Mikel Arteta looks a dead man walking and we’re one game into the season. His embarrassing carry-on before the game in his press conference wasn’t an off day at the office, it was a window into the mindset of a ‘manager’ that has lost control of whatever he had bottled when he first joined the club. The team performed at 60%, there was no evolution of the football, and we were bodied by a Brentford side with literally zero Premier League games worth of experience.
It was shocking, but I think most people half expected that it was going to happen. There was a slight narrative working against us and we let it consume us. If Chelsea went there, they’d have come away with 3 points, and probably spanked them. They wouldn’t let the ‘plucky upstarts in their new stadium’ get the better of them. We allowed it, and what was most painful is Arteta set the expectation for that result through his behaviour pregame.
I don’t want to keep banging on about this, but as ‘manager’ you set the tone for the club. When you are the defacto leader on the football side, you cannot allow yourself to make things about you and your feelings… unless you’re Jose Mourinho at his peak. Arteta was visibly sulking before the game because he didn’t have the players he wanted. He decided not to set out a lofty ambition for the season. He didn’t pump his players, instead, he chose to flame grill Willian, and he pontificated over whether Auba could get back to his best form. He basically communicated he didn’t have belief in the players he had, and worse, told fans to temper our expectations.
He should have come out and set a lofty ambition, not tell the fans that consistency is what he was looking for. He should have rallied the players, ‘we have the most talented group of young players in the world, they’re going to shock you, and the doubters will see… top 4 is what we’re going to achieve’… what did we get? A spoilt brat sulk and a non-answer about the season.
This was such a miss. If you set big ambitions that are a little crazy, it can do magical things. The talent on the pitch have a north star, so they know what the expectations are. Management has a target and you make them accountable, and you can make sure every decision is filtered through the lens of ‘are we moving towards this mad goal.’ Fans get pumped because someone at the club has standards. If you beat the drum about the vision, people tend to rally and overperform… and even if you miss the target, you’ll be a damn sight closer to it than you would if you set the target as ‘consistency.’ There was no aspirational target set and the players dropped a performance like they’d been told they were shite.
He also couldn’t give us a straight answer on Auba and Lacazette. Why couldn’t he just be straight and tell us what was wrong with the players? Giving an ambiguous answer now has half the fan base wondering if something more nefarious is at play.
The football was pretty much exactly the same as last year. Loads of passing that lacked purpose, lots of aimless crossing to forwards that weren’t present in the box, and no real bang-bang to our game. The players look weighted down by too much information. Nothing really flowed. There’s still no intelligence in our final third play.
Now, what is clear… losing Auba and Lacazette was a big miss for us. Balogun looked like an 18-year-old upfront, it’s his first game, you can forgive that, but he’s clearly a long way off where he needs to be. Martinelli was absolutely anonymous all game, and Pepe was back to his infuriating worse. But here’s what I can’t deal with… how can those names offer so little energy? Why couldn’t Arteta get them to press? How can you have three players like that and not really cause a problem in attack? That’s not a talent issue… that’s a system problem. It’s also a management issue, because they weren’t giving their best. Hardwork can be just as useful as talent, we didn’t seem to have either yesterday.
Arteta has had 6 weeks to address the lack of creation in the system and he hasn’t solved it. Give it to Tierney is not a strategy. Lobbing balls into an empty box is how Steve Round and David Moyes got their P45s at Manchester United. We had 22 attempts at their goal and only hit the target 4 times. They had 3 shots on target and scored two.
Look at the mess in the team as well. Granit Xhaka wanted out at Arsenal a few weeks ago, now he’s the captain. Cal Chambers is a centre back who is now playing right back, he played like that yesterday, dropping two errors in the build-up to their first goal. Bernd Leno is consistently playing like a keeper that wants a new challenge, you can call a foul on their second goal, and yes, I agree… but it is an affront that a professional keeper lets that happen to him. Where is the fight?
So many of the problems we have in the squad are of Arteta’s doing. He was responsible for Pablo Mari, who looks way out of his depth. He was the guy pushing Willian who is now persona non grata. He told us Cedric Soares had special qualities. All of the players on show yesterday have had long enough under-Arteta to understand the system and they should all be well versed in the expectations of what should be delivered on the pitch.
