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.
@Pedro
Luckily my stream packed up so couldn’t watch it, which now in hindsight I’m glad I missed it, But Pedro was Leno to blame again yesterday?
That’s why I don’t think Arteta is the man for the job. It seems certain players of his get in no matter how badly they’re playing. Take Leno for example. He should of been dropped weeks ago, how does that inspire confidence of the players on the fringes, if you can’t get ahead of a keeper who’s cost us at least 15 plus points this season. It was the right decision to drop aubu because of his tardiness…..but fact is he should of been dropped months ago, and that includes dropped from the 1st team squad.
DS,
agreed, it’s one thing to hire a rookie coach, as it is possible for him to do well with some competent direction. Who is supposed to give him this, Edu? He is just a good looking fella in a suit, but has got nowhere near the vision and competence required to support the said rookie coach.
It’s like a blind leading a lame.
CC, absolutely agree on Cantwell, was disappointed we didn’t try for him last summer. Reminds me more of another former Norwich player in Maddison than Grealish but that’s not a bad thing either.
Arsenal have only had three shots or fewer in four Premier League matches since we obtained Opta data in 2009/10
All four of said matches have come under Mikel Arteta!
Now that’s generational, isn’t it? Glad you opened your eyes a bit Pedro
Into The Red
Perfectly summed up.
When you watch other teams play, you see cohesion, quick passing and pacy attacks, Do we get any of this? No. We are just boring, except this does not get us results, so there is no sweetener to all this vomit inducing blandness.
We are currently at 45 GA , 6 goals less than Emerys 51 GA with 8 games to go.
Either Guend and Torr are as good as our current midfielders or its down to tactics.
GF is a story for another day.
SUGA
It’s extremely worrying how Arteta has so much influence on transfers and contract renewals. If anything he’s demonstrated his inability to get the right type of players.
So many poor players getting rewarded with new deals whilst our very talented and enthusiastic talent are being sidelined.
Could totally see us making brainfart moves like selling Saka and ESR to buy Odegaard (which would never be worth it)
SUGA3 The worst part of all this is that other clubs are catching up to us rapidly. Leicester have a good scouting network, Everton will have another good transfer window (possibly Europa) . UTD, Chelsea , City will drop massive money . Liverpool will look to have more balanced squad. Meanwhile Aston Villa and Wolves have landed good management who knows what they are doing . Its just Arsenal who are stuck with this reactionary bullshit , if it was really about the future then be Bold , dont give Laca aan extension , sell Bellerin . Sell assets invest… Read more »
2 seasons running he’s finished worse than we did under Emery. The fa cup win papered over the cracks and how bad Arteta really is. But I don’t blame him in all this. We all know he’s not good enough to manage Arsenal, the fact he is is all down to that cretin kroenke. With him at the helm we’ve gone backwards as a club. Sad times for Arsenal
SamesongApril 4, 2021 12:08:33
Does anyone honestly think we can win the EL? I don’t think we can.
That why supreme leader is preparing you with this quote
‘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.’
LMFAOOOO
The Arsenal last won the Title 17 years ago. The theme from the Fever Pitch “18 fuck’n years” since the previous in ‘71. Well, 17 years before 2004, Everton won the Title, & obviously still haven’t. My point is, if something fundamentally right isn’t done with this Club, The Arsenal might not win another PL (top flight) for 20 years. Oh, ffs, it’s a worry.
Yesterday was a disgrace it’s still 1 step forward 2 steps back. I find it so disappointing that we are like Everton of 2004.
Playing Lacazette and Odegaard only makes sense when you have the lion’s share of possession. If you don’t have the ball and are playing deep it makes sense to play three quick players up front and tell the mid and defence to hit the ball into the spaces when they win it. This allows for a fast break and pushes the other teams defence back. We should have played Pepe Auba Nelson front three with Saka out. Three in the middle to match Liverpool’s and tell the full backs to stay, which would suit chambers more and reduce the space… Read more »
TheRoyalArseholeApril 4, 2021 11:20:15
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
Arsehole
Did you even watch us back then? He was our captain
I would prefer Buendia for CM
Peckobill Changing the manager is unlikely to change our fortunes significantly for the better, without better decision making behind the scenes This is roughly our current level, due to years of poor decision making I still think we can get roughly 60 points, and we’re in with a decent shout of winning the Europa, there’s still something to play for If you’d told fans we’d get 60 points, and we had a coin toss final against United in the Europa I’m not sure too many fans would have been too surprised by that at the start of the season We’ve… Read more »
Andy He’s been excellent this season, looks a league above the rest (including Buendia) every game I see them. Always thought he was an attacking midfielder before watching him, didn’t realise how well he plays as a midfield two, picks the ball off the defenders and glides through the middle, but also is telling in the final third with some goals and assists. You see our bunch and we have Partey who is elite, Xhaka who is good facing the game, then Ceballos and Elneny who only get games when the former are missing. That’s not good enough. Glenn Kamara… Read more »
Rich there are some very strong teams in EL.
