The best thing to happen to Arsenal this season was ‘sickness.’
That was the reason Arteta gave for dropping Willian and Luiz.
Two players rumoured to have complained to Edu about how things have been going for them.
Two players that share the same super agent as our well-heeled Brazilian Technical Director.
This could have been the best bad luck ever, or it could have been a clever ploy to give the manager room to try something wild like… play the players that care.
Whatever went down, it worked.
Mikel Arteta picked the boldest line-up of the season. In came ESR, Martinelli, Mari and Granit Xhaka (yikes).
Auba, Ceballos, and Mustafi were benched.
What a huge difference it made.
I was unsure which Arteta team would show up, but thankfully, proper Arsenal returned to The Emirates. The players pressed with vigour, the passing was fast, crisp, and progressive. We battled like it was a cup final. It was a new manager bounce type of game. The sort that had us dreaming when Mikel landed a year ago.
Lady Luck was sitting in the North Bank. Our first goal came from a dubious penalty. Xhaka played a dreamy ball to Tierney, the Scotsman cut into the box and was downed by James. Lacazette sent the keeper the wrong way with a simple spot-kick. A lead in a big game?
Our second goal was even wilder. Granit Xhaka smashed a 25-yard freekick into the top corner. The sort of goal I remember seeing on his Youtube comps when he played in Germany. Absolutely stunning. While we’re talking about the Swiss, arguably Mikel’s riskiest selection, he had a great game. What a difference it makes for him when he has runners to aim fast-release passes to. He’s normally aiming at Pepe or Willian who don’t give him that.
We took a real liberty in the second half after Chelsea made two aggressive attacking subs (CHO + Jorginho). ESR played Saka in on the edge of the box, the England international saw Mendy off his line and clipped a delightful cross/shot into the top corner. Masterful. Lucky as hell. Exactly what the moment called for.
Things were nervy for the run-in. Frank Lampard had his team panic crossing like we did a few weeks ago. I think they tried 32 times. They broke our clean sheet on the ground, Tammy narrowly slotting home, kept onside by a hair on Bellerin’s leg. They also won a penalty of their own, the ref evening up for his first half mistake. Jorginho wasn’t to be the difference-maker with Bernd Leno saving well.
It didn’t go unnoticed that the introductions of Mustafi and Pepe made us less effective. Both players need to go in the bin. AMN was the choice, odd that he’s overlooked so often. Regardless, we managed to see the game out and record an absolutely huge win for our season.
The big question after the game is a simple one: What did Mikel learn?
ATTITUDE
Bernd Leno complained before the game that ‘bad attitude’ had held the club back over the last few weeks. True. Whether strategic, or an act of god, two of the worst offenders were dropped. They were replaced by people that cared. That wanted to fight. Guess what? We saw a performance. A team like Arsenal can’t carry bums, especially famous bums with big trophies to their names. We dropped them and the difference was intense.
The worry is that Arteta will let politics carry the season.
He invested £250k a week in Auba > yet Gabriel showed why he can’t play through the middle.
He was part of the decision-making committee on Willian > yet a £40k a week youngster showed why that was a disgraceful mistake.
Factor in Sokratis (£90k p/w), Soares (£90k p/w), Pepe (£150k p/w) and Mesut (£350k p/w) are all out… well, it doesn’t look good to the cheque signers. Especially when you’re losing games. Arteta either flogs people that don’t care and loses games, or he takes an expensive L and moves forward with players that form a better collective, and ultimately, will likely win more points.
I hope you all saw The Telegraph story about senior players demanding the reinstatement of Mesut Ozil. The story landed after the game citing ‘senior players’ backing his return. It’s clear that’s come from players that assumed we’d lose. They wanted the pile-on from the media post-game to be focused on how Ozil under a new manager could be the saviour the club needs. Think about that. Some of Arteta’s most experienced players thought they were starting against Chelsea, they knew they’d lose, they had a plan to sink the manager under a sea of online hate before they put a boot on. Very grim.
Mikel should put that Telegraph article up in his office. He needs to remember this lesson for the rest of his career. We need to exit these toxic bums ASAP. Give them free transfers in January.
YOUTH
Our pass completion rate was about 69%. Well below where it should be. The quality quite simply isn’t there at the moment. However, energy, hunger, youth, and a future in the game can work wonders for output. What the kids lacked in polish, they made up for with desire.
