Hello people. Sorry for the intermittent posting. I’m on two pitches. What a start to 2021.
Talking of pitches, whoever pitched Mesut to Fener, is a genius. The German finally ended his sad Arsenal career, completing his move yesterday. The Turkish fans aren’t just welcoming a player, they’re welcoming a newly adopted child to their country. The engagement on the tweets is next level, they’ve taken him from Germany, and it’s all quite sweet. I like to see the man smiling.
Good luck to the player. There was never any valour in sitting out the best years of a career for money when you are already loaded. Sad that his agent advised him to behave like that, but here we are, the 10%er usually wins out in these moments.
So, £350k, in theory, back on the books. Reality is we already burned that money on Auba, Partey and Willian. I don’t think we’ve really opened up much in the way of manoeuvring for players.
I think it is almost certain that we’ll bid for a keeper. The hot money is going on Freddie Woodman of Swansea. The Welsh club has signed a replacement from Huddersfield potentially opening the path for us to nab the English 23-year-old. He’s such an unknown that he doesn’t have an ELITE SAVES & BOX COMMANDING 2017-21 video on Youtube. Still, people are telling me he’s good, so I’ll take that advice.
We’re also rumoured to be back in for Emi Buendia and Ryan Christie of Celtic. Ryan has a WHY ARSENAL SHOULD SIGN THIS TOTAL DREAMBOAT video.
Ryan Christie is interesting. We often turn our nose up at Scotland, but hard to of late, they’re churning out some top-class players. Christie scored 20 goals and made 16 assists last season. This year he has 11 assists and 4 goals and Celtic have been shite. He’s on his 3rd season with Celtic, he has 37 goals, 37 assists in 120 odd appearances.
He’s a late bloomer, he just turned 25 years old, one year older than VVD before he arrived here. He’s slummed it with loans at Aberdeen and Inverness. If we’re interested in him, you can’t help but imagine some of the interest has come from KT pumping him. They play together internationally and his numbers stack up well there as well. He can pay right, left and through the middle. I would be interested in this sort of move, it’ll be inexpensive, it could have a big upside, and who are we to turn our noses up against Scottish talent? John McGinn, Andy Robertson, and KT show that they’re doing awesome things up north.
Emi Buendia is also a player I’d be happy with. He’s young, has done it in the league, and he ticks all the boxes we’re looking for. It would be very dangerous for us to head into the rest of the season with ONLY ESR for creativity.
Newcastle this evening. Great news that Tierney is fit, Gabi is returning, and maybe we’ll see Gabi CB back in contention. We are nearly fully fit.
We need to win. We can’t let this go to extra-time because that option isn’t available to us. We need to find our scoring boots. Auba and Lacazette need to find some magic, and hopefully, the service is a little better. I assume we’ll see Thomas Partey starting this one, which will give us a better dynamic. Newcastle are pretty average though, we’re not in need of a shield, we’re in need of some bravery.
Let’s see what the boys have got. On the whistle pod after, keep them ears PEELED. Enjoy tonight, I hope you’re all safe at home. x
Auba is fast tirning in to Francis Jeffers or kaba diawara.
From the Guardian MBM commentary.
Arsenal’s corner routines look clever but like they have never actually tried them before the match
Exactly.
This is so difficult to Watch.
I like the starting lineup and the setup but I still don’t like how we approach in attacking. Still too pedestrian and one-dimensional.
Arsenal will win this, Newcastle too open too attacking.
Why Auba didn’t shoot???
If we score the first we will win this though.
250 grand a week and he cant hit an open goal.pathetic !!!!
Saka perhaps should shoot w his better left peg, better angle also from the right flank
Cross, cross, cross. Yawn.
So much better than the previous game against Newcastle
Aubs sucks so much!!!
Those who question whether partey has a long diagonal in his locker… think he’s already answered that in 26 mins of play.
Great ball from Partey.. anyhow.
ESR is fully readdy
He should have lots of assists by now had Auba been on form.
Sell Auba !
Auba our next Ozil
His form has dropped badly since his crazy pay rise.
Sometimes it is hard to understand how fragile Their mind is,they flash one,two three lambos but they cant hot sn open goal from 10 yards.
That control from ESR was something else. Wow!
Great ball from Partey to ESR… shame that Auba also misses this shot on goal.
We look better going forward than against them last time but Auba needs to get it together
well as open as this match is we’re bound to get something especially from counter
Newcastle player still controlled the ball with his arm. 😡 Even if it hit his thigh first.
The youngsters (Saka, ESR, Martinelli) deliver on the pitch.
The old timers (Aubameyang, Lacazette, Luiz) deliver on Tiktok.
Our strike force is shite… Complacent… Seen the yoots nothing to worry them… As you were tread water
On the bright side we are actually attacking. And there is Martinelli to change things against a tired Newcastle.
Arteta should e fucking brave enough and drop Auba for Martinelli in the second half.
This is a dead certain 0-0 .
The Ref’s a Wallace and Gromit looking cunt.
Xhaka and Partey are combining well together
Presumably our attacking routines and approaches come from Arteta in which case we have a shit coach.
Thats not discipline, just stale and lack lustre.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he brought on Nketiah ahead of Martinelli.
I’ve seen the team sheet Arsenal getting nothing out of this game…
Not a pen for Arsenal. Would be for manure. Make no mistake. Its been given before defo
They have adopter exactly the same routine as Crystal Palace and special sauce have No answer to that.
Xhaka is so dumb…. he passes the ball to the right to then point that there is space to play on the left…. then why not pass the ball to the left to start with???
Rubbish shot Auba.