I think the bigger worry about all of this is it seems like the biggest miss in Arteta’s Arsenal is how he treats players. The Willian issue is a prime example. One minute, he’s a fave, the next, he’s in the bin. Same thing happened to Gabriel last season after a poor 60 minutes saw him benched for 10 games. He’s not looked the same since. The social EQ looks to be weak with Arteta. You can have the best coaching ideas, but if people don’t like you, you can’t survive at the highest level. There are quite a lot of Arsenal fans that just don’t like Arteta because of how he behaves and that’s not a good omen. Just look at Thomas Frank, rallying his fans, talking glowingly about the club, the history, and the plan for the season. That should have been Mikel.
Instead of dropping Brentford with a fizzing performance, we limped out like it was the Villareal game. Now we head into the Chelsea game without key senior players and a painful lack of confidence. It’s quite likely we could finish the first three games of the season bottom of the table with 0 points. The nightmare start of last season looks like it could return for round two… and we only have ourselves to blame. We didn’t get our business done fast enough, we didn’t move the football on with what we have, and the players performed like they’d listened to a manager that lacks focus and fire.
The manager spent all his fan capital during that horrible run. There’s no forgiveness in the system for him because we’ve not seen enough good stuff to care. I don’t know what peak-Arteta football looks like, so it’s hard to get excited about what 3 extra players could do for the football. That’s a problem that can only be solved by winning big games. Chelsea is now a cup final and so is the City game. Will the players go to bat for him? Or will they taste blood in the water like they did with Emery?
We’ll see.
We did a video and a podcast to verbalise the pain.
We need new blood.
Renewing Ceballos and getting ODe again shows a lack of competence and ambition.
Up 4 Grabs
I agree with you on the failure to prioritize.
Holy sh$t, I found Da.riano
https://le-grove.co.uk/about/#comment-37855
Yesterday’s game was a damning indictment of Kroenke’s mismanagement of this club. In any professional corporate entity, none of these top honchos hired by Kroenke will last more than a month. It is unbelievable that an organisation generating near $400 million in revenue is run so shabbily. The CEO is out of his depth. Edu and Arteta are greenhorns who got lucky. If the owners were far sighted, they should have started planning for Wenger’s departure years ago. Instead, they have relied on poor quality management teams repeatedly. No structures have been put in place where a philosophy was established.… Read more »
Bacary,
The annoying thing is we all knew we needed to gut the midfield first, reboot the attack then finish off the odds and ends. Everybody except Pedro and arteta.
He told me it didn’t matter what order we did it, as long as it gone done.
We still ballsed it up!
Liverpool, UtD, Chelsea off the mark in style. Almost like , you know, they were prepared.
Guns That’s like saying Aubameyang at 31 saved our season by winning us a cup, and scoring the goals that saved us from a bottom half finish, so let’s give him a 3yr contract Odegaard is 22, he’ll improve us in the immediate, and he’ll kick on significantly over the next 2 seasons before entering his peak years Player trajectory isn’t stagnant I was calling for Willock to get a run of games at the start of last season, and was told almost unanimously that “Willock will never be good enough” Now many of the same people are disappointed we… Read more »
Rich: “Look at what Maddison, Grealish, De Bryune, Fernandes, we’re all doing at 22, hardly pulling up any trees” So you’d rather compare Odegaard to them and not to the likes of Bojan Krkic – wonderkid that couldn’t make it at Stoke, and aged 30 his last clubs are Montreal Impact and Vissel Kobe. And Giovani dos Santos – that moved to LA Galaxy aged 26. Or Saviola, or Quaresma, or our own Francis Jeffers and Wilshere. There are a lot of examples. We cannot know how much he will develop, all I know is that what he gave us… Read more »
‘’ Arteta was visibly sulking before the game because he didn’t have the players he wanted.‘’
Don’t know where you get that from and thought he was totally honest post match as well..
Usual over reaction from the le grove faithful.. if that was the team playing our remaining fixtures I would say we’d finish 8th to 10th but it’s not going to be.. probably 4-5 changes to that side
G
Watch out the baying mob have their pitchforks out
If auba and laca are out due to arteta man managemt. Then that is nail on coffin time.
Fine if you don’t like his training attitude , BUT DONT GIVE HIM 300 BAGS 12 MONTHS BEFORE THEN .
