ARTETA HAS TO OWN GUTLESS MESS OF A PERFORMANCE, WHAT HAPPENED?

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Sometimes you have to roll your sleeves up and make some big unpopular calls. Arteta is about to have to do some of that. The Everton result was not par the course this season, that was a throwback to December last season. The levels were shocking. The performance was incoherent. It was a throwback to the hell days of late Emery and Wenger.

Gutless, insipid, unfocused, meek… the list of unpleasant descriptors could go on for days.

Arsenal did what is true to our recent history. We rolled up the team bus and said, ‘Rafa, I hear you have a problem, may we assist you?’

Our team is better than that. There was no excuse for that level of mediocrity. We let the situation happen to us and there isn’t a specific place to point a finger… because all of it was shite.

You could pick on the starting 11 and say that Thomas Partey shouldn’t have started and he’s been 4 out of 10 dreaful by his own account. You could say it was too soon for Tierney. You could say Xhaka wasn’t fit. You could say Lacazette up front on his own is usually not great. You could list issues with every single player that started that game and you’d be right, because it was that bad.

The biggest issue for me here was that we can all take a loss. But that was more than a loss. That was a dereliction of duty.

At a base level, that type of performance should be so far beyond us right now.

Arteta has the players for a week at a time. They are all fresher than our rivals. How can he send them out so mentally weak?

There are levels in the Premier League. Our lows simply cannot be that low. It was so, so poor.

What I can’t fathom is how things can fly off the rails so badly. That was Everton. The team with the worst form across ALL UK divisions. They were shit. We simply have to be holding our players to higher standard.

Then there’s the players.

If it wasn’t obvious, Auba has not been behaving like a captain this week. He was benched. Eddie was picked ahead of him from the bench. That’s how bad he’s been. I can sit here and debate the merits of his football contribution, but why are we here debating his behaviour again? He’s not a leader, he’s a precious baby.

Lacazette, I love him, but that was the performance of a player who knows he’s out there looking for a new deal. Where was the fight? Where was the contribution to the team he’s been giving? He was painfully nothing.

Thomas Partey, our big man in midfield, was absolutely diabolical (again). He played in one of the most ruthlessly disciplined systems in world football. He was great. He comes to Arsenal, we give him more freedom… and he’s giving away possession from a throw in under no pressure. It is wildly unacceptable how awful he’s been.

How about Ben White? £55m. The vision of what a defender could be. Makes line-breaking runs for 30 yards, then passes 3 yards to whoever is next to him. Defensively, he was a mess. Why was he standing off like a frightened rabbit? He wasn’t doing that at Leeds. Not good enough. He needs to get better, yesterday.

I don’t want to go there… but Bukayo ain’t been right since he came back from the Euros. Another anonymous performance from him out wide. He’s barely showing for the ball. His confidence is shot. He looks tired. It’s very worrying.

Things were so bad we’ve got the Pepe-Ultras out suggesting he’d be the difference. No people. He’s had his chances. Eddie missing from one yard was terrible, but at least he was there showing for it (created 3 chances). What was the counterpoint? Auba. Threaded in by Eddie, missed the sort of chance Auba of old scores with his eyes shut.

We could talk about Mike Dean and his shocking officiating, but it’s not worth it, we put that result on ourselves. It was the worst performance under Arteta to date, and we’ve had some bad one’s.

We can’t stew on it though. It feels like a catastrophe because in its own way. It was an bad performance addict having a relapse. That was old Arsenal. The question is… can we deal with it? Can we show bravery? Can we bounce back?

There’s not really a choice.

Southampton is a must-win.

West Ham is a must-win.

Leeds away is a must-win.

Norwich away is a must-win.

Wolves is a must-win.

Do I think we win all those games? I don’t think so. We’ve gone from looking robust-ish, to looking like the start of another death-spiral is incoming.

There’s no defence for it.

These are his players.

He prepares them.

He coaches them.

He motivates them.

We can all take a loss, but it has to be glorious failure, it has to look sexy in places… not like what we saw today.

Arteta has to own it. When you staff the players yourself, it’s you, regardless of how bad they are.

We live in a world of extremes. The currency of the internet is outrage. People love to live in misery. The season isn’t over, we could still claw something back… but the biggest worry is Arteta is not shaking out patterns of play that would indicate there truly is a change in culture. Last night wasn’t about the lack of a striker. It was about sending a team out that lacked focus, fight, and the edge to find a way.

This moment cannot blow out into another December drama. There is too much riding on a Top 4-able season. He needs to find a solution fast, because time waits for no one.

