No one does a disaster start to the season quite like Arsenal.
Auba and Lacazette are out ‘ill’… two healthy young men out at the same time in August means one of two things. They got the thing that’s going around or they are being sold. My money is they have the bad thing, which is alarming for a number of reasons… the most notable, they could be out for the Chelsea and City games.
Let’s hope they shared a yellow sticker Tesco Sushi, that’d be a better scenario.
However, out of adversity, springs of hope may spray… that sounded more poetic in my head. I have had about 20 people in my DMs today saying they are more excited about the game now than they were before. I’m in that boat as well, Arteta is going to be forced into playing a young and dynamic line-up.
My money would be on Martinelli filling that role. He’s fit, more experienced, and he’s an absolute beast of a player. They might have Saka and Pepe flanking him. If the manager was bold, he’d drop Balogun into the team and see what he’s all about. The sexy reality is there is no bland choice here… all he has is the kids, who time and time again, show they are hungry and have a better profile for what we need.
My bigger worry is that press conference from yesterday. I watched Thomas Frank do one at Brentford, he was charismatic, evocative, positive, and inspirational. Mikel Arteta looked like a child who’d been told he couldn’t play with his toys.
This is unacceptable behaviour for an Arsenal FC ‘manager.’ When you are a player, you can be that way, when you are a manager… your job is to inspire the fans and the players. I can’t imagine many watching that will have felt that way.
He could have set a bar for the season.
He could have told the miserable fans not to underestimate the Arsenal.
He could have given us a blueprint of what to expect this season.
Instead, he sat on that chair and made sure the whole world knew he was unhappy. That’s selfish behaviour and I’m pissed that he’s behaving that way. If he has the audacity to do that before the season opener, what is going on behind the scenes?
Arteta has a massive job on his hands this season. It’s delivery time. We need to find the next level. The football needs to be better, the energy levels need to be consistent, and there can be no excuses. That press conference felt like he was defeated before we’ve kicked a ball, like he’d been reading Barry from Basildon slagging him off on Twitter. I can’t have it, you have to be bigger than that if you want to be an Arsenal manager, and the show starts tonight… a win and nothing else is acceptable.
What do I want to see on the pitch tonight?
Ben White and Sambi Lokonga. No excuses. Mo Elneny shouldn’t be anywhere near the team.
I want to see a fun and vibrant front three, I do not want to see Willian invited to the party.
I want to see an intense level of football. I want total control. I want a reassuring win.
Nothing less.
If the kids shine against Brentford and beat them, it actually makes the Chelsea and City games easier. Our chances in both games were low, but if he loses them with an inexperienced side that plays hard and fast, there will be more forgiveness from the fans. Hey, we might even surprise a few.
One things is for sure, it seems Willian is getting the cold shoulder from Arteta, he’s on ESPN explaining that he hasn’t hit the right level, and basically saying he’d be open to him exiting. NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. Nothing shows the lack of leadership at Arsenal quite like Arsenal bombing off Mesut Ozil, only to jump right back into signing another deadweight on mega money. Still, at least we’re not going to spend 6 months watching him fail.
Joe Willock finally exited the club to Newcastle. Good luck to him.
Martin Odegaard will likely move to Arsenal when Madrid accept that we’re not going to pay £50m for him.
I’ve no idea what’s going on with the goalkeeper, Neto is now being linked because Sheffield United don’t want to deal with us on Aaron Ramsdale. I honestly can’t suss this Ramsdale obsession, considering the lack of funds we have for more important roles like the right-back position, this seems like peak opulence. Ramsdale is either the most moneyball move of all time and someone in the data team is landing a promotion out of this for being a genius or it’s going to be Richard Wright MKII. The idea that we’d take any keeper and give him to the same guy that recco’d Runarsson, crashed Leno’s form, and was involved in some sort of weird machiavellian coup against the other keeping coaches is quite the black mark on our ‘ruthless’ summer. But there we go, let’s see if Sheffield United save us from ourselves, or someone shows the scouts Onana for half the price.
Anyway…
This is the start of a new season. I’m excited even if the coach isn’t. Let’s see what the boys have for us this evening.
