I thought it was brave of Arsenal exec leadership to jump on Teams with the fans yesterday. Josh and Vinai fucked up. They have apologised to everyone and they took a whole load of questions on the chin.
The challenge with interview questions is that to be good at them, you can’t be emotional. Arsenal fans have been in an extreme pit of hell this week and I think the tension led to questions the exec team could handle.
We didn’t learn a lot from the call, only the things we’ve been talking about all week.
Arsenal didn’t lead the charge on the Super League, but they said yes. We didn’t break the windows, but we had our hands on the goods. The semantics of it don’t matter, we were involved, the fans busted the ruse, and now we are where we are.
There are a few things that don’t matter.
Trust.
Honestly, who cares about trust? What does trust really equate to for us? It’s not tangible. It doesn’t make my experience with Arsenal that much better. It’s just not that important.
Trust, for fans in 2021 isn’t earned… it’s spent.
The stories spreading through the internet are that the club is going to heavily invest in this football club this summer to make up for what they did.
Hold on… what? As a reward for bad behaviour, ownership is going to invest in their own product to make it more competitive?
It’s absurd logic on many levels, but mark my words, if there’s a £100m summer incoming, no one will care about ‘trust.’
The struggle I have with Josh, Vinai, and the execs that went before is they create these weird battlefields in the minds of the fans.
‘Long-term heavy investment is not sustainable’
Firstly, football in general is one of the most sustainable businesses in the world. How many professional clubs went to the wall during the global pandemic? Not many. Football is robust, it never goes broke, it always survives.
Second point, long-term high-level investment is only unsustainable for clubs that don’t want to do it. One of the big issues in the game is that certain clubs use bottomless pits of cash as their weapon of mass destruction, that won’t stop and will always happen as long as there’s oil in the ground.
Third point… if Arsenal just did things properly, they wouldn’t need to keep investing at high levels in the long term because they’d have a sustainable model that buys low, sells high, and constantly feeds high-quality players into the first team or out the door for big fees to other clubs.
Josh talks a good ‘I’m the only sensible businessman in the room’ game but he doesn’t produce evidence of it in the things he does and signs off.
Signing Willian on a 3-year deal at 32 years old for £250k a week was not long-term thinking. We know Chelsea had £120k a week 2 year deal on the table. We know Spurs couldn’t afford him. We know the player didn’t want to leave London. With all that leverage, we still managed to pay double and give an extra year, and no one suffered the consequences of wasting £39m of money we didn’t have when it came to funding the Gunnersaurus.
David Luiz, on big, big money, at 34 is not long-term thinking. £24m all in to replace Koscielny in season one. Then we went in again after he had a shocking season. Will we go there again?
Auba on a mega new deal, at 31, was not long-term thinking. I understand why it happened, if he’d scored 30 goals this season, we’d be 4th, not 9th… but a disciplined businessman with a long-term view would have sold.
Crying about the mess we’re in when it’s of our own making is unacceptable at this point in time.
Here’s the thing, Arsenal fans constantly complain about investment without realizing we’re one of the highest net spenders in the league.
The problem isn’t money, it’s that we give that money to people that spend it badly. That’s on Josh and no one else.
If there’s money available this summer, then he needs to set some rules for how it can be used.
- No contracts to players over the age of 28. Harsh, but needed.
- No players over the age of 24 should be signed.
- Edu needs to shift players out of the club and raise capital. If we win the Europa League, don’t give deals to the bums that have us in 9th right now. Move them on. Be ruthless
- Every name we consider needs to come with a scouting report, no more deals with super-agent buddies.
Josh should get an advisor that has worked in football at a high level behind the scenes. A Chief of Staff type that can help him with decisions and call bullshit on people that don’t give a fuck. Edu cannot be trusted. Look at his relationship with Kia. Look at some of the financial decisions he’s made with certain players. How did the physio get his job in the medical department? Who vetted that? Who continues to let the contacts people do contacts things that look the same as the contacts person before? Where is the control in the system? What have we learned? Where are the checks and balances that stop this summer being a disaster in which we waste cash again because we’re so damn slow to figure out average talent?
Arsenal need structure, we need to get back to some basic principles, and we need to do things the hard way.
