I have been going to Arsenal since the mid 1950s, but my visits to home games this season have been more restricted because of health issues.
Nevertheless I was at the home games against Man Utd and Monaco and had the opportunity
to speak to other long term season ticket holders in adjoining seats who I have known since the club moved to Emirates.
We all agreed that Arsenal have gone backwards this season and the team's entertainment
value and performance level has declined. Last season the football was far more enjoyable to
watch.
In the last 2 seasons the team missed narrowly winning league title and finishing behind Man
City. This season we could finish OUTSIDE the top 4 if we continue to play the way we are
now.
The football is frankly dull as dishwasher and our goal scoring is becoming overdependent on
set pieces and in particular corners. Our open play goals has evaporated in EPL and we are
now one of the poorest performers. If it was not for Saka we would struggle to score an open play goal.
Our attackers like Odegaard, Havertz, Martinelli, Trossard and Jesus are struggling to put the
ball in net as has been obvious in recent games against Fulham and Everton.
So the question is what needs to be done to rectify the situation.
1. First of all we need to offload players who are persistently injured. Messrs Tierney, Zinchenko and Tomiyasu need to be offloaded.
2. Second we need to review our attacking resources. We need an upgrade for left wing position. Martinelli and Trossard are decent bench players, but not in my view starters.
3. We need to find a top class Centre Forward who can score consistently goals. Havertz is a
very good player to have on the books not least because of his versatility but he is not a
natural striker. Jesus on the other hand is in decline and if possible needs to be offloaded.
The bottom line is that Arteta needs to be less reliant on his set piece coach and solve the
Nobody has a proper argument for keeping Arteta. The only argument that is used and spewed around is that you're negative and a fake fan if you criticise him. It's gaslighting of the highest order.
He doesn’t know anything about football. Just a PR channel for Arteta. The problem with these so called fans is they are woke. Anyone who points out the shit and demands better is a “hater” a “troll”. For a start we play with 10 men. Harvertz is useless. It’s nothing personal bet he’s a lovely guy and can play drill music loudly but he’s not what we need as a footballer. The club and Arteta showed no ambition in the summer. Why buy a proven crock in Calafiori? Merino is average. Sterling damaged goods and was a desperation buy. The club has been mismanaged for years but that’s OK for the clowns. Welcome to The Project Version 20. We have fans who are scared to win. Sacred to put pressure on the club.
I mean the entire world and their nanny could tell that Havertz isn’t a prolific striker. That Eddie was crap for a team with title aspirations. That Zinchenko and Jesus were immensely incorrect personalities to drive a team forward. That their injury records were crap. That Tomi was not a dependable person.
In the time we sold Granit, people got Bruno, Paqueta, Sandro. Top players have moved clubs and we get Sterling and Merino. You spend season upon season with Eddie as a backup striker. How many freaking good ups are you going to do. Players like Kudus and Isak are moving to tier 2 teams and we’re twiddling around with crooked left backs
If you are giving up now, why should the players fight on? If you are a coward and can't handle seeing this out until the very end.
Its not about seeing this to the end Pedro, its about not knowing where the end is? Is it end to this season, next one? How much time have to pass before you say that now is the time! You keep moving the goal posts and at some point people are going to Call you on it. We regressed and that is a fact. This is Artetas 6 year and we were closer to the title 2 years ago.
Arteta did lift us a level or two, just like Zinchenko and Jesus did when they came. But Can he take us to the title? I dont Think he can.
Pool and City are flat too, its not just us. The obv problem is too many games. Teams react to this pressure in different ways. The players' union need to get a hold on this.
Quite right Una..I am watching Berkamp's goal against Newcastle, that matador like swivel and turn after receiving a perfect through ball, making his close marker look totally the wrong way then the quick decisive smash - inch perfect. And the mighy Thierry hanging about in a perfect position in case he was needed..
Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Saka are all excellent to outstanding footballers. The rest of them are average to very good level, with flashes of excellence. That is enough material to create a trophies winning team. The creator had reached his limits I'm afraid. He needs to win something this season, because the tide is already turning.
