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Brilliant Pedro lad 👏🏾👏🏾 f*ckin brilliant, that second last paragraph on backing us and not giving up like some of these imbeciles that call the themselves Arsenal fans is spot on mate 👌🏾 yet again.

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Saying Arteta was ever generational is an insult to generational managers like Wenger, Pep, Jose, Zidane and co.

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I’ve always accepted that a turnaround for the club considering the shit show wenger left behind was always likely to take years, but there does come a point when we need to stop talking about ‘project phases’ because that was always smoke and mirrors

And that’s evidenced by the fact Pedro was always talking of waiting for city to slip before we could win anything - well they have now and we look farther from winning that we did even 2 years ago.

Either there’s a monumental surprise to come in the second half of the season (winning the CL or a miraculous league win) or this season ends a failure and Arteta must be fully accountable

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i wonder who we will do with playing Saka in the middle more, like a cam, or in tandem with Ode somehow. I think he can be more useful there instead of stuck on the wing, being 2 teamed all the time. We need a middle attack badly, Ode is not scoring like he did 2 seasons ago. He doesnt attack the box like the used to. I dont know but it should be tried in practice

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I’ve always said we screwed ourselves going with that little fairy Viera instead of Kudus.

I’ve tolerated Kai, and still can’t bear the sight of Jorginho on the field.

The Sterling signing was mad, and I remember pushing Pedro Neto and all I heard was the screeching of the Legrove orthopedic experts.

Yes we’ve made some bad recruiting mistakes but I’m not yet convinced we can’t still win this title. There’s still so much to play for and there will be so many more twists

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Olise wouldn’t forego Bayern to come to Arsenal to back up Saka. Not gonna happen

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Looking at the next 6 fixtures I can see Chelsea toppling Pool if Pool drop points with a couple of draws.

Can see Citeh pipping us if we continue playing the way we play now.

We have 3 potential banana skins starting with crystal palace next.

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Wrote a few days ago that Pools results against citeh, Newcastle and Fulham will show if they have title creds.. they have taken 5 out of 9 and we managed 2 out 9 against same teams discounting home/away adv.

If pool win against tiny tots then we can say bye bye to the title given we have been crap when we need to shift a couple of gears up to take any adv of slip ups.

It doesn't really matter if it's around half a season but hoping for a collapse from Pool is embarrassing. Chelshit showing how it's done with a new manager and a bunch of youngsters. Dint need 32 phases and 19 sub phases.

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We should’ve beaten Liverpool at home but totally capitulated that game too

If we had seen it out we would still currently be 2 points behind them having played a game more…

What a gift that was from us to pool to capitulate

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Agree with you.

I remember commenting that it was a huge let off from us and we will repent it later.

Both Pool and Citeh draws feel like losses for me.

We should be a lot more brave given the fear factor and respect is back based on what we ve achieved last couple of seasons.

Really disappointed.

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The team looks like it came into the season targeting top 4 rather than the title. It’s more what you’d expect from a spurs team than what we’ve been doing this last 2 years

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Year 1 Chelsea showing year 5 Arsenal how to take advantage of a slip up by league leaders...

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more than half a season to go mate

there will be some twists and turns. looking at the data chelsea overperforms their stats significantly (way more than we did two seasons ago). will be interesting to see whether they can carry on like this - I doubt it

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chavs are crushing these guys, but one never knows only takes one shot to get a result sometimes...

Probably not, and pool have a real challenge on their hands.

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Wondering what this Chelsea team would have done to Everton at SB

This is how you play smaller teams

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Watching Chelsea . They play as such a higher pace to Arsenal and are not obsessed with retaining possession all the time. We should mix it up and try and play with pace in transition a bit more. This total obsession wot

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With retaining possession not working at the moment. Need to take more risks.

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Gudongen / silva/ De Bruyne/ Foden .?overload

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That's a brilliant goal by Amad and a beautiful result for them and City continue to collapse is beautiful

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Can someone please put some soft mittens on Pep’s hands , like immediately.

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Ha ha, Pep was ready to bring on Stones presumably for Nunez.

Oh well, timing is everything.

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No more tears....

Do NOT buy any other older, old, oft-injured recycled EPL players..

Get some help in January or forget about it...

Darn simple, use your scouts, do not encourage nepotism, think the new director guy, get voices in the inner circle with different ideas...

Win something this year or he needs to go, unless KSE are so heavily invested in Mikel, then give the guy to next December and if not top 2, he gets the shove over board.

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Aaron

All good but the issue is that no one is advising Arteta on how to play attacking football and the pieces needed. Or if they are, he aint listening.

He is wedded to some idea or plan he came up with, and cannot let go.

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Was hinting at maybe listening to someone or getting advice from someone who is good at breaking down deep blocks not named Mikel, friends of Mikel, someone Mikel has come into contact with...

He has a time to get it done, but not sure he will be open minded about it!

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