A lot of people called the starting 11 desperate. ESR shouldn’t have played, apparently. I found this deeply irritating commentary. We were 15th. We haven’t been creating. We’ve not had a performance this season. This was exactly what was needed, even if it failed. Young kids that are talented make big debuts. ESR had a big debut. He was not out of his depth. He was not bullied. He was a big fucking problem and he landed an assist. He played so well, Arteta smacked his backside when he came off in what can only be described as a serious HR violation.
Arsenal had 15 shots, 7 on target. Not a bad return.
As for the line-up being desperate… please. What was the non-desperate starting 11? What would all these so-called experts have done under the same pressure?
The biggest question was not why that line-up happened, it was why it hasn’t happened sooner.
The Chelsea game is the blueprint moving forward.
ESR shouldn’t have been blooded yesterday. It should have happened 9 months ago.
It shouldn’t have taken ‘sickness’ to bin Willian and Luiz.
We should have taken the back half of last season as a blessing and hacked out the rot in the summer.
Arteta didn’t. He thought he could coach out bad character. He couldn’t. Then he doubled down on his underlying issues by giving Auba, Luiz and Willian long-term deals. That was a shocking error. He tried to shortcut success with old players… no, no, no.
The beauty of the Chelsea game was he learned the lesson against the best team we’ve played in a while. An expensively-assembled monster of a squad at full strength. If this win came against Southampton or Burnley, people would say, ‘so what.’ When it’s against an elite team, it’s hard to ignore.
Gabriel Martinelli is what the future of centre forwarding looks like. Powerful, fast, dogged… innovative. The only worry about him is he goes TOO hard on opponents. How could anyone ever make the case for Auba through the middle after seeing that performance? It was extremely arousing to watch.
We need Saka going forward. He’s so impressive, but he looks a different player when he’s operating with quick thinkers who play sharp combinations with him, or release him off the last man. I love him. Power, speed, and invention when it comes to cross/shooting.
ESR, I’ve already gone over it, but his energy, quick thinking, and threat heading into the final third has been sorely missed.
We also have to give credit to Bellerin who looked much better. His end ball is still very sad, but he looked solid. Kieran Tierney was nearly MOM for me. He never stops, he gives a fuck, he’s going to look very good when we make this squad better.
If you put that forward locomotion in an 11 with Thomas Partey and Gabriel (defender), you start to have a core of a team that might do things better than 14th.
We still need to have a better midfield. Xhaka ain’t it. We can’t have a player that needs carrying like he does. I love Mo Elneny, but this isn’t his level. He’s lost confidence, he made a lot of bad decisions, he will never be what we need. We need players that can break lines with power and pace… and we need that person to be able to release our forward fast. It’s not those two. Big wins should not deter transfer inquiries for anyone good for glue.
If we’re letting Edu and Mikel spend in Jan, it can’t be on Christian Eriksen. Even on loan, he doesn’t have the mobility we need. It needs to be a young player that glides. Or a senior player that has the speed and power to go past people, like an Isco type.
We don’t need players to tip us into the top 4 now, we need names that can grow with us. No more older players. We need young intelligent athletes that are hungry to succeed.
Unfortunately, that requires a Technical Director with a degree in football architecture. That ain’t Edu. The puff piece in The Athletic was painful reading. They literally had an Arsenal source with an off the record comment that basically said ‘he looks the part, which goes a long way.’ Can you imagine being a professional trying to help out a colleague and that was the best compliment you could give? Utterly embarrassing. What looks good in Technical Directorship is smart decisions, discipline, and an elite vision. I wouldn’t swipe right to Luis Campos, but I’d hire him. I don’t need to see Ralf Rangnick on the front cover of Vogue to determine his worth. His value is in his record and his decisions. Edu’s record is bad.
Ignore what Mark Gonnella is putting out there, people at Arsenal know his level, they are concerned by Kia’s involvement (because it lacks creativity or smarts), but worse… they just don’t think he’s up to it… and if you didn’t believe me when I was saying this last year, just remember, it wasn’t me that demoted Edu to the same level as Arteta. Vinai did that. 10 good games from Arteta won’t change reality. We need better football leadership, more checks and balances, and a clear vision of how we move forward.
The short term message of today was clear: Bin those that are fighting against the project. Trust the youth and hunger. Win games.
Now listen to the podcast I did with Matt on the whistle.
*luck was in our favor
Bojangles
Not a lucky win because we were better throughout the game but Saka’s goal was probably a cross ( you still need to look up before crossing ), and Xhaka’s free kick goal was a collectors item too.
