Results weren’t going to keep swinging for us, this weekend, they’ve roundly gone against the top 4 dream.
Spurs beat Norwich looking super organised.
United beat Crystal Palace.
West Ham beat Chelsea.
Basically, the pressure is on. We’ve dropped to 7th place in the league.
The game against Everton really takes on a different kind of pressure.
The pressure to keep up with the pack.
Everton presents a weird challenge. They’ve been awful this season, Rafa hasn’t gotten a grip on their squad, they’ve won four games all year (last, 25th of September). On paper, this game should be a standard win. But they’ve been so bad, for so long, that we’re in that territory where something has to happen to them.
Will they down tools on Rafa to move on the Liverpool legend? Or will they show up and save him?
Great teams don’t pay heed to that sort of stuff, they just pile on the misery. Arsenal has to be that team on Monday.
Win the game, we’re right where we need to be.
In fact, if there’s a 2+ goal advantage to Arsenal and we keep a cleansheet, we’ll have the same amount of points as Chelsea over the stretch, we’ll have the same defensive record as Liverpool since the new team started, and we’ll move into the top 4 for goals scored over that period.
Lose the game and we start to get into shaky territory, especially with online fans, who seem to have desperately weak knees. Someone told me Arsenal was a ‘rotten’ club this morning… imagine being that disconnected from what’s going on at Arsenal?
So what are we looking for?
Well, an answer to our attacking problems. Auba is out of sorts, he’s not built for the system we’re trying to play, and as a result, it makes it hard to create and score goals.
Arteta can’t sit on that issue forever. We’re 5 games without a goal. Something has to budge.
The issue? Most of our options are either limited in the same way, or they’ve never been tested before.
Do you really take this moment to play Martinelli through the middle?
Do you take a chance on Eddie running the line hard when it’s clear his mind is on the fat contract he’s going to get next season?
We’ve seen Lacazette through the middle, he’s very good at certain aspects, but he lacks the speed we need.
Everyone has watched slack-jawed as Folarin Balogun has lit up the U23s, but he’s so, so green.
There’s no simple solve in the system.
Thierry Henry is channelling some of that Class of 92 spirit with his media outings. I love the man, he’s one of my favourite humans, but the cattle prodding at the Arsenal project is quite boring. This is his hot take post-United.
“Aubameyang is your captain. He is your goal scorer. You put him as your captain. 15 minutes to go, you’re losing 3-2 and you take him off.
“3-2 away from home, you need a goal and you take your captain, your symbol, off the field. You know he can score you goals so something is not right there.”
Arteta did make a mistake with Auba, he left him on too long, the guy absolutely stunk out Old Trafford, if we’d brought one other options, we might have made a go for it.
Everyone is entitled to a shit opinion, my issue with Thierry is we all saw him hanging out in the box with the Swedish billionaire. We all heard him say he couldn’t see what the plan was. We all know he’s being disingenuous with his commentary.
Each to their own, but insinuating dressing room unrest off the back of a poor take isn’t helpful… it’s not even good trolling, because I don’t think there’s an Arsenal fan around that would agree.
The striker rumour mill is getting spicy. DCL was linked on Saturday. We’re being linked with Jonathan David of Lille today, we know they’d sell anyone if the bid was right. Luka Jovic came on for Madrid yesterday and won a MOTM award, certainly, he’d be a possible loan candidate, Edu has a great relationship with Madrid. There are options, hard to see an outcome where we do nothing… as long as we’re in the mix for top four come Jan 2nd.
The ask at Everton is clear: 3 points. Keep up the pressure. Show that the chance creation issue is being taken seriously.
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Pedro We are beyond sacking Arteta as of today. Even name brand managers are struggling these days. I’m shocked Rafa is in this position since he knows the league. Everton are going with him and sacking everyone elapse around him, the physios and now the DoF The club have decided to stick with Arteta for the long run , nothing anyone can do about it. My point is just that let’s stop treating Arteta like an egg. He’s a grown man so let’s stop blaming the player’s inexperience for anything. This is Arteta’s team 100% and he continues to make… Read more »
Graham, your boy Dyche doesn’t make mistakes? What about Potter, who was booed and hasn’t won a game since September? If we’re sacking a manager… who is coming in that doesn’t make mistakes?
