Let’s start off with a… that’s cute.
Hi Fran, really sorry to hear about your son’s situation. Id love to invite you both to a game. Bullies will never win. Please check your dm ♣️❤️
— Alexandre Lacazette (@LacazetteAlex) February 6, 2022
Alex Lacazette looking after young Fran who is having problems at school. Very classy.
Ok, footballistically, what do we have?
NOTTINGHAM FOREST SMASHED LEICESTER 4-1.
Wild times. They let us off the hook. Brendan Rodgers Fan Club is absolutely in the mud this season. They rolled out a first team. Djed Spencer delivered the finishing move. Our future back-up right back, who knows, a better bet than my man Cedric Soares.
This weekend wasn’t great news for most in the FA Cup. West Ham and Chelsea progressed to the latter rounds after extra time against lower level teams. Manchester United is OUT after getting spanked by Boro. Spurs sailed past Brighton and that means extra minutes for them.
I am absolutely gagging to get into the mixer on a game so we can get our momentum back. The Wolves game was rescheduled for the day I arrive back in the UK. Written in the stars? Maybe.
Our 3 Premier League games after the break are massive. Take 4 points off Wolves and 3 off of Brentford and we’re cooking. Slump to defeat against Wolves and the chasing back are on you and the whingers will be out in force talking about how much they love Anotonio Conte and his removal of canteen mayonnaise.
Fitness and internal solutions is going to be the theme of our run in.
If this then that.
I’m sure that’s some sort of IT thing for IOT stuff. Anyway, if Tomi is injured then do we roll with Cedric and lose security on the right, or do we role with White on the right and lose an outlet through the middle.
If Lacazette pings a hammy, do we opt for an Eddie run in the side, or do we get to see why Gabi fancies himself as a #14.
Those are the two biggest worries we have. Most other eventualities have been stress tested this season.
There isn’t a better option for Arsenal than Nuno as the replacement for Tierney.
Sambi Lokonga is perfectly fine to sub in for Partey or Xhaka, we know, because we’ve seen it for an extended run this season.
The onus is on Arteta to stop being stingy with the minutes. Make sure everyone is ready, because we saw super Sambi do a great job for us, then he disappeared for 7 weeks. Arteta did the same to Martinelli, disappearing him for 6 months. We need to keep important players in the mixer because we don’t want undercooked players trying to fire us to top 4, because they’ll fail.
Marc Overmars becomes the second exPremier League legend of ours to exit the game under shameful circumstances. The Ajax Sporting Director, a hot target for Newcastle, was axed today for sending no-so-welcome text messages to numerous female colleagues. Quite a way to wreck your career and your marriage. But bravo to Ajax for not sweeping it under the rug, they’ve set a tone there I suspect not many other clubs would.
Ok, just a short post today, this post is mainly about driving you to our latest video / podcast.
Enjoy, it’s a fun one with Pedro and Johnny.
well well
First?
Seems its mine today
okay then
Podcast was a great listen
Thanks Pedro and Johnny
Bring on the next 17 games
Tr4phy
Partey on Thursday, long weekend.
Sneaky Sunday night post
Rainman could have went for DM’s record.
In regards to Spence, he does fit our player profile. Interesting how he went on loan to a fellow Championship side, and he has been tearing it up in the FA Cup. I’m ok with us raiding the lower leagues more.
After this weekend’s results you have to wonder the merits of a winter break. Lots of prem first teams looking rusty against lower league opponents who haven’t stopped.
Top 10 bithes
Yes baby. Top11 is where it’s at!
Late to the party.
I missed the no signing disaster over Chinese New Year.
Good thing I was occupied
Overmars was a fan favourite here
Meanwhile, who saw the Liecester game?
Was Tielemans equally shit?
Looking at Djed Spence , I get very Bacary Sagna vibes .