You have made your bed, lie in it, don’t cry you don’t want it now
G it’s not a personal issue, we haven’t created in 18 months. My da could get a tune out of messi Mara Donna and beat up front, you play the hand you’re dealt not cry for better players constantly after most of the squad is there because you chose it
how everybody involved in yesterday’s debacle somehow managed not see how important winning that game was is crazy.
after city we most probably will be bottom of the table looking like…
P3 W0 D0 L3 GF0 GA8 PTS 0 GD -8
insane, approaching the 8-2 levels, diet Peps phone a friend better be Gandalf.
Read some article saying ode’s already taken the 11 jersey for the season…
I also believe that both Laca and Auba have enough in their tanks to do really well for us. Look at Vardy. He is 34 and still scoring winners. For a long time I was supporting Arteta. Despite poor results last year, I kept supporting him. But I realise now that this man lacks EQ. One of my senior employees just quit because she could not get the team in her department to really give their 100% for her. Not because she was poor in her work. On the contrary, she is talented and hardworking but her man-management skills were… Read more »
The only prove i need to conclude Odegaard is mediocre is the fact that Diet Pep loves him
If our best finisher has fallen out with Arteta then its only right that Arteta is the fall guy and not Auba. Arteta doesn’t even look like he may go on to become a good manager. What are his qualities? His deficiencies are clear and growing and shortcomings have been well documented at this stage.
Clive Hill
Wonderful post and so true.
SidAugust 14, 2021 19:41:19
The only prove i need to conclude Odegaard is mediocre is the fact that Diet Pep loves him
It’s proof
Thanks for the correction flip flopper, its highly appreciated
Welcome to the dark side Pedro. We’ve all seen the writing on the wall for months but you banged on about Arteta and being positive. It was clear, he doesn’t have a clear vision, he can’t handle anyone with a personality and the players are bored. He needs to go now because I don’t trust him to sign anyone that will change our fortunes
Zacharse
where did you read that?
I know they play soon…
So when are we thinking Arteta gets the sack? Seems like he lost the dressing room before a ball was even kicked. Is Ten Haag available? Honestly don’t slate me for suggesting it but why not Ernesto Valverde? He was a pragmatist and got the best out of what was at his disposal at a flailing barca. Yeah he oversaw some horrendous CL results but he won the league with a team that was coming apart at the seems (sound familiar?). For those suggesting Conte, Im sorry but wake up. Hell need 15 mil a year plus an absurd transfer… Read more »
Pedro
Free at last. Let’s hope you stay unshackled.
Best post in a long time.
Amen.
Arteta wants to play Barcelona/City style with a bunch of players who are nowhere near that level. As a young coach I had such high expectations of attractive, progressive, modern style football. Instead last season had such strange staleness to it that I started wondering if Arteta is a slimmed down version of Big Sam. At times play was excruciating. Maybe what he has in his mind is perfect but execution on the ground was more Bolton. Instead of adapting to the team he had and improving players who showed talent and application, Arteta got into petty arguments. I still… Read more »
Everything that is happening on the pitch is on Arteta Instead of playing to your players strength it’s their weakness that you’re emphasizing Leno isn’t good with the ball on his feet but he must play out from the back Auba offers nothing much except score goals but he must be on the wing combining with others instead of being in the box Pepe likes cutting in to take shoots but must hold the width so the attack on the left side of the pitch Mari slow and comfortable when we are mostly in our half but no play high… Read more »
@Pierre,
“Pierre Ozil hahhahhaaa
Go back to your bedroom in your mum’s house and bang one out with your ozil glove you gimp”
You’re absolutely correct Pierre, Mr Serge has often been very vocal in his put downs. It’s not big and it’s not clever it’s just wrong, plain wrong.
Everyone knows it’s an Ozil sock, not a glove you use. Smh !
😉. Couldn’t resist it Pierre.
I will say despite the Ozil references you’ve been on point recently, and dropped some good insightful posts.
Arteta said this has been the most difficult TW in years.
How does he know that?
Not like he’s had many of them in his career to date.
City didn’t have much of a problem buying players when he was Pep’s no 2……..I know, shocking, right?
You mean destroying Arsenal players value by tanking Europa and finishing 8th twice didn’t help selling them on?
Apparently he wanted Bernardo Silva who flat out said only CL clubs need to apply.
Pedro has not suddenly see the light, it is just a momentary lapse back into reality. As soon as Arsenal will get a result or not get spanked by ManCity, despite seeing with his own eyes that Arsenal does not play great football he will be back to the belief that Arteta is a generational coach. Cognitive dissonance? People who believed that the end of the world would take place in 2000, just latched to the belief that it was 2012. Most just adjusted their belief to the new reality, but did not reject it. Personally I would still wants… Read more »
White is toilet allwight
Not what we need
An old granny with a stoop is taller than him.