Joe Willock is pulling up trees at Newcastle, sell him. Eddie has prestige on his name, sell him. Sell Reiss, Mavropanos, Torreira, and Matteo. Do not give a new deal with David Luiz. Sell Lacazette at his peak and don’t be tempted by another player looking for that golden goodbye.
Then invest in the future. WIlliam Saliba is going to be one of our 4 centre backs next season, give him games. Martinelli, Flo B, Odegaard, ESR, and Saka are the exciting core of a team we should build around. Arsenal need to build on that ‘U21 minutes’ table we’re top of this season because it makes fans happy and the strategy of growing a team from youth level up is better than one of cobbling together old players that used to be good… ‘one last job for the boys’ is not a sustainable vision. What you want is to build towards the Champions League with young/hungry players, so when you get there, you can compete for 5 years.
I might be in the minority here, but I don’t want to see more of Josh. I don’t care what he has to say about his love for the brand. What I’d like is less talk, more action, smarter thinking. Don’t tell me you’re a loving owner, show me, with an exciting vision, paired with a disciplined plan, activated upon with brutal efficiency.
Arsenal PR needs to sit down with Arteta and use this crisis as an opportunity for him. Let him sell the future, give him better talking points, use the end of season to blood the kids and ‘maybe’ win a trophy. This whole debacle really does shine a light on what Arsenal is at the moment, I know many can’t see it now, but Arteta really is the least of our problems right now.
Time for Arsenal to stop making life so fucking hard on themselves. Make smart decisions, even if they are hard. Move the club forward. Build on the worst season in living memory on and off the pitch.
Josh K has the privilege of fixing the most exciting problem in world football. He’s barely 40. Fix it, and he’ll go from a football insurrectionist to a god. It’s that simple. Make Arsenal great. Give trust to those that deserve it. Get back to basics and stop trying to shortcut sporting greatness.
Time to move forward.
There’s some actual football later today. I’m hoping to see something innovative out there. No strikers, what are we going to do?!
See you in the comments. x
Right on cue Cazorla, forgot that one. The global pandemic. Managers cant decide what their best team is because of covid. Nice one.
Pedro didn’t mention Xhaka getting completely skinned prior to Leno’s clanger on his twitter line.
Of course Leno’s was the biggest crime of the two but it was pretty embarrassing as well to see Xhaka get skinned so easily.
No mention of “Captain America” from Pedro.
Here’s the really sad thing:
The owners have zero ambition or business sense beyond keeping the show on the road – barely.
There is a deficient technical football infrastructure at the club.
Arteta is at best adequate and has zero accountability.
THIS in fact is the generational situation Arsenal fans find themselves in.
Cazorla
Why don’t you piss off with the apologist bollocks for one night?
Xacka at left back is just a sticking plaster, he didn’t have a bad game but by his nature he can’t overlap so it’s basically just Pepe there you go son beat 2 men.
Weird not weird he came off as arteta reverted to tule by keeping on his favs and missing the big picture
I love saka but he was man marked tonight , Eddie starting ahead of martinelli, what’s the actual sense?? He’s off in the summer
What cuts through this season is weird man management consistently, the arteta sludge fest rolls on
Eddie Nketiah, holding,chambers,Smith-rowe, would any of them get a game in a top6 side?
Xhaka is not a left back and is a pretty awful tackler as well so he is an accident waiting to happen there.
Let’s just keep you blame where it should be, on our bang average number 1 keeper.
Cazorla
Yeah I guess you’re right: I blame the pandemic for our insipid loss tonight.
Arteta: all is forgiven. It’s absolutely not your fault.
Nothing ever is.
As Charlie has said, 43 goals in 33 games. Pitiful considering we’re conceding over a goal a game.
Enough said. Players not good enough and Arteta certainly not good enough.
DUIFG
“Xacka at left back is just a sticking plaster, he didn’t have a bad game”
You have a bad game if you get beaten so easily in a play that led to a goal.
But of course he shouldn’t be playing there anyway as you say.
Our problems:
Arteta
Board
Arteta.
End Of.