Djed Spence is quoted as 12 mil. We do need a RB that’s not Cedric. The price just sounds about right. Whether he is quality enough is another issue. I have only seen a couple of games. I didn’t hear Overmars got fired. What is it with these dudes that makes them think they should do this at work? If you wanted to cheat there is plenty of fish in the sea out in the world. And we need to win at wolves if we want to be taken seriously. A draw won’t be catastrophic but a win would send… Read more »
stuberito After this weekend’s results you have to wonder the merits of a winter break. Lots of prem first teams looking rusty against lower league opponents who haven’t stopped. That fact struck me. What will be interesting is how teams who didn’t have a game in the cup, and yes Arsenal are in that number, will fare as Wolves now have a game under their belt. To be honest Man U should have been over the hill and gone, Chelsea yes they won both teams had so many attempts it was strange that the both didn’t win easily WHU were… Read more »
Terra
That’s also the beauty of the FA cup for many of these lower league teams. Those games are their cup final. I salute their courage.
Wolves are very hard team to break down , very physical too . Got to be wary of Daniel Podence on the counter
Maybe the wolves defeat at home to Norwich in the cup at the weekend will have a damaging effect on their confidence going into the Arsenal game.. Up until then, they were on a very impressive run of results and the momentum was in their favour. Wolves had a strong team out against Norwich so there were are no excuses for such a poor result.. A result like this should also give the Arsenal players more confidence going into the game as wolves were beginning to look a very powerful side. Who knows what Arsenal will we see on Thursday,… Read more »
Habesha, there is this thought that refuses to leave me,if we can can maintain the completive edge we showed against mancity and Liverpool away, Chelsea won’t know how to deal with us,same goes with Tottenham.
Then, I hope Tets find a way of playing Ødeegard,ESR, Martinelli n Saka together….let the fireworks begin. I sure hope we make the top four,of course am biased, but I rather fancy our chances against disunited united, shinning black wig-lead sp*rd and lean westham still juggling two competitions.
Maybe the wolves defeat at home to Norwich in the cup
at the weekend will have a damaging effect on their confidence going into the Arsenal game..
I don’t reckon it will. Arsenal are the team to always be up for. It all depends on how we approach this game.
I see the media are giving out lots of excuses for Brendan Rodgers injuries to players etc. He doesn’t deserve the excuses. Leicester have been absolutely woeful this season defensively and that is down to Rodgers. Leicester’s success previously was down to being a counter attacking side and letting teams come on to them remain solid defensively deep and then counter quickly with Vardy. Rodgers in his vanity at the start of this season decided that it was time that Leicester forego this tactic that served them so well previously and become more a front foot team and try to… Read more »
Samesong “Maybe the wolves defeat at home to Norwich in the cup at the weekend will have a damaging effect on their confidence going into the Arsenal game..” I think we know the attitude some clubs have to the FA Cup don’t we. If they win so be it if they lose they won’t care to lose one minute’s sleep over it. Some clubs simply don’t care enough for the FA Cup some of them. And it filters down as we know to the clubs lower down as well. Take Bournemouth v Boreham Wood last night. Great to see Boreham… Read more »
Speaking on talkSPORT, Keown urged Arteta not to be so confrontational with those players who are misfiring and instead he must ‘find find a way to get the best out of everybody’. The Sportsmail columnist said: ‘Is this decision in the best interest of Arsenal football club? That’s all I’m looking at. ‘There is no replacement that’s come in for the striker. Arsenal are in a fight for fourth place and have an opportunity to do that. ‘This player, slightly differently to the Ozil situation, the current manager give him the contract. He assessed the player, felt he was good… Read more »
According to the Arteta cucks it’s agenda driven shit, but we have an Arsenal legend on the record saying how bad it looks having issues with players so often.
‘I don’t know of another high profile manager who has fallen out with quite so many players.’
Is this agenda driven too? It’s a fact.
I thought Johnny was the comic?!?
“Eddie is good enough for this club…”
“Xhaka will not get another red card before the end of the season.”