V
“””Personally I would still wants to see all the data points that Pedro kept mentioning that showed that White was an elite player…”””
Brighton Hove Albion serenely collecting 3 points and a rare away win in the prem post B. White.
£50 million in the bank and Brighton up and running.
Players like B.White DO NOT MOVE THE BLOODY NEEDLE when you are sitting in 8th and you have moderate resources.
At least Grimsdale never arrived for another £25 million.
So some crumb of comfort.
Club in chaos …
We will sell crown jewels ESR n Saks soon
Reality with Arteta is hard for him to take.
He has s down , He is a failure but like most narcissist he cannot take the blame.
To a bigger club like villa
Being a coach,it’s just not about tactics,analysis,player recruitment etc,etc but also about man management as well.. I believe Arteta scores really badly in this department. Well,he scores really badly in many departments-in game management, line -ups, formations, to name but a few.. The best managers are usually the ones that along with knowing their art or being a savant in their field of specialisation possess great man management skills.Have high EQ’s.Such managers will have their workers running through brick walls for them. Loyalty is never called into question. This brings me onto Saliba..I was shocked by the level of treatment… Read more »
Here’s a long-shot prediction.
Arteta to be let go on Oct 3rd following our defeat to Brighton where Danny Welbeck bosses Ben White for 90 mins. The loss to Brighton leaves Arsenal with 5 points (win against Norwich and draws vs. Spurs and Burnley) from a possible 21 points.
Arteta represents entitlement
All he had done he feels is his moral duty without repercussion or consequence
Entitled millennial dickhead
Almunia Hope your pub excursion wasn’t too hideous (but I’m not going to gild the lily). K’phobe Junior and I were truly appalled – Brentford! A new low. To brighten the mood, here’s one from everyone’s favourite American nerdy guy, Beck. A seriously cool cat and very creative musician and filmmaker. Try this to ‘devil’s haircut’ by the great man. Arsenal’s fucked and my interest’s fading Willian’s obese and he’s overladen The quality’s gone from our football oasis Mikel, Edu Vinai fucking sick of their faces Reputations hanging from the Emirates eaves The place needs dousing in gasoline Pistols are… Read more »
Guns
I read that in a few places. One was an arsenalblog, just use an aggregator like newsnow
We should be looking to poach galtier at the end of the season
We cant expect to have much possession in the next 2 games. Wonder what thats gonna look like
Really intrigued to know what the reception will be like next week for Arteta. It’s a long way back from where he finds himself.
Mr. Serge
You posted before the Brentford game “How shitty do you think we are” in a very dismissive fashion. You got your answer yesterday. Your earlier posts leaned towards Arteta Out with some dodgy excuses. Glad to see you haven’t dropped your wet noodle syndrome or as Sid called it flip flopper with your opinion leaning to whatever is convenient. Grow some spine and admit when you made an error.
Why is everyone mad?I thought that it was made ABUDANTLY clear that we have hired a novice and its going to take time.
Btw I watched Mavropanos today and he was superb in a stuttgart rout.Will also watch saliba tomorrow I watched him and guen last week for marseille and while guen’s quality may be questioned,his passion shouldnt. Absolute shithouser,I think we are too meek on the pitch.We are back to being nice humble boys ffs
And am I the only one who was wondering why sambi and white were the ones giving a post match interview?Where the fuck was our captain or any other senior players?I dont think its fair to throw those young lads under the bus like that
We shouldn’t have hired a novice in the first place, and time for what?!?!
He’s progressively declining in his young career. Let him learn on another job, we are an irrelevance in football and Arteta is at the centre of that nowadays.
Bacary, Unless the Emirates reverbates with screams of mutiny from the first home game or most senior players openly revolt against him, I believe that Arteta will get a longer stay of execution. With all the October games winnable, I bet that his last game will be the Everton game. After defeat to Liverpool, Newcastle (winner scored by Willock of course), ManUtd and Everton, the threat of relegation become real. Boos are so loud that they can be heard from the Kroenke ranch, also the poor game attendance starts to have a very financial impact. Until then the Kroenke will… Read more »
Mr Serge was obnoxious in defending Arteta but if he has now finally seen the light, we should welcome him to the Mikel Out Brigade. Assuming he is truly one of ours.