Now selling auba and laca is one thing but he replaces them for Tammy fucking Abraham he really has lost the plot . He’s on average something like a 10 PL goal a season striker in this league .
absolutely astonishing were even considering extending Xhakas contract
Val
I think some bids maybe have come for either player
We have to think of better excuses than being sick tho
We all know that is BS
Maybe like- Auba got an infected tattoo on his foot, Laca, ate some bad chicken curry and has explosive diarrhea…
Something more believable
Predictable is the word that sums us up going forward.
9 times out of ten the ball ends up at the feet of a wide player who then crosses the ball ..predictable.
And if it is predictable to the watching Arsenal fans then it must be predictable for the Brentford defence to defend against.
Until Arteta allows the players to attack through the middle of the pitch then we will remain predictable .
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Does that “anyone” include the manager Charlie ? The one who prioritised a centre back ahead of creativity and goal scoring
Dear all Arteta supporters
Just to remind you that that the season started today, not next week, after Christmas or St. Patrick’s Day or some other random day that you choose in the future because it suits your hollow agenda.
The Arteta OUT crowd has bragging rights for the week.
Confused Charlie & Error Prone Stroller I feel your pain for this result but for the life of I can’t understand hoe you did not see this train wreck coming. 0 points from 9 looks very much now the reality for the first 3games.
You look at the fixture list and you have to ask, where are the certain 3 points coming from?
I bet Laca and Auba were goofing off too much in training or on the bus and Mikel went full Stalin on them.
Really really strange matchday for AFC though.
1st. The Auba/Laca story
2nd. Putting Reiss Nelson on the pitch
3rd. Taking off Chambers for Tavares when we have literally 3 other rigth backs in the squad.
Something is seriously wrong
Lol who was it earlier in the summer when we said the actual order of transfers was important and they kept banging their head like the all knowing they thought they were. I mean look at Chelsea, sure they need a defender and are after Kounde but what do they do? They go and sign Lukaku first as that’s their weakest point. We’re coming off the worst goal scoring season and with the 3rd best defence and with a young promising defender ready to be integrated after 2 successful loan spells and we go and loan him out again and… Read more »
Yeah we’re fucked. A lot wrong with the squad. Arteta Out for who?
In Artreta’s post game interview he said we need to be more clinical in the final third, no shit Sherlock and what is he doing buying a defender for 50 mil first.
This is Friday 13th. This was an Arsenal disaster in the making. Brentford did smell blood. Arrest those fucking droids
It feels like our players aren’t even training passing the ball in the penalty box. All we did was whip it out from the wings. Shocking stuff.
I’d get Graham Potter in. At least he’d change formation to suit personal and buy bissouma
Bati
It’s funny to see the defenders of Arteta come in to attack the club with vague generalities.
When many cried themselves horse about the very obvious fundamental errors the club was making all summer they were told to “stay positive”.
Chickens coming home to roost
We need Conte and he will grind these wimps to play some real football
Ffs.
1-0 down so Arteta takes our striker off and puts Martinelli up top.
Still 1-0 down so Arteta takes off Martinelli our last remaining striker., meaning no strikers on the pitch.
Later Arteta takes off Chambers and brings on our left back Tavares to play right back when we have Bellerin, AMN and cedric on the bench who are all right footed full backs
I call total bollocks on Auba & Laca falling ill. They’ve mutinied on Arteta’s ass.They are done with the rookie. They’ve called out his b/s.In a nutshell,sounding out- it’s them(Auba &Laca) or him(Arteta). Reminds me of the time when the senior Chelsea players downed tools on Andre Villa Boas.And he was eventually shown the exit door,after alienating so many of the senior players,i.e. Anelka ,Alex et al, amongst other factors.His man-management left a significant distaste in the mouths of the Chelsea players. The difference between the Villa-Boas scenario was that he alienated some of the senior players,and the players on… Read more »
So how many players are we gonna lose to Arteta’s arrogance before Edu and the other numpties at the helm decide enough is enough?
– Guendozi
– Martinelli
– Saliba
Seems Lacazette and Auba are next in line.
What’s the point of “premier league” experience for £50 million defender when he can’t stand up to the physicality of the premier league?
Everyone knows aerial combat and physical duels are central to the league.