One has to to wonder though when we’ll get enough of this “young squad, 5 new players line”.
At what point are we realistically expected to start competing with in all ramifications without someone quick to remind us we have the youngest squad
“Ask Pep what he thinks of Arteta” Yes, ask a man what he thinks of his friend who he offered a job straight after he dropped his boots. I am sure his answers will shock me. Sterling moved to City for 50m. This Arteta made Sterling thing is kind of old. We are struggling to score goals with a bunch of young dynamic players yet Sterling is the marker for his attacking coaching prowess. “you have better ideas, share them, ” Here is an idea, set a target for the season for the manager like its done at all the… Read more »
Pedro, You mean project youth 2, that is not revolutionary, and Arteta has not proved anyone of anything that he is a “hire the best and brightest” coach of even the B team of Madrid. Thought Wenger tried the youth idea a while ago, when he had his hands tied by you know who and the banks, and had to try and work miracles with our best players moving to other clubs. Saka, ESR were in the academy years before Arteta showed up, and he only played ESR because injuries. Martinelli and Gabriel were bought in during Arteta’s reign, however… Read more »
I’m sorry Pedro but I don’t see Arteta as being “dynamic”.
Who’s the “new hire” you talk of?
What have I missed?
I’m sorry but your lopsided POV will always lead to a response.
I said I’m sorry………..twice!!
Also feel like it’ll be foolish to go on another one of them Wenger looking like “projects”.
The league is becoming harder, the smaller teams have more money to spend for very good players.
We need to get back with the big teams or risk forever remaining in mid-table because of some project that no one bothers to tell us when it’ll come to fruition
Receding is everything but boring
There’s no need for ad hominem attacks on anyone like that.
RH, we’ve been here before… I’m not sure what you do for a living, but clearly it isn’t anything high performance if you think people like Pep G surround themselves with substandard talent because they are friends.
Anything below 5th and I’ll sack the manager to be honest.
4th place isn’t that hard when you factor in how inconsistent every other team fighting for it is and I’d be disappointed if we weren’t in the mix heading into Feb/March.
Again, we have had full week’s worth of training this season compared to our direct rivals so we really should be right up there
Managers blow smoke off each others back sides everyday, nothing to see there
“Hire in the best young players. Hire the best young coach. Let them grow together.” Pedro don’t make grandiose claims, you will have nowhere to hide. Arteta has a few good qualities as a manager but he also has a few limitations. He’s been here for more than 100 games, you should have realised by now that he is still learning the art of management/coaching. He’s not the best young coach. While there’s a possibility that Arteta in 2-3 years may develop to be a great manager, Arsenal the club will lose out in the bargain for being reduced to… Read more »
‘4th place isn’t that hard’ when you have the richest league, with the best managers, all throwing money at the problem.
Gerrard has already shown in his first few games at Villa that if you have a clear vision and a positive outlook on the game, the players will respond.
Of course Gerrard is a more experienced and dynamic individual, so that shouldn’t be too much of a surprise.
Graham, you were doing this about PV04 a few weeks ago.
You were suggesting Sean Dyche yesterday, maybe it’s time to give it a rest on your manager reccos?
Can’t take ya’ll seriously when it’s all vindictive and agendas for ya’ll. Can’t wait to come on legrove to tell pedro how wrong it was and it’s all doom and emery was wrongly sacked plus it’s all on arteta etc. Classic internet talk.
TR7, I love you man, but you weren’t right on our summer signings moving the needle.
You can debate the merits of Arteta all you like, where we are now is pretty much exactly where most hoped we’d be in December. In the mix for top 4.
Win tomorrow and there’s 1 point in it.
Graham62
The difference is that Gerrad honed his skills at Rangers but we ‘chose to let Arteta use this club to take his first bumbling steps in management
What grates me is that we aren’t allowed to call his mistakes what they are …mistakes.
Everybody else gets blamed but Arteta.
I still can’t believe Arteta said he wants Wenger to back around him. Isn’t he confident is his capacity to manage the club?
Diss, we’ll see where the better education was. City or Rangers over the next year. Concluding he’s in better shape after two games is quite extreme, even for you.
Pedro
Once again, incredibly disrespectful and condescending.