Pedro, love your optimism but… 😂😂😂😂😂
Raptora
https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/19/freddie-ljungberg-warns-arsenal-chiefs-poor-attitude-players-wont-change-mikel-arteta-appointment-11934471/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/12068352/guendouzi-arsenal-attitude-lorient-casoni/
https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/23/hertha-boss-gives-his-damning-assessment-of-arsenals-matteo-guendouzi-14131018/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5090047/Pierre-Emerick-Aubameyang-Borussia-Dortmund-squad.html
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/mesut-ozil-fenerbahce-arsenal-b978437.html
When the same issues follow around the same players, maybe it’s not the clubs who are at fault…..
Has there ever been anyone more cuntish and plain dumb on this blog? Raptora is definately running away with that, the clown.
Rich
you are wasting your time. The guy can’t reason logically it’s either his agenda or nothing.
Tom
Not ‘naming’ Arteta is like saying, ‘Look, Boris, I don’t know why, but since you got hitched, you’ve made a shitty-arsed mess of the job’.
Who thinks “GX will not get another red card before the end of the season”?
I thought so.
I do agree though that Eddie is good enough.
In fairness to raptora, he was sharing quotes from Keown.
Eish, I get disagreeing with peoples views and perspectives but why the need for names, are we on the playground? Is it allowed because the offenders are in favour of Mr Arteta?
Ya all Arteta cucks go and bring it to Keown. Or is he also dumb, cuntish and agenda driven?!
Keown was renowned for his ferocity,, so it’s odd to see him up in arms because Arteta won”t take misbehaviour from his players. As a matter of fact early on Arteta was over-kind and far too-trusting. But he has learned the hard way that certain players – the highest paid, generally – are concerned only with themselves. And that trying to teach old dogs new tricks is a waste of time.
Tell us how OM are the liverpool of ligue one eh? Dumbo
englandsbest
This has nothing to do with “ferocity”.
I would say it’s more a case of Arteta thinking he can do or say anything, even if it’s disruptive.
Culture can be changed as long as it’s done fairly and constructively.
Just saying.
Raptora, please stop making it all about you. Every single post is virtually the same. We know how you feel. You did this all through pre-season slagging off the summer signings, even making up some Benfica stuff about Tavares which was pathetic. You disappeared for a while but the Burnley draw with a injury-hit team has got you all excited again. Weird. Let me tell you this, if you don’t have discipline you’re fucked. For years Arsenal became sloppy, the culture was a shambles. We all knew it. You knew it. This is where you expect senior players to step… Read more »
Raulishuss
Why so aggressive?
AFC Forever
Very good post.
AFC: “even making up some Benfica stuff about Tavares which was pathetic.”
I’ve told you numerous times that it wasn’t me who said that you dumb fuck. Stop lying like a litle bitch. Wtf is your problem?
Show proof that it was me! Or pipe down.
To that other cretin, Raul.
OM have the 2nd most trophies in France, same as Liverpool.
OM is the only French team to have won the Champions League, Liverpool have the most UCL trophies in England.
The support of OM’s fans is incredible, same as Liverpool’s.
Quite a lot of similarities. If you can’t count 2+2, maybe go back to school. They might teach you how to behave as well.
Also both clubs are not from the capital of their countries.
Can’t wait for PL to resume.
