Well, before we dive into the mess. Le Grove passed 2.5m comments yesterday. Quite the number when I consider how many comments I delete on a weekly basis. The shame? That the massive jump happened because Arsenal reverted to pre-December form and dropped an abomination of a performance.
There’s only one way to look at the game.
Meek.
We were absolutely petrified of Liverpool. No one in that starting 11 thought they were coming out of that game with more than a point and that mindset is down to Arteta.
Can you blame injuries?
No. You can’t.
Ceballos in midfield next to Partey. That’s Arteta. He agreed to renew the loan, that was his expert decision, it’s been a fucking disaster. The Spaniard put the same performance in against West Ham at the start of the season, too many touches on the ball, doing an impression of a player that looks good. He hasn’t moved forward.
Auba out wide. That’s Arteta. Our captain has been shocking for a long time. He’s not good enough to play as a 9, so Arteta has hidden him on the wing where he has to do things he’s just not good at. His lack of control, his sloppiness on the ball, the zero confidence he has running at players. He should be benched. An unacceptable decision.
Rob Holding in defence. I like him, but it’s clear he can’t do what Arteta needs from a centre back. But guess who decided to give him a new deal? Arteta.
Bernd Leno. That was an Arteta decision. Two huge errors again from the German, again. This is not a blip, this is an extended run of shiteness that needs to be addressed. Mat Ryan should be used, could he be any worse?
Lots of bad decisions are starting to pile-up, like they did before Christmas. That performance was a copyright infringement on Emeryball. No guts. A bad plan. A spanking by a team we gifted the points.
Now, what you can’t avoid are these two pockets of reality.
Firstly, the reason Arteta opts for Luiz and Xhaka is because against good teams, we have no one better. We missed both today. Xhaka more so, but Luiz for his leadership and presence.
Secondly, it’s clear that the two most important player in our attack are Saka and ESR.
Here’s some truth… and this came from Johnny on the podcast who is not the biggest of Arteta fans.
If the Premier League bothers you, it’s your pride talking. At this point, it’s better we don’t make Europa via the league. Next season would be better served with no Europe, so we could do a West Ham.
Arteta has now refocused his tenure on success in the Europa League.
That is his objective. The blanket he’d love to call his comfort. It’s basically the only thing that saves him this year.
Win Europa, he’s Mr 2 Trophies, in the Champions League, fighting off Barca overtures.
Lose that trophy… well, things are going to heat up for him. That new deal he’s hoping for might not come that easily. Fan sentiment in the stadium will turn.
For me, I’m not really tapping on that beat. ‘Performance’ is what I want from Arteta right now. Bumming his way to Europa won’t do it for me.
I want to see progress every week. I need to see new mistakes, not those that we’ve been over before. Consistency is what takes us to the promised land.
If the system we’ve opted to play needs £500m to work. If it can’t tolerate 4 players missing. Then it won’t work for Arsenal.
The problems we’re dealing with right now are not all Arteta’s… but a growing number of them are. Mo Elneney’s agent telling the press he’s getting a renewal? Arteta playing a centre back as a right back when he has two fit right backs? Willian not getting a sniff? Auba getting a sniff? Gabriel Martinelli being treated he was caught doing something disgusting with the dirty linen? All Arteta.
The picture that hasn’t been painted yet is what is the future of the club? How will we deal with players that have deals running out? How will we replace? Will success in the Europa mean continuity of failed ideas?
Arteta is at ANOTHER pivotal moment of his short career. Dips are par the course… but if this Liverpool game sparks a terrible 2 weeks, the wounds might not heal. We can’t have another fatal month like we did pre-Christmas, it’s too soon for that. Fans will lose interest, and worse, so will the players. Belief is fragile… every day is a judgement… today was shocking. The only way it’ll be forgiven is if there’s a big response on Thursday.
… that’s now looking tougher. We were utterly dross. Project Arteta has just dropped down to amber. The manager has no one to blame but himself.
Thursday needs something big. Can we do it? I have my doubts.
Whilst you’re there, take a listen of our latest podcast. I’m joined by Johnny, you can listen to his How’s Your Father pod here. BUT, for pure Arsenal, click below. He does a great job explaining the reality of our season… let me know what you think in the comments.