“I’m not sure what you do for a living” I’m sorry but what has that got to do with anything.
There’s a young lad of 13 who does an early morning paper round down our road. He’s an Arsenal supporter. He see’s things. Why can’t you?
You have, on occasions, an ugly way of dealing with criticism.
Your prerogative though.
Graham, you said Sean Dyche should manage Arsenal yesterday, don’t talk to me about disrespect.
Thomas Frank was flavour of the month, then it was Potter Nuno was going to win the league for Spurs after 3 games, and we were going to get relegated, Mourinho was going to win it for them last season, after pumping 10 man United 6-1… Villa were going to finish ahead of us, Danny Ings was a brilliant signing who’d walk into our team, there was crazy hysterics when Buendia signed for Villa…. Vieira was doing so well at Palace in his first few games, he was primed to replace Arteta We had the debate on whether White was… Read more »
Pedro
Love you too but is it really true that our summer signings have moved the needle ? I am not really sure.
Our underlying attributes and numbers are not good Pedro and that worries me. We are in the mix which is great but our performances don’t inspire much confidence.
PedroI
I can’t predict the future.
Like I said even name brand managers are struggling everywhere; Rafa is on thin ice at Everton and Mourhino just had his ass served to him at Roma.
The point being that Villa who were abysmal are playing better and nastier, in the mould of their manager’s personality within 4 games.
Stevie G is bound to have his own bumps down the road but he has resilience from his time in Scotland to fall back on.
Villa have lots of young players to, fyi.
Sean Dyche isn’t a poster!………….or is he?
Treat those who support your blog with more respect and understand that we are all passionate about our club but in different ways.
“but clearly it isn’t anything high performance if you think people like Pep G surround themselves with substandard talent because they are friends” Can I get examples of professions you consider high performance? Yea people hire their friends for jobs, City didn’t exactly fall off a cliff once Arteta left the building. And again this moving the needle talk, we have a negative goal difference, what needle has been mobwe exactly? We are competing for top four because teams we expected to perform didn’t, two sacked managers precisely because of that. Now they have competent men in charge and we… Read more »
Rich
“Nuno was going to win the league for Spurs after 3 games, and we were going to get relegated, Mourinho was going to win it for them last season, after pumping 10 man United 6-1”
Do you make stuff up as you go along Rich ? Can you please tell us who said Nuno or Mourinho was going to lead Spurs to the title ?
By the way, I said Sean Dyche is a better manager than Arteta. Where did I say he should manage our club.
There are many managers in the EPL who are, imo, better than Arteta.
Let’s talk about summer signings : Tavares : I like the way he plays and never dissed his signing simply because I didn’t know him. But look he is at best as good as Tierney. So not quite a signing which moved the needle. More depth ? Yes but he doesn’t elevate us. Sambi : Talented kid but we have already seen him struggle against good teams. Never dissed his signing either but let’s be honest he is a squad player, nothing more. Odegaard : I have said it before and I am sure about it to the extent of… Read more »
That table after international break on twitter is the most embarrassing thing I’ve seen by the way
TR7, SO MANY THOUGHT JOSE WOULD WIN THE TITLE. All those FT accounts on Twitter.
‘People don’t realise how right this squad is for him’
Bati, people said that about the table before Christmas and that proved to be a good way to judge performance over the first 14 games of last season.
The table since we got our team together gives you an isolate view of how this new crop of players is doing.
The actual table also supports that they are doing pretty well.
So we don’t lose either way this season.
We’re where we need to be.
Pedro
You should not follow anyone on Twitter who thinks Jose can ever win a big title 🙂
Pedro
Do we not “lose” if we end up finishing 7th and qualifying for that embarrassing Europa Conference League or finishing 8th again?
We are in the mix atm but as we said before it is very tight from 4th down to 8th so us getting edged out again is not beyond possibility.
How would you react in this scenario?
TR7
Mourinho making Spurs title contenders was 100% a thing
Nuno being top after 3 games, and us being bottom was 100% a thing, “if Nuno could get Spurs going after 3 games, and beating City, why can’t Arteta?”