How does pointing out that the 3 players Arteta has fallen out with, have also had similar issues with other managers and other clubs, equate to being a pro-Arteta stance?…. It’s a simple observation I was opposed to giving Aubameyang a mega contract at 31, I was opposed to renewing Ozil’s contract, who was clearly on the slide since 2017 I liked Guendouzi, what he was doing at 19 was underrated, of course he had holes in his games, but teenagers just starting out, tend to have holes in their game. It’s clear we’ve had big cultural issues, enthusiasm and… Read more »
Keown has a point to be concerned about a fallout with senior players, but I don’t think that Arteta was wrong in his handling of Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Guendouzi and Aubameyang. OZIL had become a liability long before Arteta came to the club and his obscene wages needed to be taken off payroll. MKHITARYAN was also a player who should never have been recruited, but Arsenal landed up with a fait accompli in the exchange deal with Sanchez. GUENDOUZI had a history of bad behaviour and problems before he arrived at Arsenal. The player’s behaviour did not improve with us. AUBAMEYANG… Read more »
Graham62
That is what makes sweetie Keown ciomment so odd
Keown is spot on and it speaks to the intelligence of a lot of people when they can’t give their opinion without using words like “c*nty” etc.
All in all it starts to make more sense that it is those people in Arteta’s corner.
There had been “ disrupters” at the club.No question.Before he got the job Arteta was reliably informed by insiders at the club who they were.Part of the process( the word so many hate) was to offload them.Some weren’t delivering,some complacent,some with a big time Charlie attitude,some in cliques.They needed to go & most( not all) fans approve the culling.
Arteta’s non negotiables will ultimately lose him his job.. By continually disrespecting players ( and there are many of them) and picking and choosing who he disrespects and who he allows to make “non negotiable” mistakes, will mean he will lose the trust of the players in the squad , plus it will deter top level players joining the club when they look at how players like Aubamayang, AMN, Ozil, Guendouzi, Saliba , Mari, Eddie etc have been handled… Xhaka can basically do anything on or off the field without fear of reprisals. In the summer he was clearly flirting… Read more »
“There had been “ disrupters” at the club. No question. Before he got the job Arteta was reliably informed by insiders at the club who they were. Part of the process( the word so many hate) was to offload them.”
If Arteta was reliably informed of who the disruptors [Auba] were before he got the job, why did he extend Auba’s contract instead of following the process and binning him when it wouldn’t have cost the club millions of pounds?
Seems fucking stupid to ignore his reliable sources [Val].
I see the Manchester United youngster, Elanga, has received racist abuse for missing his penalty in the loss to Middlesbrough.
What kind of disgusting people do this? I would round these characters up and force them to go onto the Old Trafford pitch to take penalties. Anyone who misses gets tied to the goal post and publicly flogged. Sky can buy the rights. We need to stop pussy footing around with these vile characters who abuse social media anonymity. Bad enough everyone thinks it’s a great achievement to use the ‘C’ word, we’ve certainly got a generational problem going on.
You’re a clown trying to compare OM to liverpool cuz it boost your absolute weird guen fetish. Maybe you will compare arsenal to madrid next? Clown
Pierre, I would not even say that Arteta is a good coach. Clearly he is good at some aspect of coaching, but he also has some grayling deficiencies. He can organise a back to the wall defense but still have not seen any sign that he knows how to build a fluid effective attack against a low bloc team. His game management is poor. The fact that we rarely reverse situation when we are losing at half time says its own story. What things do not go according to plan, he can’t think on his feet and adapt to the… Read more »
Val arteta isn’t a good coach to you cuz you’d prefer we hired the average one(christopher gaiter?). Arteta has proven you so wrong you went on sabbatical when we started winning after spending the whole summer giving us juicy lies from your ever reliable source who happens to never get any right.
AFC Forever – I agree very much with your last post, it’s disgusting behaviour and I honestly wonder what it will take for social media companies and society as a whole to clamp down on this and dish out the right punishments for this nonsense.
Maybe just maybe it’s not a coincidence that Arteta is falling out with a number of players ?
Maybe it’s a not a coincidence that those players are either over paid for what they are contributing or causing trouble or setting a bad example.
Maybe he’s deliberately taking a scythe to the once bloated squad in order to rebuild it with players that fit the type of game he want to play and the type of attitude he expects from them.
Just a thought !
Val
“I don’t think a single Arsenal players has massively improved under his tutelage.”
I beg to differ – Willian.
