ENDGAME NEARS FOR ARTETA

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That was the beginning of the end of Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal career.

I was wrong about him. He let us all down. There’s little chance he recovers from this, and that’s coming from me, his biggest fanboy.

The young ‘manager’ had it all and he blew it. It’s not all his fault, but when you demand full responsibility, go out of your way to bolster your own power, then boy do you have to deliver. He helped create the ingredients of his own failure. Shame on Arsenal for allowing it, but there we are.

The Villareal loss was sickening for many reasons, but mostly because they aren’t very good and nor is their manager. We were totally schooled by Unai fucking Emery. That is humiliating.

Core issues from the game last night will be kept punchy and short.

Galaxy Brain

Arteta doesn’t have a back to basics function. When he’s struggling, his default seems to be to show the world how clever he is. A week after embarrassing himself by opting for a kid as a false #9, he went for Thomas Partey pivoting the entire midfield. He made us play out of the back with Hector and Holding in his defence. He gave the gloves to Leno, who wants out. He fucked the entire structure with his forwards to the point where all our best creators could barely muster a shot on target over TWO legs.

Fear

Our players aren’t the best, but that squad could easily finish top 4. We’ve seen them go to war in big games and hold their own against the best. Against Villareal, they were petrified. It was pathetic how meek we were. That comes from one person… Arteta. Whatever he’s up to behind the scenes, it’s demotivating the players and putting doubt in their minds. There was no belief they had what it took. You knew no goal was coming yesterday, you could feel what the game was going to be like after minute 5, that is shameful.

Boring

Arsenal is a boring proposition. There’s literally nothing to our football. No style, no identity, no plan for where the game is going. We were utterly bland. We have been for weeks. This project is 18 months in and all the good bits we were seeing have gone. We can’t defend, we can’t attack, we’re a total mess… but the main thing for me, we’re really boring. Villareal in a semi-final should be exciting, it wasn’t, it was a really painful 90 minutes. Arsene Wenger, with that side, would have absolutely crushed them. Sad to say it, but so would Unai Emery.

The project is now over. Arsenal can give him a summer, they can bury their heads in the sand, but the reality is… this manager nicked his jugular last night and he’s bleeding out.

There’s money available for sure. Edu and Arteta are planning a big summer. Josh and Vinai should put a stop to it and remove both of them before they do any more damage to the club.

Edu will not have a good plan. It’ll be a bang average unimaginative offering that’ll waste another year. The two of them have appalling taste in players. Neither knows how to implement ideas. They have not earned the right to have another crack at it. Vinai is embarrassingly weak though, he’ll happily blow through another £100m of average because it’s the easy decision, he’ll let Arteta run the team into the ground again, then hire Roberto Martinez to fix the mess.

… and that does sound negative, I agree. But Arteta brought this on himself. That shit performance last night will stick hard with the players. They’ll know he’s on thin ice now, so if things go against Arsenal next season, the boys will absolutely down him just like they did under Emery.

Arsenal needs to move on Arteta now because he’s not going to save this. Too much is broken. The training ground is not a happy place. Arteta was given Wenger power without the receipts, and he blew it. He was allowed to hire average yes men around him and now he’s paying the price with a lack of know how. His goalkeeper coach is despised, that’s why Leno’s form has tanked and he wants out. Arteta’s contribution? He sacked Sal Bibbo and sanctioned Runarsson. Has he addressed the issue at all? No. He put his hire over one of our best players in the same way he favoured Willian over the kids. Why? His ego. Steve Round was the guy who worked with Moyes when he crashed United, hardly the future of football you want to cushion a rookie coach. What has his input been to tame Arteta’s weaknesses? Are our setpieces better with a specialist coach? Have our subs got better? Do we rotate well to protect players? Do we pick players based on merit? Do our stars look fit or motivated? Is anyone dying out there for the cause like they were last season?

The answer to those questions is no.

Time and investment is a reward for progress. We do not have anything to show on that front. The club now needs to act ruthlessly to protect the limited resources on offer.