I’m not buying the Arteta hype any more. Don’t get me wrong, he is a good manager. But he is not a great one. We will be competitive with him, but we won’t win stuff. The inability to improve our attack after five years is just not good enough. The weird signings that don’t move the needle. The glaring oversights in squad management that the whole world can see.
We should be very thankful for his work in bringing us out of the banter era. But this is as good as it gets. And it shouldn’t be considered quite good enough.
No immediate sacking, no stadium negativity. But the club should line someone else up.
Come on Pedro, the Gaslighty end statements aren’t the one. So if you aren’t happy or don’t agree you’re not allowed an opinion? That’s not how it works. You were literally bending matts arm last pod about how great merino is, now he’s just a floor raiser. The problems are still the same. When plan a works we look decent but like you said we play fine margins football, ultra fine margins football, and to be successful with that strategy you need elite players. We don’t have them and Teta is obsessed with signing injury prone defenders. We’re painfully predicable and we need Goldilocks levels of perfection to win games. Teta is a great coach but he stifles creativity and he’s blind to change. He only changes when he’s absolutely flogged the life out of his plan, which is always too late. Tiredness yes but then build your squad accordingly
Arsenal have always been known for our attacking prowess. Its our bread and butter. It is shameful to have this clown in charge of such a majestic style of play the world knows and used to fear us for.
Any other coach that likes to attack would figure things out really fast. Players incoming that can make us tick.
Pool have it down. They create so many chances. Like a machine almost. how? They have the personnel and coaching to go along with it. I dont know Slot but he has them not missing a beat. Like wtf man.
We do need Artists Peter, glad you agree. We need more than just Ode pulling the strings. Get out of this shit 433 stuff too.
I have been going to Arsenal since the mid 1950s, but my visits to home games this season have been more restricted because of health issues.
Nevertheless I was at the home games against Man Utd and Monaco and had the opportunity
to speak to other long term season ticket holders in adjoining seats who I have known since the club moved to Emirates.
We all agreed that Arsenal have gone backwards this season and the team's entertainment
value and performance level has declined. Last season the football was far more enjoyable to
watch.
In the last 2 seasons the team missed narrowly winning league title and finishing behind Man
City. This season we could finish OUTSIDE the top 4 if we continue to play the way we are
now.
The football is frankly dull as dishwasher and our goal scoring is becoming overdependent on
set pieces and in particular corners. Our open play goals has evaporated in EPL and we are
now one of the poorest performers. If it was not for Saka we would struggle to score an open play goal.
Our attackers like Odegaard, Havertz, Martinelli, Trossard and Jesus are struggling to put the
ball in net as has been obvious in recent games against Fulham and Everton.
So the question is what needs to be done to rectify the situation.
1. First of all we need to offload players who are persistently injured. Messrs Tierney, Zinchenko and Tomiyasu need to be offloaded.
2. Second we need to review our attacking resources. We need an upgrade for left wing position. Martinelli and Trossard are decent bench players, but not in my view starters.
3. We need to find a top class Centre Forward who can score consistently goals. Havertz is a
very good player to have on the books not least because of his versatility but he is not a
natural striker. Jesus on the other hand is in decline and if possible needs to be offloaded.
The bottom line is that Arteta needs to be less reliant on his set piece coach and solve the
open play lack of goals.
Nobody has a proper argument for keeping Arteta. The only argument that is used and spewed around is that you're negative and a fake fan if you criticise him. It's gaslighting of the highest order.
Well, like Pedro wrote, non of y’all have had to make decisions of big consequences. So to me, y’all are just talking nonsense.
******Arteta: “I'm disappointed, as we fully deserved to win the game”.
“We did all the right things, we generated big chances, they didn't create any chance... so it's disappointing”.*****
Grandiose delusions.
I had dark thoughts of Wenger era with that quote, how we did everything brilliantly other than defeat a lesser team, it is delusional.
In the last post, Pedro was drooling over the prospect of Rice Merino Odegaard. He's believed all season Merino is the one.
He doesn’t know anything about football. Just a PR channel for Arteta. The problem with these so called fans is they are woke. Anyone who points out the shit and demands better is a “hater” a “troll”. For a start we play with 10 men. Harvertz is useless. It’s nothing personal bet he’s a lovely guy and can play drill music loudly but he’s not what we need as a footballer. The club and Arteta showed no ambition in the summer. Why buy a proven crock in Calafiori? Merino is average. Sterling damaged goods and was a desperation buy. The club has been mismanaged for years but that’s OK for the clowns. Welcome to The Project Version 20. We have fans who are scared to win. Sacred to put pressure on the club.