MOBs together strong.
Thoughts w/ CC’s Abraham agenda an admirable yet failed mission.
Kroenkephobe, How are things? Had a feast of pints, inspired by watching the match,suffering today though. That Gaelic game you watched saw everybody’s favourite 2nd team Mayo beat a Dublin team who have been national champions for 6 years in a row. It was quite something. A tonic after last night. I didn’t post last night or today because I didn’t feel there was much to be said, everyone is angry and rightfully so, it’s all been said already. I’m going to stick to trying to find a way to laugh at things but it’s getting harder. You did a… Read more »
I still believe the Arsenal board are the reason for this mess!
raptoraAugust 14, 2021 22:18:10
Mr Serge was obnoxious in defending Arteta but if he has now finally seen the light, we should welcome him to the Mikel Out Brigade. Assuming he is truly one of ours.MOBs together strong.
We all kbow these routines by arteta fanboys…we shithouse our way to two wins and they are firmly back to their cult.I mean,isnt this the same fella who was calling people moaners just a few days ago for predicting exactly what will happen yesterday?
Looks like Confused Charlie may also see the light.
” So why then are we game 1 and lining up with the exact same set of players, but expecting a different tune? ”
That my dear Confused Charlie is the definition of insanity. Hopefully you will finally see that it doesn’t matter who we bring in as long as the insanely incompetent Duo is running recruitment.
Forza MOB 😆
Daniel Altos
When some one posted that because Arsenal is shitty and will loose to Brentford he posted:
“How shitty do you think we are” well he got his answer and by know with all the eating of crow he was subject to, it must be pretty tasty to him.
My knew Tag line Forza MOB
Sal
He’s dead to me. Positively clueless who we turn to at this point in the window though, seemed like the easiest deal to manufacture at CF. Screams of us not getting rid and having to settle, how progressive.
Odegaard was here last season, so I sincerely hope there’s plans to bring in more than just him if we’re making any effort at all to “improve” where we were then. The lack of noise is deafening, idc much about Chelsea next week, the squad needs shaken to its core.
Arsenal board gave Arteta the keys and Arteta has failed to use them well. Either get a top class manager and give him close to full control, like it was under Wenger, and it looks like that for Pep and Klopp, or get a quality DoF that dictates football related matters and bring in a quality head coach like they do at Chelsea and Spuds, that head coaches and nothing more. Giving Arteta full control was an absolute joke, knowing how green he is. Catastrophic mistake. One that could be seen from a mile. I thought nobody could be so… Read more »
Look I love Viera with all my heart. He’s a legend and one of the greatest players we’ve seen play for us in the last 40 years. But he’s not a manager and he’ll get found out this season. Arteta is the same, not a good manager at all, fantastically shit that he makes Avram Grant look like a genius. Honestly I wouldn’t even bother giving him another game. Under Arteta we are WORSE than we ever were under Emery. And he proved that by giving him a spanking in the Europa trophy. We all agreed Emery was not the… Read more »
Looking more and more like Odegaard or bust, now. Pretty uninspired. Like taking your sister to prom.. after getting turned down by all the pretty girls you were never gonna get to say yes, in the first place.
Tammy hasn’t accepted Roma’s offer yet, no? Obviously that Chelsea would rather sell to them than to Arsenal but if match or improve a bit on their offer, it’d be up to the player. Not sure if Chavs would be so reluctant to sell to us, it’s not like we are rivals for top 4.
Daniel Altos When some one posted that because Arsenal is shitty and will loose to Brentford he posted: “How shitty do you think we are” well he got his answer and by know with all the eating of crow he was subject to, it must be pretty tasty to him. My knew Tag line Forza MOB @MD honesty these so called super fans make me sick. People are genuinely concerned about the state of the club and all they do is tag them as ‘negative’ or tell them ‘you dont even go to games.’I am in Kenya I cant go… Read more »
raptoraAugust 14, 2021 22:45:12
Tammy hasn’t accepted Roma’s offer yet, no? Obviously that Chelsea would rather sell to them than to Arsenal but if match or improve a bit on their offer, it’d be up to the player. Not sure if Chavs would be so reluctant to sell to us, it’s not like we are rivals for top 4.
You want tammy?