Dier keeps taking them for Tottenham despite having a goose egg for a conversion rate ,which can only mean he can knock them in in training on the regular, otherwise either Kane or Son would be taking them, or the world has lost its senses completely.
Neither Dier or Xhaka are James Ward-Prowse when it comes to free kicks.
Tom Lucky win would be a team that didn’t do any thing all game and scores from one chance after the opposing team hits the cross bar repeatedly. Luck did contribute to the win same what bad luck contributed to us losing at Goodison lane. How many times you see a header bounce off the defender and fly into the net? I read a lot of current footballers laughing at the suggestion that Saka meant to score. He was trying to cross and sometimes they do go in. We take them however the come. My problems is you don’t attribute… Read more »
Dissenter
I think Jorge Mendes is happy at Wolves
The next couple of weeks will be the acid test for Arteta. If he reverts to type and recalls the usual suspects then this result will just appear an apparition. If we go after retirement villagers in the TW then we will know that all is lost. I we continue to banish promising youngsters in place of has beens and never have beens then we will know where we stand. Arteta has to man up or piss off – simple. Personally I don’t think he has the attributes to manage a EPL side, he has so many flaws in his… Read more »
Personaly I would like to believe that Saka meant that goal to happen. If you look at the replays you will see him hesitate with the ball, looking up and seeing no one in the box and seeing the goal keeper slightly out of his goal. The rest is history – goal of the season! If that was meant to be a cross he needs to be dropped!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What do they teach players who earn their coaching badges?
You would think man management skills, psychology and some other skills related to management of humans would be emphasized.
Seems Mike skipped those chapters or somehow barely passed them.
His management is highly questionable along with his inability to change the team for the better. IT usually takes a disaster for him to finally “get it”
Should have started somewhere else.
You cannot take an elevator to earn success, you need to take the stairs
Saka himself said he meant it to be a shot and not a cross
Guns
” Saka himself said he meant it to be a shot and not a crossæ
I saw that and who can blame him.
that was def a shot. The way it went into the top corner spinning like it did was not like a “normal cross” if you will…..
Guns
[sigh]….I won’t question your m motives and wont attribute “agendas” because I disagree with you for sure.
Saka must be an even better footballer than I believed if he could lob a goalie from that position so effortlessly.
HAHAHA disenter
I am sure your man Eddie N could do better! LOL
Guns
I struggle with Eddie.
I have a conflict of some sorts. I’m not one of those that think he’s shite.
I just think that there are better strikers from him on the squad and he couldn’t be getting so much mins.
His goal scoring records suggests that he’s not a dope but he’s not what we need right now. He’s also being used to block the path of Balogun.
The fact that Balogun is in high demand with very little exposure should tell Arteta that he needs some playing time.Balogun also open us to playing in a. different way.
In January Arsenal should approach the club that was upset whe Pepe signed for them.
Go approach Napoli for a loan deal.,
Bob N16 Good to see you posting again Bob. My view is that the Chelsea players thought they were going to have an easy win and we never really let them get out of 2nd gear. Fat Frank under estimated us and our ability where he and his players took us for granted. Basically, we pressed the life out of their complacency leaving them playing flat and reactive football and pretty much chasing shadows until around the 75th minute. Was this an Arteta tactic? I doubt it was his masterplan/blueprint for the game. I’d say this was a ‘Players’ win… Read more »
‘I might have a try later , though I like winding up that Alex Cutter bloke who seems to think I’ve only half a brain because I cant post a link properly’ No Pierre Alex thinks you only have half a brain because of your obsessions with Wenger & Ozil who Juve turned down an offer from us for Ozil to move to them in Jan even though we were prepared to pay a high proportion of his £345k wages. That and being a mindless troll and your endless childlike baiting/winding up. Clearly Juve see Ozil below Ramsey and not… Read more »
Rich
Swap Pepe for Neto?
‘A sexagenarian who has never been director of football anywhere isn’t going to be a good fit for Arsenal, now even if he has managed the academy for donkey years.
A 64 years old man who is green behind the ears for a position is no different from 35 years old man who’s green behind the ears fir the same position.’
So you’ve had much experience as a 64 year old Dissenter?
Clearly shows in the above comment that you can be Bamford MKII.
I wouldn’t mind seeing renato sanches, buendia and partey as a midfield three with rodrigo de paul as a back up. That would be a great midfield. Am I the only one who’s on pepes side? I feel we are using him very badly at arsenal. He is a lethal player and when used correctly, will provide goals and assists. He is much better technically than zaha but because zaha is being used properly, you feel he outshines pepe. Give pepe more games and use him as a winger who can cut in and play a more free role and… Read more »
Well if we win again, I might put my hopes up a little.
