m also thinking about other mistakes, like letting Emi Martinez go. One of my good friends messaged and said we’ve stopped playing out the back. Emi was better with his feet, he was better at shot-stopping, and he dealt with setpieces better. He was on fire. Based on merit, he should have remained our #1. We sold the wrong keeper… who is now sympathizing with Meust in the press right now. You reap what you sow.
We are in hell. Arteta should be gone. He has one chance to make this right. He has one chance to show he can do the coaching thing without City tools. If he doesn’t shape us up by the end of the month, why would you let him and Edu shape the January window?
Some people are accusing me of losing faith. Well, it’s been shaken since he landed the big promotion. He lost his way. He’s let his ego take over. He didn’t do what we had hoped in the summer. He tried to shortcut Arsenal to the top after seeing us fail doing that over the last 10 years. Those stupid mistakes our Technical Director let him make have sent this season careening off the road.
He can bring us back from the brink, I’m just not sure he’s shown enough this season to do it. How many more times can you write: ‘Today could be the turning point.’
It’s now on Arteta to restore confidence. The time for excuses is over. Let’s see some action.
FINALLY: Listen to my NEW podcast with Johnny Cochrane. It’s kind of an intervention. It’s like the comments section took over a human to talk sense to me. It’s a good listen.
If you like it, give him a follow at @iJohnnyCochrane. Also, check out his How’s your Father? podcast on Spotify.
NOW LISTEN TO THE ARSENAL OPINION!
“I’m saying bringing up emery losing only one game for villareal is like comparing apples and oranges
Premier league is far superior to the Spanish league”
Still nonsense goldinho
Far superior, lol, let’s forget the Emery hatred, the Spanish league is in no way inferior to the EPL.
Some of you are so blinded by hatred, at first one would say its because Emery missed out on CL qualification but that has been proven untrue by the same crowd unconditionally backing a manager in 15th place
We would all do the same if we were Stan the Man and we bloody know it.
Marc
I am right. I am never wrong…except for Arteta. And countless other things…but I have a good feeling about this one!
JP
Agree – I think the Kroenke’s want us to be successful I’m not just sure they know how to make it happen.
This Tim Lewis was being hailed as the great saviour not so long ago – maybe he’ll be the real thing and start the rebuild.
Argghhhhh…
Arteta would walk away if he loved the club!!!
Why don’t you walk away from a job you HATE?
Because it pays you, allows you to eat, drink and have a roof over your head.
Jesus wept. The idealism on here is puke inducing.
Hackney
Let’s hope 2021 is a great year for all Gooner’s. Fuck off COVID, fuck off Arteta, Fuck off Spuddies.
It’s all going to be cold beer in the sunshine, girls with long legs in short skirts and Arsenal destroying the competition.
Somebody get Marc an ambulance…he’s obviously insane.
Here’s to you and your bat shit crazy hopes!
Appointing Holding as the captain, playing Eddie as the lone striker, playing Willian the whole 90 mins, even my wife can manage this team better.
We need to have someone else as coach before the Jan. TW if the club wants to have any hope to recover anything for this season. The fans need to organize another open letter to KSE similar to “We care, don’t you?”
GoH, I doubt that Mikel is one pay check away from fishing in a dumpster for a meal (probably round the back of Willian’s restaurant).
KSE might not be happy about wasting millions, but they’re doing very little to address it.
They are making all the wrong choices, and there’s no sign of it ending any time soon.
When Liverpool bought Andy Carroll, they had just sold Fernando Torres for £50m.
They also bought Luis Suarez in that January window, so although they took a financial hit on Carroll, the purchase of Suarez more than compensated.
Andy
I’ve heard he is. The haircut alone takes a team of professionals and a million a week to keep quaffed.
Kronke is not wasting millions.
He’s earning way more every week than is going down the toilet.
Anyone would think this guy is a contestant on Dragons Den. He’s a billionaire businessman ffs.
Fofana in for Leicester at Spurs
B. Rogers thinks their young St. Ettiene defender can cope with Kane & Son.
What a ‘weak as piss’ and total bullshitting manager – Mikel Arteta is.
the lies they tell- and keep telling.
Bullshit FC
Sorry, GoH,
Arsenal’s £millions.
Never ever thought I would say it, but surveying things as they are, I actually miss both Wenger, and Thatcher, or at least some aspects of both of them
We’ll be successful next season. In fact I predict we’ll win the league – the Championship League.
Brighton play easy on the eye football, but their biggest problem is scoring goals, they do not have a ruthless finisher. It could be their undoing in terms of staying up. Hope they don’t find their shooting boots when they play us soon.
They will be bitterly disappointed to not beat doomed Sheff Utd, especially as they were down to ten men for a long time.
We have the same goal difference as Crystal Palace, who just lost 7-0
10-man Sheffield held Brighton to a draw, so Arteta’s Army remain in 15th for now…
HerbsArmy
We have literally just got rid of Raul, got rid of 50+ other staff…..a whole load of change has happened behind the scenes. The current structure has been in place since August.
