IT’S ARTETA’S SQUAD NOW

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Well good morning my darlings and welcome to a footballing FEAST of a weekend.

Arsenal have locked in Martin and Aaron.

Aaron’s name was given to him because his grandad was called Ron and in Birmingham, people say ‘arrr Ron’ when they mention people… so his name is basically a family pun and I’m out here crying like a child.

Anyway, strong interview from Ramsdale. He’s very likable and he also added some propaganda to the mixer by letting us know he actually won player of the year at Wimbledon as well. 3 players of the season awards, that’s quite something at 23. There seems to be a huge discrepancy between fans that watch him every game and Arsenal analysts that have watched 6 seconds of him. He’s a keeper that seems to be a bit of a fan on the pitch, and the fans like that he engages with them. Last player that did that at Arsenal was Partick Vieira, he used to make the fans sing, I loved that.

I also like that alpha comment from him that he was here to take Leno’s #1 jersey. Love that. Let’s hope he can deliver it.

Another thing I noted. He made a special point to highlight that his distribution is the thing. He basically says he mixes it up, which I think is what Arteta wants, because Leno is very predictable with his passing and he makes a lot of bad decisions.

My guess is the Edu strategy this season is to push Leno out by the end and force him to take a transfer next summer.

I also thought it was noteworthy that Aaron said part of his experience was going through a slump in form. He’s very much self-aware and he seemed to know he is not the finished article.

On a side note, I loved the welcome fans gave him. They well and truly drowned out the attention-seekers. Young players need to feel the love, let’s make sure we’re doing all we can this season.

Martin Odegaard had his second welcome video. Interesting that Madrid wanted him at the start of the summer and told Arsenal where to go, then they opened the door later on. From what I understand, it was an Edu/Arteta gamble to wait on him, as they suspected he might be let go. Buendia was the ‘just get it done move’ we passed and held out for the main target. Risky business, but in fairness to Edu, he got it done like he always seems to. I cannot believe he can BBQ, go on a yacht, and have 6 holidays… whilst getting deals done. His ‘HOW TO MAKE IT AND VACATION’ business book is going to be a best seller.

The player seems excited, extremely grounded, and keen to kick on. There’s no stronger motivator in life than being told you can’t do something by someone at your previous company. I was fired from Ted Baker when I was 16 because they said I couldn’t sell. I moved to First Sport and no one sold sneaker polish like me, I was the best in the game. The sky is the limit with Odegaard, I think we’ve made a sharp signing, and hopefully the 5 months prior will give him a good springboard to adapt.

Arteta said in his presser that there was still more business to be done.

We can register 25 players this season. There’s about 7 that will need to be culled in the coming week or so. I’m not sure there will be many sales, but there will be loans, no one wants the ignominy of being cut from the squad.

Kola, Torreira, Runarsson, one of the centre-backs, Willian, Eddie, Reiss, a loan for Balogun… they all have to be looking to find clubs if they want to stay relevant or get experience.

If we can sell, especially in the right-back position, we’ll target a new signing without doubt. I don’t think we’ll move on any of our strikers, though I do desperately want to believe we’re targetting Arsenal fan Calvert Lewin. Imagine him beasting Tierney crosses all season. It’d be a sight to behold.

However it ends up, this squad is now Arteta’s. The dregs of yesteryear are mostly out the door, we have the specificity to play the way he wants to play, and we have the boys that dropped a second half of the season masterclass.

You have to accept that gelling all those players is going to take some time. The next 2 months will be a bit rough as we integrate and bring players back from injury, the key for Arteta is staying in the chasing pack. If he can massively improve on last season’s first 14 games, we should be in the mixer for top 4 come what May.

It’s on him now. He can talk about the negative people outside the club causing problems, but it’s not true, the problems have been caused by him. There are some correlations to how Frank was in his second season, everything was someone else’s fault, he started to sound paranoid, and his behaviour went from chill to erratic.

