JOB TO BE DONE IN THE LEAGUE

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SPRING HAS SPRUNG where I am today, it’s p*ssing down with rain, but it’ll be a balmy 22 degrees later. Are we close to complaining it’s too hot, yes we are people. You can take the boy out of England and all that, but you’ll NEVER take my right of weather complaint.

Complaining about Arsenal? I’m not sure I can muster it today.

I saw people sharing a GFFN x Guardian love piece on Matteo G yesterday. The Frenchman has pulled up his socks this season and he’s doing a great job. I think he has 14 or so assists, a bunch of goals, and he’s being described as a leader. It’s easy to use that to point to his form being a Mikel Arteta problem, I did briefly yesterday, but I’m told the biggest problem Matteo had at Arsenal is the other players couldn’t stand him.

I worked with a woman once, she was a lunatic, lovely, but very inappropriate. Old school New York type, would blithely offer out bad things in the office, once came to my desk and asked if I like getting spanked because she did. It didn’t work out for her at our place, the fit wasn’t correct… now she’s running shit at a massive organization because the vibes connect. Right time, right place, right energy, right culture. She’s basically working in a pro-spanking agency. Was it the fault of my agency and their leadership that we were anti-spanking? No. But life goes on, you have to be happy for people.

It’s a similar thing for Auba. He’s scoring for fun at Barcelona. Good for him. He was terrible for us. If you had to choose his lack of goals or Lacazette’s, the data would suggest Lacazette’s was a better type of zero threat.

Where Arteta has to watch things is that there was an impression before he was a bit too ruthless for his own good, now that ruthlessness has cost him Top 4 this season. There are plenty of managers that fall out with players, all the best do, but they can usually prove the point out the side of it. Thomas Tuchel has decided he doesn’t like Rom Lukaku, his team has been pretty average by Chelsea standards, I suspect if Roman was in charge, an exit from the CL this week might cost him his job. Jose Mourinho would always fall out with players, he was usually wrong, it was always a power move, but he won things… and winning things means people overlook your flaws.

Arteta has exposed himself as a spanker this week… the question is, can he pump Arsenal up a level so no one noticed the belt-affixed-spanking-paddle when he’s marching the halls of Colney.

Ok, ok, I will stop with the spanking references.

Arsenal are still competing for everything we wanted to compete for this season.

You wouldn’t think after the last few days of ‘BURN IT ALL DOWN’ but the people at the Arsenal training ground don’t think the season is over and nor should you.

We have to beat Southampton. The way to do that is to put out a normal team and control the game. No galaxy brain.

Then we have a cup final run of Chelsea, United and West Ham. Take 4 points from those games and we’re up to 7.

Then, by my calculations, I think we probably need 2 points from our remaining 4 games.

Yes, 9 points gets us into Europe. 16 might get us into the top 4. There are 24 to play for.

We have to take it one game at a time. It’ll be tough. But remember… our financial and squad planning was always built around Europe this season, top 4 next season, title push the season after.

We are on track if we can take 9 points from 24. Anything else is a bonus.

Summer has to take Arsenal to the next level. If we can do to our attack what was done to the defence last summer then we will be in very good shape next season if we can get off to a good start.

Expect Arsenal to add at least two high quality midfielders. It is not a surprise to see Neves linked, we are most certainly courting Tielemans, and I wouldn’t be shocked if we moved for Renato Sanches who has looked great when fit this season.

We’re going to have to reshape our forward line. How aggressively remains to be seen and probably boils down to a few things:

  1. How ready is Folarin Balogun next season
  2. What we do with Lacazette and Eddie
  3. Whether we can extract a fee for Nico who earns about £140k a week

There will be a blockbuster forward signing. The profile is pretty clear. Young, tall, powerful in the air, decent link up play, with goals, goals, goals. This is the most consequential signing of the next 10 years. We cannot miss here. If we can make it happen, I wouldn’t be shocked to see us sign a goalscoring wide player. This won’t be blockbuster, it’ll be rehabbing a broken player (Rashford) or picking up a free transfer (Dybala). We don’t score enough goals, we need someone that can change that, and do the things needed in the system.

There might also be some opportunistic upgrades in defence. Cedric probably won’t move because we have Norton-Cuffy developing at a rate of knots. But the left back position will see some action if possible. Kieran Tierney is turning heads, he’s at the peak of his powers, I’m not sure we could afford to say no to £50m from Madrid. If we could replace him with someone more robust, we will. I’m not sure what we do about Nuno Tavares, it looks like it’s over for him, unless Arteta has a change of heart.