That was definitely a narrative from the usual drama queens during the first international break
I remember you telling me I’d lost the plot after the first 3 games, when I suggested that there were legitimate reasons why we had zero points, and that over 38 games things would balance out, and we’d be in the mix for 5th
Never mind the silly talk of Spurs winning titles.
What is of more importance are that they are a threat to us in getting back into european football. And no not that pesky Europe Conference League.
TR7, you are so very right.
People were still backing him to smash it at Roma.
As some others have said I think we will see support for Arteta come what may and from this blog even if he finished 8th again or god forbid 7th to play in Latvia and Lithuania.
Sorry but I don’t think that’s right.
It’s just completely abandoning targets and is so very wrong for a club of our size and the expenditure we put out.
Rich “I remember you telling me I’d lost the plot after the first 3 games, when I suggested that there were legitimate reasons why we had zero points, and that over 38 games things would balance out, and we’d be in the mix for 5th” Lest you forget not only did we lose the first 3 games but also conceded 9 goals without scoring any. Even Arteta did not try to defend our dire performances. So yeah you did lose the plot trying to defend those aweful performances. You can criticize Arsenal when warranted, it’s not blasphemous. By the way… Read more »
“By the way what do you mean by “being in the mix” for 5th ? ”
When did being in the mix for 5th become an acceptable target for an Arsenal manager in his second full season
One more question to those who believe in Arteta : if Spurs or/and United finish above Arsenal despite sacking a manager mid season what will it say abt Arteta who spent £ 150M in summer and had only one game per week to deal with ?
The number and intricacies of tables Arsenal are exceedingly great in is migraine inducing.
As long as we are doing ok in the good old regular league table I’m cool.
AFTV is down the toilet now btw.
All the characters have gone or if they are involved it has been toned down now to being very conservative.
The geek presenting goes on about xG throughout the match.
Pedro’s podcast is now superior to anything AFTV is now putting out.
AFTV have now run their race.
They would have to significantly change their current format to get back to what it used to be.
TR7 United finishing above Arsenal would be met with a shoulder shrug by most, but Spurs……..that’s a different story.
I can think of a few posters changing their handle or disappearing all together for much longer than they normally do when results go against their predictions.
AFC Forever would definitely do his usual lord Lucan act.
Ish, do you think they’ve gone down the toilet… or that they can only survive when things are really bad?
Whisper it but Spurs could finish above Man United by the seasons end.
Possible.
But Ragnick is going to tighten Man United up defensively even if it means lagging on the goals front from previously.
He said in his first press conference this was his aim and in his first match in charge Man United don’t concede. What go on forever of course but they will not be leaing goals as before.
Nip and tuck between Man United and Spurs could be.
Hope I am completely wrong about Spurs of course.
“Nuno was going to win the league for Spurs after 3 games, “
Rich , I’ll pay you $200 if you find that comment.
I figure it’d be worth it to know who it was so everyone can ignore their posts for eternity.
Or are you making it up?
AFTV is still going on strong
They just diversified and morphed into a more establishment entity.
It’s no longer the site that thrives in wild videos, Most of the original regulars have gone on to start their own channels but it’s still the example for fan channels on YouTube.
Pedro
“do you think they’ve gone down the toilet… or that they can only survive when things are really bad?”
People say that. That they thrived on discontent but it’s more than that.
They have lost characters on the show or if these characters are still around they have been diluted by some very bland prsenters and participants now.
Even the interviews outside the grounds now from Robbie seem to be old hat and tired.
Didn’t realise he was a BBC radio presenter before going in at AFTV until recently.
There aren’t a lot of managers we can pull now. Conte is gone. Zidane won’t come here and I am not so sure about him without world class players. To be honest, Unless a Ten hag or potter become available, I would stick it out with Arteta depending on how he delivers this season. Europa league is a minimum for me though. If we are in that godforsaken conference league bullshit then I would fire him too. We need a window where he is allowed to revamp the forward line. The little bit of identity he has shown needs to… Read more »
Dissenter
“They just diversified and morphed into a more establishment entity.”
Yes establishment you hit the nail on the head and that’s why it’s shit now.
As you said you are better off watching the fans own yotube channels now rather than AFTV. People like Turk and the man with the bald head who is matey with Kevin Campbell.