Edu is a terrible technical director, just look at his record. He’s not a leader, he has no new ideas, he doesn’t know how to extract value from the market, and he will do bad things this summer with the guilt money he’s been given by our owners. He’s just a footballer who looks nice in a suit, yet a £2b valued organisation is going to trust him to strategise us out of this hole after he gave Willian a 3 year deal on £250k a week? Are you KIDDING ME. No, I’m not. Vinai is so weak, he’d rather promote Arteta to shield a massive error, than grow a pair and address the elephant in the room. There is ZERO leadership at Arsenal. I cannot say it loud enough.

Arteta cannot be trusted as a manager. He signed off Cedric and Willian. He crashed Thomas Partey. He made Auba a 10 goal a season striker in his prime. He benched Martinelli over and over again… and played Willian. He leaves Balogun at home and goes for two sub keepers. He binned William Saliba. Chose Leno over Martinez. All of these decisions made a difference to our shocking season.

When you have trophies and top 4 you can get away with these moves. When you fail like this, it shines a dark light on your limitations.

This failure could have been avoided. The job of a CEO is to build teams capable of competing. Vinai found a talented young coach then let him rot in a Petree dish of power. He should have hired him a complimentary technical director that could support his weaknesses. He should have controlled who the team around him was and put limitations on what he could do. He should have resisted the weird urge to promote him after 6 months.

… but he didn’t.

Therein lies the problem. We have a CEO who takes the easy option, every single time. He didn’t move fast enough to recognise the things Arteta needed to succeed. That should have been the job of the Technical Director, but Vinai already knew he was bad, hence the demotion last season. There is no one man fix in 2021 for the problems we have as a club. If Arsenal move on Arteta, they have to get serious and realise that the problems went way beyond just him.

… but we can talk about that another day.

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Jim Lahey

@TR7 –

None of those managers you mentioned were first timers when they took over the first team, they all at least had some experience managing the clubs B teams.

Peckobill

It’s horrid to come to the realisation that instead of this new wave of innovative young managers we’ve happened to bag we saddled ourselves with the nearest version you could get to the new mourinho with all the exact same flaws but minus the trophies

Sid

Mertesacker will steer this ship back on course, the players will to look up to him when talking to him.

Players have to look down to talk to Diet pep

Rich

Dissenter It’s about timing Which is the better way to do it Sack Arteta, then let Edu appoint a new manager, probably another Kia special? Then litter our squad with more Kia specials? Or sack them all, and let an experienced and competent technical director, then direct the club in a new direction I was making the argument in December to sack both Edu + Arteta, then go and get Rangnick and see if he wants to appoint Tuchel while he was available, but we missed that window of opportunity I’m not adverse to change, I’m adverse to the same… Read more »

The Bard

TR7 Bielsa is a decent shout. I’m sure there will be behind the scene negotiations going on about who would replace Arteta. It’s pointless sacking someone if you don’t have a replacement. Anyone coming in would want a whole list of things guaranteed. Also it’s pointless giving Arteta a ton of money of they are going to sack him a few weeks into the season.

Ishola70

lol rip up the whole script?

Apart from Arteta.

DivineSherlock

We are missing good recruitment , we had ESR lying in wait while Arteta waited until Christmas . The fact that Arteta still doesnt know his best 11 is sackable offence in itself. The fact we only have Partey Xhaka and Elneny as midfield is criminal . The jury was out on Ceballos last season . And Arteta waited until Jan to bring Ødegaard who quite frankly wouldnt return again next season. On top of that he refused to play AMN in midfield , Willock was sent out . Torreria and Guendouzi burned their bridges . And they trust Arteta… Read more »

TR7

Jim

Not much of a difference between managing a club’s B team and being deputy to the head coach.

Jim Lahey

@TR7 –

“Not much of a difference between managing a club’s B team and being deputy to the head coach.”

There is though.. as an assistance you’re not the one making decisions, either before the or in-game itself. These other rookie managers got a feel or what it is like to actually have that control over a team.