Why oh why persist with Nketiah when it has been plainly obvious since day one that he is not (yet, if ever) at the right standard? Why no Balogun? Why no Azeez? Why Martinelli in the 75th minute? Why Leno? Why Willian when we are chasing the game? Answer – our wonderfull generational coach! Mistake after mistake just rolling through the season. I will not be getting up at 3.00am in the morning again to watch this shit show until Arteta and the Krankies are gone! It is now 6.00am and I am off to work for 12 hours in… Read more »
The goals dried up when the Spanish Pulis took over.
AussieG
Share your sentiments- and I don’t even have to get up at a ridiculous time to watch the match.
Have a good day at work
Weagle
I’ve read a few people claim Saka to be in the same league as Sancho lately.
I love the lad, but can you school the masses on the sort of output Sancho has been dropping since 18 years old for context?
I’m sorry but I think saka is seriously overrated
It took Martinelli something like 10 minutes to get a meaningful touch. Arteta keeps setting his system in a way that does absolutely no favour to whoever is playing No9. In Nkethia, we have a goal poacher, send the ball into the box via quick interchanges. In Martinelli, we have a energizer bunny, so ask the rest of the team to press higher and Pickford. Don’t put a lackadaisical Willian with him. Willian is like a black hole, sucking the life of those around him. I am sorry, but I have now seen enough of Partey to state he is… Read more »
Jay
Saka is not overrated.
He’s just been overplayed.
Saka and Martinelli under the right manager and playing with top level players would easily be world class players.
Take it or leave it.
Valentin
“Partey needs a partner who can make those vertical defense splitting sliding passes. Ceballos, Elneny nor Xhaka are not the answer for him”
We forever hear about these splitting defence passes. One pass.
We used to hear it a lot in defence of Xhaka.
No we don’t need one defence splitting pass.
We need midfielders that combine and compliment each other in central midfield.
Not one pass.
Charlie Sancho and Saka shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath as of now and I say that as a fan of Saka. Sancho is an elite wideman and would start for virtually everyone in Europe right now. 3 straight seasons of world class consistency. It’s natural that people on here and further afield in the Gooner community will overhype Saka as he is the first offensive talent with a pulse that we have produced and is starring for the senior team maybe since Jack Wilshere over a decade ago (Bellerin to be fair as well but talking about attacking… Read more »
Arteta is indeed among Arsenal’s biggest problems
Ceballos is the only Arsenal central midfielder that has shown some kind of profile for being able to work in a coherent central midfield at times.
Pass and move in central midfield. Combining with your other central midfielders in small spaces.
Unfortunately for Ceballos he is not of the required overeall standard. Too erratic. Very erratic.
Weagle My sentiments exactly. Cannot get on board with this idea our attack is ‘fine’ at all. Great potential in Saka, ESR, Martinelli and Odegaard if he were to land. But talking about next season for 38 games in the league you’re off your fucking rocker to think that will be good enough. If you’re then telling me the ‘answer’ is waiting in Auba, Pepe, and Willian (assuming Laca is sold) I’ll have to ask for a go on what you’re smoking. I refuse to enter debates about right backs and such because the elephant in the room is glaringly… Read more »
I wonder where our midfield would be ranked in the EPL.
Charlie
It’s stunning that we spent 185m on Aubameyang, Lacazette and Pepe.
That’s got to compare with any front 3 in Europe for expenditure save for PSG I would have thought?
Liverpool’s front 3 has finally come to a bit of a halt besides Salah, they got 3 seasons of amazing production out of them at least.
A CL title and a PL title as well as a CL Runners Up and a 97 point PL Runners Up.
Cost a combined 100m that trio. Not bad eh?
72m for Pepe especially, that’s a sackable on the spot offence.
Champagne
Emery had the same squad (more or less) scoring plenty of goals. Also, Arteta has had three transfer windows to improve his attack and midfield.
Maybe the problem is the manager.
Also, didn’t you say this was a top four quality squad? Do you still believe that?
Cc
How about this for a glaringly obvious football correlation: Arsenal are the 9th best team in the Premier league because we have the 9th best manager in Arteta.