People are entitled to their opinion before the season starts. For fuck sake. If I thought about my beloved arsenal the way some of you guys do I’d give up. We’ve been crap for time and I can’t be negative for that long it’s not healthy. Tonight was gutting and not looking good
Dissenter
Because apparently playing from the back is important – more than a striker who can score.
Priorities.
Pierre
Arteta’s use of subs have been piss poor since day one . His logic behind them is bizarre to say the least but it doesn’t shock me anymore
There were 17’000+ at the Brentford game in attendance, can’t wait for the Chelsea home game and the Arsenal faithful making their displeasure known.
https://youtu.be/QJUjROPxr4I
Chelsea owned by a Russian: Champions of Europe; favourites to win PL
Arsenal owned by an American. Now nothing more than the Arsenal Generals
We’re dooooooooooommmed:(
You never know we might put 3 past Chelsea
I did say that unless Ben White can bring 20 g/a then we will literally be in the same position then we shouldn’t have prioritised him over a forward or creative mid. It was silly and so it has proved. We still are toothless upfront, still susceptible to aerial play.
Mozi
You do know that Santa Klaus is not real 😆
Arteta is done,cooked,fried,toast…..
It’s just a question of when not if….
He’s so out of his depth,it’s now just comical viewing on a weekly basis.Sad,painful but true.
But the buck stops with the Kroenkes-someone needs to get rid of them or jettison them out of the Emirates ASAP.
The situation is untenable.
Mozi
“You never know we might put 3 past Chelsea”
You better stayed moaned
It’s the hope that will give you a coronary
Positiveness without any basis is like a bad batch of tainted crack on the streets.
We’ve got until the end of the month for signings. A lot needs to be done. OK white didn’t have the best game but its not like he was helped by mari and chambers. Gk looks suss. There’s massive problems and it goes deeper than arteta. Xhaka got shown up by a 21 Yr old debutant. Martenelli did zero so did balogun. We even bought on Nelson. Taveras looked better than chambers and he played out of position for all of 10 minutes. We need a reality check. Sambi ESR saka and Tierney were positive. Their 1st goal was suss… Read more »
Arteta isn’t finished, on the contrary. With all this attention, the Kroenkes get click bait, so they can run the club as a travelling side show or circus if you like, like the Washington Generals or Gennys for the wokes. He can sell heaps of merchandise in show bags with 3rd, 4th & 5th away kits included. It could be a big money spinner, afterall, it’s never been about results for the Kroenkes!
That was tongue in cheek dissenter.. honestly the way we’ve been for God knows how many seasons I can only imagine an angry man you must be
17 days to go, we’re not doing anything of note.
It was a shit show now Chelsea will test us a new one we look so toothless it’s attrocious
You might as well sack him now. Why waste another season?
No improvement and at this stage improvement is 100% not coming.
If you blame all the players for being poor to average than what is the common denominator? It is the fucking manager and his backroom staff!!!
Get rid of them and hire someone that is competent and the team will improve, just look what Tuchel did with the squad he took over.
I really wish the Arabs/Russian oligarchs would’ve bought us instead of man City./Chelsea the world is so unfair
Wait until the first home game with lots of fans in the stadium and that will tell you how long Tets will be manager.
Long time Tits, how have you been?
Agreed, season is basically over before it even starts in terms of excitement.
Agreed MD.. I hope we win.
I have started to hate Arteta ball I can’t trust the process when it looks like a Jose team with league 1 players
Guns of SF
Of those 22 shots, other than the save on Pepe’s, which one of those other 21 were of a high xG quality?
Well, I was thinking more about their reaction to last season’s results the TW and the present result and team condition. If this blog is a reflection it will be a hostile crowd.
DolomiteAugust 13, 2021 22:52:21 Look,The problem is Arteta.Get rid of Arteta, we have a better team. ———– The problem is with the Kroenkes for trusting the golden keys with a rookie manager who had no managerial experience beforehand,no track record to benchmark against ,as to evaluate whether he was the right candidate for the job at a supposedly ‘big club’. The fact that they persisted with him after 18 months speaks volumes,given the horrendous decisions (Arteta)he’s committed and continues to commit under his stewardship.The 8th place consecutive finishes over two seasons and out of Europe for the first time in… Read more »
No way would Jose have played that team tonight he’s not got the bollocks
Are there games that are sure three points in the bag?