Then there’s William Saliba. On paper, he’s perfect for our system. He’s a French international, he’s tall, great with the ball at his feet, he’s hard to go past, and he can move through midfield with his surging runs. This is a test of Arteta. Clearly he doesn’t fancy him, the press all say he hasn’t spoken to him… but can the club afford to let Arteta’s ego rule the roost on this one? Especially after losing Guendouzi for pittance and Mavropanos for similar amounts of money

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grooveydaddy

Yo

grooveydaddy

No one

grooveydaddy

Else?

TheLegendThatIsDennisBergkamp

4th

grooveydaddy

Tr4phy

WengerEagle

”We are on track if we can take 9 points from 24. Anything else is a bonus.”

Pedro you’re not just moving the goalposts here, you’ve ripped them up out of the ground.

It’s laughable to suggest that anything more than relegation form to close out our season would be a BONUS.

WengerEagle

And what does a EL finish do for the project anyhow? It doesn’t get us any nearer where we want to be, further away if anything as it is a dozen more matches that we’ll have to play next season with an already thin squad.

Words on a blog

Pedro,

I’m sorry but you saying that 9 points from 8 matches is acceptable suggests that you gladly took up the inappropriate woman’s (was her name Mikaela?) offer to give you a spanking.

TheLegendThatIsDennisBergkamp

I think we will get spanked a few more times before the season is over…

Words on a blog

Pedro,

Recently you’ve taken to telling us about your gaming prowess after a bad series of Arsenal losses.

In the future will you be reporting about your activities in New York’s finest BDSM clubs every time Arsenal is given a spanking?

TheLegendThatIsDennisBergkamp

How ready is Folarin Balogun next season ?

He’s not ready

TheLegendThatIsDennisBergkamp

What we do with Lacazette and Eddie ?

We sell them for someone who can score goals…

Nigel Tufnel

Strange how attacks in New York right before Easter, Notre Dame burns 🔥 on good Friday…

But let’s be thankful there’ll be no mean tweets from from the President, and definitely no insensitive PROFILING.

Leftside

“We are on track if we can take 9 points from 24. Anything else is a bonus“

Am I on an Arsenal forum Pedro or a Norwich, Watford or Burnley one?

MidwestGun

Spanking is the issue somewhat… The reason people have nagging doubts about Arteta is the project never clicks and we never absolutely spank people, when we are better 5-0, 6-0, 4-1, even 3-0. Whatever.. it continually seems as if we are scraping goals and points. Norwich once and Leeds once but that’s about it. And I agree 9 points over the last 8 would be a very poor finish.. We still have 20% of the season to play so 9 pts would be a 45 pt season if calculated out. That’s terrible form.. it might be enough to scrape a… Read more »

Words on a blog

Leftside,

Bugger off if you’re not happy with the content.

This is Pedro’s new Spanking Forum.

Leftside

If everything can fall apart because KT (who has been criticised plenty before his injury gave fans amnesia) and Partey are injured, then we’re obviously not up to much, and we only have ourselves to blame.

Both players are injury prone, we should have planned on the basis that they will pick up injuries with us, well we did with Nuno only that Arteta opted not to play him, and play Lokonga who has had little gametime in the centre by himself. This is on the manager..

Leftside

Words

Be careful before you end up getting a spank…. (NOT from me though).

benkind

Well said WengerEagle. It is sad that this is our ambition, an European position. 4th is still within our graps, so why the loser mentality. If Leicester had this mentality they would have given up on the league especially when they lost against us that season. Fight to the death. Pedro you always told us your spurs friends were unhappy with Conte, are they still unhappy? We are playing one game a week. No one knows how next season will be. It is a world Cup season many players will ne motivated to do well so they can earn a… Read more »

Marko

9 points from 24 considered good enough under Arteta. That’s some lofty ambitions we have under him

Leftside

It just doesn’t make sense, if our manager is so talented then why is 9 points from our remaining games seen as a good return, the fans support of Arteta doesn’t actually match up with their expectations of what our club can do based on his ability. So where does the fervent support come from? All very strange.

Ernest Reed

Le Grove? More like Le Gullible these days.

9 points in 8 remaining games? You’d have to be gullible to accept that as anything other than abject failure.

