We’ve entered the deadzone part of the season.
There’s nothing to play for. The football has gone back to being shit again. Arteta is playing the November hits because he’s more concerned over proving out his fantasies that his big summer misses will click for him.
A lot of fans didn’t like what I penned yesterday. Many people preferred to focus on the woodwork and missed chances. I can’t have it.
That was a shit performance from a starting line-up we all had a bad feeling about. Not just that, it was another example of Arteta having different vibes for different players. Senior players are allowed to be shit for 80 minutes… young players get yanked early if there’s a sniff of a bad day at the office.
… we didn’t lose though. This is a results business you might say. Well, for me, that’s not actually what we’re judging Arteta on this season… this year was supposed to be about performances and it was a chance to monitor patterns in his approach to the game.
We can all tolerate mistakes. Every coach makes them. What you can’t abide by is the same mistakes being made over and over again.
Gabriel Martinelli should be starting. There’s no data out there underpinning a reason why we’d start a low energy Willian ahead of him. It’s blind favouritism.
The Premier League is dead. There’s no reason for Arteta to put out a senior team tomorrow. This squad isn’t capable of maturity. If Arteta puts senior players in tomorrow, they’ll see it as a punishment, and we’ll get a nothing performance again (just like we did against Villa last season).
Tomorrow, against the worst team in the league, we should be putting out players we need to learn things about. Azeez? Why not. Joel Lopez? What do we have to lose? Martinelli? Yes please. New deal Flo Balogun through the middle? Why the fuck not. Cal Chambers as a centre back? He can play ball, start him. Mat Ryan? Should be. Rumours are Leno wants out, could anyone care less right now?
I don’t gives a shit about going 11th to 9th. I don’t care about Willian, Lacazette, and Auba right now. I care about moving on fromt his dreadful pattern of mistakes that Arteta is presiding over.
The fans will forgive kids, they’ll forgive players trying… they won’t forgive a manager picking the same players that let him down over and over again. They won’t forgive the man who promised to be protagonists stepping into tomorrow with a negative approach.
Willian does not give you control.
Mo Elneney does not give you control.
Power, pace and hunger gives you control.
Time is earned as a coach. It is a reward for good performances. We tracked well for about 12 weeks. Now the wheels look like they’ve fallen off. If we’re heading out of the back end of this season bumming results, then it’s hard to say there’s been progress.
Winning the Europa League cannot be a plaster for a flailing manager. Performances need to be there, with these players, otherwise we’re heading for more misery. We’re not simply looking at the old guard of players dropping howlers now. Thomas Partey has gone from Rolls Royce to Ford Cortina. Cedric, an Arteta signing, cost us the other day. Bernd Leno has dropped his level. Gabriel has gone from world beater to embarrassment. These are on Arteta’s watch. It’s not good enough.
A good way to get performances is by reading the room and picking a squad that wants to be at the game tomorrow.
Lose to Sheffield United and we are in the Unai Emery death-spiral.
Let’s see what the coaching staff have got, I have very, very low hopes we’ll see something unpredictable. That’s a shame. Arteta has been the architecht of his own hill and he’s determined to walk up it slowly ready to end it with the Sword of Senior Deference.
Very meek.
See you in the comments. x
Leno should be rested as he has terrible back ache picking balls from the back of the net
Danny because the moaning cunt fans would have a heart attack if we drew this game. And if he’s going to be an option there on Thursday get him some minutes next to Mari.
Cazorla
True. Would rather have started him to Lacazette today.
Saka isn’t being rested because Arteta’s job is on the line
And we loaned out our only natural competition fo Tierney in January without replacing him, and now Tierney is injured, we don’t have a left back
Planning or anticipation really isn’t this lots strength
Sheffield United are already down
Arsenal’s league fate is already sealed
This is the perfect dead runner game, the game of the season for us is away in Prague so why in the world is Saka being played in defense today?
Why not keep him fresh for Thursday?
*dead rubber game
haha
tots and Maureen taking it up da ass
Pedro is back at it on his twitter line.
Stating that Arteta is one of the most talented young coaches in europe on the back of someone else saying it.
He ain’t dropped Arteta. He is still firmly on the Teets train. Fair play Peds.
Lloris the most overrated GK in the league
Imagine dropping points with our strongest 11 and losing a player for Thursday, the ‘moaning cunt fans’ will have a field day. The generational one never fails to disappoint.
Cazorla
April 11, 2021 18:20:34
moaning cunt fans would have a heart attack if we drew this game.
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I get where you’re coming from but seriously, this match is so irelevant, even if we win 10 nil!
Fully agree diss
Is it money for the higher finish
I get where you’re coming from but seriously, this match is so irelevant, even if we win 10 nil!