Do you think Madrid or Barca would have hire someone like Arteta if they saw his managerial skills for a year or two in the lower leagues?

Rich

Kroenkephobe

I’ll want some royalties from that book

I love that a Marxist wants to write a book based on comments from a guy he says he wants to ignore, for £99 a pop, while writing messages on his IPad

The irony is just far too much

TR7

Jim

See a club’s B team manager does take decisions himself but let’s be honest points and results are not that important when you are managing a B team. In terms of pressure and responsibility, first team assistant manager and head coach of club’s B team are more or less at par in my view.

Nelson

I think the club should take the time to find the next “coach”. But he should be hired before the Summer TW. Ideally, we hired an experienced DOF first so that he could assist in the search of the next coach.

China1

There’s a huge difference between being a b team coach and a first team assistant. Massive difference

An assistant has next to zero control or power. They don’t make important decisions and this are rarely considered *directly* to blame when stuff goes wrong

A b team manager is a manager just of a club with a few limitations imposed on it.

Sid

My cousins tailor says Mertesacker took measurents for a new suit, announcement coming soon

Jim Lahey

“Let’s be honest points and results are not that important when you are managing a B team”

Maybe not, but how you manage the team does matter, as I said before do you think Madrid or Barca would have allowed someone like Arteta to take over the first team if they were a total shit show with the B team?

Gonsterous

apparantly arsenal are planning on buying sander berge from relegated sheffield utd. Not a bad idea but 35m is a bit too expensive imo. i wouldnt mind him for about 20m though he isnt the fastest CM. May do well beside partey or beside xhaka, as we well know both of them arent going anywhere next season.

Samesong

Good Neal Maupay you mug.

Samesong

Sander Berg who 1 goal and 1 assist we do like midfielders without and scoring or creativity these days.

Gonsterous

The next time Arsenal qualifies for Europe, UEFA will retain 5% of the revenue generated as a punishment for our involvement in the Super League debacle.

LMAO, when are we getting back in europe though.

Almuniasaynomore

Kroenkephobe If you ever feel down theres nothing like a good greek tragedy to get life in perspective again,you come away feeling like you’ve won the lotto. Highly recommend Medea or Oedipus Rex,beat the hell out of Shakespeare. Prob free to download on the kindle or such like given the copyright laws. I have a copy that could well be an original! Did you ever read the book ‘the men who stare at sheep’? Think they made a film out of it. Anyway it’s about how the American military ( I think,could be CIA, long time since I read it)… Read more »

Ishola70

Gonsterous
“apparantly arsenal are planning on buying sander berge from relegated sheffield utd”

Well he can actually contest the middle of the pitch which is a start.

But with these signings especially midfielders it can also be more about how Arteta actually uses and employs them in the side if we are unfortunate to still have him as manager next season.

Kroenkephobe

Rich

Define irony because you’ve not quite managed it there. Quelle surprise.

Gonsterous

samesong

we arent the brightest when it comes to recruting, always players with terrible stats and huge transfer fees. so it berge feels right and up our alley.

Samesong

Gons

You’re not wrong.

I like Mc Ginn at Villa he seems to get on the end of things.

S Asoa

Arsenal fans are immature to think there will be improvements after massive buying up of players for the sole reason our arsehole manager does not have the onus to make assessment of players in hand and have a game plan as per available resources. Instead Fraudeta pushes everyone out of position, breaks their stride when anyone is playing well by inexplicably benching him. Confuse some more by changing formations every time . As Croqueta has pointed out, this fraud has no pride in the Arsenal colours, as if he is a closet Evertonian. But there are stories about Kroenke having… Read more »

Valentin

Peckobill, Rudy Garcia is now hoping that Aouar can be Lyon player for the end of the season. However he had issue with him at the beginning big the season, lack of application, sulking because his big move did not took place. The serious risk of missing the France squad for the Euro suddenly screw his head back on. However he had been plagued by injury and COvid. So his physical conditioning is not the best. Right now he can’t complete 90 minutes. However if Arteta is still in charge, we should not go near him. He would not be… Read more »