Lol. No player has improved you said lets see.
smith row producing his best form
saka improving his output every year even tho you think he has plateaued(suprise lol)
gabriel having his best season
martinelli clearly more refined than he has ever been
xhaka has played his best for us under arteta.
i dont expect you to agree obviously but its a fact and you’re wrong that non of our players have improved.
Arteta hasn’t massively improved a single Arsenal player according to Valentin…… Saka gets regular game time for England, occasionally benching the likes of Grealish, Foden, Rashford, that’s not bad for a player who hasn’t improved in over 2 years…. Smith Rowe went from being on loan at Huddersfield, to becoming a full English international, that’s a remarkable trajectory from a player that’s had his career stalled…. Ramsdale has apparently gone backwards according to Valentin, but he’s now regularly in the English squad, and a full international, he must really regret coming to Arsenal…. Gabriel is now being called up to… Read more »
DigitalBob – 99%+ of people think racism is wrong. The best way to eradicate it completely is to ignore it. When it cannot be ignored, racist behaviour should be ridiculed. The mainstream media and politicians are keeping racism alive and well. Outrage gets clicks for the media and politicians use racism to divide the electorate. Players need to start mocking people who use racist language – acting like a crybaby because of words is pathetic. And wishing physical abuse on people who say horrible things is weak minded too. What percentage of messages to Elanga were racist? Because it’s always… Read more »
Pierre
Another top post, although you know my own feelings on Ozil.
There is no justification for the way Arteta has allowed GX to get away with things. Just because some players are not prepared to lick arse shouldn’t mean they are dealt an unfair hand. Arteta has made a monumental mistake with Xhaka and I firmly believe that many of the other players in the squad feel letdown by this favouritism shown by Arteta, because that’s exactly what it is.
I know, another anti-Arteta jibe.
The Overmars scandal is incredibly disappointing. His offense must have been pretty bad to warrant his immediate departure. Sounds just like your typical sex-pest. Makes it even worse that he was in a position of authority over female subordinates. There’s no chance he remains an option to replaces Edu (or any DoF at another club) for the foreseeable future.
Raulhuss
Right or wrong doesn’t matter to the anti-arteta brigade. It’s their agenda that counts.
GoonerDave
Yep.
‘Showing the knee’ is a gesture that draws attention to racism but does nothing to eliminate it.
GoonerDave – While I agree not giving the idiots the time of day is best and this type of behaviour should be ridiculed my point is more should be done as a deterrent. Yes, most people are not racist but if for every 1000 positive messages Elanga received after the penalty miss he also received 10 racist ones it’s still 10 too many for me. The technology is there to stop or at least punish anonymous racists social media posts but it seems the desire to implement this from the social media giants isn’t! I also think AFC was being… Read more »
EB
It’s ok to have reservations about arteta or whoever is managing us but people like raptora and val hate the club the claim to support cuz the club didn’t do things their way. I have been reading legrove for years and trust me val has never ever said anything positive about the club. Infact he disappears when the club is doing well then reappear when its time to preach doom. Even his new players take or any take on our players are geared towards negatives. The guy is just a misery pastor.
Pierre
No manager, then? No plan? No process? Or are you simply upset about the way Arteta treated Ozil?
Englandsnadir: The only people with an agenda are those seeing mediocrity and insisting it is the first shoots of excellence. If Arsenal under Arteta was in 2nd or 2rd place and winning games against the now established top 3….where we once used to be no one would be asking him to be replaced. Last season we said there was no visible improvement. You lot said WAIT. This season its the same. Next year no doubt it will be the same litany of excuses.
Raptora, Good find despite the source (TalkSport). If a seasoned veteran like Keown can make these conclusions, then maybe the doubts some of us have over Arteta’s man-management skills aren’t unwarranted. Hopefully we won’t be seeing a Martin Keown hit-piece on Le Grove like we saw when Thierry Henry was critical of Mikel. Funny that Ljungberg gets quoted as a reference point from when Arteta was appointed, especially when you consider that Freddie was eventually forced out by Arteta. Freddie’s comments regarding Arteta since then have not been as flattering. After we crashed out to Villarreal, he was critical of… Read more »
Both Saka and ESR state their greatest mentor was KFL. They still meet up with him.
