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.
Big clubs don’t let the likes of Cellabos and Odegaards
leave if they are consistently good.?
We have seen both these players are inconsistent.?
But that’s where we are.?
Odegaards certainly better than what we have but is that enough.?
Think it was a it premature mugging off mourinho too.
They’ve lost a lot of good players, spent less than us
and are still superior to us
Ok Wig the overwhelming majority of fans hated Wenger vehemently and wished death upon him rather than seeing that his best days were behind him and we should have moved on from him in his last few seasons. I’m sure that was the case. Wig is one of those that can’t let go of Wenger. He thinks Wenger of 2021 would be doing very good things at Arsenal to this day. Who cares whether the team finishes 5th or 9th or 10th. It all amounts to failure at the end of the day. A big club is not eating at… Read more »
The stats say Arsenal had 3 shots with 2 on target, I can’t recall any shots on goal.
Samesong We got on an 8 run unbeaten streak in the league after Xmas, 20 points from 24 available We’ve beaten Leicester + Spurs Sheffield United Fulham Everton Newcastle West Brom Chelsea Palace Brighton We’re erratic, but there’s definitely plenty of points for the taking, statistically we’ve got the easiest run in in the top half, we could easily win 6/8 of those games Our potential run to the final of the Europa isn’t the worst either, and Spurs have already given us the warning we needed about Slavia Prague Just trying to provide some optimism in a really gloomy… Read more »
The worst of Wenger was still better than Arteta thus far.
Taking a 12 minute compilation from 50 games and parading it some sort of proof Arsenal are flying high ( as someone did a few blogs back) is an insult to anyone who watches football on the regular.
You could take any PL side outside of Sheffield and show 12 minutes of scintillating football they had played over a season.
Improving defense is great,
Improving it at the cost of offensive output though is far less impressive.
Any manager can do that.
James Wood
Odegaard would add value to Arsenal if we have a decent team/squad.
Sadly yesterday’s team selected highlighted the deficiencies in our squad. That team would have lost to almost every team in the EPL and I am including teams who are at relegation level.
Tom,
“Improving defense is great,
Improving it at the cost of offensive output though is far less impressive.
Any manager can do that.”
How dare you doubt the generational elite coach that is Arteta. You are an heretic that be cast aside with another chant.
Hail Arteta saviour of Arsenal who saved us from relegation.
‘Taking a 12 minute compilation from 50 games and parading it some sort of proof Arsenal are flying high ( as someone did a few blogs back) is an insult to anyone who watches football on the regular.
You could take any PL side outside of Sheffield and show 12 minutes of scintillating football they had played over a season.’
You can take this to the bank!
The clip was on fast forward
Let that sink in!
Would rather buy Buendia than Odegaard
Ishola70April 4, 2021 17:34:45 Ok Wig the overwhelming majority of fans hated Wenger vehemently and wished death upon him rather than seeing that his best days were behind him and we should have moved on from him in his last few seasons. Bullshit The overwhelming majority on le grove, not the wider fanbase. By the end it was 50/50 and I’ll guarantee you the ones who wanted him out hadn’t heard of arsenal before the 2000s. There are a few, who doubted Wenger when he first arrived (Arsene who) and they had to wait a looong time to publicly air… Read more »
Remember when we signed Pepe, and fans were talking about Aubameyang, Lacazette and Pepe as rivals to Mane, Firmino and Salah? Anything less than third with this squad was abject failure? Those were the days… They even made up a cute little abbreviation Ozil + Pepe + Aubameyang + Lacazette = OPAL Yesterday was the first time that Lacazette + Aubameyang + Pepe had started together in the league Hopefully it will also be the last time we see it as well… £220 million for Ozil, Lacazette, Pepe, Aubameyang Over a £1,000,000 p/w in wages between them Our main issue… Read more »
Rich
Yes I suppose. Out of that list I can see maybe beating Sheffield United and Newcastle. The rest will give us a game.
What happens if the young guns are broken. That’s our creativity out the window.
I admire your optimism but I am the complete opposite at this moment in time.