(with apologies to Bielsa)
Once again Arsenal lose/draw a game through self inflicted mistake[s]. The more that I watch Leno sadly the more convinced I am that he is a really poor goalkeeper and that Arteta has made a serious error of judgment in selling Martinez. Leno’s failings are increasingly evident: 1. Poor Concentration 2. Poor Command of his area. 3. Poor Communication 4. Poor Decision Making 5. Poor Distribution When a goalkeeper becomes unreliable then it is time to offload him, because it impacts on the confidence of the rest of the defence and team. Arsenal were not playing particularly well tonight, but… Read more »
Cc
Agree with what you and wenger eagle are saying re our young guns needing protection and rest and space to mature/develop.
Also agree that going into next season needing performances from our senior attackers is suicide.
Will never agree about the goalkeepers, I feel the role is more important than you do,I doubt either of us will change.
Anyway what I wondered was do you or wenger eagle have someone in mind to come in while waiting for the youth to flourish, say we had 60-70mill to spend. Any more Jota’s out there? Aside from your desire for Odegaard.
Weagle
It’s mental that two years later I’m still having to point out just how little is coming back from such an investment. The best defence seems to be that it’s not his fault he cost that much, beyond reason really.
It’s a shocking senior front 4 for the money, this summer is massive for telling me who is cut out for their role at the club. Owner notwithstanding, he ain’t.
Ishola, A central midfielder either run with the ball or pass the ball forward quickly, accurately. Arteta wants Partey to play a in a very rigid, strict format where his ability to run forward is curtailed. Unfortunately he does not have the ability to release in space our attackers, so he needs somebody who can do it for both of them. Compare the kind of long passes that Pogba can do against the passes that Partey tries. Remember the kind of passes to RvP that Cesc was making. We have nobody who can do that. Because we have nobody who… Read more »
Valentin
“A central midfielder either run with the ball or pass the ball forward quickly, accurately”
No they don’t. You must have a very restrictive view of central midfielders.
Have you never heard of central midfield combination play?
Woab
That’s just spouted on the back of opinion. Moyes must be better than Klopp, Ancelotti, Bielsa etc if so. Nothing measurable about it. But you’d be hard pressed to be the best attacking side in the prem and not feature for the title/top 4.
Benny
You always want to circle back to Emery, usually making some bullshit remark about me and referencing Banford. Do spare me. Emery had the “same” attack, but we’ll ignore he had Ramsey, Mkhi, Iwobi, and Welbz where we have Pepe, Nketiah and Willian.
Man City when they played their best central midfield play were actually passing back and forth to gain angles to attack the opponent.
It’s not all about forward passing or running.
Arteta is failing.
To just put the blame on the players can only be done by someone who heavily invested in Arteta.
He won’t last at Arsenal beyond next season.
Why? because he is not good enough.
He could win the Europa League and he would still be out in two seasons time.
The EPL and it’s demands will find out someone like Arteta over and over. Time and time again.
Almunia
I would be trying to re-sign Odegaard on another year long loan as my first port of call. Would give us two very good CAM options with him and ESR and allow us to really concentrate on improving places like LF and a CM partner for Partey.
If we fail in that, I still love Rodrigo de Paul of Udinese. Feel like he could be our Bruno Fernandes signing. Similar age and profile, leader too which is nothing to be a
sniffed at.
Mattheus Cunha as a LF option would be perfect.
Spectacular player. Hopefully Hertha Berlin are relegated and he’s available for cheaper.
Arteta is not good enough.
He has consciously sacrificed attacking fluidity in favour of maintaining defensive shape and structure- and yet defenders still keep making costly errors.
We concede less, but because our midfield and forwards are shackled we score less.
Arteta is a mid table manager
Wenger eagle
Thanks, I’ll keep an eye out for him,friend of mine watches more serie a than prem, will see what he says. Was wondering what burnley would ask for Nick Pope,prob too expensive now. Any keepers you’re aware of? Hard to get a good one. Even fergie, schmeichel aside,struggled to spot them. Don’t say there’s a lad at villa! What about wolves Portuguese keeper, do you rate him?
Weagle “Eddie predictably, was crap. What do us morons on Le Grove really know though, eh? Lol.” 94.1% pass completion for a striker tells me he was far from crap. That tells me his touch was good his awareness was good and his passing was good. Sadly his team mates were not up to the same level tonight as saka, Smith Rowe and partey were ( unlike eddie) wasteful in possession, hence Eddie never had a chance to score I would hazard a guess that a 94.1% pass completion by a striker in the Premier league will not be beaten… Read more »
Re Leno fuck up
The ball must have thought it was at the US-Mexican border……….man!