We’re all doomed!!
Ah well. Its been coming. West ham taught us that.
Olympiacos also
That was awful.
By the way who kidnapped Pedro? Mixing it up today with a fair and realistic apologist free post. Well played sir!
Ah! A tr4phy by accident.😁
I woke up at 3am for that cr@p!!
“NOT FIT TO WEAR THE SHIRT”
Comes to mind AUBA MORE INTERESTED IN HIS HAIR
Than what he should be producing on the pitch,?
Ceballos / Pepe the list goes on.
To many very average mercenaries who do not care.
It is not looking good. Really sad because i want him to succeed but the acrobatics put up by those defending him and raising verbal placards for Emery’s end is baffling. He definitely deserves the sack if he fails to win the EUROPA
Of those 2.5 million comments, 2,499,999 were along the lines of “kroenke is an arsehole and should get the fuck out of Arsenal”
We’re always pretty sh*t after international breaks.
What’s the status on KT’s injury??
Does anyone know how we can get rid of the Kroenkes? Is it impossible?
EL or bust, and I can’t see us winning it.
https://www.footyheadlines.com/2020/11/exclusive-arsenal-21-22-third-kit-info.html
Hopefully Adidas never decide to leave us, the three shirts for next season look really good, they’re smashing it out of the park
We might not be very good at playing football, but at least our players will look really good when they’re playing sh*t
Every cloud…..
Now that’s a post.
Have you seen the light Pedro?
Arsenal paved the way for Man City, Liverpool now they are way above us. Arsenal once stood for innovation but now it’s better at analysing what other clubs do well and try to copy. There has been alot of changes but only regression so far. About time to go back to the drawing board. No more bandages. What is working for Arsenal now are two elite youngsters that the future of the club depends on. Saks and ESR. First thing look for more of the same. Second, get an elite coach that can develop elite young players. Third, buy only… Read more »
One of your best posts yet Pedro. I agree wholeheartedly with all of it, except for your questioning of Willian not playing. We are already playing with 10 men with Aubamayang, we can’t handicap ourselves even more by playing the other mercenary.
It seems like you are starting to see the light with Arteta, but in a strange way, that worries me even more. A part of me hoped that you were seeing something or knew something that the majority of us didn’t…
“ Does anyone know how we can get rid of the Kroenkes? Is it impossible?” An impossible dream I would say. Our decline is intertwined with their ownership. Every sports team they own is mediocre, they are in it for the money, plain and simple. Even if they invest money, they entrust it to the wrong people who they have employed or kept on too long. They are far too hands off, and realise the seriousness of situations far too late. However we are stuck with them unfortunately. This coming summer window is the most vital since I can remember.… Read more »
The mediocrity continues, now being out of Europe is being sold as a positive.
How many quality players will sign for Westham?
Yesterday really shook me as arteta continues to reveal himself and people look past it on the basis of culture and well you don’t see behind the scenes, experience is usually the way chat, no its not let your eyes guide you. Saka esr out, OK not ideal but I don’t buy the thing needs to regress to get absolutely smacked about for o0 minutes and create actually zero threat. The starting line up stank due to auba wide something which has never ever worked. OK fine do it one more time and let’s see how it goes. Inevitably we… Read more »
We have shipped 6 goals in the last 2 games, thats relegation level defending. He has to sort out the variable effort levels. Losing is one thing but not putting in a shift is unforgivable. These guys are on big money. He needs to get seriously tough. If they don’t want to put it in week in week out drop them till they do or let them go.
What’s incredibly frustrating as well is he will take the wrong learnings from this, pepe get fed like 4 balls all game but he will put this on him rather than the fact his midfield got zero control of the ball all game, auba wide will fly again under the radar
Agree with the bard. Arteta is trying to play like MC. MC have better players.
The passing all day before shooting hasgot to stopp
‘What’s incredibly frustrating as well is he will take the wrong learnings from this,‘
Yep, its so frustrating
Cavallos is a complete lightweight, really really poor, for a guy who probably prides himself on being press resistant you can see opposing teams home in on him, taking 8btouches to set himself invites pressure and he can’t beat it
Auba is catching a lot of shit but laca was awful yesterday, the myth of incredible holdup is now over, he’s a washed up old man of a striker who can turn up once a month maybe, we need to gut that front line and and bring in fresh blood or use martinelli, laca is not the future
With AMN and Nkethia agents clearly letting know that they will leave Arsenal this summer, I wonder if in fact most of the younger players have given up on Arteta.