Can’t believe potter is being mentioned as our next manager. Big big big no to that. He’s been at the helm 2 years now and 2 years running he hasn’t sorted out the forwards. They play better football than an Arteta team, but like Arteta’s teams, Brighton can’t score. In fact last year a bit like Arteta , potter decided to alienate Glenn Murray who was their best striker by a mile. In the end he had to swallow his pride and reinstate Murray who ended up helping them stay up

Gonsterous

Samesong No idea why Mc Ginn would come to us. He will be pretty expensive and not a big upgrade unless he gets a huge raise. Ishola I dont trust arteta to get anything right. Saka was a bright prospect at the start of the season, end of the season, he looks like hes dropped a few levels and Arteta may not be the right man for his development. No partnership at all on the pitch. Arteta should have gotten Martinelli and Auba to work together or ESR and Saka to work together, or even Pepe and bellerin to form… Read more »

Kroenkephobe

Almunia Nice one. I can feel a literary discussion coming on esp if we fail to beat WBA convincingly. Arteta fits nicely into the role of Hamlet though – indecisive to the extreme, a wide streak of self-destructive behaviour and a combination of madness and delusion. Elements of Julius (not Gus) Caesar in there too. That book was by Jon Ronsson right? I’ve got it somewhere and dabbled with the opening chapters (and the film) but realised I didn’t need an epiphany in how crazy apeshit the US Military was because I was living in Washington DC at the time… Read more »

Valentin

People dream of the next Cazorla and Rosicky meanwhile Arteta is trying to recruit Verge. A midfield of Partey and Berge scream functional players with not announce of creativity between them.

From artists our midfield will now be composed of hard worker a la Partey, Berge, Xhaka, Elneny. Soon after ESR fails on the wings Arteta will try to raise funds for Ödegaard by selling ESR…

The sky is crying.
https://youtu.be/LkEj749FQJU

Ishola70

Valentin

Berge may not be the required one but there is a need to get in at least one midfielder who actually contests the central midfield instead of dropping deep out of the heat.

You termed Xhaka as one of these “hard working” players. Well if he is hard working it’s not done in the middle of the pitch.

TR7

Jim ‘as I said before do you think Madrid or Barca would have allowed someone like Arteta to take over the first team if they were a total shit show with the B team? No. Even with Pep Barca took a massive leap of faith, there was a lot of inhibition in hiring a rookie for the big job. I am sure decision makers at Arsenal also had their reservations in hiring Arteta but eventually agreed upon taking a punt. One difference between Zidane/Pep and Arteta is obviously stature. If you are a Zinedine Zidane, it is easier to throw… Read more »

Moray

“The next time Arsenal qualifies for Europe, UEFA will retain 5% of the revenue generated as a punishment for our involvement in the Super League debacle.”

Hopefully they will have forgotten by then.

La croqueta

Mikel Arteta: “I see how much the players care, but how much they care in the dressing room is not what we have to see. It’s about how much they care when on that pitch.” https://t.co/SZS3jGgE9v Dud dud dadadaada dud dud da da.. .. This clown lol. Who cares if they care. We care. They play. We need them to play and perform. Leave the caring to the fans. Them caring doesn’t increase their ability to play well so what difference does it make if they care? If Tony Pulis turned out to be an Arsenal fan for example. Does… Read more »

Ishola70

You see this is the problem.

Fans scream for creativity in the midfield but if there is no control in the midfield to begin with the creative midfielder suffers along with the rest of the side in having no platform.

Kroenkephobe

TYAG

Agree fully about Potter. In essence, it’s questionable whether he’s further up the greasy pole than tets. It needs to be a big name with a proven reputation and an ability to get the best out of players and attract others. Vinai, Edu…… and Potter. Nah!

Dissenter

Bissouma or Sander Berge?

I mentioned Berge 6 months ago as an option but he’s got injury concerns
Bissouma is the better option.