Arteta will revert to negative tactics and we will be destroyed.
@Rich again
Under Puel Vardy was considered washed up and past his best, under Rogers he’s a goals machine again.
“the revolving door of managers” as you put it can definitely work.
We are stuck with the wrong manager currently.
Ancelotti was absolutely available but certain heads tried to tell you he was washed up. Nonsense.
Arteta’s biggest mistakes are coming in the market for me. Willian, Ceballos, Gabriel, Martinez over leno. All bad choices. Giving auba his deal. Trusting these old failures lead this team when they’ve shown for years that they don’t have the balls to grab a game by the scruff of the neck. A team of pass the buckers outside of our young players. All of whom are more deserving g of minutes than the majority their senior counterparts We’ve become everything wenger fought to prevent and now Pedro is begging for Arteta to recreate what Wenger gave us post 04. An… Read more »
Sid
We are currently at 35 GA…..
At this point, Arteta has to start planning for next season. Players who are not in his plans should be dropped and youth players close to the first team should be given their chance.
If we don’t get into in Europe next season, we will be short of cash to buy decent players so we have to start blooding the talented youth players.
I got the distinct message yesterday after the game
and the way Arteta spoke that he is more frustrated
than ever.
Yes he needs certain players on the pitch to perform adequately
but when you have a squad lacking any depth this proves difficult.
He’s season will be judged by the games to seasons end and if there is
little improvement I can see him quitting.
Europe is he’s get out card but Hey do you really see that happening.?
A football team is all about relationships/partnerships on the pitch. For me, the most important partnership is the 2 centre backs and keeper. For this partnership to work it needs a settled centre back pairing and the 2 centre backs need to trust and understand each others game.. Arsena centre back pairings since the Chelsea game. Liverpool…holding/Gabriel….3 goals conceded West Ham…Mari /Luiz…..3 goals conceded Olympiakos..luiz/gabriel …1 goal conceded Tottenham…Luiz/Gabriel…1 goal conceded Olympiakos..Luiz/Gabriel…1 goal conceded Burnley..Luiz/Mari ..1 goal conceded Leicester..luiz/mari…1 goal conceded Benfica…luiz/gabriel…2 goals conceded. City…holding/mari ..1 goal conceded Benfica luiz /gabriel 1 goal conceded Leeds ..luiz/ gabriel 2 goals conceded… Read more »
And another contributor who knows what he/she is talking about – Wiglaf and Into the red, you are so right!
One loss and everyone loses their mind. Football absolutely is beautiful and painful. Who did we lose against ? The champions under the management of one of if not the best manager in the world. Did we have our best players ? No. Saka and ESR are our best players. Both were out. And other starters like Xhaka and Luiz were out as well. + Tierney also went down injured, after which we conceded 3 goals, all coming from the left hand side Granted Liverpool also didn’t have their first choice 11, but the notion that we are close to… Read more »
@Pierre
I said the same thing about constantly changing the back 4 not being good for any team. Consistency is the key but how can you have that consistency if you’re always changing the back 4. Look at the most successful teams in history and you’ll usually see a team that are defensively solid and play week in week out. Fine, you can switch midfield around with not to much changing drastically, but if you’re back 4 changes all the time how is that benefitting the team or the keeper?
So many things wrong from that game tht I’m going to just blank it out altogether. Didn’t come on here yesterday and probably won’t be here all week until the next win. Keeps my life simple and sane that way.
Westbrom, newcastle, Brighton are the lowest in GF, keeping a clean sheet against them is easier
Tyag
Exactly.
Pierre
I said the same thing yesterday. Not in quite as much detail but the stats do show that when Gabriel plays we are substantially worse at the back
In the league we concede at a rate of over a goal per game with Luiz and Gabriel as our pairing
With holding and Mari it’s 0.5 per game.
‘Didn’t come on here yesterday and probably won’t be here all week until the next win.’
Adios amigo!