As it is we beat Chelsea with a penalty and 2 low percentage shots.
I think we have been here before with Emery and Arteta last season.
Tony
Doing your late morning rounds, eh
Wasn’t trying to offend, just pointing out that inexperience at a job is not dependent on the age.
Hope you had a good Christmas.
Gonsterous
Looks like it’s just the two of us on Pepe’s side 😉
Dissenter, I agree.
I never rated him, but when he goes on loan he does really well.
Perhaps we need to just cash in?
I think this Jan, we need to let go of at least 2 players from our roster if we are going to bring in 2 new bodies….
I think eddie or reiss might both go out again on loan or someone else?
Not sure we can sell anyone in Jan as our players are so shit that we dont get many bidders if any
The beauty of the Chelsea game was he learned the lesson against the best team we’ve played in a whil
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How we know Arteta would learn?
Not dissimilar to Edu, his record is bad.
Similar to what you said, one big win shouldn’t defer…. in my view moving for a new coach/ manager, in addition to Ragnick or whoever.
Need this, plus 2 new MFs and clear the dross, done in the Jan TW , to the extent humanly possible ! !
Early morning round up from last night’s posts Dissenter.
Was just having a bit of banter with you.
Thailand is a Buddhist country so doesn’t celebrate Xmas other than to make money.
That said we get into the Xmas spirit with our son 12 and daughter 22, so it’s always fun in one way or another.
Hope your Xmas with loved ones brings a welcome relief from Covid and the chaos that surrounds the virus.
Dissenter
“My problems is you don’t attribute an “agenda” to anyone here because they have a different opinion”
You still don’t get it, do you. You think I consider others having an agenda because I disagree with what they say. You obviously have not read my posts, just picked up on agenda and jumped in feet first as you often do.
KSE wouldn’t have time to worry about Arsenal these days. Rams lost two games in a roll. If they lose to Cardinals next week, they’ll miss the playoff.
Yeah it will take much more than one good win in 10 games to turn the tide for arteta
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Same thing if average or poor players put in good performance here and there. It’s what you do frequently over an extended period that tells you about quality
I hope arteta if he’s not fired now turns it all around, but he needs to get 6 points from the next two games and not revert to type with crap team selections and tactics weighing us down
Willian and Luiz need to rest.
We will see more Mari due to Gabriel being exposed to someone who tested pos for covid
If by some chance we lose against Brighton, I think it should be curtains.
This is the time to get wins, and if we continue to lose then Mike has to go
I think winning the FA cup and C shield in quick succession kinda messed us up mentally as a team. To get the new coach bounce, the wins, and the quick trophies did not really expose us to long term arteta ball and throw in the losses, it became a whole new world for the team When adversity kicked in, Arteta went to shit, the team went to shit and the chaos crept in…. The win against Chelsea I hope is a kick start…. the players need that confidence boost. I hope for 3-4 wins to really get some momentum… Read more »
A sexagenerian with a 12 year old son must have quite some vigour. (Wink wink)
I have a question, Why are people saying Pablo Mari has been a Flop? He hasn’t played enough games for us to make that judgment. He is a backup brought in for 10 mil.
Sid
The stuff (vigour) legends are made of and few can aspire to. (nod nod)
Sid
Always slightly embarrassing for the sexagenarian with a 12 year old son when the son’s friends refer to Tony as “Grandad “..
As much as he tries , the Bobby charlton comb over and the grecian 2000 will never disguise the fact that he looks old enough to be a grandad…
Behave pierre
‘As much as he tries , the Bobby charlton comb over and the grecian 2000 will never disguise the fact that he looks old enough to be a grandad…’
You shouldn’t take your reflection in a mirror as being that same for others, Pierre.
Not many people look as bad as you do, Pierre; you probably have the perfect face for radio.
That’s all you’re getting from me, go troll or bait others it’s too childlike & boring for me.
wait I thought Tony and Pierre were mending fences? A budding bromance?
Pierre what did you do!
Easy gents, remember blog of lube 😂😂
Also I don’t think Pepe is our saviour,
But in a more attacking formation (such as playing Wengerball) he’d be way more of a threat.
We haven’t had a manager get the best out of this lot for the last few seasons
Financial pressure could be on KSE:
“The worst case scenario for the Rams is if they lose to the Cardinals and the Bears knock off the Packers. In that instance, there would be a three-way tie for two spots between three 9-7 teams and the Rams would be out of the postseason for the second straight year.”