Spudnik

Pedro, I don’t think a spanking is going to help with your Arteta Fugue State. Perhaps a Homer Simpson style throttling??🤣🤣🤣

EdTheREd

Which players couldn’t stand Guanduzzi, and how many of them are still at the club?

EdTheREd

Poor Arteta, had to choose between two “zero threats” Laca and Auba. I think those two “zero threats” had over 70 goal involvements combined under Emery 18/19.

Under super mega cool Mikel, Saka leads with 14 or so involvements.

Every stat I’m looking at is telling me Arteta is one massive mistake.

Greg

Arteta needs to show his manager credentials in this season end run in. All managers face obstacles and hardships but the top ones navigate them and get results. Time to break the recent tradition of falling apart when the going gets tough.

azed

Players couldn’t stand Guendozi so he’s out.
Players loved Aubameyang and he’s also out.

Looks like the players not liking Guendozi is PR for the progress Guen has made this season.

The young striker we should be targeting is Jonathan David.

InsideRight

Pedro – “There will be a blockbuster forward signing. The profile is pretty clear. Young, tall, powerful in the air, decent link up play, with goals, goals, goals.”

I’m just wondering, how does that happen if we aren’t offering Champions League football and don’t have Champions League money? If it’s a blockbuster forward, won’t clubs with more money, more ambition and a place in the top European football competition offer the player something more attractive?

Gommit

IF Arteta is to survive he needs change how he operates. It is not worth much to have the youngest team but never trust young players or give them minutes… This failure over the last two games is all on him and I am not so sure young players see Arsenal as a great place to develop when you have a stubborn manager that never rotates and never gives young players minutes but is very quick to punish them.. Let’s face it – Arteta was forced to give ESR a chance it was no brilliant plan or calculated risk, he… Read more »

shaun

the saliba issue is crucial and for some reason I do not think the outcome will be what the fans want

Billp79

When auba scores for fun…..and with his head…you know the competition is shit

Janky

I feel like Pete is just kind of trolling now with that 9 points thing.

Seriously? That would be ok?

I guess the whole fantasy games thing makes a lot more sense if that is your honest expectation for our season.

Yikes.

InsideRight

Pedro – “If we can make it happen, I wouldn’t be shocked to see us sign a goalscoring wide player. This won’t be blockbuster, it’ll be rehabbing a broken player (Rashford) …” Then it goes on to say… “I’m not sure what we do about Nuno Tavares, it looks like it’s over for him, unless Arteta has a change of heart.” If Arteta can supposedly rehab a broken player like Rashford, why isn’t he rehabbing a potentially broken player like Tavares? Or Pepe, who isn’t that broken judging by his AFCON performances? It doesn’t make sense to me. We are… Read more »

Gbat

I’m expecting Saliba to come back with no issues and soon take over from the Brazilian Tyrone Mings. However, if that doesn’t happen and he gets sold, we’ll get as large fee for him.

Matt

‘Arsenal are still competing for everything we wanted to compete for this season.’

So much spin. It’s about time we had another spliced league table removing the first 3 games, and the last 2, and any against city or Liverpool…

jod

Why do so many fans talk about “Europe” as if the champions league and the europa are virtually the same thing ? they aren’t. You can earn as much for qualifying for the champions league as winning the europa. The difference in prestige is huge. There’s a strong argument that if you can’t make the top four you are better off out of Europe altogether, it helped Leicester win the league after all. The problem for Arsenal is not that they won’t get into Europe, its that they won’t get into the champions league.

WengerEagle

”Why do so many fans talk about “Europe” as if the champions league and the europa are virtually the same thing ? they aren’t. You can earn as much for qualifying for the champions league as winning the europa. The difference in prestige is huge. There’s a strong argument that if you can’t make the top four you are better off out of Europe altogether, it helped Leicester win the league after all. The problem for Arsenal is not that they won’t get into Europe, its that they won’t get into the champions league.” This is it in a nutshell,… Read more »

Ernest Reed

““I’m not sure what we do about Nuno Tavares, it looks like it’s over for him, unless Arteta has a change of heart.” Not sure how this happens? Guy goes from being a serious consideration as first team LB to what next, not even making the bench, and why is that? Going to state the obvious- the list of those falling afoul of the manager for whatever reason is fast catching up and perhaps even passing the list of those who have not. Don’t care what level of play you are from, thats bad optics and more a clear indicator… Read more »

WengerEagle

As for the ‘blockbuster’ CF signing, as someone rightly said up above if we finish outside of CL places then we are going to have an incredibly hard time attracting the top forward talent.