Wiglaf
We had it all but the spoilt, Johnny come lately fuckers “who came in during the glory years abused the greatest man in arsenal history and demanded change.”
Exactly
Arteta has squandered or future on Auba and Willian , this is 500k per week enough to pay 5 players wages!!!!
We will not be able to dump them so we have no alternative but to play youth players and Arteta doesn’t like youth.
This will just go on and on and just imagine the place with fans in the stadium, if they were there he would have been long gone
CT
P8
W2
L6
Losses include Fulham, Everton, Leicester and Brighton.
That’s the team we played yesterday, not the one of the previous two seasons.
And one thing you can control if not the opponent is your own performance and we were terrible.
Players wearing no7 shirt as respect towards Rocky. Loved Rocky Rocastle, a guy who always gave 150% and felt honoured to wear the shirt….. unlike today’s cunt of players we have. If most of them had 10% of Rocky’s skill and effort we wouldn’t be in this fucking mess
Well said Wiglaf.
“ One loss and everyone loses their mind”
Someone just woke up from a coma
What a disingenuous approach to slag off justified criticism.
People pin themselves to a corner like MMA cornermen that they can’t even be bothered to appreciate why others are upset.
Captain Tierney
What about the performance or results of yesterday’s game doesn’t warrant criticism?
Yea it’s just one loss that gotten people rightfully angry.
At least the manager took responsibility but you are happy enough with that shit that was served up for you.
The idea that you can just shake off poor performances is just laughable It’s not like a lightbulb you turn on and off. Slavia Prague will fancy beating us home and away…and they sure can based on last nights game. They are a team of stinking bruising fighters and we are just made of Arteta-jello. The dynamic of Arteta’s teams isn’t right. You expect players to be jostling to earn starting slots on Thursday EL by putting in a shift on Saturday. They aren’t bothered because they know the manager has his favorites. Auba knows he will start on Thursday,… Read more »
“We had it all but the spoilt, Johnny come lately fuckers “who came in during the glory years abused the greatest man in arsenal history and demanded change.””
You really are an insufferable soul, Pierre.
China “It’s a fools game to not want to be in the EL” It’s purely and simpy deflection from Arteta’s failings. Arteta fails to qualify for even Europa League and it is spun as a positive. This deceiving game can only be played out for so long though. Next season all the spiining games will have to stop. The clock is ticking on Arteta. If he wins Europa League then he gets respite. But the clock will continue to click on him next season even if he bags the Europa League. Then he will be judged as he was always… Read more »
I love you Pedro. I really do. I read your blog every post and have done from pretty much the beginning. I rarely post on here nowadays due to some of the vitriol that I see in the comments and due to having a view sometimes being viewed of having an ‘agenda’ other than football, which is certainly NOT where I come from, however, you mentioned not giving Willian a chance today after bagging him relentlessly over the course of his Arsenal career. I have agreed, he has been shit, but questioning why he wasn’t included in our recent defeat… Read more »
What was missing yesterday was a sense of purpose. Fifth at best? Hardly inspirational. The game on Thursday will see a marked change, a sense of purpose. Winning a trophy is inspirational. Needless to say, Arteta will do his best to enthuse the team in the PL games, it’s his job as manager, his duty to the fans. But now he can 100% focus his players on the Europa Cup games. What a coup winning the final would be! But, win or lose, by now he knows what needs to be done to advance his step-by-step process this summer. I… Read more »
‘’ Could totally see us making brainfart moves like selling Saka and ESR to buy Odegaard (which would never be worth it)
No I think your getting a bit carried away mate
Aubameyang out wide has never worked but why Arteta continue to do that is a mystery. how can a manager of a club as big as Arsenal be scared of dropping an average players like Aubameyang. if the guy is not good enough to displace Lacazet as the main strikers then put him on the bench (competition can only bring the best out of them), you don’t compensate him with a position where we have players who can do better there but gets dropped because they are young. There is no way Aubemeyang should play in the wing not while… Read more »
I;m not sure what kind of improvements we have made? You’ll say X this and Y that but I just use my eyes and it tells me we are exactly where we should be. We’re a mid table team with a mid table manager cutting his teeth. There is no accountability at Arsenal. It’s still gravy train time for all who are aboard. LeGrove Twitter was having a dig a Tony Adams a month or so back when he said we need to start at the back. Adams is so right. Leno, he’s a bang average keeper. We have no… Read more »
This Slavia Prague side very much like playing the role of underdog. In their last two rounds they have advanced after looking like they were out after failing to win their home leg ties only to win the second away leg. So Arsenal playing at home in the first leg this time could be advantageous. It will be interseting to see how Slavia Prague react if they get a draw or narrow win over Arsenal in the first leg. It would mean that their very clear underdog status in which they have advanced in the last two previous rounds in… Read more »
Slavia a very capable side if Arsenal don’t start quick.