Great take down by Esr
La la la
It’s the one and only ESR mutha fuckers
Boy oozes class quick one touch flicks keep it ticking over ..
Negatives out in force tonight
Auba doesn’t look right still. No idea what’s up with him. He used to cut in and then just force a goal. Now he just wants to pass the responsibility. I guess his confidence has gone.
Partey made a beautiful long pass to Esr too!
Do more
The pea has to go pop soon…
Auba too slow in mind hesitating and all
Can’t we do better than Xhaka
Tierney has already run the channel but Auba hanged on the ball and lost it.
Xhaka is so dumb…. he passes the ball to the right to then point that there is space to play on the left…. then why not pass the ball to the left to start with???
Lol. This was genuinely funny
ESR doesn’t look much bigger but defo stronger
Auba is operating on a 2/10. He’s very poor
He needs to be dropped, even Eddie will do better than him at this point
I think we should replace Auba by Martinelli.
ESR also looks like he has a little bit of running power. He has showed a turn of pace a couple of times
Boring watch
Please take Auba off.
Just grow some . FFS
If we threaten to stop his 250 grand a week ,Watch him score a bundle.
The thing with xhaka is we still don’t know what he is. He doesn’t have defensive ability to be a DM and He hasn’t got enough attacking instincts to be called a CM. He is just a sideways passing merchant. And he sometimes misplaced them so horribly that it exposes us to attacks.
The Godfather
January 18, 2021 20:35:47
Can’t we do better than Xhaka
__________
Not to worry. Arteta is on the same page and is ‘evilving’ Xhaka…. loll
Ridiculously over hit by Holding.
Holding’s forward passes are not very good.
No goals in first half, why break a habit hey
I miss the good old days of Henry ,pires and Vieira.This bunch of cunts earn to much Money for far to little talent.
Not that many clear chances considering our possession
Parteys been the best player so far..almost a level above the rest
Holding returning to his best just like before his knee injury.
Xhaka, Auba, two CBs, hold onto the ball for fucking eternity slowing al things down
While Laca loses the ball regularly. Don’t see he’d play w his back to the goal.
I am fed up with Auba.
lol that lack of confidence evidently from that shot
gEneRaTIonAl cOacH
Pathetic. Auba. Rubbish
We let Pires go because of the contract situation of over 30s as we would not give them a long term deal
Now we are giving them out to everyone
We’re so boring. Auba is trash why does he start every game? I’d rather see Pepe.
Why is Gabriel. Not playing? Luiz hasn’t passed forward once. Another one frozen out, joy
Bruh, the fuck is wrong with Auba? He is playing like a championship player and that’s being generous.
Tierney had loaded space. Why Auba attempted something he’s bad at?? Dribbling that is
Arteta Can fuck of we are more one dimensional Then during the last years of the Wenger reign.
This struggle to break teams down is becoming a bad habit. Not good.
Laca spends more time on the grass than the grounds man
Everyone dishing it out on auba. But we know he wasn’t a good team player. He has always been a goal scorer. I really think he will start that again sometime.
We now have a lot of evidence on arteta and it’s not good, llloves an average player, loves old men, loves freezing out can’t get a team to attack.
I’m very concerned we have the right man
This is hard to watch…
Auba low in morale and confidence is no good for anything, but he looks like he will be played into form so let’s hope he can get out of this funk
Wasted all of Tierneys crosses
We have no forwards who can head the ball, but we still keep on crossing the ball
Do they train on Zoom?
he needs to get into the channel faster to get a shot in tbh
needs to find form again as hee’s just a passenger right now
might as well put Martinelli in
How the ref blows early when their keeper was time wasting on every goal kick I don’t know.
SpanishD
Funny isn’t it?
Fatman Bruce asks woy ,how do er stiffle Arsenal ? Just put rows of Four they Will nevet score.How Can Arteta be a generationer manager when he is outsmarted by a fossile like woy and fatman Bruce ?
this shitty performance is all down to Arteta not having a clue
just look at that balanced 11 hard to believe we can’t make something out of this
If we played this game three times in a roe we would never score that is how poor we are attackingly wise.
I’m guessing that it will take the Almighty arteta years to know that Auba and laca combo ain’t ever gonna work. We saw what laca was doing with the young guns around him before Auba got shoehorned in
Yep I think we should play Martinelli after half time. Auba needs to be taken out of the firing line. He will start scoring but not in a match where his confidence looks very low.
Xhaka for the fifth game been playing high level CM football.
Gazzap the Guardian view seems accurate
The referee refuses to add on any time as it’s been bloody awful. No goals, no saves, nowt.
Great first half wasn’t it lads…….
Newcastle are consistently pushing Auba out wide onto his weaker foot. Maybe he needs to swap sides with Saka for while, or bring on Martinelli and move Auba centrally instead of Laca who is pretty ineffective today.
Pffffft.. I want to be positive.. but not much in it. ESR had a few moments. Partey a couple. I do think we might need Marti to spark something off the bench.
Every match I hope for a change over half time
And every match Arteta is still manager for the second half.
Special sauce better earn his special sauce in the second Half.
Barely any shots on target. Hard to believe. Just too many sideways and more importantly slow passes. Too many touches. Arteta has to have a word
Oh my word. Can this game be more mind numbingly boring. We start so slow, another half of crab football. I have serious doubts that Arteta is the manager for Arsenal. Too many games like this, no pace, no tempo. Auba can’t score to save his life. Very very poor.
Auba is in a tough spot but no one can deny he is trying today and he also looks like the only player that could score for us. The rest of our attacking players aren’t playing all that good either are they? It’s a painful to watch football.