Which is why I find the whole cavalier attitude towards finishing 4th now so bizarre with it still in our hands 8 games out.

Ernest Reed

“Pedro is being very disingenuous ”

Thats a more polite way of saying that he is now openly insulting people’s intelligence.

The Bard

InsideRight I agree. I think Pedro banged out that one without thinking it through. Not sure top strikers want to playing for 5th or 6th place.

Sid

Anyone bothered by a MILF who enjoys spanking lacks the longstuff.

Im telling you for free!

Ernest Reed

“InsideRight I agree. I think Pedro banged out that one without thinking it through. Not sure top strikers want to playing for 5th or 6th place.”

No, Pedro banged that one out correctly. If you have been following his postings with regularity you will know that Pedro sincerely believes that The Arteta Experience Arsenal Project is one that any of the absolute best players in the world would be crazy not to join. He’s quite sincere in his outright belief that Arteta is the reason why any and every player wants to join Arsenal.

Jim

Not been on LG for a wee while nice to be back and enjoyed reading again Pedro. For me Top 4 is definitely the goal but Europe in any capacity still constitutes success and realistically is what had been planned before we got ahead of schedule. Although naturally our final position has a direct impact on the transfer window that follows. Not sure the ownership will front up another whole heap of cash… Auba may be scoring but he isn’t playing well from the tidbits I have seen on twitter dot com. Likewise if Laca had moved on and Auba… Read more »

Tom

Tottenham will definitely lose some games. Their back line is still shaky under press, Lloris can be a total liability any day and their mid is distinctly average, unless Kane drops deep to do his thing.

Waving the white flag at this point, as if EL is the place we always aimed at, is just insane.

Le Sauce

9 points from a possible 24?. Are you trolling Pedro, isn’t that what you termed a complete collapse under Emery. Look, there’s no harm in Arteta not being the saucy one you sold us, it’s fine! We’ve clearly seen his level and it’s good enough for bringing stability but I don’t think it’ll ever be good enough to move us further down the line. What’s the point of football if you don’t overachieve, it’s only in your mind that Arsenal weren’t expected to challenge for top four this season. You think the club will shell out £130M thereabouts for a… Read more »

Graham62

“Insulting peoples intelligence”

So true.

izzo

I’m just counting down until Arteta is sacked. This never ending nightmare has to stop. For once we need to get lucky with the next appointment. Law of averages and all that.
Bored of this Arteta needs to do this and that 3 seasons running. Needs sacking come end of this season. Time to move on.

Greg

Izzo – I’m with you. Arteta needs to show results and take advantage of opportunities when presented. High standards and a clear playing style were a good 1st step but please stop trading on “the process” etc., using injuries as an excuse, don’t have the right players yet after 3 seasons and spending the GDP of a small island nation. Manage and get it over the line.

Graham62

Me too!

SAGG

9 pints of the last 30 because we already lost 2 games after intl break.

Relegation form. Lose 7 out of 10.

So 15 losese out of 38 would be a great thing.

We would improved from 61 pts to 63 points after spending 150 million, WOW THAT IS PROGRESS

Add to that we will have a worse defensive record after supposedly reinforce that zone.

Bigper

The guendouzi, aubameyang situations are why arsenal will never do anything under arteta, all top teams have these sorts of characters and its the managers job to be able to handle them. Arteta doesn’t have it in him to deal with big personalitys and I can’t see that changing. Having all the same characters like we do now is why we will bottle top four

Spudnik

Watch Liverpool come raiding for Saka with their promises of league and champions league medals as Tets offer EL conference.

CG

Le Sauce

”””’ Tottenham had 3 coaches in single season, ”””””’

And will most likely go from 7th last season to 4th this season.

Maybe thats the secret-sack and replace failing managers until you find the right one

Because thats a real process!

Le Sauce

On another note, when the so-called project collapses in the third year (based on current evidence) when Partey and Tierney gets injured then the process isn’t a worthwhile one and we’re just relying on individual brilliance. A real process mitigates against this type of loses no matter how key the player is, a good example is Pep losing DeBruyne or Dias at any point in the season yet they’ve never really been shit even if there is a SLIGHT drop in level. This guy supposedly learnt under Pep so what’s really going on?