Kaz Teams usually come and go in cycles Leicester signed Maguire for £11 million, educated him for a couple of seasons, then turned down big offers, promised him his move the next summer, and signed Soyuncu for £17 million They gave Soyuncu 12 months to settle, then sold Maguire at the top of the market for £80 million, and arguably already had a superior player lined up as an internal replacement Leicester knew they were going to cash in on Chilwell, so they signed Justin for £6 million 12 months earlier, booking a £50 million profit, but already had their… Read more »
Rich What you are advocating there has not been fully carried out has it and this has been under Arteta’s watch as well as before. So you can’t absolve Arteta can you when he has been in charge and going against what you desire. Signing old campaigners like Willian, extending other older players, persuading player(s) not to leave the club. A player like Xhaka has not grown as you put it with Arsenal has he. If he had properly grown with the club then we would have been seeing big bids from other top EPL clubs for him. Instead we… Read more »
We have Torr, Guen, Mavro, Saliba, Willock, AMN, Martinelli Not getting game time, its Not the Tech Directors decision
Hi All do not normally post on here , but after yesterday simply have too. I have been watching Arsenal for over 70 years we were dross in the fifties, but never ever did we fail for lack effort or interest.. Yesterday was the worst display by an Arsenal team I have ever witnessed, if I was the owner Arteta would have been sacked the moment the game ended. Stupid of me to think that changes would be made at half time,, only to find the shit fest got worse. Until now I have been pretty firmly n the lets… Read more »
Andy
What are those stats ?
Future prediction? If it is then we’ll probably win 4, draw 2 and lose 2.
Dissenter
Never said I was happy with what I saw yesterday. It was an utterly disgraceful performance from every single individual on the field bar KT.
But that doesn’t mean I will react by saying Arteta out. You have to put the defeat into context.
Nice post Pedro, agree with everything you said bar the Willian part. He should never start a game for us.
I’m all for giving Arteta a chance…But if he doesn’t start giving minutes to Balogun, Azeez, Cirjan, Cottrell…I want him gone. We don’t have millions to spend in the summer so he needs to find some internal solutions ASAP.
Saliba, Guen, Mavropanos, Torreira; same for these guys. All would walk into our squad yesterday…
Rich
I envy what Leicester can do while we signed other team’s excess like Cedric or Luiz. Or we overpaid for Pepe. I started to like Saliba. I am sure that he could help our defense once he is fully integrated. If all goes well, we could sell him for £ 80m easily.
Not a surprise of the volume of comments when losing 3-0.
Imagine if we’d won 3-0 comments would be less then half
If anyone spouts any nonsense about Xhaka just give them a simple reply.
Hertha Berlin = bid of 25 million.
A loss of 15 million on him after originally buying him for 40m.
That’s how much the football world outside of Arsenal and Arteta thinks of Granit Xhaka.
Rich,
Most of the above could be fixed by
a) Accomplished Director of Football – (Ralf Rangnick?)
b) Experienced coach used to rotating his squad.and not ‘sidelining’ good prospects
(Balogun) especially when you have Europa League to give them games.
Best signing Arsenal make for next season is an experienced accomplished Director of Football.
And get a new backroom team because the current setup is not fit for purpose.
The main issue with the club is the Kroenkes…Not only because they put no money into the club…They make terrible decision after terrible decision….Or no decision at all.
Imagine if we had an owner with an actual interest in Arsenal.
Rich absolutely ARSENAL ARE AN EASY TOUCH.
Rich You’re right. It’s worse than ever. The absolute waste and mismanagement from the top down It’s becoming so clear that Wenger was the one thing preventing what we are seeing now. Only the most stubborn and childish refuse to admit it. With david Dein and pat rice gone, Wenger was alone. He made mistake. But he loved the club and we were a damn sight better off with him than we have been with Raul and Gazidis and emery and the kroenkes and edu and Huss and vinnai. All fucking chancers and conmen that should be nowhere near our… Read more »
Ishola70April 4, 2021 15:00:32
If anyone spouts any nonsense about Xhaka just give them a simple reply.Hertha Berlin = bid of 25 million
Ishola.