Here is to Schadenfreude 😆
It would be so much easier if we could just act like a proper corporation and acquire another team. For example, we acquire Leicester for about 700m and fold them into Arsenal. We keep Brendan in as manager of the new look Arsenal City and add Maddison, Soyuncu, Schmeichel, Tielemans, , Ndidi, Fofana and Vardy to our squad. With at least 40% of our regular players and their manager from Leicester, we’ll retain most of their fanbase. The Championship would get 4 teams promoted next season and dilute the quality of the Premier League which should be good for us… Read more »
Goober
I see what you are getting at with Pepe but for me, he just doesn’t seem pl standard. I couldn’t see another pl club coming in for him.
Bojangles, Yeah after his time here there is no chance a pl club will come for him. But it’s a Shame because if he had martinelli or Tierney’s attitude he’d be killing it here (well probably not under current Arteta tactics). I just hope we do get in someone to complement Partey properly in the midfield and that link player to feed the front line, and that Arteta has just been so reserved in playing more expansive because he sees the midfield as being piss poor ATM. If we could control the middle of the pitch more, it would allow… Read more »
Gentlemen, This was a good win. Somewhat lucky but full of energy and enthusiasm which is a good thing. We have certain quality players in Saka, Martinelli, Partey, Auba, Laca, Pepe, Gabriel, Tiereny and Hector, and for the next few months, Luiz and Ozil ….others such as Xhaka, Ceballos, Mari, Suarez, AMN, Holding, ESR , Chambers can also play their roles in rotation and other competitions! Overall, we are not a 15th in the table team based on players capabilities, we are more 7th or 8th and with the addition of one or two Elite level midfielders can potentially be… Read more »
This is why Willian was in Dubai recently – to see if his name was nominated!
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/cristiano-ronaldo-beats-lionel-messi-23227712
Hahaha too many tickets on himself 😂
Also what is all that ‘salt bae’ shite everyone kept mentioning?
Mari the jury is out on him. But he needs to find some fitness and form because we paid 10m for someone to sit on the treatment table so far and that’s not a pretty look
I do hope Mari adjusts to the speed of the pl. He was always half a second behind the attacking player, hence the early yellow and stupid pen he gave away.
But yeah he does read the game alright and is good in the air. So hopefully he can be a solid squaddie for us, considering hes on such a long contract he’s probably going nowhere fast
Cheers Tony. Had to take a break, the negativity and extreme views of some were making the comments section a little too poisonous for my taste. Have been really surprised and disappointed by Arteta’s reluctance to ditch players who were playing so poorly. ESR needed to be introduced a month a go. There were plenty of Europa Cup matches he could have played in. I appreciate that he has had a chequered injury record and that may have had something to do with it. Martinelli is a player. His skill set has highlighted what we’ve been lacking, great movement and… Read more »
No mention of Kane’s diving on Match of the Day yesterday, they would have been all over it had it been one of those foreign Arsenal players.
At least talkSport brought up his dangerous backing into of defenders, Jamie O’Hara ex Spurs no less.
Bob N16
Welcome back.
Agree with everything you say.
Want to see more of Balogun.
Martinelli is a special talent.
ESR needs game time. I love the way he plays.
Arteta needs to prioritise the youngsters and phase out all the hangers on.
🍺
Excessive negativity is the norm these days on le-grove. You wonder whether some people really believe they can become PL managers. They write in the “what I say it’s the absolute truth” mode and then some others of the same attitude answer in a similar “I know all mode”. I dare say that the comments section, bar some sensible commentators, has become toxic. How stupid if they think they can help the Arsenal with such short sighted and short term vision of theirs. Arteta is not leaving. Get over it people! Never mind how hard you sweat over your keyboard.… Read more »
Tony
“Swap Pepe for Neto”
In a heartbeat, I’d be amazed if Wolves went for it though.
Neto looks like the real deal.
He’s everything I wish Pepe was.
And he’s an Arsenal fan.
Cheers Graham,
Tough call for Arteta tomorrow, does he rotate or go again with a very similar line up? Would imagine PEA could play instead of Martinelli. I would bring in AMN for Elneny but that’s probably unlikely.
Do we know what’s happening with Reiss Nelson? If he’s never going to play, could he be sold to raise funds? I’ve always thought that he could break through but there are a lot of players seemingly ahead of him in the pecking order.