Arteta needs to get a grip of the situation, deal with adversity in a positive way, and start showing what he’s about on the pitch.

No more playing around the edges.

No more slow football.

No more listless starts.

No more petulance in the media.

I want the fire we saw in the first 6 months of his tenure. We need to see aggression, hard pressing, and sexy combination football.

The time is now.

Let’s see what he has for tomorrow… and remember, after the game, we’re going on the whistle with a live twitch where you can ask elite questions and comment on my hair.

Right, see you in the comments you sexy beasts x

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Northbanker

Really don’t know what the point of Xhaka is. Lo Lokonga however looks really bright star in making

Ash79

*smoke up his ass

Temagooner

Sly
Valentin
Arteta is actively debunking the ‘good coach’ myth

Our so-called generational coach is being shown up for what he is, a pretender, no ideas, no expertise in managing a team. All the talk about he being key in the success of Man City was pure hype, nothing more. It is obvious he cannot take this team any further, the work at Arsenal is beyond his ability. The inconsistencies are too many. He needs to drop to the championship or league 1 to learn his trade. Or manage an under-18 side in a top club. Simple.

gunnernet

It is huge risk but bring Auba on. Just his presence may be a game changer. Ofc coming back from covid he will slower than xhaka

IQ

Playing Xhaka in front of the defence in a three would be playing in a system suited to him which we have never done. In a two he is too slow to get from one side of the pitch to the other and is a liability.

I’m open to replacing him but to say we play a formation suited to him is not true. It’s the same as buying White to play him in a back four.

Sly

If this game ends 4-0 which is a real possibility man city might be Artetas last game

Biggles

I feel sorry for Tierney, he’s having to do twice as much as work as Soares because Mari and Xhaka are always so slow and can’t close anybody down, whereas Holding and Lokonga actually do a bit more on the right.

On top of that, down the left and cross is pretty much Arteta’s only offensive tactic since we can’t go through the middle nowadays. Was a shame it got outlawed after Santi left.

Spanishdave

Arteta is not a football manager, just because he wants to be , he’s just a chancer daydreaming.
A big club going down fast

Distanced hairline

Wheres the fighr? Well….arteta told them to clown on the pitch and not fight so he can get a payoff and move to a hoffenheim type team and play diet football

MidwestGun

Xhakas’ aggression.. is mostly towards the fans.. Maybe he will give us all the middle finger, again. When they get boo’d off the pitch.

Time is now.. to turn this shit around. Do or die.

raptora

http://arsenalist.com/f/2018-19/arsenal-penalty-shout-var-says-no-2021-05-06.html

Watch the pen about again. First a contact and then a clip. People who say it’s not a pen should go and check their eyes.

WengerEagle

Cedric looks half asleep out there and Mari couldn’t wrestle a Subway Sandwich, never mind a 200lb top class ST.

Distanced hairline

Fight*

raptora

Pen shout**

Foxy

Not just daft not going with a back 3 but Arteta then picks Cedric who is more offensive than defensive. This is after playing Bellerin in pre season then Chambers last week, has he not heard of continuity in defense. As bad as not playing Balogun in pre season then throwing him in against Brentford last week.

Dissenter

Last season, that would have been a penalty

But they changed the way VAR is used and the referees definitely are letting lots of contact go unchallenged.

Surely that obvious to all but the “referees hate us” people.

Samesong

Saka gets a freekick for that anywhere else on the pitch. But oh well no point moaning anymore.

Sly

Temagooner

I’m with you
Still smh on folks touting him as a ‘good coach’

azed

Guys, forget the score, the bloody chavs had their way with us.

Habesha Gooner

This is tactically inept. If you don’t play to your Player’s strengths and limit their weaknesses then what are you good for? Arteta may have had tactical nous when he started and won the FA cup but now he is clueless. He is our problem not the players. Even Tierney looks horrible with out any system in place. He need to figure his shit out quickly or Go.

Nelson

Obviously. the team is not ready to defend after the ball is turned over. Saka never follows James. Xhaka is too slow to cover.