TheBayingMob

It beggars belief that Arsenal haven’t sacked this guy, but that also means they are going to allow Edu and Arteta to plunder any financial resource we do have this summer, which in turn will plunge us deeper into the mire. I wonder what geriatric players Chelsea have they want to get shot of this summer? They know what a couple of fucking n0nces Edu and Arteta are, should be very amusing for them to mug us off again

Rich

Kroenkephobe Irony is you making a big song and dance about ignoring my posts, instead of just ignoring my posts Then randomly bringing my name up at every opportunity, and even attributing opinions to me, on things I’ve never even commented on, remember you doing that? Saying you want to fu*k my wife with your2 inches, I don’t blame you, she’s hot, and has a cracking sense of humour, unfortunately for you, her eyesight is 20/20, and she still has her sense of smell, which basically rules you out You’ve also got inches and millimetres mixed up Your obsession with… Read more »

Mr Serge

They can’t sack him without sounding out some replacement we did this with Emery and dithered for weeks before bringing in tets.they will wait until the last week of the season before deciding this time
I don’t trust the board either way
Vinai is way above his station
He should be selling sofas not running a massive club like Arsenal

Kroenkephobe

Rich

That’s still not irony. Read the small print.

Mr Serge

Rich and Kronkephobe get a room lol

Sid

Signing a white Partey will not solve our midfield problems, we need someone who can dictate the play, commit opposition players.

The other option is to have a capable runner who can score, and use fullbacks to make cutbacks.

Sid

They dont need a room, Kroenkephoebe already making Rich creampie

China1

‘He should be selling sofas’

Christ that’s a burn haha

China1

Lefty gimps, 2mm penises and wife sharing

What exactly have I walked into? Did I type pornhub by accident into the browser rather than le grove?

Sid

We should loan Willian to the Spuds

Kroenkephobe

Lads I think the problem is that in Rich’s mind, he doesn’t expect to be challenged. He’s a cross between those two great Robert de Niro characters, Artie Pupkin and Travis Bickle He got badly exposed last week and he’s still licking his wounds – I know, it’s a powerful and none too pleasant image. He’s a stubborn a-hole with a worldview that belongs in the 19th century. I don’t mind his football stuff but the rest of it leaves me cold. I don’t think I’m alone in that regard. His wife told me last night in my mobile gimpy… Read more »

China1

‘ in my mobile gimpy porn dungeon (available for weddings and bar mitzvahs) ’

Haha!

China1

Sid we should loan arteta to the spuds

@China1

Mate I hate the spuds as much as the next man, but even we couldn’t be that cruel giving them Arteta could we? I think they’d rather spend 5 years in Guantanamo then a season with Arteta as they’re manager

Sid

Is this what she screamt
‘Aye, thats a proper champion Kroenkephobe, im getting wet doon there gadgie, your longstuff geet walla.’

In fact I’d rather spend 5 years in Guantanamo than another year of fraudeta in charge

Rich

Mr Serge

That’s where I fear the first 15 minutes of the Netflix documentary will kick off

02.00, a lefty gimp outside my bedroom window with a screwdriver and a strap on, electricity down, and my two Rottweiler’s throats cut….

You guys want to hope he doesn’t get a taste for it, and there’s multiple sequels to:
“The Gimpy Le Grove slasher”

azed

Match day and no post from Pedro…

Looks like someone is still sulking.

TheBayingMob

What makes it worse for me is United … we just seem so far behind a club that has not been far above disarray since Ferguson left, yet even with a clown like OGS in charge they look in a different league to Arsenal. We are such a hard club to support at the moment, the ownership and leadership at the club are detestable, I can’t fucking stand United; we used to be a rival … I struggle to see a way back for us, it makes me so angry

Is Cazorla the biggest fucking know nothing mug on here

Mr Serge

Man u have pogba and a proper midfield and attack though they were crap until they bought Bruno
They can spend their way out of trouble
I don’t think OGS is all that but money covers over a lot of deficiency

Rich

Plenty of United fans were calling for OGS’s head, but United gave him a bit of time to assemble his squad and work with his players, and he’s got them going quite well now, playing some decent stuff

United probably 2-3 quality players away from being genuine contenders

OGS is fucking awful, but how bad does that actually make Arteta then ?