Love him or hate him, Big Sam knows how to get teams to believe in what they’re doing.
Great to see Spuds struggling again.
Even better seeing Mourinho looking so miserable.
The noise around Julian Brandt looks real. Don’t know anything about him. But I’d be gutted if we signed a player who wasn’t anything special, to put ahead of Smith-Rowe + Willock. Brandt has plenty of experience for a 24yr old, but only averages a goal for club + country every 6 games. We really can’t afford to get another transfer wrong. Sends a really bad message to our youngsters, if Smith-Rowe comes in, plays well, and we go out and put another player in front of him. I’m on the fence with Arteta, but his reluctance with young players… Read more »
I don’t see why balogun and Eddie sharing an agent is an issue
I want to see more of azeez. At youth level he looks a monster but let’s see if it translates on a bigger stage. Kid needs some cup minutes imo
It’s ok if someone is ahead of ESR if they are
1) quality
And
2) ESR gets to be a regular rotation option off the bench, in lesser games, in cups etc etc
But in reality arteta likes his midfielders average and if we sign one ahead of ESR, then poor Emile is probably going straight in the bin as Willian and god knows who will automatically stay ahead of him in the pecking order most games
China,
Nketiah and Balogun sharing an agent may not be an issue but they play in the same position so I would imagine having clients competing for effectively the same opportunity at a club could create a conflict of interest.
The writing looks like it’s on the wall for Balogun Can’t get a start in the league cup or Europa, can’t get on a 9 man subs bench in the league. Can’t really blame the lad for wanting to go and spread his wings elsewhere. He’s got Aubameyang, Lacazette, Martinelli, Nketiah, all in front of him. We’d need to bring him forward in the hierarchy, and get shot of Nketiah + Lacazette next month, to likely convince him. Looks unlikely, we may as well just let him go next month if we have no chance of tying him down. Best… Read more »
Nice piece as usual Pedro. The kids on show did alright. However Joe Willock needs a loan move. He clearly isn’t ready for this level. Mo Elneny am sorry to say is not Arsenal level midfielder. I really hope MA has learnt his lesson regarding trusting individuals who have consistently failed him.
Great win but let’s be honest, the goals were very lucky. Can we go on a winning run is the next question. Personally, I don’t think so. Winning here and there creates a false hope that we are on the right track, something that is not true.
Get ralf ragnick, and start planning for the future, because at the moment, no one is looking past 6 months of the future of the club. Everyone just out for themselves. We need to lower our wage bill whist getting better quality players
https://www.football365.com/news/transfer-gossip-arsenal-lamptey-barcelona-bellerin-liverpool-wijnaldum
If we make this move, we would arguably have the best fullback in the EPl so long Arteta stops the nonsense of playing Tierney in Central defence I absolutely love Tariq.
*the best fullbacks
From listening to Arteta, and looking at how he’s beginning to get us playing He wants us to play with width, In a similar way to Poch at Spurs The difference is, Spurs had Kane to aim at, and Ali making late runs into the box, they also had plenty of height from set pieces We’re aiming at Lacazette, Nketiah and Aubameyang, which is bread and butter for larger and more powerful centre half’s. Our only midfielders who look to go hunting in the box are Willock + Smith-Rowe, but he’s been reluctant to use them, so most of our… Read more »
Rich, why do you keep linking people with obvious Spurs loyalty to Arsenal??
First Poch, now Alli? (who has been poor for many seasons now)
Insane.
They never want to come here, next you’ll be linking Eric Dier. 🙄
I hope the Lamptey rumours have truth to them, that’s a smart acquisition if so.
A good manager should adapt to the players he has short term, while planning for his vision in future.
Making crosses to Auba and laca, playing willianson as a #9 the list is endless is a sign of guesswork.
We will be back to guesswork as soon as teams nullify us.
Im telling you for free!
Brandt will go the same root as Werner/Mikhi in the EPL
You heard it here 1st
Kaz I really like Poch, looks like he’s going to PSG But if Arteta was on the way out? Poch was by far the best option on the market, I really liked the way he had Spurs setup I have no idea if we could have got him? But regardless of the Spurs link, he’d have been my top pick when we appointed Arteta, and he’d be my top pick if we’d sacked Arteta last week. I can’t stand Deli Ali, but he has characteristics we currently lack. And if we’re going to play with width, we need a midfielder… Read more »
Let’s take the win for now and let’s hope we can keep it up in our next games. Though, I still maintain my stance that there is a need for a new coach to be appointed.