Clinging to his pass success rate now, pretty pathetic even for you.
He completed 16 passes, most of them 5 yard ones.
Yeah we really did look like scoring with him on, don’t know what Tets was thinking with that one either.
NEW POD https://audioboom.com/posts/7851804-kroenkeout-is-arteta-next
Almunia I’m not particularly well-versed in talent across the leagues, I just know the type of footballers I personally like to see in an attacking unit. Benzema is my fave CF of the last 20 years, that level of creative devastation is peak for me from a striker. You can see why Auba isn’t my cuppa given his very one-dimensional game by comparison. Beyond that I’m more in favour of a fluid three that can move behind the forward, I don’t like wide-strikers like Salah as much as players like Mahrez who have more feathers to their cap. My ideal… Read more »
If only Arteta put as much effort in to organising and motivating his team as he did bowing and scraping to his employer, telling us about much he ‘cared’. lol Partey is a case study in the relationship between players and manager. At Atletico he was managed by a ruthless demagogue who demands total commitment and discipline in his system. The result is that a player like Partey plays at the top of his game, switched on in exactly the way Simeone wants, drilled in what he is expected to do. At Arsenal, he drifts around, with no clear idea… Read more »
I expected Everton to win. They were fired up at Arsenal and the other clubs seeking to cheat their way into a new improved champions league. All Arsenal had to play for was professionalism. I would imagine the guts would have been sucked out of many of them by this weeks ESL crap.
Cc
I get you. Only thing is even with the quality of esr Saka and Odegaard they will probably need a prolific striker as none of them seem to be goalscoring midfielders, more creators, though I do think of the 3 that esr is most likely to add serious numbers as he matures. So if we get lucky and get Odegaard where do the goals come from? I don’t think Eddie has it though I do take the point that he hasn’t really had a decent run in a good side. You hoping Balogun comes good?
Almunia Haha yeah I do like that Villa keeper too, he looks like he would crack on real well with our boys in the dressing room doesn’t he? Good keepers are hard to come by indeed, makes the decision to sell him all the more bizarre considering Runnarsson ‘no hands’ was the fruits of our labor in hunting his replacement. As for any I like? Domestically I have always liked Patricio, Pope too is good. I actually have time for Areola, better keeper than he is given credit for, played very well last week against us. Plenty of talent abroad.… Read more »
‘Benzema is my fave CF of the last 20 years, that level of creative devastation is peak for me from a striker. You can see why Auba isn’t my cuppa given his very one-dimensional game by comparison’ Have always been a massive and vocal Big Benz fan on here too. Do you really prefer him over Henry though? Always felt that Benzema as elite as he is was just a slight notch below Thierry due to not being as clinical in front of goal and having that turn of pace that allowed him at times to go one man band/full… Read more »
No UCL In 5 years. This is not a blip. A freak occurance. This is who we are. The owner gave money to Wenger (Ozil Sanchez Xhaka Mustaphi Auba Laca). Then to Emery (Pepe). Then Arteta (Partey Gabriel Willian Mari Cedric) Good or bad cheap or expensive players have been bought. Contracts have bern renewed. Quite simply the finances have been handled terribly. I really think we had a chance during Emerys PL run. Even if he wasn’t taking us to a title. At least he had us heading towards top4 challenges. 1 point off top 4 don’t forget. So… Read more »
Ishola70, I am not describing how I would like Arsenal to play. I am all in favour of quick interchanges and combination play because I think that it is very difficult to stop. I am describing what Arteta is trying to do. Combination play is not what Arteta wants. In his very rigid system, the creative aspect is being outsourced to the wide attackers or to our CBs for long balls behind the defense. The central midfielders just recycle the ball. In that style of play, they can pass or run with the ball. In central midfield, Arteta views Combinations… Read more »
Never felt that Nasri was a like for like Hleb replacement. Hleb imo was much more direct a player, by far our best player at breezing through the midfield-forward line and pulling teams apart and defenders out of wack with his pace and vertical dribbling skills. Whereas Nasri was more of a prober/lockpicker type that had elements of Cesc to his game as well as being a gifted dribbler in his own right albeit not as good a one as Hleb. He was much superior to Hleb in end product and was more of a final third player whereas Hleb… Read more »
Almunia I actually think it’s Saka that’ll develop into the serial goal threat. I liken ESR’s influence more to Nasri, very sporadic tempo changes and high quality penetration, whereas Odegaard is more of a conductor/controller that kills you with efficiency and intelligence. Saka is something in between for me, but someone I can imagine finding a groove where 15 league goals will be commonplace. All three need to look to add numbers to their games though, totally agree there. Also, yes, they’re definitely going to need a more prolific CF in and about them in the meantime (unless we recruit… Read more »
Wenger eagle
God be with the days when ireland had them,packie, alan kelly,shay,dean kiely, even Randolph has been superb. Fuck I think I’d celebrate the arrival of a quality keeper over the departure of Arteta. Course that’s impossible cos the former cant happen without the latter. May go to sleep now, dream of Barcelona offering us messi to secure Arteta’s services! Good night to you.