Since we are going all crossing mode I suggest that tomorrow morning we put 50m shiny ones at everton’s table for DCL.I dont see a better targetman in the prem right now than him(bar lukaku).Chris Wood can alsobe an option
Raptora.. they are reporting that TA will fly to Rome tomorrow for medical to complete the deal assuming no issues. Sky Italia reporting. I assume he has agreed to terms or why make the flight.
To rub salt into the wound from yesterday:
Pablo Mari’s appearance for Arsenal against Brentford in Friday night’s disappointing defeat has triggered a clause which entitles former club Flamengo to another €1million. This is to be paid immediately because he had made 20 appearances for the club.
Just to highlight the uselessness of Tets why did he not look at Vestergaard who was available and he’s now on his way to Leicester for £15m.
Abraham €40 million, with a buy back clause of €80 million, not valid until 2023
Not surprised Mourinho likes him, he’s a Mourinho style striker
Not sure where Roma are getting the money from, they must have been taking the piss with their Xhaka bids
As much as i think your writing has credibility Pedro, you did this last season. Sharpened knives, got everyone on board and the you flip flopped back to Arteta fan boy. We all wanted it to work with him but when someone who is supposed to be “generational” comes along and does the same shit for a year then he needs to fuck off.
Valentin
I said it was a long-shot prediction! Yours looks more likely. What will be interesting is seeing if Edu avoids the carnage or not.
The way I see it, Tammy is better than Lacazette who is atrocious – the striker’s equivalent of Xhaka. Arteta’s lack of good attacking style makes it hard for a poacher like Auba to be a viable CF option. That leaves us getting a CF who can scrape and fight and bully and create chances for himself and be decent in the air for Tierney’s endless whip ins. Tammy is not top 4 level in my opinion. Will we do a bit better UNDER ARTETA with him compared to anyone else we have at the moment? Yes. If we had… Read more »
Maybe our tactic is to roll over and die for 3 games to prove to Chelsea we’re not a threat so they will sell TA to us…
Pedro
It’s Stan, Stan is the problem. He is the common denominator to all things that have been shite at the Club since he became a blot on The Arsenal landscape. He didn’t buy Arsenal for trophy collecting, he bought it for a dividend. He is the one who has to go, end of!
……but you are right about arteta.
Arteta and the Arsenal squad went to visit an orphanage today.
“It’s so sad to see their little faces with no hope and happiness” said Anthony aged 6
Gnarly absolutely it’s Stan and everything he has done since coming here
I thought we weren’t a banter club. They’ve already started to take the piss opposing fans have
MD-GunnerAugust 14, 2021 21:54:01 Mr. Serge You posted before the Brentford game “How shitty do you think we are” in a very dismissive fashion. You got your answer yesterday. Your earlier posts leaned towards Arteta Out with some dodgy excuses. Glad to see you haven’t dropped your wet noodle syndrome or as Sid called it flip flopper with your opinion leaning to whatever is convenient. Grow some spine and admit when you made an error. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think we could lose to that outfit I was wrong to think that, we are allowed to… Read more »
Daniel AltosAugust 14, 2021 22:45:27 Daniel Altos When some one posted that because Arsenal is shitty and will loose to Brentford he posted: “How shitty do you think we are” well he got his answer and by know with all the eating of crow he was subject to, it must be pretty tasty to him. My knew Tag line Forza MOB@MD honesty these so called super fans make me sick. People are genuinely concerned about the state of the club and all they do is tag them as ‘negative’ or tell them ‘you dont even go to games.’I am in… Read more »
Even in this garbage style of football that we are watching, which is give it to Tierney or Chambers to whip it in, we can have some success if we actually have bodies in the penalty area. Sadly, Mr Arteta wants to play a crossing game with 1 player in the box so that the rest are in good defensive positions for the counter attack. Reactive managing at its best.
SidAugust 14, 2021 19:47:26
Thanks for the correction flip flopper, its highly appreciated
You are most welcome Sidney
My god what a pile of shite this article is. He didn’t reveal the reasons Auba and Laca were not available because he legally CANNOT.
Have you missed the pandemic you dimwit? Or is the fact you pretend your name is Pedro made you lose grasp of reality? They have COVID. You fucking idiot.
How many players over the last year have been confirmed positive for Covid and it was reported on Sky Sports with many players mentioned by name. If you don’t mind me asking Alan , why can’t it be legally reported they have Covid?
Alan why is it illegal to tell people you have covid ?