As for the Europa if we start any game like we did yesterday we will get battered.
Valentin
Nothing personal.
I still want him to succeed…..just haven’t seen anything special from him yet, and my expectations were way more modest than most others on here.
And no, I definitely don’t think Arsenal need 6 new players to compete for top four.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9434673/Mikel-Arteta-consider-SELLING-Bukayo-Saka-fund-huge-Arsenal-overhaul-summer.html
Will it not be prudent to give away Mikel Arteta for free ?
Just yesterday it was clear what a difference Saka and ESR make and today this shit ?
Man is a LUNATIC
Here is something to make some of us feel very old….
Not one player in the combined line ups for Aston Villa and Fulham today had been born before the date of the very first round of Premier League fixtures in 1992!
I think Pepe illustrates perfectly right failings of the KSE owned Arsenal. A good player no doubt, but a £72 million one? Not a chance. As has been proved with Sanhelli’s departure, this transfer stank of agents fees and not being in the best interests of the club. Only a year later, when KSE finally seemed to realise something was amiss, did they bring in someone to investigate, and action was taken. All this previously happened under their extreme hands off watch. This exemplifies perfectly their poor running of the club. They may invest, but they don’t oversee how it… Read more »
Fulham falling apart.
Emi has destroyed them , surely.
Aston Villa turnaround. From 0-1 down to 3-1.
Vow
Asoa
Where’s do you think he’d go?
Nobody is buying saka. Liverpool city Bayern and chelsea have an abundance in his positions. Madrid want a striker. Barca have no money. And I doubt he’d go to psg. Would he go juve after the time Ramsey has had there
Man U maybe?
Look at Villa desire from 1-0 to winning 3-1 now. And they are missing their best player.
Looks like we’ll drop to the lower half of the table. Ar least we have more than 40 pts.
Chris
The crazy thing about Pepe was that even some of the more casual observers of the French league who post on here said at the time of his transfer that he wasn’t all that,
Some of us who got excited about his transfer did so clearly based on his YouTube 12 minute compilation ( oh the irony).
Saka should be tied down with a decent contract . Buying an equivalent is beyond Arsenal, plus the Club is now no longer attractive given the reputation of Arteta as a graveyard of young talent plodder
Selling Saka, Smith-Rowe and Tierney The three players we should be looking to build a new team around, in order to fund a new rebuild Would be such an Arsenal thing to do The conspiracy theory doing the rounds that Arsenal football club is some type of social experiment, just to see how far you can push people, before they actually crack Might have some merit…. Selling Ashley Cole to Chelsea over £5,000 p/w was infuriating Selling Cesc, and then sitting on our hands as he signed for Chelsea, was really tough to take Selling RVP, and watching him win… Read more »
Tom I think some fans also get over excited by big transfer fees. “Oh look we have spent £72 million he must be great!” For that money we should be getting a player at least close to the finished article. I do think Pepe is a good player in terms of bringing him on as an impact sub and he has had good games such as against Wolves, but overall he has been an underwhelming signing to put it politely, and it’s hard to see how he will turn into what we need at this stage. It’s why I worry… Read more »
Ole Gunnar Solskjær isa proving that he’s not as clueless as many think.
He’s picked Dean Henderson ahead of De Gea today.
That takes balls.
Chris
The only time he’s been given a run of games in two years and he’s was the best player on the pitch during that run
He was then taken off after scoring at wolves beacuse Luiz was sent off for being fouled by the wolves striker
Wiglaf
My point is he is a potentially good player but not what £72 million should be giving you, and the whole saga is a perfect illustration of how the owners have operated the club.
I have said he has shown flashes of brilliance here and there, but that isn’t good enough for the fee we paid. The fee isn’t his fault, but as I say, the problem is that it is one example of how poorly the club has been run.
Pepe has 5 goals 1 assist EPL
Saka has 5 goals 2 assists in the EPL
Aubameyang has 9 goals in the EPL
Diet pepS Tactics is the problem here
Poor personnel decisions, one after the other. For me, that’s been Arteta and Edu’s trademark.