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Champagne Charlie

No Tom, you’re misunderstanding what I’m saying. Auba still has people on here thinking he’s good enough, but that it’s Arteta holding him back (same with Pepe). I don’t think he is, and I was against his extension at the height of the good will going for him for the exact reasons that have come to pass. Arteta being foolish enough to rest his attack on the shoulders of a one trick pony was a massive failure on his part, and one I’m sure he privately acknowledges. Trouble for him is that he leveraged so much keeping him, massive wages,… Read more »

Habesha Gooner

Charlie
Do you think our attack should be performing to this level even with players we have? Are they this bad, or do you think there is a plan to attack, Arteta isn’t holding our attackers back individually. They are performing poorly. But the collective poor performances from our attackers in the system suggests it is not just the players. He is holding them back collectively by not having plans to attack.

Guns of SF

i think the idea was that Mike played under Wenger, an offensive minded coach, and then coached along side pep, so the results would be attacking football at Arsenal, albeit with his personal genius spin… We have a Simeone wanna be… instead Auba, Laca, have all scored on a regular clip until he showed up… then its like a disease that keep spreading. Our strikers are not scoring, and the main issue is a few things. 1. ESR dependent. Without him, we have no middle attack… 2. Our Mids are not scoring threats. Our strikers are always easily marked out… Read more »

Habesha Gooner

Guns
Exactly. Arteta at his best is a simeone type coach. And it is rare to succeed using that. Small margins, put every one behind the ball and attack the same way until you score kind of coach. We average less than 50% possession since the season started. Just because we start playing out from the back doesn’t mean he is the same as pep. Arteta’s football needs certain conditions to go right to succeed. If it is opposed, we are easy to defeat.

Josip Skoblar

If we could appoint Zidane, he would for sure attract talented foreign players.

salparadisenyc

Guns Base level its seems from management style thus far Arteta is far more influenced from Everton Moyes than his Wenger day’s or assisting Pepe. Could get behind that that argument was based on personal, but it’s diminishing as the starting XI becomes his and we continue to really toil in attack. Arteta in the pivot with Neville or Fellaini all shelling balls into Cahill’s head springs to mind. It was clear we’d struggle for goals without a refresh up top going into 3rd season hoping for more from Auba, Laca and Pepe but I didn’t think it would be… Read more »

Champagne Charlie

“If Arsene Wenger was delivering ridiculously good football with the likes of Chamak and Bendtner “ Chamakh joined in 2010 until 2013. – In 2010 our attack was supplemented by Wilshere, Ramsey, Fabregas, Rosicky, RvP, Theo, Nasri, Vela, and Arshavin. – In 2011 we signed Ox, Gervinho, and Benayoun. (Fab, Nasri out) – In 2012 we signed Cazorla, Podolski, and Giroud. (Vela, RVP out) It’s just not honest to go down that path and willfully ignore the level of talent in the midfield and forward areas. Arguably every single player mentioned gets into our XI. It’s the same formula for… Read more »

Ishola70

Folks on here are still ignoring the importance of a good balanced side to see the attack improve thinking it’s just about individuals again.

If we can’t get the midfield right the offense will suffer.

Guns of SF

Old Weng would have this team firing on all cylinders. And you all know it…! His issue was getting killed on the counter attack since we played a high line. The other thing is that Weng would take a different approach with his players. Not one former player have said anything bad about the man. A dad like approach, and to be fair I think it worked well with his players. Kept things in house, no searching for the “leaker” and all this shit. Very very rookie like stuff from Mike. Petty I dare say it, but I think this… Read more »

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Peter

I don’t think we are anywhere near as good as you say and think we are.

There is a culture of a problem which deep rooted, must be a player or a couple of players who stink the place out …and who have been there since Wenger days…
Until they have gone this will keep happening ..
We all know who they are.

Ishola70

Guns of SF
“Old Weng would have this team firing on all cylinders.
And you all know it…!”

No he wouldn’t.

He failed to qualify for the CL in his last two seasons and the negligence regarding the central midfield occurred under his watch.

MD-Gunner

From the Athletic written by an ardent Arsenal fan James Nicholas that says it all “Aubameyang, Nketiah, Lacazette: ‘Arteta has no coherent plan for Arsenal’s attack’”. It is full of irony and digs plus a reality perspective.

https://theathletic.com/3002087/2021/12/07/aubameyang-nketiah-lacazette-arteta-has-no-coherent-plan-for-arsenals-attack/

Ishola70

It’s kicking off all over the place in the Porto – Atletico Madrid.