We sold Henry for £16m, Cole for £5m and vieira for £11m
@CT Those were Liverpool’s last eight PL games. P8, W2, L6. My point being we played a team woefully out of form yesterday and made them look like worldies. The same players and managers in the last two months managed to lose to Brighton, Fulham and Everton amongst others but we couldn’t lay a glove on them.
If we’d have put any pressure on them at all from the off (as Pedro’s preview posted noted that we should do) chances are that it would have been a totally different game. More to do with our failings than Liverpool’s quality IMO.
I don’t understand how Arteta can play Elneny and Ceballos with Torreira on loan.
To get brutally honest, Torreira has been a better player during his arsenal career than I’ve seen from Partey thus far. I really hope he improves because I’m pretty unimpressed with a £50m, ready made, finished article, match winning, leader of a central midfielder.
I’d not seen much of him before he came to us, very little in fact, so I didn’t know much of what to expect but I expected better than we are seeing.
@Wiglaf
Henry & PV4 were at the tail end of their best years, Cole was sold for £5m plus Gallas but even so that was an appalling deal for us because we screwed his contract negotaitions (and he’d lost faith in our willingness to compete).
Plus that was fifteen or so years ago when £10m+ was decent money.
wiglaf/don
They are poor examples. As well as transfer fees being nothing like they were then to now you put in a player who had already had his best years in an Arsenal shirt and a player who basically signed on a loophole.
Best you keep to grieving over old man Wenger.
Andy
The point is that £25m for xakha during the beginning of a pandemic is not the insult some idiots make it out to be. I think we should be questioning the £50m lump sum paid for Partey as I’m starting to wonder if it was a mistake. I already think the £27m on Gabriel was too much.
I don’t recall any beginning of a pandemic when Hertha Berlin put their bid of 25m in for Xhaka.
I think videos of Chinese people falling down dead in the streets due to covid that went viral were after that 25m bid.
I wonder what the eye test of Arsenal’s performance in yesterday’s match would tell us. We are back to the pre_X’mas’s state.
As others have said player decisions under Arteta have made a difficult job that much harder and as others have noted are building up. Wrong decision on the goalkeeper. Signing Willian. Extending Luiz. Persuading Xhaka to stay. Renewing Ceballos. Not planning properly regarding the CBs. Not utilising Martinelli properly. Individual player successes under Arteta have been few and far between. The emergence of Saka and to a lesser extent Smith Rowe. In regards Tierney he is just a good player so didn’t really need emerging. One thing that you can’t pin on Arteta though is the ludicrous fee paid for… Read more »
As i write this. Tottenham and their dinosaur manager are 4th. Trust the process
La croqueta
“As i write this. Tottenham and their dinosaur manager are 4th. Trust the process”
FFS. Let’s all laugh at Spurs eh.
Although the Dinamo Zagreb event was golden.
Willock scores
WILLOCK..
Willock stealing points from Spurs
Yes Spurs.
That’s more like it.
Their title push that was proclaimed on here didn’t quite materialise did it.
Joe willock just scored a late equaliser to put them 5th
Arteta is likely to fail in the long run but remember it was worth the roll of the dice on him rather than engage in Mourinho however unlikely it was that Mourinho would come on board at Arsenal anyway.
Applaud Pedro, but it’s surprising since people have been censored for similar comments.
Happy he is finally coming around to the truth
I want Arteta to really succeed but he is simply just a poor coach at this time.
Really don’t understand his logic from a tactical, selection or style of play POV.
THE man is simply not good enough.
Just my two cents
Its a close race between 9th and 12th
Joe willock is a true gooner. Fuck spuds.
If we take 6/6 against Sheffield United + Fulham, and qualify for the Semi Finals, the mood will turn again Yesterday wasn’t pretty, but in the grander scheme of things dropping points against Burnley + West Ham will be more harmful than yesterday Liverpool are one of the best teams in Europe, in spite of their recent struggles In our two league games against them, they’re the team I’ve been most impressed with If we win 6/8 of our last league games, secure roughly 60 points, and get to a coin toss final, I’d have probably thought that was about… Read more »
Washed up Mourinho is still seven points clear of Arteta who is supposedly doing a “fantastic job”.
All the excuse made and if Arteta doesn’t get a win in the Europa league and we finish where we are now in the league, that deserves a sacking. You can’t deflect and say performances are good and say 10th is a good place. I would tolerate him for one more season but It is the right time to judge his capabilities. And so far it’s been disappointing. I would say that about any other coach that would have us in the same position that we are right now. I don’t know if he can compete at the top level… Read more »
I enjoy reading what people think, but I am unable to stomach all the disrespectful remarks relating to Wenger. He gave us the best football we have ever seen, some of the best players in the world and pride and enjoyment. Perhaps he wasn’t able to leave when he should, but PLEASE STOP THE COMMENTS: They show you up for the ignoramuses you are!