GunnerWomble

Just awful. The players on the pitch are better than this. Just need a decent manager. Arteta will be gone before Christmas at this rate.

TR7

Said it before the game we needed to play back 3. Will Arteta see the light even after 45 mins ?

gunnernet

we badly need an Aouar type of player. Lokonga and Pepe tried to carry the ball from one half to the other and when they managed we looked dangerous. Tiki taka passing looks obsolete in today’s football. can’t really see how xhaka has positive contribution to aggressive fast paced football going forward.

SUGA3

Kroenkes need to be driven out, the way Gillett & Hicks were out of Liverpool. Plain and simple.

Yes, they are giving $$$, but they are clueless with their staffing choices.

Chris

Josh Kroenke is at the game today, David O’Leary is with him. Boardroom reshuffle?

Useroz

Be positive. Arteta magic would turn it into 3 – 2… just sit tight.

WengerEagle

I doubt the pen would have changed things to be honest, Chavs look like they have a couple more goals in them.

MidwestGun

Martinelli is not a CF either… he has always played as a left or right winger or a second striker in a 2 striker system.

Globalgunner

We are such a nice club. we always hand debutants their first goal. Strikers on a long drought break their duck against us and players who will only score once in their lifetime like Danny Rose always dine out for life on the goal they scored against Arsenal.

We are so nice like that., Classy club. Lukaku needed that one

Dissenter

The club needs to buy Arteta a high tech drone with the latest artificial Intelligence to help him with making adjustments during games.

Or maybe just pay for an eye doctor’s visit.

gunnernet

‘cult of personality’ at the emirates. ope it galvanizes us

gunnernet

i hope*

Paolo

Need this game to get ugly & pile pressure on Arteta. Xhaka is the worst player to pull on Arsenal shirt & he has a new contract & captain. Simple embarrassing.

Selling Emi & not selling Leno, Xhaka & awful players like Mari has sealed his fate already.

Unfortunately club as a whole are as clueless as Arteta so no doubt this torture will continue for some time. Sad times for Gooners

Mr Serge

Guns of hackney said it would be 4 my 9 year old asking me why are we so bad

Sad times

Sly

Habesha
He’s a one trick pony
Defend enmasse and counter down the left with Auba
A ‘coach’ who can’t set his team up to play cohesively
As bad as emery was I haven’t seen the team so disjointed

Dissenter

‘Said it before the game we needed to play back 3. Will Arteta see the light even after 45 mins ?’

His narcissistic price won’t allow him to change that now, he would be owning the mistake by doing so.

Radio Raheem

Hard to judge some of our players with Arteta managing them. I’ll reserve judgement until the Kroenkes have done the right thing.

Moray

“Does anyone think the outcome would be different with White, Ode and Ramsdale on the pitch?”

I reckon white would be on a first half hat trick from dribbling through the whole Chelsea team from the back.

S Asoa

Fortunately Lukaku still confused about what he should di. Not a patch on Drogba

Radio Raheem

Sal

Some relief for you with Sociedad 1-0 up.

Useroz

Anyone thinking Odegarrd on the pitch today would have been a very different story so far?

Expat

Arlo White and Lee Dixon (commentating on Hulu in the States) spent half time talking about the need for changes to Arteta’s game plan and team. The team comes out and Lee says witheringly that the only thing Arteta seems to have changed at half time is his jacket.

Dissenter

It looks like man against boy; Tuchel vs Arteta

Muppetman

Once again the bullshit about more signings will come in but we aren’t good enough to be on 0 points after 3 games. Get your work in transfer window done early and be ready for season.

Useroz

Really feeling sorry for Tierney

TheBayingMob

Maybe Arts can bring on Nelson, try and and go for the 0-2

Useroz

PSG could gift us Messi and we still can’t make use of his talent.

Saladin

Who the fuck are we crossing to? Do we really believe Martnelli will win a header against those Chelsea CBs?