Would not surprise me if Arteta tries to sell AMN, Nkethia, Willock, Reiss, Chambers, Saliba, Mavrapanos to raise funds this summer and freak out that the ones he wants to keep also want out: Martinelli, Balogun, ESR, Saka, Azeez.
– When Klopp subbed in another attacker, Jota , replacing Robertson, Arteta still kept the 4 2 3 1 formation with 2 DM’s, which was already overpowered by the Pools for the whole game . That shows the difference in quality of the two managers. – It is not the first time Auba let the opposing FB to cross freely and Holding didn’t closely mark the opposing striker. – Both Pepe and Auba didn’t do high press effectively. Martinelli is much more suitable. – Both Ceballos and Auba can’t hold on to the ball against high press. – After we… Read more »
Valentin
Have you watch the video high highlight of Saliba? Holding could never complete what Saliba has shown. Arteta would be blind not to realize that.
For once I agree with you fully Pete! Great post today.
Hopefully no more blind faith
The Dutch have a say: the fish start rotting from the head. When a manager imposes tactics and setup unsuited to most of the players, they will lose faith in him. This happen with Emery, then Freddie before. This is happening now with Arteta. They have not dropped tools yet, because there is still a chance to salvage this season with a good Europa League Cup run. But if we get eliminated before the final, I fully expect shittier and shittier performances in the league. That performance against Liverpool showed that the so called improvement since December was not due… Read more »
All season since playing 4 at the back we have failed to aggressively close down wide attackers. Yesterday even after the game was well won Martinelli or Pepe would have up to 3 Liverpool players tight on them, so no wonder we never posed any threat in the box.
Yes Laca and Ceballos are both are not up to level of physicality needed for the Prem. Ditto Holding who is too passive and Leno who cannot dominate his area.on high balls.
Good post Nelson, yes shape was all wrong and comprehensively outplayed, we needed to do somthing to ba able to build extra mid or a cb to go 5 at the back to build, we barely got odegarrd or the front 3 on the ball.
Massive lack of ideas and awareness by arteta, klopp old school monster Ed him at the emirates
Liverpool had 2 no mark cbs not that you would know given how little we tested them.
You think Rodgers would have let that play out so predictably? Huge question marks under arteta 12 losses is really bad and unacceble how ever you cut it
Nelson,
You are preaching to the converted. It is obvious to anybody who follows French football that Saliba is the real deal. The issue at Arsenal was just a clash of personality. As neither will back down, Saliba will be sold at a discount or loan for a further season. I don’t think that Saliba will play for Arsenal senior team as long as Arteta is in charge.
What was impressive in the Saliba video is how tight he gets on the man with the ball and then cleanly nicks it away. Hope him and Mav get a chance next season.
People are always low after a performance and result that bad Our run in is a bit easier, we only play 2/8 teams in the top half of the table, if we win 6, that puts us on 60 points If we get to a coin toss final against United in the Europa as well Then if someone had told me we’d get 60 points, and a Europa League final against United, at the start of the season I’d have thought that was about right, and that was pretty much our current level There’s a lot to do to make… Read more »
Pedro you were absolutely spot on with this post mate. Well done. The most painful thing is to love, care, and support every second of your life to this club knowing that the man who owns it probably has no idea we even played yesterday. Until he is gone we continue to beat our heads into a wall and wake up saying “Might I have another please” Thank god for alcohol
Yes our shape was all wrong yesterday, 5 at the back and counter attack down the flanks like our last two victories against Pool would have been better than just surrendering the flanks and then hoofing it down field to Laca and Oord with predicable results, it just came straight back.
Kroenke is not culpable for setting the team up.
Kroenke is not culpable for creating a negative/timid mindset amongst the players.
Kroenke is not culpable for what Arteta is doing.
By the way, if the fan base wanted rid of Kroenke, that could have forced the issue long ago.