Cc
I’d take a 15 goal a season return from Saka all day long,would love to see it. You might be right about him being the most prolific of the 3, his passing isn’t as good as the other 2,a different manager might push him closer to goal. Going to hit the hay,good night.
Weagle
Henry the better player for sure, but Benzema is criminally underrated for me and I rate him so, so highly. He’s been the best CF at ‘delivering the needs of the team’ that I’ve seen.
At Lyon he was a killer, pure goals and game winners, whereas at Real he’s been the most unselfish and creative foil for Ronaldo to a 20+ goal a season CF when the club needed him to be. Unreal football brain, and I love clever footballers.
Almunia
Haha take it handy mate, I too dream of a team of a prime Shay Given between the sticks and Duffer as our LW. In all seriousness, imagine that? Duff and Robben were unplayable for primetime Mourinho Chelsea.
Probably more chance of Arteta going bald before he is sacked alas!
Charlie And I am sure as you have beem following him since Ronaldo’s departure, has has reverted to his Lyon mentality of goals over getting team mates on the scoresheet and has that added edge to his game that was slightly blunted over the years of pandering to 6+ shots a game Ronaldo. He’s scored 27 already this season with 10 possible matches left to play. Rarely if ever takes penalties and he is up there with anyone barring Lewandowski who is a goalscoring freak but imo inferior all round footballer to Benz. Since Ronaldo has left he has scored… Read more »
Weagle Exactly why I rate him, super flexible footballer that’s capable of truly elite output in both roles at CF. That’s incredibly impressive imo. He’s been a near sensational since Ronaldo departed, a real anchor of quality for them and will need a lot of revision from the casual fans if they win La Liga this year. Just really, really hard to pick fault in his game wherever you look, his records in all departments stand up to the very best CF’s of the last 20 years when you scratch past the billy basic bloated tallies. Top, top baller. My… Read more »
Charlie He was one of those like Mbappe that straight away you just knew that he was destined for greatness from the very early stages of watching him. Will never forget that goal he scored vs Fergie’s United in the CL knockouts on his left foot from outside the box, his all round game looked top notch already but as always with these elite youngsters it was the presence and swagger that stood out not to mention his composure. Sancho reminds me of him in some ways, not in play-style per se but in their intangibles and presence. Anelka had… Read more »
Over 50 matches in and Arteta has consistently struggled to coach a cohesive attack. The majority of our matches are decided on fine margins. Less than 1.5 goals per game is poor. No way he should keep his job.
Even if he wins the Europa league. This is a carbon copy of last season. On pace for a lower point total than last season.
Weagle
I wrote you a reply that was thwarted by Pedro’s ban system….twice.
Basically I totally agree, pity we never saw him land here after those years of links, but alas we have Pepe who I’m told is a great player being held back by Arteta. There’s levels to this game clearly lmao.
What negative records has Arteta not broken yet? Still waiting for that winning streak, promised to us for many months, are we gents? Said half a year ago we are finishing 10th. Was laughed off by you know who. I see our “fans” are blaming the players. Well Mr. Sauce is scoring a couple of own goals per game with his “decisions”. Fans should protest about a top 10 club in the world, being managed by an amateur newbie who is on course to slash every Arsenal fan’s expectation, while some imbeciles are still eating his ass like it’s the… Read more »
Tets out or you guys still trust the process?