I have never watched aftv on you tube just some bullshit embarrassing clips I get sent from fans of other teams
They are an embarrassment to our team and as we say at the ground fuck aftv
Habesha
” If we are in that godforsaken conference league bullshit then I would fire him too. ”
ha ha ha! I would rather finish 8th like last season rather than 7th to qualify for that losers tournament. Failure either way.
All it does is rubberstamp and remind you of your previous failures in that competition..
Some here are already bigging it up though.
The trips to Latvia already intriguing people.
Habesha Gooner
Of course “Potter is a better coach”.
That’s a no brainer.
Aftv has become better infact. There are interesting people on there. There is actual content now besides the ‘fam’, ‘blood’ and that bullshit. All people watched it as an entertainment to see arsenal fans losing their shit. Now though they are doing tactical analysis, build ups, post match interviews, and the like. And they have genuinely better content. It is not the same as before where it had screaming fans going for it. Pedro’s content is good too. Johnny is really good. He makes his points clearly and he addresses most of the concerns fans have. Pedro is too but… Read more »
Ish
Better 8th than play the likes of mura for a 3rd tier European competition. UEFA stink. There is no need for that tournament other than greed. They aren’t thinking about how small clubs will get money, rather how they will get money.
Rubbish Habesha.
Are you seriously telling me the young geek with glasses who keeps prattling on about Xg throughout games is an engaging character.
And the other young guy the black/mixed race one? He is bland as well.
Doesn’t matter about conceived content.
To be truly entertaining and succesful it would need true engaging characters back on it.
Pedro, Not saying much before tomorrow’s game, but couldn’t resist answering your posts.
Henry is “cattle prodding at the Arsenal project is quite boring.”
Looks like the bedwetters are in good company.
Pedro
December 5, 2021 20:12:41
“RH, your problem is you have no vision.”
On the contrary RH does have a vision he stares into an Arteta made abyss.
Tuchel, Klopp, Pep are the top 3 managers, for 4th or 5th place we are up against Moyes, Rangnick and Conte. Does anyone really think Arteta belongs into this lineup of managers?
Pedro’s podcast is good because we see engaging characters on it and they are engaging in their own ways.
He could have the best content around but if he had a couple of boring drips alongside him presenting it then not so good.
Tom
Nuno winning the league was a slight exaggeration, but Nuno getting Spurs going after 3 games and beating City, while we were bottom after Arteta had spent £220 million in almost 2 years….
Was definitely a thing, but a few games later Nuno was sacked, they lost their next 3, and we won our next 3….
Mourinho making Spurs title challengers was 100% a thing
Sorry Habesha
I agreed with you about the Europa Conference League but not about AFTV.
Can’t agree about everything can you.
I’ve got news for all you Arteta haters……7th in the table come May won’t get him fired.
Ishola
Like Habisha just stated, AFTV is indeed beter and is everything but shite.
It’s become a professionally run fan channel, in fact it it the exemplar for fan channels.
What he did was to move from a fan channel that revolves around irate disappointed fans making inflammatory comments after a loss to keep with different programming that’s targeted at different aspects of the fan base.
It’s by far a model and a success story.
You’re couldn’t be more wrong when you call it shite. They evolved with the times and did it well.
Ish Honestly to the average arsenal fan, DT and Troopz losing their shit was embarrassing. AFTV was successful because fans of other clubs were watching it because it was entertaining to see a club in demise. But now arsenal fans are watching it. Because it is interesting. It isn’t as entertaining for everyone else. But it engages arsenal fans. Cecil, James, Dan, Turkish are some of my favorites on there. They talk about the football we are playing. They address things we should be better at, where we are and the like. It is like watching a genuine fan opinion… Read more »
Tom
10th in the table won’t get Arteta fired
There are already well prepared mitigating factors and specially derived league tables that will be used to defend him.
Habesha
DT and Troopz were not the be all and end all of AFTV before.
They were the extreme.
You had others who had engaging characters without the extremes of DT and Troopz.
I couldn’t stand DT either and Troopz as we know is a bit of an idiot.
AFTV have now gone too far to the safe side. Boring bland presenters.
They should have found an inbetween of the two.
Ish, it’s so hard to shift your brand positioning, especially in content.
LadBible did a good job, but there aren’t many that can make that move.