Need to call the saliva issue out. Pete White washed it as people crying about a 19 Yr old who isn’t ready, no he’s our most talented cb and displayed a huge cracknin arteta man managent early,
Arteta cant be allowed to fuck the saliva situation again edu needs to be strong and say we have bought you our long term cbs in him and Gabriel make them work, you were wrong.
Rob holding has gone from arteta deputy captain to water carrier in the space of 4 weeks
The kids have carried the team. The big boys of the team are looking uo to the small boys (Tierney, Saka, ESR and Martinelli) to carry the team. Ceballos and Elneny have been poor, so why not give Azeez a chance he might end solving a midfield problem the same way ESR did. You can win with Kids and a few experienced players that have the fight. Pepe, Aubameyang, Bellerin and a few others give their all to the glamor of the game and don’t really give the game their all. We need to get rid of a few players… Read more »
If Soares plays on Thursday, I’ll be more than happy.
If Bellerin plays, I won’t be.
I hope Tierney recovers in time.
Now that I have had 14 hours to calm down after perhaps the poorest performance of what has not been our most distinguished season one can at least reflect. First of all it is blindingly clear that there are serious weaknesses in our squad. We have seen in far too many games this season that the inclusion of Ceballos in central midfield is a weak link resulting in our team being overrun whenever he plays. Maybe in a less demanding league you can get away with playing this “powder puff”, but certainly not in EPL. For all the negativity about… Read more »
To be honest, I don’t feel downhearted by the Liverpool fiasco. Not in the least. It was a game that scarcely matttered. If we had beaten the scousers and lose against the Slavs, then yes, that would upset me. Because that is a game that does matter.. All this ‘blame the manager’ stuff lacks judgement, the usual knee-jerk reaction. Given the circumstances, Arteta is doing very well, the right man for the job. He did the noble thing and took full responsibility. But in truth the blame lies with the players. They underperformed. But we need to admit that Liverpool… Read more »
Luiz .may require knee surgery and that would be season ending. May also have played the last game for Arsenal….
Arteta is the same as Wenger in that he will put stubbornness before the best interests of the club, as some of our young players are finding out.
It seems to me Artetas side are half decent with a fair wind, but have only a handful of players who turn up if things start going wrong, virtually all such players were missing yesterday.
Let’s not start this circular had a loss but what are the kroenkes doing nonsense, we put out a front line that cost 170m up front, it’s not kronke who went in and said yes please let’s give auba an elite cf 250 k at 31 yrs old to then play him wide.
The manger needs to look at homeslf, he was completely out played and had zero ideas how to solve it
Kroenke is 1000 percent responsible for this in every fucking way. It starts and ends with him no question no matter what. He appointed this disaster from the top to the bottom. So you feel they master strokes of upper level management and selections in the office since his full take over have been nothing but spot on. We have been a absolute disaster in upper management since he became majority owner. He fucking even dumped his worthless son on us to get him out of his hair and say look our kid has a real job.
Only a few weeks some of you were saying Holding a Mari were our best defenders and now look at you flip flipping back to Luiz. Luiz will do his custom fuk up at some point then your all be lauding Gabriel as the best defender at the club.
There is no stand out CB at the club. Not steady pairing. And that has been worrying all season. Chop and changing a defence does not work. Yes Luiz was injured but he is not that great
Arteta taking blame for the performance but then in the same breath asking the players to show big balls and courage from now on made me chuckle.
Can we get Tierney Auba’s Mel Gibson/ Braveheart style extensions?
He’d be more suited to wearing them since he fucked up his knee going in hard for a challenge.
Good fair and balanced post, Pedro.
Probably gut wrenching writing it as much as it is reading it’s message. I’d say we’re all suffering various levels of hurt and have been for some time.
Let’s hope we do better Thursday.
TheRoyalArsehole
But I thought this blog centred on how great Arteta is.
its message *
You’re damn straight that’s my pride talking Pedro. It’s a mugs game to think the EL can be thrown away next season (if we don’t win the EL) on a hope and a prayer that we have a good league season The EL provides us with money we desperately need to put towards replacing our weakest links. For all the mention of how it’s a pandemic it’s pretty startling you’d turn your nose up at 30 odd million sterling The EL is: – very easy to navigate the group and early knock out stages with squad players. It’s actually a… Read more »
Englandsbest
I agree.