Bottom half of the table club now. Generational stuff.
Wenger Eagle and Champagne Charlie
This is the one fellas
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HZruZFukQWE
‘Probably more chance of arteta going bald’
LEGO hair is easily removable.
Hard being a single parent… I am just now catching up to Arsenal news today.
Leno howler. whats new!
Sheesh I thought we would have this in the bag….
Anyhow, I heard we might have a buyer?
https://twitter.com/eldsjal/status/1385667437929062403?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Guns of SF
Be very glad you missed another uninspiring performance.
I missed it too
Was it generational?
And why the fuck did we play a league game on a Friday night????
Arteta is really making it hard for us to support him. There has been no consistency at all. This yo yo shit of performances is not great. Even if he wins the Europa league, the start of next season will matter whether he keeps his job or not for me. We didn’t sign up for a cup manager (although winning any trophy is appreciated). We signed up for progress. We have made fun of spurs under pochettino but they were making huge strides regardless of trophies. Eventually they failed because they needed to show results with in a 5 year… Read more »
Another game, another loss for Retardeta.
Cannot wait for the Villarreal games.
Just finished watching the game recording this morning with my son who wishes he’d gone to play golf at 6 this morning. Not wishing to repeat what’s been written I’ll just say nothing changes with Arteta: not team selection, and not in-game management. Arteta proving he’s a one trick pony devoid of ideas and or ability for improvisation during a game. Clash of the Arsenal titans next Thursday where momentum is what was needed instead we go into the game losing to Everton and breaking more negative records in doing so. First thing Josh should do is fire Arteta &… Read more »
In the past, our most efficient attacks were overlapping of FB with wingers. Arteta decided to use Xhaka and Chambers as FB’s, it practically killed the overlapping run. Arteta deployed Xhaka a few times successfully as LB. But they were against teams without a fast winger. Today we found out that this setup has weakened both the offense and defense. I would prefer Saka as LB. He can moves up and attack like Tierney. Today, 1 vs 1, Pepe didn’t try a single time to run pass Coleman. Only when Ceballos moved over to assist him, then he started to… Read more »
We need to hire Allegri ASAP and let him rebuild this team during summer transfer window . We also need a serious DoF . Very simple ! This Rookie monkey business never works !
“This isn’t on Arteta tonight.”
Agree, its on your mum. From bringing tards like you into the World, who then go on to spout rubbish like above which keeps Arteta in the job
If we are talking about managers, I really like Erik Ten hag at Ajax. Their football is still amazing eventhough there is an exodus of players every year. He knows how to get the best out of young talented players. Even made a Semi of CL with them when Liverpool won it. There was also a bit of senior players to match them with the kids too. De ligt, De Jong, Neres, Van de beek, Gravenberch, Anthony, Mazroui all have thrived under him. We have a lot of exciting young talent and I feel like he would harness that. Saka,… Read more »
Habesha
Its been long enough to see Mike is not what he was made out to be.
He is not the one. If he knew it, he would have been grooming our youth much much earlier, knowing that they are the future and better than these over priced vets who let him down.
But no.
In game management. still questionable
Transfers, questionable
its not good. Making Mike a manager was a huge mistake.
I think we need a coach like Ten Hag, you are right….
Arteta blaming VAR not the protest. Always excuses.
Both VAR decisions were correct last night.
From what I’ve witnessed the VAR rules need changing and until that happens we have to abide by the technical decisions.
The rule I’d to see changed most is that only feet/legs or heads can be used as the offside parts of the body to check.
Just keep, it simple.
Bet Arteta wished he’d kept Emi now, but just shows us Arteta’s ability to asses players. Willian, Luiz and Xhaka compounds Arteta’s uselessness.
Xhaka at LB? Hilarious!
Should have been Mari or Saka at LB and if Saka then Martinelli to start in the middle.
My only surprise is that fans got fooled that Diet pep was a great manager.
The man is very mediocre and worse he believes in his own hype.