Serge People asking, & rightly so, what is the plan? The Stan Plan has always been to scrabble for filthy lucre at the fans’ expense. He’s nothing more than a glorified Arthur Daley with an American accent, & The Arsenal is his Terry McCann. He knows how & when to pacify the fans with rhetoric like “ get excited”, but it’s really just a form of divide and conquer that works to put down any threat of rebellion. Since Stan came into our lives it’s been 1 step forward, 2 steps back, apart from the Brentford debacle which was 3… Read more »
So Roma REALLY didn’t rate Xhaka. They can commit to EUR 40m + add-ons for Abraham, but they would not budge a penny past £13m for Xhaka, literally being willing to walk away after months of negotiating because they thought any more and they’d be on the wrong side of the deal. DanielAltos Chris Wood would be too expensive (Burnley get relegated without him, and you can count on one hand the number of PL players to score 10+ PL goals each of the last 4 seasons: he is one of them), but as a Plan B he could offer… Read more »
Auba and laca
Constantly Offside Visually Impaired Duds.
Denzel Dumfries went for €12.5M
Vestergaard went for £15M
Varane went for £35M
The most used phrase by journos when it comes to the discussion of Arsenal players and where they are is:
” Player ??? found himself surplus to requirements under Arteta”
Forza MOB.
So what’s the skinny on the rumor that Auba and Laca didn’t travel because they’ve had a gutful of Arteta, anyone know any details? Haven’t read all the comments so if I’ve missed something I apologize.
Forza MOB
Zidane could be a great coach for us when Diet Pep goes home.
When we were losing to Chelsea and spurs in preseason with rubbish performances criticism kept getting dismissed because it was only preseason.
Losing in preseason is fine if you’re literally just experimenting or focusing on fitness – but we all knew deep down the selections, squad and tactics were highly indicative of how we’d be playing at the start of the season. And sure enough…
Oof david luiz taking shots in the media saying he wants to join a club w ambition. Good luck finding that on 200/wk buddy
The problem with Arteta is that he’s a piss poor human being. He’s just out for himself, nothing else. As PhD highlighted, the story of Saliba sums up Arteta. A highly rated young kid came to us early because Ligue Un shut down from COVID. He was clearly unfit due to to fault of his own and Arteta chucked him off after one pre-season game. Who did he pick ahead of Saliba?…. Mustafi The same Mustafi who would go on to write on Instagram in December that he was hadn’t done enough for Ozil By the time Arteta gets sacked… Read more »
Just watched the replay and I realize why our defense was worse compared to the version from last year. In the past, Xhaka stayed close to our two CB to cover the space left open by Tierney and also backed up the CB’s. Last game, Xhaka was asked to play further up front. Brentford played two big strikers bullying our two CB’s. They could hold up the play with ease. Xhaka was too slow to get back to help out. The defense looked shaky. Arteta thought that he was smart. We had the third best defense after Christmas. Now he… Read more »
Just finished watching MOTD with Wrighty as commentator and he was as distraught as the picture of him in the Brentford stadium.he also agrees there is a problem with the defense, so much for the 3rd best defense since Christmas since it now has to be rebuild. The crowds in the capacity filled stadiums were enthusiastic and they had something to cheer for. Wait till next Sunday and the Emirates stadium filled to capacity and hopefully they will make their displeasure known in no uncertain terms. Since the word is out that Arsenal can be bullied by strong attackers, Lukaku… Read more »
“The problem with Arteta is that he’s a piss poor human being. He’s just out for himself, nothing else.”
Get a fucking grip man.
So much for the world class CB as Pedro painted Ben White. After watching the highlights I came to the conclusion he had a horror debut and didn’t really impress once. More mistakes than Luiz, could not win an aerial duel to save his life and was dribbled past several times. You shouldn’t judge a player after one game but for that price, he will be and the problem is with the Arsenal recruitment. Spending £80m and not having made the squad any better than it was before. Arteta deserves to be sacked for one reason alone – the impact… Read more »
“he lack of noise is deafening, idc much about Chelsea next week, the squad needs shaken to its core.” You’re almost there, Charlie, but the squad being shaken just happened so there will be Arteta PTSD going into the Chavs game. Arteta couldn’t persuade your choice Tammy to join us instead TA wants to move to Roma. Says much about which manager TA wanted to play for. Grovers Like Graham said Emi being sold just told us who Arteta was and what we were going to expect in the TWs and on the pitch. As I said before Arteta sold… Read more »
This hurts. I feel lost. Arteta just has to go. It’s enough.