Mass brawls coming from both benches.

salparadisenyc

Meanwhile Ajax rampant, thats 4-1 more goals than any side at this stage in comp looks like 6 from 6.

No doubt Dyche would be right there with Ten Haag in setting that marker.

Guns of SF

De Paul gonna cut someone !

Champagne Charlie

Dyche would’ve kept a clean sheet, 4-0 under him without question

Ishola70

The Porto match was the only one tonight that had real significance in regards qualifying for the last 16 with both Porto and Atletico having chances to do that. Both teams needing to win.

Let’s just say it’s been quite intense.

salparadisenyc

Ishola i’ve made the move over to see the last 15… Atletico going to hold this?
That was somewhat rhetorical.

Ishola70

I think so Sal.

Porto were actually the team that were on the front foot for most of the match looking dangerous but they got suckered by Atletico Madrid.

Classic Atletico Madrid really.

The game has actually calmed down now but it was crazy levels before.

salparadisenyc

Great finish there from Correa, Griezmann deserves big shout out for that ball.

Ishola70

That’s all she wrote.

salparadisenyc

Boom Rodrigo De Paul with the knife for Guns.

LoveSausage

Habesha,

Give it up buddy. People aren’t here for intelligent analysis of the way we play. Just enjoy the crazy train with the Oziltologists, The Dychists and the other experts who are out in force today.

salparadisenyc

Champagne CharlieDecember 7, 2021 21:34:34
Dyche would’ve kept a clean sheet, 4-0 under him without question

You forgot to add w/ 9 men.

Nelson

One thing we learnt from last game. Although both Laca and Eddie are leaving, there is a difference in mentality. Laca is known in the football world. His priority now is remain healthy. Eddie is relatively unknown. He wants to show case his skill. Arteta would be stupid to play Laca again before the Jan TW. If Laca doesn’t manage to sign a precontract, then the situation would change.

Mr Serge

Shame about Milan going out of Europe f you Gatzidis

Dissenter

Nelson
Eddie’s motivation is to remain healthy too, he’s declined offers to extend and he leaves on a free transfer
He’s also unproven
Why is Eddie being spoken about with such certainty.

Mr Serge

Eddie is championship materiel he should never be in contention to start in the premier league for us

China1

So long as the midfield is poor the attack will never be great You cannot have a good attack without a good midfield. The midfield controls the game. The midfield transitions the play. The midfield creates chances. The midfield calms the defense to keep everyone calm and switched on If you put haaland and mbappe up front but you’ve got an out of sorts partey, average as hell xhaka behind them they will not look like the worlds best young players anymore. We need to upgrade the attack but the negligence in midfield has been going on for a decade… Read more »

rollen

What happened?
We hired random noob to be our manager.

RB Leipzig didn’t get the memo that beating City is impossible.

China1

Christ liverpool got all 18 points from the group of death

Liverpool
Atletico
Porto
Milan

That is nuts

China1

Yeah it’s ok that we are underdogs against better teams like city and Chelsea but this idea that because we are inferior it’s acceptable to lose them all is bs

Throughout a season all those elite teams lose games to teams no better and sometimes worse than us

As long as we go into such games with our pants already pulled down it’s our fault when we get fucked by them

Dark Hei

Sigh, Arteta. His hair is so nice but his football is all over the place.

I am waiting for the inevitable. He is just another Emery.

Maybe he will blossom in another club but I think this is beyond him now.

When the football is drab and the results suffer, it is usually time to go.

You know when Wenger lose games, at least he gets you invested because the football is so pretty

Tom

Christ liverpool got all 18 points from the group of death
Liverpool
Atletico
Porto
MilanThat is nuts

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China, and they’ve put everyone else in the group on negative goals for/against records …….. kinda like they and City have been doing in the league.

Arteta has his work cut out for him winning the CL in his third year with Arsenal against this sort of competition.
Although now that Willian isn’t here anymore it might get a bit harder to do.

Guns of SF

Lol Tom

Guns of SF

we generally have good players in our attack but its all gone to shit with him in charge.
Laca, Auba, Pepe, all are misfiring. Blame them all you want but they did not turn cold all of a sudden. These are pros!
Its the system that is not working. Its not getting the best out of us defensively or offensively.
So what exactly is it doing?

Mics

Guns,

Aside from being godawful to watch, crippling the creativity of every attacking player, and instilling a sense of cowardice that seemingly affects the entire squad at once upon taking the lead,, it’s hard to say what this system does.