Rich
Agree with most of what you have said today. Your football opinions are not bad.
‘’ I enjoy reading what people think, but I am unable to stomach all the disrespectful remarks relating to Wenger. ‘’
Mate u might as well stop reading le grove cause if you’re a regular reader then u shd know that’s not going to change
What people don’t understand when stating that others are disrespectful towards Wenger is that it is not about being disrespectful towards him. It’s more being disrespectful to those that couldn’t let go of Wenger even when it was clear that his best days were behind him.
And still to this day we see comments that show some fans can’t let go.
It’s been said so many times before that however much Wenger was one of Arsenal’s greatest managers there was an error in keeping him on for as long as we did in his last years.
Lot of poor performances out there yesterday, starting with the manager. Outfield players will take the majority of the blame, but I think Leno struggled. Even in matches where he does make an eye catching save or two, he often puts the team in danger. He has two years left on his contract. The club should not take the easy path and renew. They likely will as they don’t see him to be a problem.
I thought the game evolved yesterday over the crucial first ten minutes…it started with parity and a very hesitant Liverpool were there for the taking…instead we backed off and they realised that we were there for the taking and took us
I’m hoping that there are no deep scars from this performance that prevent us from bouncing back on Thursday…there are certainly lessons to be learned, unfortunately we seem to be unable to learn them
Nice try Ishola to explain the abuse but your wrong.. some of the names called by people on this site were ridiculous. Think one poster even stated that they wished he would die
What gets me is Arteta saying he was annoyed and didn’t expect that performance. Any fan that has witnessed this season knew that that line-up would tank. Ceballos – great against second rate Europa teams – against the Champions? CB pair not having played together for ages (ever?) CB at RB that always works. Sulky club captain who can’t even be arsed to turn up on time for the North London Derby – gets more time out wide. Subs Elneny on – so bad he can’t even get game time in the Egypt side (and has a row with the… Read more »
If NewCastle stays in the EPL, they may want to buy Willock.
Rich you’re very optimistic if we can win the last 6 games?
We usually play better when the pressure is off. We are a couple injuries away from total collapse. Used to be able to kind of predict where we would win a game, not anymore.
The team lacks cohesion and leadership. Where was the motivation yesterday.? Liverpool weren’t great yesterday and we could of beaten them had the game plan been a little better.
Our senior players have been a disgrace this season.
https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/comparing-mikel-artetas-first-50-premier-league-games-at-arsenal-with-unai-emery-and-arsene-wengers-last-50/
Doesn’t make for good reading for the generational one
Ceballos performance level this season has been disastrous in far too many games. He is a weak link and the idea that we would consider spending money on him this summer is complete madness.
What exactly does he offer? He is defensively weak and offensively lacks both goals and assists. The only argument in his favour is that he can be a neat passer if he is not under
pressure.
Let him go back to RM at end of season and we should look for a more dynamic central midfielder who can rotate in midfield with Xhaka and/or Partey.
“Wenger-esque clown’ Just want to pay tribute to Arteta’s remarkable achievement. With just eight league matches left, Arsenal are mathematically safe on 42 points! Unreal progress from Arteta, having had a measly £100m to spend over summer; a whole pre-season to prepare and given the flux Chelski, ManYoo, Spurs and Liverpool have been through this season. Given how abysmally Liverpool have played for 3-4 months, nice touch from Arteta to donate an easy thrashing warmup game and the customary 3 points. Quite amazing this Wengeresque clown Arteta has already lost TWELVE league games, and could still lose another 5-6! A… Read more »
Ishola70April 4, 2021 16:53:33
What people don’t understand when stating that others are disrespectful towards Wenger is that it is not about being disrespectful towards him. It’s more being disrespectful to those that couldn’t let go of Wenger even when it was clear that his best days were behind him.
Total wanker thing to say. Who are you to say what it’s about to anyone?
btw the title of this latest blog post “Europa League Now Dangerously Important for Arteta” basically could have been predicted when the first ball was kicked at the start of this season. This is the Arsenal level.
As said before this is case of Arteta turning this around next season.
If it’s not a case of a turn around then it just means fans have just accepted continuous mediocrity now for ever more.