If we lose.this game it will not be irrelevant on le Grove there will be anarchy.
I will have to seek out more golden nuggets from Mr Graham Hunter.
https://grahamhunter.tv/about/
His bio reveals he’s a jock with a penchant for Spanish football and in particular Barcelona.
Hence his little crush on Arteta.
ishola
Pedro’s exhausting with this arteta worship
I just saw the line up (thanks Nelson as always!l and i am really surprised to see Martinelli selected!!! Wow…. MA is genuinely feeling the heat. I am hoping he is starting to realise that sudelining hard workers is not the best policy. I just hope it is not just a one off. I have read plenty of (fair) comments as to why he is not playing the youth more often (ie selecting that cunt Willian over Pepe or Martinelli). For me the reason is simple: Kroenke wants his top 4 finish cash cow to keep growing the value of… Read more »
I agree with Arteta this time. We need Saka to play LB on Thursday. We have to let him practise that position some what. Should sub him out after 70 mins.
Ishola
Not shocked you’ve no idea who Graham Hunter is.
Don’t really like Saka being used as a LB. He is our most complete forward and shouldn’t be treated like a bit part player. Other than that this is a good line up. It is the best midfield and defense we could put out there with the match against Slavia in mind. I don’t know though if Ceballos has enough zest to fill the void of ESR or Odegaard. I hope we can break them down because it isn’t the most creative midfield with Xhaka and Ceballos out there at the same time.
Diss
Why not keep him fresh for Thursday?
Because MA would feel (rightly) embarrassed if we actually lost to a club who are currently last in the table.
This for me just shows MA’s total lack of confudence in general and will do anything to show that he is not a crap manager. Hence selecting and selecting Saka in a very meaningless game.
If I was MA, my big worry is Thursday’s return game vs SP. Getting dumped out of the EL will be his death knell.
If Saka gets injured, I’m Arteta out. That’s it.
Ishola Just listened to Hunter’s tidbit. He only goes as far as to say that he’s an exceptional coach tactically. Which even if it were true is only one small component of the managerial jigsaw puzzle. All of the best managers in history and the most successful ones have always been excellent man-managers and handlers of players first and foremost. Something which Arteta clearly has struggled with here. He may improve in the future in this aspect but as of now, he’s miles out of his depth in this regard and isn’t ready for the Arsenal job. Hunter also keeps… Read more »
Graham is right. Arteta destroyed his managerial with the single move of doing away with Martinez. It will go down as one of the most bizzare moves in the history of sport let alone football and certainly the most costly at the Arsenal.
Absolutely suicidal that. We’d been sitting at least 10 points more if Emi was in between those sticks.
I remember up til that point I was an Arteta fan myself. Even had his wallpaper on my laptop. That single move turned my opinion and impressipn about him 180 fucking degree.
Charlie
Are you telling me we are talking about two Graham Hunter’s here?
Are you telling me this tenuous link to Arteta is non-existent?
I have eaten every football word that Mr Hunter has previously generously given us. I just hope it’s not the wrong Mr Hunter I have been worshipping.
I feel the writing football media is so clued up and have no agendas at all.
* managerial career
Weagle
Most of the writing football media and some of the podcasters (Pedro has an entertaining podcast) are full of shit and have agendas or fixations.
In this case it’s Spain and Barcelona.
Take it with a pinch of salt.
It would be wrong anyway for Pedro to give up on Arteta so early after backing him so heavily previously.
He has to hold out for a while longer yet going into next season before succumbing to the inevitable.
Not sure anyone needs some journalist to try and convince them of Arteta’s potential or how good he is or maybe because the evidence on ground suggests he’s neither a good coach or manager.
Oh and he’s tactically poor while we’re at it
Ish
I would also be taking a massive pinch of salt re MA based on what we have seen so far throughout his tenure with us. I haven’t seen a single tactical masterclass by MA that would warrant the title of generational in any of his games.
MA still has a shit ton to learn and if I was he, I would start, like all managers, at the bottom of the ladder and learn from experience and work your way up. Nothing about MA screams genius at all.
I think i will watch the game Pierre likes that involves balls, sticks, holes and swinging
Think this is the first time in Arteta’s career that Ceballos is playing in his natural position. I know he’s been horrid lately, but I think a lot of that is Arteta putting a square peg in a round hole. Dani likes taking chances and you cant do that as a CDM.
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Wenger Eagle
So right why should our club be his experiment.
We supposed to be moving upward, but now it’s down with Willian and co.
Now that’s a line up!!
Let’s do this
Weight of passing just usually not right…
With Martinelli’s performance tonight, hopefully we are one step closer to having the youngest offensive 4 in Europe..
He thoroughly deserved his goal .