Guns of SF

cant disagree with you mics

MD-Gunner

All of the bedwetters were screaming in the summer for a CAM as top priority we now see the double whammy facing us, 1st finding set player and him agreeing to join the Arteta shit show, 2nd we already know he doesn’t have a clue how to put together an attacking team. Arsenal is just so fucked at the moment. After Sunday’s game if it is 3 point won the dry bedded a-holes will come back to the blog and spin that again with so many points away from 4th and that AFC turned a corner. They have turned so… Read more »

Tony

“Pepe is wank” great call Charlie as ever, as your thinking Xhaka is a great player for us. How did that work out against Everton? Excuses from you? ‘Oh do shut up Charlie’ just borrowing your line, Charlie boy. Do bring up my lifestyle again if you have no other argument left, as is your way resulting to insults when you’ve lost the argument and plot. Always trolling Charlie: mirroring Pedro. Its CC: Carbon Copy of Pedro? I mean you both rate Xhaka. Well, 10 goals and 3 assists last season suggests differently and how we’d love to have those… Read more »

Dissenter

“ Christ liverpool got all 18 points from the group of death
Liverpool
Atletico
Porto
MilanThat is nuts”

….and yet Westham battled them Mano a Mano and won them.
Have lots of respect for Westham this calendar year.

Guns of SF

Pepe needs the freedom to NOT be locked to the wing but to roam across the front line. He takes defenders out of place and also has a wicked left foot and a decent strike rate.
Why Mike cannot see this is beyond me. He is not a traditional winger nor has the strength to play one..
Around the box is where he operates best. Every man and his dog knows this

Tony

I’d say the main argument about Pepe is his price. That wasn’t his fault Raul bought a £35m player for £72m. Ditto White and Partey paying at least £20m over their right price.

Guns of SF

I was thinking about Azeez today. I like his style of game. Powerful and moves with the ball forward as first instinct… I know he is on loan but I do hope he develops at Portsmouth and can come and help us soon

Tony

Guns also good from dead ball situations around the box as Ode is.

MD-Gunner

Pedro and all those who point to this being a young team Arseblog owns your sorry asses.

“Another thing: this game, this poxy defeat, should not be filed away under the explanation that ‘This is a young team’. It might be, but last night this young team had all the old faults that come with this manager. It’s too much of a safety net for Arteta. Young, old, somewhere in the middle, if you can’t build attacking moves, if you can’t make chances, and if you can’t score goals, it doesn’t matter how old you are.”

MD-Gunner

Again typical managerial shit show over at Arsenal again Arseblog owns your sorry butts. “Whatever is going on with Nicolas Pepe is clearly serious now, but if you’re not going to play him, don’t pick him in the squad. Give the opportunity to an Academy kid or something, because this is just nonsense. It felt like one of those moments when Arteta tried to be too clever by half. A substitution that isn’t made first and foremost for the benefit of the team, but to send a message to a senior player, in this case the captain, and our record… Read more »

Tony

MD it seems that Arteta only has excuses of others and not himself. He started with the ‘Blame me’ and then quickly deflected being in denial mostly throwing players under the bus and other excuses he feels isn’t his fault.

Arteta has little understanding that the back stops with him.

Arteta for what the really is: a rookie who doesn’t learn from his mistakes.

Guns of SF

yea i said that Nico is in the doghouse for some reason. His goals were a big part in us staying in the top 10. This season, he is the forgotten man. I feel bad for him. I dont think he is a 72M player and he did not ask that for his selling price. He is about a 35m player at best. But play to his strengths… something that Mike cannot do or even fathom Auba is a shell now Laca too. how is that? I know we need to upgrade but the decline is really drastic in goals… Read more »

Mics

Arseblog is spot on. It isn’t our youth that has us near the bottom of the table in big chances created. It isn’t youth that has us with a negative goal difference almost halfway through the season.

Tony

Guns who would you play up front and midfield against Southampton?

Guns of SF

Now throw in this JDP stuff and its just a like a smokescreen…
We dont have the players for this… or the manager.
We need to get back to our DNA which is attacking attractive football.
its why I became a fan, now this football is boring and bland. Yes we have some moments of excitement but those are far between

Arteta said he wants Wenger back and I know that is triggering for a lot of folks but perhaps ole weng can help him with the offense???

Dark Hei

Guns

Ole Wenger wouldn’t be back. He knows he will be a distraction.

He hasn’t stepped foot into the stadium ever since he left.

Perhaps he would if we are a stable as a club. But we are not.