I don’t get all this constant slagging off the manager and tactics. You can have the greatest tactics/game plan ever but it’s still got to be carried out by the players. For me, the quality on the pitch makes a bigger difference than tactics.
Looks like your finally starting to see that Arteta isn’t going to take us to the promised land. He needed at least 2 seasons in a lower or less intense league before even being considered for the Arsenal job. Some of his decisions and selections have been totally bizarre to say the least. As for pinning are hopes on Europa, we all know how it’s going to end, will beat the racists then get knocked out by Emery. Who will then go on to win the competition, I will be very surprised and shocked if Arteta is still manager by… Read more »
Arteta is and always will be in my eyes a Evertonian. He was washed up when he joined the club and was only good for a occasional run out. He was lucky to walk in on the very end of the greatest squad in history and be in the true presence of football gods. Obviously nothing rubbed off on him. When I see Arteta all I see is a blue kit on him. We are a boat with no direction or destination. Mid table team with mid table talent. Once again found out to be what we are. Can’t wait… Read more »
If one thing comes out of this debacle, Pedro, I would be grateful if you never use that word ‘elite’ about Arteta or Arsenal ever again. It is the most misleading, hollow empty meaningless word, designed to give status to somebody, even if they have done nothing to earn it. And Arteta most certainly has done nothing that even remotely qualifies him for such a title. It is quite an exercise in branding, to bestow it on an unproven individual, who had a decent, if unremarkable career, most of it with plodders Everton and the end of it with us.… Read more »
Surely it’s a mixture of everything. The manager picks the team, chooses the tactics and then instructs the team to carry them out. If they mess up, he has three substitutions.
However, if you have a manager who totally ignores/freezes out players like Saliba, Balogun and Martinelli (to mention just three) and continues to pick his “favourites”, chopping and changing as he goes, the only person to shoulder the responsibility is the manager.
Auba’s Mel Gibson/ Braveheart style extensions?
More like Travis Scott
We’ve got 3 central defenders with big potential, but are nowhere near the finished articles in Gabriel, Mavropanos and Saliba Luiz is erratic, past his best, but still our best centre half Mari, Holding and Chambers, are bang average, and so was Sokratis Mustafi is one of the most erratic players I’ve ever seen, could go from resembling prime Sol Campbell, into resembling prime Stephenovs, in the blind of an eye Elneny is average, Ceballos physically doesn’t look made for the league and his confidence is shot, Xhaka is our best central midfielder, but lacks pace, agility, and takes too… Read more »
P.S. I agree totally with Into the Red.
But Pedro, we’re top four since Christmas. That was the mantra of the last few posts. This type of performance has been coming because arteta doesn’t learn from his mistakes. Like you’ve just said, he’s made massive calls that he has to live and die by. All this “performance is the only indicator” narrative is nonsense. As fans, we critique what we see and what we’re seeing is 9th in the league and a commitment to players that consistently let us down. He’s too arrogant to learn. It took a near sacking before he unleashed the kids and when we… Read more »
With no cash in the bank we need to be brave and give Saliba, Mav, Guen and Azeez a shot next season and maybe even one or two of our young fullbacks. In fact no reason why Azees and Martinelli cannot start in some of our remaining Prem games.
Pedro does this same routine when Arteta shits the bed.’
He releases very fleeting moans but is ready to embrace his Arteta poppoms once there’s a glint of marginal success.
All will be forgiven, just wait and see.
Also the outrage about holding being poor yesterday and getting a new contract is a bit silly When he gets a run of games he’s consistently pretty good (not elite, but a decent CB). He was one of our better players this season and got a lot of credit during our post Xmas revival then got suddenly dropped. Barely been since. Comes back after ages away in a game against Liverpool (I said yesterday that’s a really strange game to throw in a player you haven’t picked in the league for a few months). He has a crap game and… Read more »
Thanks EB for that clarification:
1. If we lose the game doesn’t matter.
2 If we win it’s an impotant victory thanks to the genius of MA.
3. If we lose it’s down to the players.
4. If we win it’s down to the manager.
Of course the fact that our players weren’t motivated had nothing to do with the man paid £5m a year to make sure that they are motivated for every single game.
