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.
“ Wrighty look like killing someone“
Arteta would be a good guess
Oh fuck… well… this result combined with our summer.. all positivity gone. Sadly that was about the best team we could have started bar Saka for Pepe, maybe.
Anyhow… not much else to say.. Dark day … Friday the 13th horror show.
Trust the process guys…
Ben White was supposed to provide leadership, right
There’s no way Dunk allows his goal keeper to be beaten up like that
Our only attacking move is a cross by Tierney. Arteta is supposed to be a genius.
Ivan Toney are White for breakfast and shat Mari out.
Don’t worry lads, Arsenal would have finished 3rd if the season started at Christmas.
Peter you fucking idiot
Arteta wont be manager in Jan, but who will these jokers pick to replace him?
My guess Henry or Vieira of the latter has an escape clause
Has the crossing been working even with the strikers? We’ve done entirely too much of it to no effect to expect Mikel wants something different. Clearly we’re not crossing enough…
No points from the next 5 games seems like relegation fodder. Welldone Stan & Josh!
**ate
Well done, Brentford. That’s how to organise a side, play with a coherent plan, with desire and shape. More than just a loss for Arteta, this is the writing on the wall for him, he has no hiding place this season. He will have to pull off something special against Chelski and City to survive.
I saw Thomas Frank for the first time today, and he has more charisma in a toenail than the generational one.
This is not just Arteta the whole club needs to ripped out and started again with management top to bottom. The rot has been going on too long.
Brentford top. Arsenal bottom… meh!
Does your missus complain about you being premature Sausage?
Cos you are with that take
I think we have to switch to 3 at the back and bring back Holding. White and Mari together fail big time.
Low point for Arsenal FC
We are close to being effing dead as a club. We are fats becoming the banter FC of top English
football.
Mari is shyt. Bring back saliba and dino
The Arsenal Generals
It’s a disappointing result, there’s a very real possibility that we’ll now take 0/9 from our first 3 league games
It’s going to be a long month between now and Sept 11th against Norwich 😂, at which point the pressure will be at boiling point
Europa League games at least gave fans something to focus on in between bad league results
As we stand we’re looking at a 6th – 9th place finish, big 18 days ahead for the club, we desperately need to clear the deadwood, add some real quality, and get Partey + Gabriel back on the pitch
Predictable result for Brentford, no matter who they played.
It just happened to be AFC
We are already the banter all over
Fucking depressing
Brentford looked better coached and drilled than Arsenal.
It was so damn easy for them
The generational one should cite act of God in the presser… nothing he’d do really with….
*unprecedented challenging summer, TW
*both of our scorers fell ill , they’d have got a hat trick
*defensive midfield rock was found a little brittle
*both UK stars are tired from a hectic Euro schedule
*Martinelli and Nelson were rusty, they learned to grow patience last season
*played a young team and thats generational so worth 3 points in spirit 👏
I wonder where the people who were advocating White as Arsenal ball playing defender are now. They were told that the guy could not play in a back 4, because he would be bullied and that his ball playing ability were overstated. But not they drank the KoolAid and believe the shit that came from the club PR machine. Same thing about Balogun. It was obvious to anybody who had spend time watching the U23 that he was not ready for the premiership. And in the first game of the season against a newly promoted club he should have tried… Read more »
Arteta, Edu, Leno, Runnarson, Bellerin, Mari, El fucking Neny, Nelson, Nketiah, Auba Laca Pepe – all these fuckers need to be sold tonight
Let Me tell you diot Arsenal fans, if auba had played today this piss poor team couldn’t have got even a single shot on goal
Auba is finished under arteta
Not being funny but Spanish managers do not seem to bode well for us!
Arteta.
Arsenals main problem at the moment.
Took a game he had a chance of drawing and proceeded to lose it completely with petulance and bias against his only decent striker Martinelli
The moment he subbed Nelson on we lost what attacking impetus we had
Even Xhaka looked disgusted on Sky…..
I must add my disappointment to this fcuk… I have been willing to give Arteta support until now. This was just terrible performance and I think it is time to give up on Edu and Arteta. I liked the players and positive to see the young guns get a run out but the tactics are just terrible. We need a new powerhouse midfielder and we looking at shot Goalkeepers and expensive attackers… FML.. Why can’t I support some other team?? Newcastle just signed a player that might have been of use to us for the last 30 minutes of this… Read more »
Leno – disaster last year – worse this. Anyone want to ask Villa about their keeper?
How do you spend £50 million for a defender that can get so easily bullied
The Bees are no mugs.