Mics

I definitely miss the liquid free flowing attack and scoring goals for fun. But I don’t know if Wenger coming back in a football role would be good for the club, or hell, for that matter, Wenger himself. Goddamn I miss that beautiful attacking football though.

Dark Hei

“Guns who would you play up front and midfield against Southampton?”

Use either Saka or ESR as a false 9. Bring in Pepe.

Pep G style which perhaps Pep-lite can pull off.

But honestly, just play Auba and pray that he finally gets it. Because a team that is struggling will struggle with a new style of play.

Janky

We lose a game like Everton and all kinds of crazy comes out. How shit some of our players are, Dyche? Seriously? We’ve got a rookie manager making serial bad decisions. Serial. Xhaka back for the full 97 is just stupidity. That doesn’t happen if you have a manager with a brain. Written into the plan that he comes off at 60 or whatever. Guy was dragging ass by 60. Spent. And stays on. And hurts us. Unforgivable incompetence. But par for the course with this guy. The whole team looks fit for the bin. Worldies looking done. Auba couldn’t… Read more »

Guns of SF

Janky take a bow

Sid

Mertesacker should keep youth plsyers like Patino and Azeez as far away as possible from Diet Pep

Guns of SF

A bigger question is who the F are the assistants to Mike?
Are these real people ? Yes men and what do they bring to the table?
I mean, Mike seems a one man wrecking crew but scary to think there are others who are part of his coaching “staff”
I wonder how many of them secretly wonder about this buffoon!

or they think he is great?

Tony

Well put Janky.

MD-Gunner

This is the right time to read the blog as the opinions feel very realistic, unlike the delusional comments during early GMT time.

I add my complements to your post Janky worth to copy it when the Arteta fan boys start posting..

Guns of SF

We call it the night crew. At least US posters… its 1003pm right now in cali

MD-Gunner

It is 1:06 am on the east coast USA and will hit the sack now. Good night you bedwetters 😆 or MOBs

Tony

and Thai Guns

Guns of SF

what time in thailand?

Guns of SF

early afternoon I checked

gnarleygeorge9

Oh well, it’s cricket season. Duck season as well if you’re a pommy batsman 🙂

Berg10kamp

The problem with this system is that it is too dependant on each player. If one is having a stinker it affects the whole team. Problem is we have like more than 3 players who consistently have bad games.

Berg10kamp

Maybe sacking arteta and bring back wenger is jot a bad idea. He will perform miracles with this team, he did much more with less.

Goobergooner

Fucking lol at the “Pepe ultras” comment, considering you said xhaka would be the difference.

In a competent team, I’d have Pepe over xhaka any day.

I will say I’ll give old granite some benefit of the doubt being out for a long while. But still, funny as fuck comment considering his only great game came for Switzerland since joining us.

Goobergooner

(yes xhaka has given us a mom or two, but that doesn’t make up for his utter averageness in the pl)

Goobergooner

Gnarley G

Hahahaha love that chat as an Aussie. I’ll be at the boxing day test so I hope we can replicate today

Goobergooner

Cummins though….
What an unbelievable way to lead your team as first time captain.

5-38

Champagne Charlie

Tony I have zero interest arguing about Pepe, and to be blunt I have zero interest in your ideas on football altogether.

I have to laugh at the hypocrisy though, forever on hand to say I’m baiting for an argument when you emerge with a personalised attack of this poster, that poster, and Pedro in between. I’m not interested in your split-the-audience style of engagement that requires allies and enemies. It’s petty nonsense, embarrassing stuff from a pensioner.

Sid

S.e.l.f a.w.a.r.e.n.e.s.s

Terraloon

I know it’s sad but when I reflected on the Everton debacle something kept niggling inmy mind about the type of game that Martin Odegaard plays. I decided to watch highlights, and what I saw , alarmingly, was Ozil mark2 He was ambling around not putting in meaningful sprints and whilst he scored aa nice goal his performance smacked of him and not what he adds to the wider team. It may be his is gassed out but even others that clearly are playing on fumes suck as Saka tried to contribute. Arsenal like every PL team are at the… Read more »

Pierre

Charlie
“There is no honest comparison of the trio, the fact you’re trying to suggest their goal contributions creates an equivalency is pathetic.”

Actually i wasn’t, i was highlighting how far they have regressed under Arteta.
The fact that pepe, , Aubamayang and Lacazette had similar goal contributions in the league to salah, firmino and Mane over a 2 year period suggests that the problem lies with the manager and his negative tactics more than the players.