Pierre
If Wenger was still at club and molly coddling the older players at the club we would still be saddled with all the players I listed and saddled with a massive wage bill.
IAT Robbie You’re mixing up tactics and setting behaviour standards. They’re 2 different aspects of the job. Freddie says we had cultural issues, he was the interim manager, so I’d take his word for it, but I’d also listen to him when he criticises our tactics. Remember Ozil throwing his gloves like a petulant child when Freddie subbed him? Cech said the Chelsea dressing room was like a morgue after a defeat, but the Arsenal dressing room everything just carried on as normal. Ozil had issues with Emery, he started off ok with Arteta, but then got dumped again., even… Read more »
IAT-Robbie
There is no shortage of ‘seasoned veterans’ who support and approve of Arteta.
Messi state his mentor was ronaldinho so what?
I always felt good towards Ljungberg. Dunno how the politics were around being an interim manager, and then leaving to progress his management experience. I feel that he was so loved by all the kids and their rise also happened when he was their coach. Maybe we’ll find a good place for him soon. He looks like a top man and is also good at what he does.
Globalgormless
There are plenty of visible signs of progress for those who open their eyes. Try it sometime.
“how had we allowed our standards to fall so low”
England Best
I ask myself this question all the time. We’ve gone from a manager who (outrageously) suggested his team could win the league unbeaten, to a coach who won’t even quantify what are our season objectives are, in fear of finishing out of the European Qualification spots again.
How DID our standards fall this low?🤔
Arteta is like Wenger – he hates that somebody might receive some glory that he feels should be his.
Wenger hated the fact that Keown received praise for his defence coaching and hated the fact that players were praising Cesc for his input into ‘on field’ management during games.
“Raptora, please stop making it all about you. Every single post is virtually the same. We know how you feel. You did this all through pre-season slagging off the summer signings, even making up some Benfica stuff about Tavares which was pathetic. You disappeared for a while but the Burnley draw with a injury-hit team has got you all excited again. Weird.” Can you imagine this. You hardly see them show up here when the team is doing great like when it’s the opposite. Point this out and Mr. OM-the-Liverppol-of -ligue UN and his disciples will be out in flash… Read more »
Standards fall when your manager insists that what he is doing is the best job anyone in the same situation could ever do. We let Wenger get away with his sophistry for more than 10 years. Till top 4 became a trophy. It gets enabled when fans themselves initiate themselves into the cult of mediocrity. We are seeing it again. End of the season they will spin it in any direction instead of the manager who is directly responsible for what is produced on the pitch.
“He needs more playa”
“Arteta is like Wenger – he hates that somebody might receive some glory that he feels should be his.
Wenger hated the fact that Keown received praise for his defence coaching and hated the fact that players were praising Cesc for his input into ‘on field’ management during games.”
Mr,
It’s either you prove this or it’s another bullshit. So, you think Wenger was happy Cesc left for Barca. Refusing to resign him when we have a clause that could be activated should tell you Wenger wasn’t happy with the way he left.
To be fair Martin Keown seem to possess about the same level of intelligence as a brick as evident by his punditry. I really don’t know why anyone would take his comments on big picture stuff very seriously. Sensationalistic hot takes delivered with firm, antagonistic conviction makes for good television and might fool some dimwits. All complete with the extra exaggerated glass-frames to overcompensate for lack of substance.