Which you’d know if you’d been following the club for the last few years
Whats gonna be our goal difference after 3 games ? – 13 !
White needs to play in a back 3. Why this wasn’t noticed by the scouts etc. He loses a lot of aerial battles, his strengths are with the ball at his feet. Putting him in a back 4 exposed all his weaknesses and nullified his threats
Rich
Europa League games at least gave fans something to focus on in between bad league results
Indeed but it was t just the fans it gave the players and the coach to work on 5hings in a real match situation
AKBs let the excuses start for a dismal performance, Wir looked 50mil worth?
Idk how anyone could watch the shit we play out on the pitch for much of the past eighteen months and honestly conclude that our manager is some kind of brilliant wunderkind.
Excuses, excuses excuses!
Arteta, Edu, Leno, Runnarson, Bellerin, Mari, El fucking Neny, Nelson, Nketiah, Auba Laca Pepe – all these fuckers need to be sold tonight
Hahahahaaaa . Sad but true
Might as well just buy Tammy Abraham right now since we will be crossing the ball a lot.
OMG even I didn’t believe it would be that shambolic
Leno is fucking timid. He sums up this Arsenal
Give Arteta £300 million and he will waste it.
Imagine if we had a mint Ramsdale on the sideline as back up keep while we were getting spanked by Brentford.
I really hope nobody blames the players.
After 3 full transfer windows and this ongoing Summer, this team is Arteta’s team. We played the players that he decided are good enough to win games, especially today vs a novice team.
After a full Summer coaching the players, this is what we got. It’s not nearly good enough. Losing to a novice team with a laughable budget should not happen.
Muppetman
I don’t think it will make any difference unless-he has height alongside him
Even then you need leaders and he aint one nor are any of the back four that played today
Azed
Once we get Tammy the crosses will stop ! Tactics will change !!
Pepe must be the worst 72 mil anyone have spent.
Graham@ you are right, atleast Tonys obsession with Wenger was in some degree justified.
I wonder how many games in a row we will manage to go without winning this year. Maybe we can challenge that record period of misery from last year. Maybe we’ll even manage to somehow score fewer goals than last? i want to break some generational records.
The Nightmare continues…
Make Tierney the captain tonight if you want some kind of leadership on the pitch at all
Leno was at fault for the second goal.
Didn’t command his area (aerial ball) and allowed himself to get pinned by their defender
It happened TWICE and nothing changed… one was a goal for Brentford the othe a miss just off target
I don’t want to see anybody come in if we’re going to cut off our nose to spite our face and persist with Arteta. He won’t spend it well. Get him out, get an actual manager in and then let him build his own team.
Losing to and especially being outplayed by a novice team with a laughable budget should not happen.
Pepe….. God, sell him sell him
Arsenal needed ballers like Auoar ,Silva and lautaro but Got none.
Val: wtf? You writing off White already?
I liked Lokonga. I think we have a gem there. White disappointed but it is his first game. And playing against physical forwards is not his game. Especially in the air. Going to Tierney and crossing it is not working one bit. The few times we looked dangerous is when ESR tried to run with it or tried a one two. Things are going to be a bit better if we sign Odegaard with Partey and Gabriel to come back. I also think we missed Lacazette in there to link it all up. Arteta though needs to get his shit… Read more »
I actually think the players are average but made to look much worse with Artetas non tactics and shit management.
The team plays like it trains, it’s all pass pass pass, no end product, just watch Brentford they turnover the possession and it ends up in a shot on goal, our players are not being trained properly. They coach that out of our players. We have over 60 percent of possession yet we never look like scoring.
Earlier today some were posting that we should play the kids. Today we played the kids and
we saw the outcome.
I have to say that our defence was shocking and it has to be of serious concern how easily they were bullied.
Earlier in summer I defended Arteta, but I also made the case that he had 10 games at the start of the season to keep his job. Now I think that it is down to nine.
And forget about the 250 mil available it is not even 100 mil.0
Leno is terrible and he’s regressed under Arteta. And to think we were in for Raya last year or the year before — he’s in a different league to Leno
Guys…just think about this for a minute..if Toney was bullying our defenders imagine what would happen when they face Lukaku ! Drogba part 2 coming up !!!
“Wenger would make some of these players look absolutely world class against bottom table teams. They would ne pants against top teams but we would at least enjoy it.”
Word Habeesha, my thoughts exactly
0/9 points aint gonna change shit.
Mike is here to stay it seems
If last season did not can him, this will not either.