I find that Arteta didn’t manage the playing time of Saka, ESR and Tierney smartly. You can feel that they’ll break down after so many games. Jose got an agreement with Gareth Southgate for Kane’s game time for the national team. Why didn’t Arteta set up something with the Scotland national team for Tierney’s game time. Everything points to Arteta being an inexperience coach..
No other significant consistency shown in any facet of the game that we can be proud of. So disappointing.
Chris
Yeah I agree. No Way he’s a £72m player but I still think he’s the most gifted player at the club.
Pepe needs a coach who offers him consistent game time and no hand brake to succeed. Currently, he plays one game and then watches two/three games. Not many players can do well under this condition.
I don’t care about anything else, I would rather have Arteta fuck off rather than lose Gabi over the way he has been treated recently. Arteta needs to stop playing his favorites and start Gabi.
I can slag Arteta and say he won’t really succeed to any great level at Arsenal but it doesn’t stretch to blaming him regarding Pepe.
Pepe has character flaws on the pitch. That’s been plain to see.
Shame really because he has the ability.
We fired Wenger because we were tired of finishing only in the top 4.
Some folks created a toxic atmosphere so we could get rid of the guy, irrespective of whether it was good or not for the club.
Now we are to believe that some other chap needs to be given a few years to get us back into top 4.
And also, that we have no money, contrary to what they told us all these years.
PS: Not a Wenger fan here, but a gooner for over 35 years.
@MGooner, Wenger had this club standing still from late aughts on, while other teams got smarter, richer, and more ruthless. Might Wenger have gotten a handfull of better results than Emery/Mikel? Yeah maybe. But you cant deny that our long term stagnation is down to him and that’s what we’re all trying to correct right now.
MGooner “We fired Wenger because we were tired of finishing only in the top 4.” Wenger finished outside of the top four and out of the CL in his last two seasons. It looked like the dye had been cast in regards to him having had better days and was past his best. Besides expectations and aspirations can differ in relation to what the circumstances are. I admit that people were getting a bit weary of Wenger even before he failed to qualify for the CL. But there is nothing wrong with fans wanting to see the club progress and… Read more »
@Venga, Dani I do not subscribe to your argument. The old man could not get us to win the league but at least we were among the top clubs in the league. While standing still, we managed to be in the champions league for ten years during which time we were selling our top players. We also managed a CL final and nearly won it the year Eduardo was butchered and refs turning against us in the remaining games. I actually miss watching us play the top clubs in the Champions League. We used to have a status and were… Read more »
Bisouma is looking very good against manure
Wenger used to tell the fans every season that Arsenal can win the league.
Was it any wonder that fans turned on him and got bored with him?
It may have just been a proud man making a statement that no-one really believed but nonetheless he used to put it out there every season.
Of course the longer Wenger went without a league title but was still proclaiming the team could win the league he inevitably started to get ridiculed.
Tom
Pepe youtube highlight reel didnt even look that good. Its not like he is a silky skillful player he is awkward, messy dribbler who looks perpetually off balance and is very one footed. He isn’t robben like with the ball.
Of course the longer Wenger went without a league title but was still proclaiming the team could win the league he inevitably started to get ridiculed.
None of this changes the fact that we were better off before he was sacked than we have been without him.
A whole legacy destroyed in 18 months of tedium
@Mgooner “While standing still, we managed to be in the champions league for ten years during which time we were selling our top players.” True. Remember why we were selling our best players though. RVP was assured our transfer policy would not be changing after finishing 19 points off first and barely sliding into top 4 with a last day win @ West Brom. Let’s remember that squad: Park Chu-young, Andre Santos, Squilaci, Jenkinson, Gervinho, Chamakh, Benayoun. If Wenger had any ambition to win, he could’ve opened the check book that year, but he chose not to. Other than that,… Read more »
@Ishola He even managed to get Bendtner to believe he could win the ballon d’or. But to his credit, we were in the CL with players like him, like Cygan, Like Senderos. These players would not even make the squad in teams like Sheffield Utd or Bolton but they delivered for us. It was his job to make us believe and he did that. No one believed when he said one year before the invincibles that we could go a full season unbeaten but we did exactly that. It’s a confidence game. The bad side is however is that fans… Read more »
This was decline!!!
https://dailycannon.com/2018/11/szczesny-and-fabianski-recall-embarrassing-stories-involving-ex-arsenal-coach-garry-peyton/
Honest post.