“With a rating of 7.97, Nicolas Pepe is the WhoScored.com AFCON player of the tournament. Given the quality of players at Patrice Beaumelle’s disposal, Cote d’Ivoire perhaps should have fared better in Cameroon, but Pepe gave a good account of himself in the competition. The winger scored as many goals at AFCON as he has for Arsenal this season (2), while he should have had more than one assist to his name with 3.2 key passes per 90 the second-best return to nail down the accolade.” 3.2 key passes per 90′ is a very good return. He’s played a total… Read more »
“We are seeing it again. End of the season they will spin it in any direction instead of the manager who is directly responsible for what is produced on the pitch” Just have to ask why these set of people are frothing at both sides of the mouth? We are still in the mixer for top 4 even though they were of the believe the manger would be sacked before by November and the team will struggle to make top 8. We are midway through the league but read their posts and you would think volcano is about to erupt… Read more »
Isn’t it weird that the so called excellent defense coach, Mr. Keown prefers to go for punditry instead of coaching. Is he that good or just being over hyped for our defensive tactics in that 2006 UCL
Tee
Clearly I know more than you. I will leave it there as I do not fall into childish behaviour or comments.
Arteta has worked under Pep. He should have learnt how to rotate the squad and use the sub to keep players sharp. We have so many players with zero game time. They all turn into deadwood. They are professional football players fighting many years to get to the premium league. They aren’t some players in a pub team.
Rich, As you have correctly pointed out, Freddie was right to say they were (are) cultural issues at the club but it’s not exactly like Arteta is following his advice is it? Some of the players, Freddie spoke most highly of in terms of attitude were Leno, Willock and Martinelli. Leno has been benched, Willock sold and Nelli only started getting regular football recently. Meanwhile, players he views less favourably, like Mustafi, remained a mainstay under Arteta (thankfully he rejected the contract) and so does Xhaka now. Arteta is just doing what suits him best. “Cultural change” has become a… Read more »
Martin Keown merely stated the obvious
He made the simple point that countless posters have written about here to ad-nauseum about Arteta’s management needing to improve.
No need to hurl abuse at anyone.
Ian Wright expressed similar sentiments about the man management. It doesn’t mean he’s ant-Arsenal or anti-Arteta to not fall in lockstep 100%. “”I thought it would be resolved because it was only a year ago that Auba signed that new contract. “If there was something wrong with what he was doing, there would have been a build-up of misdemeanours for the manager to say ‘let’s not sign him because he’s been doing this or that.’ “If they knew he was doing things they didn’t like, why did they sign him up for so much money and then a year later… Read more »
Petit also said it was the right decision. The ex livepool assistant even confirmed auba was always disruptive. Dissenter you and the anti arteta brigade just pick the side that suit your agenda.
AFCF
In your rather priggish, 18th century take on the world, you somehow managed to segue in this little nugget of Arsenal-related truth…
we’ve certainly got a generational problem going on.
Spot on mate, and I hope you’re going to enjoy a sustained epiphany. Arsenal DOES have a generational problem: he’s the 5 foot 8 basque bantamweight steadily pissing off all and sundry at the Arsenal. Some rare and much-needed perception from you there AFCF. I hope you’re comfortable in your sodden piss-stinking bed tonight.
Kroenkephobe,
So good lol.
“Isn’t it weird that the so called excellent defense coach, Mr. Keown prefers to go for punditry instead of coaching. Is he that good or just being over hyped for our defensive tactics in that 2006 UCL”
Probably because punditry is the form of employment that has more longevity. If After all clowns like Carragher and Evra remain employed despite the many gaffes they’ve had. Coaching wouldn’t be as forgiving.
This is the way I see it. Arteta’s plan A starts to mature this season. Players, who doesn’t fit to his plan A will drop out of the squad. From now on, he’ll sign players only suitable to his plan A. The club is backing his plan and will wait for Summer to sign his players. I can see that all new players will be young and easy to manage. I prefer this to the manure team full of high price past star players.
Let us hope that Arteta’s Plan A is the be all and end all of a Plan and that he never has to result to Plan B – or could that be on the agenda for the next three years.