Havertz isnt a lovely guy. He is 2 faced.
I mean the entire world and their nanny could tell that Havertz isn’t a prolific striker. That Eddie was crap for a team with title aspirations. That Zinchenko and Jesus were immensely incorrect personalities to drive a team forward. That their injury records were crap. That Tomi was not a dependable person.
In the time we sold Granit, people got Bruno, Paqueta, Sandro. Top players have moved clubs and we get Sterling and Merino. You spend season upon season with Eddie as a backup striker. How many freaking good ups are you going to do. Players like Kudus and Isak are moving to tier 2 teams and we’re twiddling around with crooked left backs
Spot on.
If you are giving up now, why should the players fight on? If you are a coward and can't handle seeing this out until the very end.
Its not about seeing this to the end Pedro, its about not knowing where the end is? Is it end to this season, next one? How much time have to pass before you say that now is the time! You keep moving the goal posts and at some point people are going to Call you on it. We regressed and that is a fact. This is Artetas 6 year and we were closer to the title 2 years ago.
Arteta did lift us a level or two, just like Zinchenko and Jesus did when they came. But Can he take us to the title? I dont Think he can.
Excellent conclusion Pedro. See the season through and you are right about needing unscripted bits of magic along the way.
Pool and City are flat too, its not just us. The obv problem is too many games. Teams react to this pressure in different ways. The players' union need to get a hold on this.
It’s the shit modern style
No flair
Pace power and over coaching
It’s made the modern game dull
No freedom of expression
Zzz
Quite right Una..I am watching Berkamp's goal against Newcastle, that matador like swivel and turn after receiving a perfect through ball, making his close marker look totally the wrong way then the quick decisive smash - inch perfect. And the mighy Thierry hanging about in a perfect position in case he was needed..
Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Saka are all excellent to outstanding footballers. The rest of them are average to very good level, with flashes of excellence. That is enough material to create a trophies winning team. The creator had reached his limits I'm afraid. He needs to win something this season, because the tide is already turning.
Arteta might be the worst attacking coach on the planet relative to resources
Arteta is Arsenal's Brendan Rogers
5 years down the line 800million quid and Arsenal is still mark timing., zero trophies and a fluke 2nd place finish
Arteta is shit
I’m not buying the Arteta hype any more. Don’t get me wrong, he is a good manager. But he is not a great one. We will be competitive with him, but we won’t win stuff. The inability to improve our attack after five years is just not good enough. The weird signings that don’t move the needle. The glaring oversights in squad management that the whole world can see.
We should be very thankful for his work in bringing us out of the banter era. But this is as good as it gets. And it shouldn’t be considered quite good enough.
No immediate sacking, no stadium negativity. But the club should line someone else up.
Come on Pedro, the Gaslighty end statements aren’t the one. So if you aren’t happy or don’t agree you’re not allowed an opinion? That’s not how it works. You were literally bending matts arm last pod about how great merino is, now he’s just a floor raiser. The problems are still the same. When plan a works we look decent but like you said we play fine margins football, ultra fine margins football, and to be successful with that strategy you need elite players. We don’t have them and Teta is obsessed with signing injury prone defenders. We’re painfully predicable and we need Goldilocks levels of perfection to win games. Teta is a great coach but he stifles creativity and he’s blind to change. He only changes when he’s absolutely flogged the life out of his plan, which is always too late. Tiredness yes but then build your squad accordingly
Arsenal have always been known for our attacking prowess. Its our bread and butter. It is shameful to have this clown in charge of such a majestic style of play the world knows and used to fear us for.
Any other coach that likes to attack would figure things out really fast. Players incoming that can make us tick.
Pool have it down. They create so many chances. Like a machine almost. how? They have the personnel and coaching to go along with it. I dont know Slot but he has them not missing a beat. Like wtf man.
We do need Artists Peter, glad you agree. We need more than just Ode pulling the strings. Get out of this shit 433 stuff too.