And here comes Rich pleading for more time for Arteta

Almuniasaynomore

Cazorla
It is refreshing to see you back,armed no doubt with your rapier wit and spectacular footballing insights. Don’t feel you have to carry this blog on the back of your wonderful intellect and charismatic personality all the time. Allow yourself some down time,take a break, vent,insult somebody for a change….

Almuniasaynomore

🤣🤣

Matt B

Cazorla: zzzzzzz

The BFB

What is the point of tonight’s game and why should we care about the result when the Krankies have no intention of arresting our decline? Plaudits to Joel for an excellent summary of Arteta’s blunders, and I’m sure he could have brought plenty more to our attention had he been so inclined. For Pete’s sake, when will this nightmare end?

China1

Lol almunia

Sid

A man that uses a VPN is likely to be arrested by interpol, for ‘other’ activities. He sub consciously let it out the other day.

Peckobill

Sid
“We should loan Willian to the Spuds”
China
Sid we should loan arteta to the spuds

There a plan , convince the spuds to take arteta off us , pretend we’re gutted and all that bollocks and I bet anything arteta is thick enough to buy willian off us for £20 mill

@Peckobill
🤣🤣

Kroenkephobe

Cazorla It is refreshing to see you back,armed no doubt with your rapier wit and spectacular footballing insights. Don’t feel you have to carry this blog on the back of your wonderful intellect and charismatic personality all the time. Allow yourself some down time,take a break, vent,insult somebody for a change Rich – that’s irony, perfectly demonstrated by Almunia. Read and learn. Cazorla – I ought to feel privileged that I’ve finally loomed up in front of your crosshairs. Cheer up mate. You and misery guts Rich write such misanthropic, charmless, unfunny guff on here. Have a laugh at yourselves… Read more »

China1

Perhaps one of you fuckers in London can put on a fake police uniform and when arteta is driving to the stadium you can tell him there’s a traffic diversion and direct him towards shite fart lane. Where another one of you London fuckers has kindly painted THE EMS in big red text on the side of the stadium

I know it sounds crazy but it might just work

Peckobill

China
I’m up for just cutting Artetas brake pipes on his car . If he doesn’t mill himself at least he might end up back in Manchester as he runs out of fuel

Rich

Mr Serge

£430 million it took Guardiola to take Man City from also-rans to Champions, and in spite of spending £930+ million since 2016, this is the first time he’s gotten past the CL quarter final

And yet everyone hails him a genius ….

Klopp spent big on Alisson, VBD, Fabinho

To win titles you generally need to invest, and invest wisely

In the last few years we’ve invested, we’ve just invested badly

And that’s the biggest problem we need to fix

Mark

@Rich “When we sacked Emery, I was the only one saying things would likely get worse, before they get any better, and Emery was the least of our worriesYou all told me I was wrong, ” The only reason things got worse is because Arteta was chosen. All this be careful what you wish for nonsense, as a reason not to stop/change this shit show now, is another reason why the club is where it is today. There’s absolutely no reason to give him any more time. What’s worse is the deluded nonsense he’s been spouting since making a mess… Read more »

Kroenkephobe

Cazorla

Reductionism eh? Cunt.

Guns of SF

The silence from the club is deafening.
Mike talking about phases for his project.
what utter shit.
This used car salesman needs to get fired asap.
I do hope there are Arteta out signs today at the game…
The recovery period for Arsenal grows exponentially as long as we keep coaches like this

Cut now, be ruthless for once.

Rangnick, get him- even as a coach
great mind great tactician

He is the anti Arteta- who is a very useless dumbshit

Ray+in+LA

Are you embarrassed by how talented you are, how massive your transfer value is ?

Then come to Arsenal and within a few months [or in Willian’s case, a few games] we’ll have you looking bang-average…

Kroenkephobe

Cazorla

What are you taking for that nasty case of chronic tourette’s syndrome? Stella? Scrumpy? Barley Wine?