How embarrasing is Troopz show he does from the USA.
That won’t last that long.
The Americans will get bored of him soon enough.
I think anything below 6th is failure this season and will be met as such by the board
There has to be a big move of the needle this season and so far it’s ok. If we have the season we had after Xmas last year we can hit top 4 just
Oh my god that troopz is a bellend fam
A 7th place finish should be a sackable offence, unless we win one of the domestic cups, Europa League qualification should be the minimum requirement this season I expect to go into the final weeks, with plenty of ups + downs, but there’s no excuses to not get over the line this season 2 consecutive seasons outside Europe is an impossible position to justify, particularly after being backed with £150 million in the summer West Ham, Leicester, Spurs, all playing in Europe, and we’ve got all week to prepare, we need to take advantage of that, particularly in the home-straight… Read more »
Yep, 7th is irreversible for me. He would need to go. It’s been two years already and we need to show progress in playing style and results too. If not we need to let someone else give it a go. 6th with an identity, he should keep his job if no one better than him is available. I still have my eyes on Potter. Ten hag is gone. Someone elite will take him after ajax completely smash some big teams in the UCL. Potter though, will want to take the job. His Brighton team are a delight to watch. Maupay,… Read more »
Rich
“A 7th place finish should be a sackable offence, unless we win one of the domestic cups,”
lol I knew the old FA Cup get out clause would come along soon enough.
Wenger won a few FA Cups himself didn’t he but the difference was that he was qualifying for the CL most seasons as well to go along with it.
Arteta has to prove himself in the EPL now.
If we win the League Cup are you seriously suggesting that would offset another season outside the top six in the EPL?
“Also feel like it’ll be foolish to go on another one of them Wenger looking like “projects”.The league is becoming harder, the smaller teams have more money to spend for very good players.“ Then literally 5 mins later: “4th place isn’t that hard when you factor in how inconsistent every other team fighting for it is and I’d be disappointed if we weren’t in the mix heading into Feb/March.“ Some of you need to go over your strategy of attack against the current regime. Can’t hit them with ‘the league is hard, we need the best and not a project’… Read more »
I expect Arsenal to win the games we expect them to win – like Everton tomorrow – and lose the games we think they may lose – like Man U a few days ago. If that happens Arsenal will be about where we expect them to be in the table come Jan.
I hope that the Jan window upgrades our expectations. To do that, the Club needs to sign a high-calibre goal scorer. Say, Haland. Then, if Arsenal win the games we expect them to win, a top 4 finish is a probability.
Habesha, Potter has one of the most expensive buy-out clauses in the league. Suspect that’s why he hasn’t been picked off yet.
– We have no Europewhile every top 6 competitor has Europe
– We spent the most money out of all our top six competitors
– The manager has been here for over two seasons
– we need an identity
– 6th should be a minimum requirement for a manager that intends to manage arsenal
Those are the facts. 6th and an identity after those circumstances shouldn’t be negotiable.
Pedro
It won’t be as expensive as spending another season out of Europe and the vultures circling around our young talent.
EnglandsBest
“Say, Haland”
Haland again.
Ragnick was asked in his first press conference for Man United if signing Haland in January was a possibility for Man United.
He just laughed and said yes we are going to sign Haland and Lewandowski in January.
And that’s money bags Man United.
I shoal
AFTV has been a commercial success to the point that Robbie has several permanent staff on the pay roll. He has 1.5 million subscriber and is one of the few entities that have gotten over one billion views on YouTube.
Clearly, he doesn’t have the spiky inflammatory characters, they moved on to start their own channels.
There’s some level of sustained apathy about Arsenal, some type of burn-out. Legrove traffic reflects that too. I believe. We’ve been operating on anger for too long.
The fa cup guarantees uefa cup so yeah winning that is definitely going to save his job
I am very happy with our signings in the summer I keep saying this but we are a proper striker and CM away from challenging top 4
Let’s see if we get anyone in Jan
My feeling is we keep our powder dry until the summer but Edu may be able to get something done in Jan. Especially if we can get shot of pepe
Ish
Given the option of 5th, or 7th + League Cup
I’d take the trophy everyday of the week, I’d never turn my nose up at a piece of silverware
Pedro
How high can Potters’ buy-out be since he’s not in the top 10 paid managers in the league?