Begs the question as to why we bother with managers at all?
Rich
Once again if changing the manager doesn’t make any difference why don’t we save 5 mill a year and employ a conference league manager for 40 k a year . Nothing would change would it ? We’d still be 9th wouldn’t we by your logic ?
If we have a mid table squad at best then surely we need a manager experienced in getting the best out of such squads. It does not appear to be Arteta – Bielsa could be fun!
All i can say is I’m pleased that wenger did stay for a another 10 years when the obsessives were calling for him to go. At least we had another 10 years of quality football , winning trophies ,plus another 8 years of champions league football. Imagine where we would be now if the obsessives had their way , it dreads thinking about.. If the obsessives think that 10 years ago any top manager would come to Arsenal football club with no money to spend whilst trying to compete with the financial might of City , Chelsea and United ,… Read more »
It’s not a case of “blind faith” between Pedro and Arteta.
Our Pedro fell in love with legohead, the rest is history.
Arteta will leave Arsenal a better manager because we let him use our great club to learn his trade.
Arteta will leave Arsenal worse off because he would have pushed the club to sign or re-sign crappy players. There’s talk we are extending Elneny and are set to make permanent Ceballos loan. That’s Arteta-ball fir you.
It will be a big mistake to resign Ceballos
I don’t think there’s anyone who can disagree with this. Guy has not done well enough this year and is very likely a big waste of our tight resources.
If arteta sanctions his purchase it would be nuts.
Englandsbest Let’s be clear Arteta landed up with limited options to play in yesterday’s game. The only options he had to play on right side of defence who were unused were Soares and Bellerin. Our midfield options in absence of Xhaka were Ceballos and Elneny. Neither is good enough and need to be replaced this summer. It is blindingly obvious that our forward options whilst all talented lack work ethic. That applies to Aubameyang, Pepe, Willian and to lesser extent Lacazette. You can use one of these players if the team is collectively fit for purpose, but not all at… Read more »
“For me, the quality on the pitch makes a bigger difference than tactics.”
Fine if you’re a cheque book manager like Pep.
That’s the point of tactics, you win games that you probably shouldn’t. For example:
Anfield 1989
Copenhagen 1994
Incidentally I expect that ‘tactics’ rather than talent had a lot to do with Liverpool losing to:
Fulham,
Everton
Leicester
and Brighton
over the last couple of months.
What is Pirlos salary?
If it’s 50k or less I think he’s value for a squaddie. If it’s more or he’s asking for more than 60 it’s a waste
Peckobill
Things could easily get worse, I’m just not convinced of the argument that another manager gets much more out of this lot, particularly competing on two fronts
This is pretty much our level
If Everton or West Ham had our European schedule on top, I think they’d both be in the bottom half
If we weren’t in the Europa, and had a close kit squad of 20-22 players, I think we’d 10 points better off in the league, we’d have less injuries, and we wouldn’t be running our best players into the ground
China 1
Holding is an average centre back who does his best, but yesterday’s performance particularly playing alongside Chambers highlights his deficiencies.
I have no problem keeping him in our squad as fourth or fifth centre back option to play against
lower level opposition, but not against the likes of Man City and Liverpool.
Yeah the whole point of tactics is to extract a value greater than the sum of its parts from a team
If the whole approach is just to buy the best players then this is just Fifa or PES management. Quality managers take their squad (however good or bad they are) and mound them into something better
Rich
I have made similar observations over last two seasons.
Last season I expressed the opinion that we should not qualify for Europa Cup. Our squad is
not strong enough to play on both Thursday and Sunday.
That has proven correct this season. We need a smaller but more effective squad built to play in EPL.
Into the Red. Great post, absolutely spot on and one of the best, accurate and eloquent read I’ve seen here
Basically if we could play ………Leno ……Luiz Gabriel Soares……Tierney ….Partey Xhaka Saka Odegaard Smith-Rowe ……Aubameyang 38 games, no distractions, plenty of time on the training ground, the ability to build some team cohesion, we’d be in a better position in the league When you play more games, you risk more injuries, and have to rotate more That first eleven isn’t perfect, and is far from a title winning team, but take out a 3-4 key players, and what’s left is extremely underwhelming This is the current issue we have competing on two fronts Leicester + Spurs will both benefit in… Read more »
Into The Red is my MOTM !!!