Le Sauce

“🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Man Utd reach verbal agreement in principle with Erik Ten Hag to become next permanent manager. #MUFC will need agreement with #Ajax (who are aware) & to finalise contract (up to 4yrs). No announcement til after Dutch Cup final @TheAthleticUK”

That’s from Ornstein by the way, interesting to see how our planned top four challenge shapes up next season with some absolute monster managers in the league who have all proven themselves at a very high level

Ernest Reed

Its not ideally a good look when some those you deem not good enough for your current project head off elsewhere and begin to excel. It happens, but i cant honestly recall so many doing so well at the same time. If I’m ownership, do i really want someone pushing for signings knowing that there is a 50-50 chance that that player may sit on the bench or worse, be loaned out, because said player either no longer suits the Manager’s vision or again worse, does not get along with said Manager? Ask yourself that very question before retorting that… Read more »

Thierry Martinelli

9 points from 8 games…..from a team hunting CL football. Are we being insulted?

Foxy

Maybe all the young players have been a bit mesmorised by Artetas galaxy brain tactical stuff, but if they continue see it not bringing success but just criticism from him they might no longer support him or just find another club

Ernest Reed

“Maybe thats the secret-sack and replace failing managers until you find the right one”

Or maybe that Conte isn’t “lucky” as Pedro often paints him as, but rather actually is a bonafide real and successful manager. Maybe thats the secret after all?

WengerEagle

Fuck me do I miss watching us in these huge European nights, actual ‘European’ football! Atmosphere is electric.

Thierry Martinelli

Pedro, the stance you’ve taken on Arteta is what’s making everyone have reservations about him. Couple that with you excusing future bad performances makes other hate they guy.

Ernest Reed

Admittedly, i miss the usual Arteta Acolytes. Nothing quite like a couple of humiliating kicks in the crotch to make one realize that maybe just maybe, Arteta isn’t all that and a bag of crisps after all. Maybe just maybe, he’s really not as smart as he believes himself to be.

the donkey

pete what amount of kroenke money does it take to make you so one eyed,this post is just laughable

Dissenter

Pedro
You’ve been tearing into Guendouzi just because he fell out with Arteta, same way you demonize every one that Arteta kicks out

Now you’re churning out stories that Guendouzi wasn’t liked at Arsenal, which makes no sense.

That’s balderdash by the way because Arteta wasn’t liked by the other players, when he was a player too,
It has to be hard to churn out these posts after you’ve put al your eggs in the basked of a lemon manager.

Jim

Re European football next season. Money obviously a factor but also on a sporting level think there’s significantly less pressure if we get CL. To finish fifth or worse still sixth and expectations would be to win either of those competitions. Not only that but with second rate signings that’s not a foregone conclusion. Whereas to be in the champions league I think fans (mostly) would give ‘the project’ an extra season for re-acclimatising to the elite level.

Dissenter

We have to take it one game at a time. It’ll be tough. But remember… our financial and squad planning was always built around Europe this season, top 4 next season, title push the season after.”

Does anyone really believe this plan, I bet Arteta laid it out to the board same week he told Willian he would win the CL within 3 years.

Thierry Martinelli

We were here talking about finishing the season with some respect, I didn’t know that meant taking 9pts from 8 games.

The Real Vieira Lynn

cut straight from the annals of a late 70s, early 80s Playboy forum magazine, today’s offering is clearly an attempt by the author to distract a largely disgruntled fanbase with a titillating tall tale…the very fact that you had the audacity to press send after concocting such a farcical “spanking” analogy suggests one of two things, either you’re incredibly desperate to disarm an increasingly volatile audience by any means necessary or you just don’t give a flying fuck anymore about the seriousness of our present circumstances because you truly believe that even if MA were to take a dump on… Read more »

Globalgunner

Best young manager in Europe. Best young team in the league and all you can expect from that is 9 out of 24 points?. If this snake oil salesman of a manager gets us spanked at the Spuds he should be sacked the next day. He wont leave himself of course. No self awareness that guy.

David.D

WE Regarding your statement to cavalier attitude to 4th. I can’t speak for anyone else but there are several reasons why I think 4th has gone. That Brighton game was arguably one of the easiest games of the season we had left. We had just lost to Palace and this was a great chance to bounce back. We blew it. Arteta with his selections and tactics and the players for their sloppy attitude. If that performance is anything to go by how on earth do we win at Chelsea, spurs or West ham?? We are historically over the last few… Read more »

SAGG

Maybe we should keep Arteta 3 more years, he could plummet Arsenal value, and we could get a GOOD owner, at least someone with proper vision.