Probably too late to salvage anything from those 3 now , not under Arteta anyway.

Graham62

Janky

Excellent!

Print it, paste it, frame it!

Unfortunately, the Arsenal way is totally different.

gnarleygeorge9

Goober

Silly ol’England:)

peanuts&monkeys

” Richarlison showed last night what this team is missing. He’s quick, aggressive, good in the air, a bit nasty. And he can play. He’s a handful. A player like that can help relieve pressure. We don’t have anyone like that.”

why don’t we have? why did the manager get anyone like Richarlison? There is not a single fwd in entire arsenal team who is good in the air. not a single joker has scored 2 goals headed in last 20 games. have they???

gnarleygeorge9

Goober

Silly ol’England 🙂

Matt

After watching Liverpool sail through their champions league group last night, it made we think – we are paying the same to Aubamayang each week as Liverpool are paying Salah, Mane and Alexander Arnold combined!

What a mess this club is in.

gnarleygeorge9

The Arsenal has no functioning forward line. It’s forward line is still a bunch of scratchings from past managers. But the January transfer window is just round the corner,.

Make no mistake about it, PEA has an Arsenal heart the size of a pea!

Spanishdave

Arteta is not going to suddenly get better at coaching, this is it, his way. He has had two years and there’s no progress, no big idea. He has therefore either got the wrong players for his so called system or they simply not able to play his way. The team looks totally disjointed, especially after about twenty minutes when the shape just goes. Players must look atAuba and think he’s getting three times their wages and is a joke playing the way he is. Getting rid of him must be a priority. But who is going to stump up… Read more »

Samesong

I think Toney would be more suited to our game than Richarlison and DCL.

-Hold up play
-Great in the air
-Finishing
– Aggresive
– Penalty taker

25 years old.

TeeCee

People saying Wenger coming back wouldn’t be a bad idea…..Jesus Christ, he started killing the club in 2008/2009. A football dinosaur still living in the late 90’s/early 2000’s. Wenger is a busted dictator, a walking disaster. Arteta is doing the bare minimum. If you put any premiership manager in charge at Arsenal, the worse they would achieve is mid-table…..seriously, with our squad and with the bottom 6 or 7 teams being really very poor, every single manager would have Arsenal in at least mid-table…..and thats pretty much where Arteta has us. A good manager gets top 6, an excellent manager… Read more »

gnarleygeorge9

HAALAND

He already has the service available @ The Arse. The Club has to get him, he would reactivate the mojo of every Gooner around the world. A BIG Club with ambition would sign him.

Samesong

HAALAND

200M probably

andy1886

Samesong – Haaland is available for around £65m this year, there’s a clause in his contract. So he’ll go to the team that offers the best chance of trophies and the the biggest wage packet. Neither of which will be us.

Samesong

Samesong – Haaland is available for around £65m this year

No way is he available for that price? Where you seeing this?

Jamie

Delusional to think a player of Haaland’s stature will come to this Arsenal team like it’s still 2005.

Jamie

Samesong –

Google ‘Haaland clause’ and you’ll get lots of fairly recent hits from tabloids revealing the alleged €75 million release clause. Who knows how accurate the reporting is.

TeeCee

Haaland had a clause put in his last contract. They reckon it’s around 65m.

Jim Lahey

Does it matter who comes in this Jan?

As long as Arteta is at the club we are going nowhere.

Nelson

Ralf Rangnick has confirmed sports psychologist Sascha Lense will join his setup at Manchester United. Do we have a sports psychologist? Our team plays much worse away. Would a sports psychologist help?

G8

Give a Pepe or a Martinelle to a klopp or a Tuchel or any decent manager and they would be different animals!
The elephant in the room and its shit stinks!

englandsbest

I could be wrong but it requires a bid of £65 mill to trigger a release clause in Haland’s contract. The player may say, okay, i’ll listen to offers. Obviously the final figure will be higher, around £100 mill. My belief is that Josh will pay as much as necessary if Haland’s chouce is Arsenal. There are several reasons why I expect Haland’s choice will be Arsenal. It’s Arsenal, the most progressive Club in Europe, It’s London, the world’s most metroplitan capital, he will be numero uno star of the team, his friendship with Odegaard. the PL is the league… Read more »

Mb

As much as I want Haaland, I don’t see it happening. Be realistic, City, United, Liverpool, Chelsea has bigger pull than us.

And there are some in spain.

Mb

We are in the group of Everton, West Ham and Spu*s.

This need to change and change fast!