Give me Danny Ings over Auba at this moment in time. Aggression, Passion. Only thing is he is injury prone.
When I saw the unimaginative lineup, I knew we were absolutely fucked.
Wenger at least had a pair of balls to play someone like Sanogo, even though he was utterly gash. We have got a hot young player in Martinelli, who could not do any worse than that Ludicrous looking motherfucker Auba.
Rich
I see , so your now changing the perimeters ,.
Changing the manager can make things get worse but impossible to get better . Your way wrong , arteta has made countless inept decisions that has cost us that a clued in manager wouldn’t have made . Negelsmann or Rose I’m convinced would have us both higher in the table and more competitive . Stick to your convictions you started with, a conference league manager wouldn’t change a thing so we might as well go that way and save 5 mill a year
Lol. Thankyou!
Right now we have got zero chance of finishing in the top 4, so we may as well go all out and start blooding youngsters upfront.
Martinelli – Balogun – Pepe is the front line I would like to see whilst Saka is out. Bench the two useless old farts.
Pierre what are your thoughts on the game last night?
Does anyone honestly think we can win the EL? I don’t think we can.
…but are we going to see this under the meek lego haired twat? Are we fuck.
The trouble with no European money and we probably perilously close to having to sell a Tierney , Saka or smith Rowe to balance the books
We’re the Newcastle of London.
Samesong,
if we have got the players available, this team is easily as good as any other 7 still in the competition.
———————Leno———————–
Cedric ——Gabriel——Mari——-Tierney
———————Xhaka———————
———Partey—————ESR————-
Pepe————–Martinelli————Saka
Bench: Ryan, Holding, Bellerin, Odegaard, Willian, Laca, Auba.
It’s bollocks to say that our squad is poor. It is not, it is just not being used properly and Mr Sauce tends to set up his teams way too cautiously.
If Auba thought his new hairdo would somehow streamline his performances, he was right, he was totally invisible yesterday.
One transfer story today saying we could sell Saka to get the money for other funds.
With Arteta wanking money away on players who don’t deserve it and leaving out players who should be given an opportunity to play (Martinelli, Balogun Azeez) I don’t see this as farcical as some of you will.
He is an extremely poor judge of character, woeful at setting a team out and very bad ingame management. Things I’ve been saying since the start of the season.
Very worrying. Arteta has taken us 4 seasons behind.
Kaz,
I, for one, would not put selling Saka and Martinelli past these inept wankers. That’s probably almost 200M coming in for these two.
No better time to do this either, as the fans cannot turn up to the stadium with pitchforks and torches.
Play the kids the rest of the way. It couldn’t possibly be any worse or embarrassing as it is now. Maybe just maybe Arteta may discover another gem of a player that he otherwise would never give a chance to.
Who’s kidding who, Arteta couldn’t unearth a hidden gem even if it were the shiniest object in an empty room.
Play the kids you saucy sauce, play em like your job depends on it!
Congrats on the movement Pete, big milestone and evidence of your valuable output that’s much appreciated by many. – As far as Arsenal are concerned.. I’ve said it for some time, but the glaring issue with this team is the senior attackers at the club and the overall function/dynamic of how we get goals. Auba, Laca, Pepe, Willian are all good players in isolation, trouble is none of them fit into the blueprint of Arteta’s attack. Willian has never landed here, Auba is average outside his poaching, Pepe does nothing then has a moment, and Lacazette is inconsistent albeit the… Read more »
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WkXZRHG5RxQ
Watch this chaps
We had it so good and we just didn’t appreciate it.
All this team needed was a leader at the back and a goal keeper.
It was loaded with class everywhere else
Arsenal is ship full of stale ideas , nobody can help save it from drowning. First off , I dont blame Arteta , because if we had a competent football director we would already have been in a better place. There is no vision of what we are trying to acheive, yes we are marginally playing better but the results havent improved. 50 games now for Arteta and 17 losses , thats astounding . A better director would not have sanctioned all those deals that Arteta has approved , its quite clear his position shouldnt have been upgraded .