Going nowhere with Arteta. This players are way better then this. Can’t motivate prep and react on game. Bad judgment and transfer. WTF are you guys seeing in him? Good speaker and thats about it.
Wig
“A whole legacy destroyed in 18 months of tedium”
It’s the passing of the times Wig. Arsenal couldn’t be Arsene FC forever.
I think even though Wenger made noises to the media that he wanted to stay on and was probably daft enough to want to continue until his grave deep down he probably knew his time was probably up as well.
We have no midfield ATM. That we need Xhaka so badly to perform well says it all. We have great individual defenders except at RB/RCB. We have great forwards, ESR, Saka. Nothing to connect them except Thomas, who IMO, is having a tough time settling in because he plays a man down with ceballos, and has to cover a lot of ground with the slowest mofo Xhaka. We need a midfield.
Gutless performance yesterday, Rocky would be spinning in his grave, Arteta sent the team out not to lose, One shot at goal the whole game, no pressure on a week bindippers defence. No one comes out of that shitfest with any honour in tact. We’re sat midtable, not just missing out on second spot. Sat behind those giants of football, Leicester, Everton, villa, spurs, west ham and level on points with newly fucking promoted Leeds United! We are a disgrace. We are no better Pedro than under emery in fact we’re a damn sight worse. I’m sorry but how many… Read more »
@Venga, Dani The Suarez thing was apparently on Gazidis, The Catalyst for change. RVP just had one good season for us after being a crock for 8 years. He wanted out and there was not much we could do. I am not sure we had a big transfer budget considering the market prices at the time. He wanted to buy top players and they cost. If you want a top midfielder to replace Ramsey, you need to pay a lot of money which we did not have. You do not go into the market to buy a Xhaka like Gazidis… Read more »
@MGooner, and I didn’t even touch on Arsene’s contract management.
Gazidis was not Arsene’s superior. Pedro literally asked Gazidis “Who is Arsene Wenger accountable to” to which Gazidis said “the fans.” Arsene ran everything. If you’re choosing to blame Alexis for our decline, I would ask you, “who bought and played Alexis?”
I think gazidis done a great job of hiding behind wenger then throwing him under the bus Every sneak relief on him to front it all up. Just remember, when Wenger had people he could trust the club was elite. The decline started the day DD was pushed out and kroenke started buying in. The suits sold the club, Wenger and the fans down the river It should have been called out then. We had a billionaire at the club. Just like chelsea and city and we had to sell our best every fucking season. That would NEVER had happened… Read more »
@Venga, Dani Maybe Pedro believes Gazidis but I am usually scptical of S. Africans. The bottom line with Arteta is that ESR and Saka papered over the cracks after christmas. Without them in the side we are ordinary. I could not believe he put Ceballos in that midfield. Mo was a better alternative, the guy plays well when he is given a run of games. Cedric on the bench, I don;t know what to say. Pepe starting ahead of Willian – we needed experience and cool heads in that game. Martinelli on the bench again – well, what can I… Read more »
@Mgooner: RVP on his Gazidis/Wenger meeting: “It was Arsenal’s decision not to offer me a deal. That is up to them. “After many conversations, it became clear that we had different ideas about the club. “I had seven points where I thought Arsenal could improve and, in my opinion, those seven points, they should start dealing with those straightaway to compete with the best teams. “Yeah [I remember what they were] but it doesn’t really matter what points they were. What matters is Ivan decided that he didn’t agree on one single point of those seven points, which is fair… Read more »
RVP on urging Wenger to make better signings “At a given moment I felt called upon to say what Arsenal could do better in order to win the league,” he said in an interview on Kaj Gorgels’ YouTube channel. “I felt we lacked a winning mentality, and asked Arsene Wenger to sign Giorgio Chiellini.” Chiellini is an old-fashioned, rugged defender and Van Persie feels those characteristics were what Arsenal required. “I have played against him a few times, and he is a genuine winner,” Van Persie said. “You could see that when he played against Holland a few weeks ago.… Read more »
Sorry don’t agree Pedro. That post seemed an emotional response to an admittedly terrible night.