The fans will call him out tho, and then maybe… let see
Arteta cannot whatsoever coach an coherent expansive attack . He’s far to cautious and pessimistic, yes if you don’t cocmcede you don’t lose bollocks but if you don’t score you don’t fucking win . Depressing you can just tell it’s going to be a shit season after one sodding game and no it’s not knee jerk because not a single thing has evolved from the shite last season
Pep has blood on his hands by the way.
Leno wasn’t really at fault
His defenders let him down.
You ALWAYS put a player between your keeper and the opposition player to push off and PREVENT them from doing what happened to Leno
Leno could have embellished the contact more, to show the ref he was being grabbed.
Brentford bullied us off the field.
Raptora,
Agreed on blaming the players. It’s just a red herring. I don’t even buy the talk about whose team it is. It’s the Arsenal team and Arteta’s job is to get the most out of it. However you look at it, he has a better group of players than Emery had. The turgid football is down to him.
The list of players whose indifference shows in their body language, is long – leno, auba, pepe, laca, education, vinai AND of course the KROENKES
Arsenal fans talking about a central f**King defender as as a potential “threat” to other teams whilst we watch xhaka stroll around and pass sideways + sideways and 20 degrees forward again for. 90mins. What hipster nonsense have we been deceived into with this regime. How long is it going to last.
Muppetman,
“Putting him in a back 4 exposed all his weaknesses and nullified his threats”
I wrote exactly the same thing, but some were adamant that this was not the case. White can be easily bullied when he does not have 2 tall CBs to handle the aerial threat for him. Also his ball playing abilities have been overstated. He is an above average B, but nowhere near the quality of a quarterback like player who can ping ball to the attackers.
Talking about bullying imagine what our defenders will go through when the face Lukaku next week !
Leno could have embellished the contact more, to show the ref he was being grabbed.
That’s EXACTLY what he failed to do.
Piss poor from an international keeper that could always see the long throw.
I said earlier he picked the right players…
however they dont practice this in practice….
Keep this side, and keep them practicing together, I think it will be good
White playing against physical forwards is not his game? Why the fuck have we bought him then because he will be up against those players week after week. Clueless acquisitions time after time – worse than Wenger (which is saying something…….)
“Earlier in summer I defended Arteta, but I also made the case that he had 10 games at the start of the season to keep his job. Now I think that it is down to nine.”
Yea … right
The professional waffler is at it again
Groundhog Day all over again
ES, Arteta will get more than 9/10 games, but make you right in terms of a momentum setting in by then.
The problems go way deeper than Arteta thouGh
Anyone got Ralph Rangnick’s and Antonio Conte’s number?
The team doesn’t look well coached at all. I wish I could hold on to some hope, but with this squad and this coach tenth is a real possibility.
You guys need to lay off White
The problems in defence were Chambers (slashing panicky clearance)
and Leno ( failing to command his area)
This is the most shambolic performance i have ever seen.
There was no attacking intent whatsoever from the team. As the match wore on we let Brentford take control and let them dominate.
Their goals were fully deserved.
Le sauce looked more like le stink ds evening
One thing, Leno was being fouled , how did VAR not get that?
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raptoraAugust 13, 2021 22:08:24
Losing to and especially being outplayed by a novice team with a laughable budget should not happen.
Yep for sure first time they have been in the top flight for 70 years and they school us
Arteta is done
Someone call up Dangote and Daniel Ek
Or just bring back Lord Bendtner !
I really couldn’t see the point of Reiss Nelson.
Totally unnecessary.
EK,
Where are you? This is a good time for another bid, ( real or not) and get this out in the media….
Pressure KSE to break the piggy bank, get in Aouar, and however else
I agree not whites fault put. Proper RB next to him and he will be good and Mari gone too
Let the panic buying commence. Who wants to come to this shit show.
What the fuck was wrong with Auba & Laca?
Why would you give the clown ten games!! One crap game is enough. Even Emery’s low wasn’t this low.
https://www.twitch.tv/le_grove
Pedro just said that this already feels like Arteta is entering the death spiral.
Tell you what we learned today balogan is no where near ready needs a loan to the championship wow he was poor
How much does our team cost compared to Brentford?
The difference coaching is quite significant. Arteta is out of his depth
Our major requirements:
A top class KEEPER
A League class RIGHT BACK
A 20 goal striker
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY
A NEW COMPETENT MANAGER.
We have no goal scorers in this team which is just a tad fucking worrying. Why has this not been addressed ffs