Muppetman

Can someone tell me the point of a short corner at Arsenal?

ARgunner

Yes the new refereeing attitude will see us constantly bullied off the ball

MidwestGun

Saka had the right idea.. take some shots.. raining like a mofo.

S Asoa

His mom cut ESR hair
Good attempt by Saka

Useroz

Must be shooting on sight now especially in such greasy condition s. Anything can happen

Nelson

It has to be the weather’s fault.

Northbanker

Let’s not forget in all of this that Chelsea fielding a quad of players mostly costing 40–100m

They will be too good for almost everyone due to the financial cheating

We have spent a fraction of that and by necessity it has been with the future in mind

Mee

Tierney playing with a big mentality

Guns of SF

I hope the club acts fast and gets in another creative mid.
another mid period who can score and create

Northbanker

That ain’t to excuse Arteta s poor tactics though

Northbanker

Isn’t

Spanishdave

The crowd seems have thinned, probably gone home.

Useroz

Asoa… lukaku wouldn’t becoming Drogba. Thanks God

raptora

Chelsea improved once Tuchel was appointed.
Arsenal regressed once Arteta was appointed.

ARgunner

Pressured by Xhaka…a phrase you dont hear often…

Mr Serge

Spanish Dave I will ask my mates in the ground to see what the crack is

Northbanker

Our new set piece coach making a good start

Maybe he needs to think about whether Pepe should be taking the corners as a starting point

Dissenter

Tierney left James unmarked there ….yet again

Guns of SF

Leno is so slow in getting the ball out. Chelsea just waiting in position to defend.

Useroz

Nelson. Definitely. It started raining just when we got into our fluid side and back passing. Literally rain on Arteta’s parade…. act of God

S Asoa

Raptora
Perfectly put
Rancid corrosive sauce

David Smith

Why was AMN not starting, at RB in this game, whatever his protestations

Just Another Customer

what’s the point of signing any players you touted when you have a clueless manager like him

Useroz

Cmon pepe get it over the first person

Useroz

Omg. Fraction wide holding his header

Guns of SF

14 shots for them
3 for us all game

raptora

What a huge miss.

LoveSausage

Does anyone remember when we scored from a corner last time?

MidwestGun

Yep Raptora.. the fine margins it’s easiest to improve.. is change the manager. something Rich could never quite grasp.

The adjustment Arteta made was to move Lokonga over to cover for Xhaka on the left.. because they can’t handle James. Making James look like he is 100mill player.

Ohhhh Rob… come on man..

TR7

Should have scored there Holding

raptora

Holding is giving his all to be honest. Unlucky there.

Saladin

Fucking hell Rob

Useroz

Auba on for Saka

S Asoa

Unlucky from Holding. One progressive from White absence

Useroz

Holding got to be careful. Any rush of blood and is off

ARgunner

PEA…hope u get something to work with

Evan

1st versus 19th – depressing

Dave

Ref is shit

Spanishdave

Hav’nt scored yet in the new season. Another record coming up

Useroz

Auba had a shot on goak

Luteo Guenreira

There’s just so much bad to mention compared to the very little good to mention. How easily they repeatedly slice through the defense, Lukaku in dangerous positions almost every time he receives the ball. Better spell from Arsenal but need to score.

Let’s see what Auba can offer.

MidwestGun

Martinelli … much better as a second striker.

Useroz

We don’t bloody press. Is this tactic obsolete already?

raptora

Tierney crocked again.. fkin hell

S Asoa

Lukaku proving s blundering waste of money

Matt

How quick was their keeper out. Leno would have been stuck on his line picking his nose.

Useroz

Very good thru ball lokonga. Just a touch heavy. 👍

Mr Serge

Rap thank god we bought a second left back

Useroz

AMN is done, we’ll done. New Portuguese kid coming on

Sly

For folks still talking about ‘players’ being at fault look at Chelsea under lampard and shortly after tuchel took over

MidwestGun

Dog licker on. ?

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