Yes Arteta has made same mistakes but the team needs to step up mentally, take personal responsibility too. Arteta needs to buy in some leaders as not many on the pitch and one of the non-leaders is our captain (that was an Arteta mistake though)
@Wiglaf
We had Usmanov as minority sharholder and the chap said he would support us in the transfer window.
Usmanov is ten time richer than the Chavs owner but the yankee blocked him.
@Le Professor
It’s pointless to buy under Arteta. The problem is Arteta and Kronke. We are going nowhere as a club.
This has become a shit show.
We let West Ham put 3 past us before showing up in that match. But yesterday was terrible. I could not believe this was Arsenal.
@Venga, Dani
We will never know if Chellini would have been a good fit but my view is that the Italian league is quite slow compared to the PL.
Mgooner
That’s my point. Dein was trying to position usmanov. They froze him out. Wenger was on his Todd.
They froze him out and now we are 10th
Pedro
Just listened to your podcast
I have to say…I am Johnny Cochrane
The lad does try very hard to help you snap out of your Arteta trance.
I’ll give you kudos for having someone who disagrees with you about Arteta.
Man U saved by a dodgy VAR decision, AGAIN. It’s disgraceful
It’s no surprise the board chose the wrong manager when they dithered for years before sacking Wenger..
KendoApril 4, 2021 21:14:02
It’s no surprise the board chose the wrong manager when they dithered for years before sacking Wenger..
No
They chose the wrong billionaire to sell out to
Anyway,. You fuckers for the arsenal you deserv.
No soul, no identity, no heritage, no class. Just marxist programming in every corner of our empty soulless stadium.
Agree with Wiglaf. The decline started when Dein left in 2007. I remember saying to a Spurs fan in my office on the day that DD left that this is the beginning of the end. It was a slow decline but that is when it started. Yesterday was awful , but we have just got to go to the end of the season and look at the position then. Europa victory is unlikely but not impossible given the draw. At present 9th in the table and a Europa win would be satisfactory, it would also raise the value of some… Read more »
Pedro
Have to give you credit for your podcast. I think you’ve hit a groove now and it has become a really good listen.
It really feels that with or without Arteta, Arsenal have become trapped as a club without an identity. We can’t compete with the megaclubs but we’re behaving like we should (huge fee for Pepe, massive salaries for Auba, Willian etc). It’s time for a total rebuild and forging a completely new identity building around ESR, Saka, Tierney and Saliba. Fans will forgive an inexperienced but promising and adventurous team. They won’t forgive jaded mercenaries.
Wig
“They chose the wrong billionaire to sell out to”
Wenger was against spending “artificially” He used to sermon from his pulpit about the evils of billionaire owners.
So that was a dead duck from the start wasn’t it.
And as Wenger was so clearly against it then of course the overwhelming majority of the fans were against it at the time presumably yourself included?
We win the Arsenal way. We win the Wenger way. In no circumstances do we win the Abramovich way.
Not sure if it’s already been said but Arteta’s first 50 games are worse than Emery’s first 50 and Wenger’s last 50. I wouldn’t be too bothered had it not been for his woeful player management and judging player ability skills. I think he’s an excellent coach and the team look more coherent but the individual player mistakes and shit players elevated above the likes of better players we have on loan and amongst our youngsters is maddening to watch and I’d even be inclined to say that if Wenger were to return he’d get way more out of this… Read more »
Wig
“Just marxist programming in every corner of our empty soulless stadium.”
lol are you looking forward to the continuing taking of the knee next season? This is the EPL brother.