I don’t think his buy-out will dissuade any big club.
I’ve personally always taken TH14’s punditry with a big grain of salt. Being a great player doesn’t always translate to off the field expertise. That said, it’s a bit rich to call him disingenuous. He didn’t start being critical towards Arsenal when he got involved with Ek, that happened much earlier. The Occam’s Razor here is that he simply believes that Arsenal is run by a bunch of incompetents and got involved with Ek because of that.
It’s too risky to base expectations on a cup
There’s too much luck and dice throwing involved with domestic cups.
It has to be the league qualification for Europe. Everything else is a bonus.
Emery made that mistake of over-relying on the Europe league. Anyone can do an upset in another in a one off final or semis.
Diss
Would you rather finish 5th
Or 7th, but only 2 points behind 5th, but win one of the domestic cups?
Dissenter You obviously were not reading what I said previously. It doesn’t have to be extreme characters on AFTV. Just ones with interesting characters of which there were quite a few previously. The current presenters are not interesting. And regarding the numbers of subscriptions to their channel? Do you not think that this big number was not built up in previous years before the present? You are saying their subscriptions have rocketed up overnight just from the start of this season? The BBC has many viewers but more people than ever before hardly watch BBC television now. More are abandoning… Read more »
Love Sausage
Henry miscalculated with the Ek move, even Vieera has wisely dissociated himself from the take-over.
Henry should have stayed neutral about ownership in a statesmanly manner. It’s strange because he once was close to Josh Kroenke.
Rich
What is a League Cup win going to signify if Arteta fails again in the EPL?
Ishola
I get you now.
You’re saying it’s not as captivating as before because the characters/content is bland.
It’s just that AFTV has acquired some loyal viewership, the ones that craved the drama may have already moved on.
Rich
I would rather take the predictability of the league over 38 games compared with the roulette nature of the cups.
A cop run is not a measure of progress. I want a cup but be in a good place in the league while you make that cup run.
Diss,
I agree he overplayed his hand. His appearance at the Spuds game was designed for maximum PR impact in case of a loss. But be that as it may, I think he’s very honest in his belief that Arsenal is a mess. You don’t have to agree with it but there’s no need to mischaracterise what he’s doing.
Ish 2 trophies in 2.5 seasons, I’d love us to win a cup this season With no Europe, we should be aiming to compete for both domestic trophies, we’re long overdue a League Cup win I was in Cardiff when we got turned over by Chelsea in 2007, and out in Melbourne with Birmingham + Villa mates in 2011, and my Villa mate was sicker than me at the final whistle, the 3-0 against City a few years back was another day to forget I’d love to put those ghosts to bed this season, give me a trophy over a… Read more »
Barcelona wants to get rid of De Jong.
If they were willing, I tell you what, in his present form, I would love to do a straight swap for Partey.
I’m not convinced that Partey is suited for this league… or am I writing him off too soon?
Anyone else with me?
Ideally I would love to bring in Zakaria (free) and Partey for De Jong…
Two excellent two young midfielders who would cost us next to nothing.
People were coronating Vieira after a few games. Anyone want to backtrack now ? Anybody here want to admit you were saying: ” I always wanted Patrick to manage us”, “I always said he’d be an amazing manager” …. Admit it. Pedro has the comments with your names. It’s the new manager bounce. You’ve all heard about it, but have no clue what it means. Slight variation in duration. Now it’s Gerrards turn. When will you ever learn? Some genius is saying he’ll already be a worthy successor to Klopp, who is an incredible manager. I’ll tell you now. When… Read more »
*De Jong for Partey I mean…
Nigel
Re New manager Bounce
At least when we had our new manager bounce we won a FA Cup… just saying!
What did Tottenham get with Nuno?
A manager of the Month award! 😂😂😂
Rich It will signify nothing if Arteta fails to get top six again in the league. A League Cup win and europa league qualification through the EPL = passable. A League Cup win but outside top six in the EPL = not passable An FA Cup win which as another poster said qualifies you for next seasons Europa League but failing again in the EPL = not really satisfactory but just about passable. And passable or not passable is in regards to Arteta being seen as the right man to continue. You must realise that the true mark of whether… Read more »