Chris

Well there’s at least one thing to be happy about tonight

Surely we will win, and in doing so, relegate Allardici. It’s the small things in life.

Guns of SF

Cazorla the boards town dunce…. what shall we do with you…

I am sure you are relishing today, with your alter of your God Mike Arteta.
Praying we hammer WBA… so you can come on here and beat your chest.

Get back to doing your homework you dunce. You are one miserable twat

Minden+Raider

Thank you and good night. You say OGS is fuck.g awful. Much as I hate him and the shower he works for, I would swap him for our frauds, wouldn’t you?? He is 2nd after all!!!

Guns of SF

PS: you loser taking the name of Cazorla- so creative!
why dont you call yourself Mikel? or Arteta?
Better yet go back to aubergine- at least that one had a hint of creativity in it.
stupid cunt!

Spanishdave

Arteta wants to be Pep light by wanting to buy his way out rather than coaching.
Mans a fraud.

Guns of SF

Cazorla,

Gums of SF LOL. Very unique comeback lol.
nice one….

You said that a few months ago, but I understand if you cannot remember that far back.

Cunt… get back to sipping your tea and try and get some sun. Keep bowing down to your God Mike Arteta. Will you do some good if we win today. I know the last few days have been highly traumatic for you…. clown

Chris

Guns just ignore him. Not worth yours or anyone’s time.

Almuniasaynomore

Chris
You’re spot on, I apologise for poking him,won’t happen again.

Tom

Everyone has their breaking point.
You guys wanna get Rich to join your Arteta out movement?………Just tell him the state has subsidized Arteta’s kids in one form or another.

Kroenkephobe

Almunia

You are tonight’s manager. Who you gonna pick? I’d play a 3 4 3 as follows

Ryan

Chambers Gabriel KT

Ofegaard Partey Luiz Saka

ESR Balogun Martinelli

Start like an anti-Allardyce train. And don’t stop.

A team for the sentimentalists (without the senti bit perhaps).

Should just declare I haven’t worked a day in football, save for coaching my kid’s team for 3 years.

Nelson

Arsenal: Leno, Chambers, Holding, Gabriel, Saka, Ceballos, Elneny, Pepe, Willian, Smith Rowe, Martinelli

Subs: Runarsson, Bellerin, Tierney, Cedric, Partey, Odegaard, Lacazette, Aubameyang, Nketiah

Rich

……………….Leno
……..Holding Gabriel
Chambers…………Saka
……..Ceballos Elneny
Pepe Smith-Rowe Willian
………….Martinelli

Peckobill

Wonder if he’s playing elneny as a false 9

azed

So Martinelli finally gets a start through the middle now that the season is done?

TheLegendaryDB10

Well, I was vaguely hoping that Arsenal, and the Kroenkes’ more specifically, would have sacked Arteta by now, but nope. He is still here, and is still talking BS, making us think he knows what he is doing when we all know that he doesn’t. There is still one saving grace for Arteta, and that is if he speaks to an experienced manager to discuss his performance and see and learn where he needs to improve comes the end of this season. A self review if you would like. If he does this , this would tell me that he… Read more »

Br0wnie

This is what Tets and Willie/Ceb sing together.
When I’m with you baby
I go out of my head
And I just can’t get enough
And I just can’t get enough
All the things you do to me
And everything you said
I just can’t get enough
I just can’t get enough
We slip and slide as we fall in love
And I just can’t seem to get enough of

Danny

Ryan injured?

Matt

Season done, nothing to play for and still he can’t give Balogun a start. A midfield involving Cabellos, Elneny AND Willian. No thanks.

Soham

Hahaha what a midfield of Ceballos and Elneny…pathetically slow midfield..Gunnersaurus would be quicker than them both !

NwGooner

Again Willian?

Samir

Arteta is a fucking idiot. Why is he still at the club?

What a shit line up. Azeez and Balogun should be starting.

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