RIP btw to Lorraine Cox .She didn’t get a public vigil. She didn’t tick the necessary boxes for the virtue signallers to latch onto it.
Fuck this Arteta shit show. Didn’t recognize those imposters in the Emirate stadium, until Arsenal is playing again in the Emirate stadium I am taking a break, here is what I substitute it with, RUGBY. Rugby has 3 advantages over football. 1st football is a 90 minute game where players pretend to be injured. Rugby is a 80 minute game where players pretend not to be injured. 2nd the game ends when the teams decide it ends. If one team is behind and in possession of the ball they play on until either they loose possession or the ball gets… Read more »
Bacary
Fully agree.. and to add to that, need to be making signings like Liverpool’s.. Jota, Mane, Wijnaldum to name a few. Showing their potential at the lesser clubs in the league and picking them at prime age, still having potential to fill and hungry to succeed. Bissouma is a prime example of one of these players at present day – it would be absolutely criminal to not raid Brighton for him this summer! Pedro Neto is another – they let Jota go for about £30m so I wouldn’t say Neto would be impossible!
@SWG
to do what you suggested you need a scouting department that knows their job plus people in the power corridors that have an interest in Arsenal. Both of them are badly absent.
A new trophy for Arsenal this season for staying in the top half of the table 😆
MD
I feel like most armchair fans could do better than what’s gone on at the club for the last 15 years!
Watched Bissouma in action again tonight – beating uniteds press, intercepting balls, winning everything on the ground. It would be absolutely criminal for us not to go in for him! But as you said mate, they have no interest in the club.
I just don’t understand how they get it so wrong behind the scenes. It’s been so basic and poor.. everyone can see how it’s gonna unfold apart from these clowns! 🤡
Ishola70April 4, 2021 21:27:31
Wig
“They chose the wrong billionaire to sell out to”Wenger was against spending “artificially” He used to sermon from his pulpit about the evils of billionaire owners.
Ishola
No, bright spark, Dein took that control away from Wenger. Wenger told him who he wanted, Dein made it happen. That’s the way it should always happen. Wenger didn’t trust anyone else once Dein left. Wenger was the draw. All of our signings bar Tierney Pepe and Martinelli have been poor since Wenger left. Our best players were all at the club when Wenger left outside of Tierney.
Yeah that squad that Wenger left for Emery was really good wasn’t it. So good that they failed to get into the top four in Wenger’s last two seasons. The only player that has been of great significance for this side since Wenger left and was brought under his managership has been Aubameyang and that was purely down to the amount of goals he scored previous to this season and of course he has his critics due to him not being the best overall footballer. Wenger left shit around and he always said he wouldn’t do that when he eventually… Read more »
Meanwhile, what exactly is Edu doing? I saw Nedved almost tearing his hair out and going bonkers as Juve messed up yesterday. You can bet your top dollar the coach knows if he makes it to seasons end he’s a lucky man. Does Edu even put any pressure on Arteta? If Arteta is demanding respect and a variety of useless intangibles from players, and jettison those who don’t seem to fall in line does Edu ask him tough questions like ‘Do you want respect or do you wanna fucking win?’ Tell him to get the fucking warriors on the pitch… Read more »
That squad was so good that Wenger left, so good.
It was so good that Emery had to bring in five new signings in his first summer transfer window and two of those were oldies past their best and a kiddie from France.
So good.
“Does Edu watch and say nothing when Arteta decides to leave Saliba out of EPl list yet has space for a perrenial mistake machine like Mustafi whom the lowly German team have decided to dump after less than 10 games?”
ha ha ha ha.
They have dumped him after just 10 matches?
Mustafi was one of the many great players Wenger left behind for Emery.
Wig will tell you.
After seeing a few more replays of Maguire on Welbz earlier, it’s a fucking pen all day! These decisions at OT for united are getting beyond a joke. Especially when you compare them to the ones that go against us! They’re piss poor, just always seem to get something whether it’s a scrappy goal or a dodgy decision..