Selling Torres and buying Suarez doesn’t get away from the Andy Carroll signing. The point of that is that they made mistakes along the way which we are going to do as well.
Goldinho
Not worked out, it’s been a fuckin disaster, you cunt.
A pandemic was never in doubt, they have occurred throughout known human history. It was a question of when, not if. There have been recent threats – like SARS, Ebola – but if we date the last that actually occurred before covid 19, that was Spanish Flu. one hundred years ago.
That makes the annual odds a hundred to one.
Back to Arsenal: we have never been relegated since the Club entered the first division. How long ago was ? One hundred years.
JP
Was the appointment of Arteta one of the mistakes?
Words+on+a+Blog
It makes sense that Arteta is now the favourite for the sack.
Put it this way. If Sheffield United offered Arsenal Wilder for Arteta for the rest of the season, which fans would be most upset with the trade?
Even JP could do better than the current recruitment team at Arsenal and this is a man that thinks that signing Jorginho is a good idea for Arsenal at this time.
Bacary,
If Sheffield United had two of our supporters, they would welcome the change with open arms.
CC would attempt to bully Sheffield United supporters into believing that Arteta would fix all of their problems.
Stroller would go on a long winded post to say that this is the proper way to handle things.
englandsbest
‘ Back to Arsenal: we have never been relegated since the Club entered the first division. How long ago was ? One hundred years.’
Ever heard of Barings bank or Kodak ?
JP
Including sacking the whole scouting team.
Regardless of how long the current structure has been in place, it clearly isn’t working.
If we had owners who recognised Arsenal’s reverence and historical standing within English football, Arteta wouldn’t have even been mentioned with respect to the Arsenal job.
We’re not MK Dons!
And whatever your belief about who should or shouldn’t be leading this once great club, one thing is true, the Arsenal fans are being shafted.
Guns of Hackney
“One hides after getting the results of an STD test and realising you’ve probably infected five other girls…that’s when you go dark ffs. Not this.”
That deserves a few laughing emojis if i was that way inclined…
EB – Arsenal have been relegated once, in 1913.
Obviously we were reinstated back into our natural position after the war (1919) with absolutely no underhand practises involved whatsoever.
The lunatics are running the asylum while the owners look away aloof.
They only get piqued when it goes tits up.
That’s not right from owners. That’s poor ownership regardless of how much money they make available.
Listening back through the last few pods. What a top boy Cochrane is. As Pedro has now acknowledged, he was in need of an intervention, and Johnny Cochrane was the based individual who had to push back and set him straight on Tets.
Come on Leicester!
Johnny Cochrane top lad
HerbsArmy
Yes Arteta was a mistake. We should never of appointed a manager with no experience. But they had just appointed someone with lots of experience who was also not the right fit.
Ishola
I don’t think I said we should sign Jorginho but I would defo take him on loan in Jan if we could. Is he better than Xhaka, Elneny, AMN, Ceballos, Willock? 100%. He’s a very good player.
JP
He’s not the type of player Arsenal need right now.
He’s another not very mobile regista type player. Sure he is quicker than Xhaka but every player in the EPL is quicker than Xhaka.
Come on JP we don’t want another midfielder that isn’t good off the ball.
“Obviously we were reinstated back into our natural position after the war (1919) with absolutely no underhand practises involved whatsoever.”
We might just need something like that again if this superleague goes ahead.
New post chaps and chapesses.
Ishola
I don’t disagree with that but don’t see why him alongside Partey would not be an effective midfield.
I’m not saying he is the answer though. Just my opinion on him as a player.
I agree with those posters who say it’s more likely that Arsenal get relegated than it was for Leicester win the title. Leicester had 5000-1 odds and we currently have around 20-1 odds (9th favourite for relegation but of course there are 3 spots to fill). You think back at 1973-74 Manchester United side getting relegated with Stepney, Buchan, Greenhoff, McIlroy, Macari, Kidd and Best (for a disgruntled half season) . They were just 5 years removed from winning the European Cup. An even better comparison is the 1996-97 relegated Middlesborough side with Emerson, Juninho, Barby, Hignett, Schwarzer and Ravanelli… Read more »
Everything is influenced by social media this day and age
Politics, sports, economy you name it
Arsenal fans should just continue calling for Arteta sacking and it should happen soon
After they should go for the upper hierarchy
Wr have the same record as SU the last 5 matches
For some on here looks like the way out of this mess is firing Arteta then we’ll be all good. We dug out way into this for a decade and then want to get out of it in 10 months. Edu was a bad choice with the type of decisions in the summer(indulging Kia).
The movement in the last two games have been pretty decent. End product is creativity and confidence linked. We still will come away from December strong. Win the next 3 games in the prem and we will be in top 10 for sure.