Everything will be a struggle this season.
WE: “Agreed, season is basically over before it even starts in terms of excitement.”
Yeah, we had half the blog flaming me and others for being negative. Can’t see where the positivism is going to come from?
Christ that Amazon programme could be car crash Tv if the season continues like this
Mozzi I mean the way we play footy is like a Jose team dire footie but we can’t even defend
We had Bellerin and AMN on the bench and that imbecile Arteta brought on Tavares. He’s going to have to be saved from himself; absolutely horrific manager. I would take Tony fucking Pulis over him.
And Soares on the bench who could play RB.
At least the Amazon doc will be a blast for the neutral and our former rivals at the top end of the table.
The owners are the problem that is the common factor. But do they realise the squad is shit? I think they do. Have they got the right guys to take us forward and get the team up to scratch before the end of the month? Guess we will find out by the end of the month. Something is seriously wrong that’s for sure.
I’d take rusty lee to give the job a go before arteta
raptor
Remember the painful accusations here which reminds me where is “Positive Pete” after today’s disaster?
Mozi
OK white didn’t have the best game but its not like he was helped by mari and chambers.
But people were here all season saying Dunk was handholding him and Bisouma was shielding him but Pedders kept telling us he was a one man gang who could do everything on his own. From what I saw today, he makes Saliba look like peak Baresi.
Now that we have seen White close up, It is clear that we have to play White in the back three, supported by Holding and Gabriel Magalhães. White is physically not tall and strong enough. The opposing striker can easily hold up the ball.
As for Chambers, he played like a beginner. So often he cleared the ball aimlessly, which also led to the first goal. As for the second goal, one of the defender had to protect Leno and pushed their player away to free on Leno..
We missed on Tuchel, Conté is still jobless. Just saying.
Left side
The game was gone. Might as well give the newby a debut.
Amn crashed his car at 5am during the off season and bellerin wants out. We’ve got some right cannons in the place. Was cedric signed by arteta?
Willock could have helped today Shame we sold him
Which I agreed with if we get the right players in to replace him which we won’t and even if we do MA will fuck it up
I am done with him
It was probably a statement from Mikel to the fans. Look what happens when I do what you say i.e. give chances yo youngsters.
The problem is, it proves your are a shit manager, who lost to a team who has not played a PL game since I was born. 2-0.
Willian will be back in next match.
The problem is,
I agree white is a back 3 cb until we get better personal. Arteta needs to get back to the formula that won us the fa cup
Johnny rained hell on Pedro in the latest podcast
Johnny speaks for me.
I keep reading stuff here from poster, Pedro you told us/you said. What are you 8? Someone gives you some bullshit and you buy it? You couldn’t use your own fucking brains to see arteta is sub par?
Odegaard will make fuckall difference to the team. Playing a conservative and scripted 90min of football should be stopped. Let the players express themselves once they are on the pitch.
It’s not all about you, Mikel.
Long time Tits, how have you been?“
Yea all good man. Just strapping in for another long season.
Who is arsenals next manager then? I’d take Graham Potter because we’re not in Europe.. the owners are shit and realistically that’s all I can think of?
MD Gunner
“Remember the painful accusations here which reminds me where is “Positive Pete” after today’s disaster?”
“Postive Pete ” is the same poster as “Negative Nigel”
He split himself into two alters
Rocky
Cool off on the abuse you’re directed at Arsenal
He’s earned the right to be terribly wrong about Arsenal without the abuse.slinging.
Should have signed Webster instead
50m for a CB like Ben White is a bad deal.
59PL matches for Arteta and the team still continue to look toothless in attack. It is not a question of personnel, but strategy. Wenger’s side with Bendtner and Chamakh were more effective.
Still time to save the season and replace the manager
Who we gonna get then?
Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, on Twitter in the past hour: “What?? It’s football,it’s a loss of Arsenal at/to Brentford. Brentford deserved to win and they did. The game itself aside Arsenal and the fans don’t deserve to kind of get used to this….NO !!! I say this as one of the big fans of Arsenal. The change has taken to long to come! It’s been a struggle of about decade(s) -ups&downs-more downs until this point. Can’t we have a plan that really works?? One part to look at is how we deal in the market- players we buy to… Read more »
Pepe did well. He just lacked support. So much for playing kids. Nelson for Martinelli? What the heck is Nelson still doing in the club. So much for playing kids and to even think some were saying Balogun was better than Laca and Auba. Happy some of you have been hit with reality. For Arterta, the least said about him the better. He’s completely out of his depth. Can we get Conte? Hanging on to hope. The left footed players were more in our playing body and jeez our build up is ponderously slow and to think we are adding… Read more »
Dissenter
What abuse? Fucking brains?
We can’t play a back 3… because that means we have one less midfielder or one less attacker.. 3-4-3 or 3-5-2. If you think our midfield is a black hole now and our attack is weak… just try a back 3 again. And under any pressure it quickly becomes a 7-0-3 formation. or at some points a 9-0-1. Unless you want to try and draw every match. 0-0 with the odd 1-0. This is why Ben White as our priority made no sense to me. And if your going to go to a wingback system.. then we are woefully short… Read more »
Thanks Elmo.. So who is the next manager?
Conte won’t touch this shit show with a barge pole
Rocky
Pedro has binned people for less than that.
The owners couldn’t run a bath
What a frightened thought. We lost to a promoted team. There is a chance we could lose the next 37 games.
Meh
Don’t really care about that.
Yep Conte ain’t coming here to spend £3.50 and work alongside idiots like Edu and Vinai etc
Ben White was supposed to let us play a high line in theory… but Mari kept getting toasted.
Anyone would think we’ve been world beaters for the last 10 seasons
Ben White – ah Ben White – the defender who is crap in the air but can apparently pass a pretty ball. But then since order and priority of transfer is not important, I suppose it all good.
Conte won’t come we would have to get someone like Rodgers or potter
Mid
We are going to play Chelsea and MC in the next two PL matches. Today’s defensive setup would have no chance at all.
Up at 5am excited as could be, the PL is back!!!!!
Must have forgot Arteta was our coach overnight though.
Outdoing himself yet again.
That priority CB position really upped our game
What is frustrating is that the car crash was predicted and avoidable, but we had people who drank the KoolAid acting all mighty, insulting and belittling others for stating the obvious. The emperor is naked.
ARTETA IS OUT OF HIS DEPTH.
He may be a good individual player coach, but he is a terrible manager. In all the major aspects: recruitment, man management, tactical decisions, substitutions. The only aspect he excelled is the PR side of thing and nose browning upper management, which unfortunately does not help winning games.
Goober almost feel sorry for you having to get up so early man but I watched the game as well so o feel sorry for me just as much
We need a new gk
It doesn’t sound like Auba and Laca back for next two games. Outside of Pepe nobody who started today scored more than two goals last year. Odegaard who is lightweight fits in because he doesn’t offer much g/a either.
I genuinely feel sorry for all season ticket holders and members
Nelson-
Well for me, it isn’t even all about the formation. . We had a shit ton of kinks today that should have been worked out in pre-season or on the training pitch.. Set piece defending.. playing a high line.. Chambers has to cover for White.. Pepe has to cover for Chambers.. Tierney has to support Mari. Xhaka has to do something other then point. It’s like they didn’t work on anything at all.
It was all amateur hour for me. and that’s just the defense.. The attack is an even longer discussion.
We need a striker.. no.10.. rb.. xhaka replacement. Gk.. fucking spiders were in for another tough one this season
Sticking with my pre season finish prediction
10th or lower
When white was under huge pressure in our box, but stayed composed and ended up spraying out a long ball to Saka I think it was. Best piece of play from white to get himself out of trouble albeit leaving a shit load for Saka to do.
Our playing out from the back is going to be our downfall again. Especially with xhaka still in the middle as the shittest of outlets.
Which reminds me.
Seeing xhaka as captain was utterly vomit inducing. I really am struggling to get behind this Arteta shit show.
Nothing at all makes sense
Haha Mr Serge, I feel for all the Arsenal fans ATM (well the select few who support this shite don’t get my sympathy at all)