Could someone explain to me how Arteta’s performance is better than Emery’s?
Raul brought in Diet Pep, birds of a feather flock together,
Im telling you for free!
“Could someone explain to me how Arteta’s performance is better than Emery’s?”
Well KG,
Supreme leader says diet Pep has sauce…
Liverpool played Ozan Kabak and Nathaniel Phillips together and we only got two shots off at their goalie.
That’s generational progress for you right there.
Does anyone know how many minutes of football Eddie has played since Christmas? Why on earth didn’t we loan him out or try to sell him in Jan if we have absolutely zero interest in using him?
There have been over 20 games since Christmas in all competitions. That’s 1800+ minutes. Multiple by 2 to include Eddie and Martinelli since both have been fit and available in this period. 3600+ minutes available for these two players to play.
Have they managed 200 minutes between them???
Pedro a few weeks ago you were justifying Martinelli getting sidelined. What changed? Certainly nothing much on Martinellis side
Just watched the replay. Alexander-Arnold played like a world class right winger. In the first half, he has set up multiple chances. In the 2nd half, he has initiated all three goals. The first goal, he crossed to Jota. The 2nd goal, he passed to Fabinho who then one time it to Salah. For the 3rd goal, he intercepted Gabriel’s pass and passed to Salah who then centered it to Jota. All along, our CAPTAIN who was responsible to cover him, failed miserably. When we are playing a strong team where our left winger has to help out the defense,… Read more »
“The suits sold the club, Wenger and the fans down the river” Then Wenger should have left because Wenger was so much smarter than anyone in the room (in his mind) and should have seen what the outcome was going to be. When DD was removed from the club Wenger saw his survival long term was to grab as much power at the club as possible inserting ‘yes men’ below him. Had Wenger backed DD and handed his resignation in to be actioned by the suits unless DD was reinstated we might have had a far better outcome. Wenger had… Read more »
Bullshit journalism saying we will sell Shaka to fund transfers lol
Wenger did really well till he didn’t
Not really sure why this is a hot topic
Fuck wenger and Fuck arteta
I’m interested in who’s gonna help move this club forward
The owner/leadership have no vision
So any schmoozer who comes along with a semblance of a plan means we’re in for a bad ride as is the case with Arteta
The owners/leadership have no vision
It should clear by now we should EXPECT these kind of performances when Tierney, Saka and ESR are out of the team. Just go back to the game after Chelsea where ESR started and everyone raves about.
They were subbed out at the end of the game and the team reverted to form. The senior players are absolutely horseshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Round Always looks the part in track suit and ear pod hanging out of his ear, but could pass an audition to play Fagan in Oliver Twist. Looking at his career where well it’s very underwhelming with only 1 trophy: FA cup won with us. He’ll, of course, want to claim the community shield as Wengerites do/did. He went from Assistant for one year with Moyes at Manure then jumped to DoF for Aston Villa for 2 years then demoted himself to work for us as Arteta’s assistant. So Arteta clueless, constant error prone rookie for us and ex Everton… Read more »
Haha sell Saka at the complete low point in the market, when no club has a pot to piss in and even oil money is drying up? It’s so stupid…that it could actually have some truth to it. Arsenal, the club which couldn’t negotiate a suck on a tit in a whorehouse.
We could get rid of a few million a week in wages this summer without affecting our performance on the pitch. If we’re going to finish tenth with players on 200k or 300k per week, let’s just go with talented youngsters instead.
It’s pretty clear now that Arteta’s poor individual decisions are what will cost his his career in management.
He has a decent idea about tactics and no doubt is quite popular with the players. But his individual decisions about players and teams are horrible.
There may be more to the story with Nelson as well as I know he wanted to stay, but since arteta rates him as basically useless, wouldn’t it have made far more sense for us to say to Nelson in January I know you want to stay but you’re about 7th choice on the wings and there’s zero chance of you playing, so we insist you go on loan and we’ll reassess where we are in the summer? Instead arteta was lauding Nelson’s good mentality to stay and fight for his place when he knew as well as the rest… Read more »