Dissenter

The lack of away goals gave Chelsea an opening and Tuchel set the expectations perfectly

Benjamin

9 points out of 24?

Embarrasing!

Benjamin

We need 9 points from 24 to reach Europe. I didn’t say that is all we can expect. That was you..

Anything else is a bonus? Come on..

SAGG

The only striker we will sign from qualifying to the Europea Conference league wil be Ikantjit Abarndor, he use to train with Laca in his childhood.

WengerEagle

Pedro quick one for you, did you not call Brendan Rodgers and Leicester City bottlers for their collapse and failure to finish 4th for the past x2 seasons?

How is that any different to us? Were Leicester seriously expected to finish in the top 6 the past x2 seasons, let alone the top 4?

WengerEagle

Emery now just a half of football away from a CL SF.

Dissenter

Pedro I’ve been consistent as hell and happy to admit when I got things wrong with Ramsdale et al. I’ve relentless written about Guendouzi treatment from the outset and stated that it was wrong for Arteta to treat Auba in the manner that he did. Those are irrefutable facts You should try being consistent in applying the same standard you’ve used to assess managers in your illustrious 1.5 decades of blogging about Arsenal. Don’t you feel a bit embarrassed that you repeatedly dissed Brendan Rodgers for missing out of 4th place twice in the 11th hour and now you’re too… Read more »

Ernest Reed

When you say “Europe” Pedro, you mean Europa League or Europe Conference League? Also, realistically they are going to need more than 9 points in their remaining games. Beating both West Ham and ManU in those 9 points certainly helps, but neither are a given for certain. Any way you want to present it, Arsenal should be in the drivers seat going into the home stretch, but with injuries and recent performances, all bets are off as they really have their work cut out for them. Europe in any presentation is in no way assured, not with the current squad… Read more »

DigitalBob

I agree the Southampton game is massive and sets the tone for the “cup final run”, if we win against them AND the players perform significantly higher in those 90mins than in the last two games, I’d consider us having a decent shot of making the top 4. Spurs will forever be Spursy so I can see them dropping points against Brentford and Leicester in their next few fixtures before going to Anfield and then the north London derby. Its by no means over. However, from a player perspective the CB pairing must improve, wake up from the malaise and… Read more »

Dissenter

Set the bar for Arteta as low as possible, have to reframe success for him
9/24 is failure by any standard or metric you se but for Arteta, it will do.
9/24 is what you expect when your players have booked their beach villas in Acapulco already.

Does anyone think David Moyes or Conte is happy with 9/24?

Dissenter

Pedro
We see what you’re doing
You’ve started normalizing the concept of the conference league

We see what you’re refusing to not say when Ernest asked you a pointed question about the conference league.

Trilbilly

I don’t buy that we need to accept EL because that was the original target at the start of the season. That was the target based on other clubs delivering as we would expect them to but Spurs have changed manager mid season, Utd sacked OGS, Chelsea are in a cluster fuck behind the scenes. The only club with stability and the only club left with only the PL to focus on since Nov is Arsenal. The target should have changed and been set in stone as Champions League. We should be in 4th with at least a 4 point… Read more »

Dissenter

At least with Emery, we were still in contention for third/fourth place in mid April and were on course to reaching the final of the EL
There was still something to look forward to, at the same time the other Spaniard was forced to play Carl Jenkinson for key games.

Ernest Reed

“Get back to a normal formation, play the right players, start banging in some goals.”

Someone might want to remind Arteta of that approach Pedro, unless they are afraid of running afoul of him?

Dissenter

Pedro
That bum manager handling a club with a 25k stadium capacity and a club operating budget of 120 million euros is on the cusp of pulling a shocker against Bayern. I expect that Bayern will find a way to still win.
Same time you’re reducing expectations for the generational manager to 9/24 in a season with no European distraction. Tets wont even match Emery’s failure season.

SAGG

Pedro No one want to sack Arteta right now, that is stupid thing to do.

But if he manage 9/30 points he should be out at the end of the season.

raptora

Chelsea well in it lol

WengerEagle

Chavs are the better team, Real outside of Benzema aren’t all that and they are an old side, average age tonight of 30.

Expect them to see this one out and progress via ET.

SAGG

A bum manager that beat Arteta in a two leg semifinal last season and win the EL with an extremly inferior side.

Yeah that bum.

Dissenter

Real are panicking
They don’t know what else to so besides hope that Benz will pull a rabbit out the hat

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