“Arteta flexed his muscles this week when he spoke glowingly of the fans impact in bringing the proposed European Super League to a grinding halt, despite Arsenal being one of the 12 clubs keen to board the gravy train”. That should hasten Arteta’s departure standing with the fans not the owners. Arteta hardly has Klopp’s elevated standing at a club. Funny thing is Arteta is backing the wrong horse as Stan & Josh make all the decisions not the fans. It could, though, be Josh’s instruction to placate the fans at all costs in an effort to stop the fans… Read more »
Guns/Hebesha
Been banging the Ten Hag drum along with Nagelsmann for months now.
Guns
Big respect.
Sounds like your son is very lucky to have a single father like you.
That cannot be easy in today’s world.
Reading the papers this morning I had to laugh at Avram Glazier refusing to apologize to the Manure fans. Very few things in life in the world of football make me happier than seeing Manure and Binb Dipper fans in melt downs and being dissed by their owners. We just have disingenuous owners who have mastered the art of lip service and saying one thing but really meaning another: Boy wonder, Josh the redeemer, maybe be able to con US sports fans, but Arsenal fans cannot be redeemed by hollow words we’ve heard all before. Just let Boy Wonder put… Read more »
“Spotify billionaire Daniel Ek is ready to buy Arsenal should Stan Kroenke want to sell up.”
I doubt we’d find it hard to find a billionaire buyer looking for a new shiny toy to play with.
Trick will be finding one that actually loves football who understands our and the game’s history.
So are we Kroenke in or Out ? Arteta can still salvage this if he wins Europa . But what about the owners ?
Tony
Spotify owner if he is American then a big fat No . And I am only saying this because it feels like they want to purposely ruin the game , make it more like NFL and NBA type shit.
Apparently Arteta is demanding answers after out defeat to Everton.
Answers from who exactly? Leno and Xhaka for their ridiculous goal?
Introspection should be Arteta’s first port of call to find answers.
How did we ever get a manager so devoid of ideas, mentally and emotionally weak?
Arteta needs to find new sources to blame for his woes
Spotify owner is Swedish
Are we still fourth since Christmas?
Asking for a friend.
Anyone got contact info to the guy with the plane and banners….and does he charge by the word?
“Dear Arsene, we were wrong and we are sorry. Please come back”
What would that cost I wonder
Arsenal is valued at 1.8B how will the spotify guy net worth around 3B going to raise it
Divine Sherlock I wouldn’t disagree with your thinking re American owners. King Power have proved they understand the game and the club’s (Leicester) needs to be successful. Ex Thai PM, Taksin, in forced exile for around 10 years was the catalyst that helped City begin its upward trajectory. Not right for us, but had his heart in the right place. A Thai billionaire owner would certainly see us winning or at least set us up to win unlike now because the loss of face culture would be too much shame for a Thai to have to deal with. Sorry to… Read more »
Daniel Ek is an Arsenal fan. In fact, he might just fit the profile of a perfect owner. Lifelong fan, billionaire founder of a world-leading tech company. He’s a Swedish national so probably supported Arsenal because of Freddie. As long as he doesn’t appoint him manager, I’m all in.. What confuses me is that he’s put this on his public twitter feed. He’s the founder of Spotify, ffs! He should be reaching out directly to Kroenke but maybe he’s thinking if his interest is public then a little extra fan pressure on Kroenke won’t hurt. Kroenke is estimated to have… Read more »
Tom you’re being blasphemous.
Diet pep has been playing a goalkeeper that wants out, it was only a matter of when, the howler will come
Sid-just like Kroenke, he’ll secure the purchase with the club’s assets. I have no doubt he could get the financing in place if he wanted to.
I’m not convinced that Kroenke will stubbornly hold on to Arsenal no matter what. We really are an odd fit in his sporting portfolio. At this point, it’s a vanity buy and he might be better off just offloading it at a tidy profit.
Sid
Ek would likely go in with some other partners. Share the expense but he would be majority owner….
The timing is good. I hope Dangote saw this…. start a buying war….
Kroenkes will be tempted hopefully
It’s still surreal that he posted his interest in owning Arsenal as if he was looking to buy a car.
bacaryisgodApril 24, 2021 05:48:31
Sid-just like Kroenke, he’ll secure the purchase with the club’s assets. I have no doubt he could get the financing in place if he wanted to.
It goes without saying!