Well that was a decent win in the end- I said right after Kai’s injury we needed to think out of the box to solve the forward problem. Use Calafiori and / or Merino as CF. Looks like Merino will have the job although I’d like to see Cala tried too.
After months of thinking by most of us that we’ve made a terrible signing, it would now be hugely ironic if Merino succeeded as a CF and his goals helped clinch the Prem title.
They are alot of clubs better set up than Arsenal that will win any good coach the league and other titles in 2 seasons at most. If they don't do that, they are fired. That's accountability. Proper set up complete with active board members, DOF, recruitment team and scouts, medical center and the coach knows his place...
It's absolutely ridiculous that we may wait for 10 years of a "winning" project to win 1 league trophy and we call ourselves a top club. It's a shambles.
We absolutely don't work nor think nor act like a top club. Atleast not yet. Alot of people have smelled bullshit already and ran. Gazidiz, Raul (fired but would really have been happy to have left), Vinai, Edu. Why is Arteta still here? If he backs himself, he'll leave this summer.
if we can get a top winger who can play across the front 3 and a top out and out CF then why would he need to leave? he has come close to winning the Prem for what will be 3 successive years. If he strengthens the team then the ballsiest move is to stay and prove he can win the top trophies
The thinking process is that we'll be challenging for titles for many years to come.
I have no evidence that when/if we finally win a big trophy, it will be the start of an Arsenal golden era, but you don't have evidence it won't either. What is factual, is we're challenging for the PL for a third season in a row.
Clearly, we are showing greater consistency than any other club in the PL in that period and while it hasn't brought us any trophies, I can understand and see the progress we've made compared to the years before. The foundation we're on is solid.
The hope is to keep being in contention for the title until the logical thing happens and our year finally comes. Then keep repeating what we've been doing but with winning mentality/funds/prestige added to our team/club and hope we that one trophy will be the platform to elevate us onto winning more in the years that follow.
If Arteta believes in himself so much and is not solely responsible for the shit show at The Arsenal, he will walk this summer. If infact he's responsible and is not sure of himself but is happy to hide behind the laxity at Arsenal, then he'll stay. Let's watch this space.
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster questions Ayden Heaven’s move to Old Trafford;
"It does raise a lot of eyebrows and questions about what kind of character is happy to leave Arsenal when there’s possibly a pathway for him to be part of a very successful first team.
"To then go and join Man United, which from the outside is toxic, chaotic and you don’t really know what the playing style is, that would straightaway make me question why he’s done that.”
“When most players get that big contract, they soften and they lose that hunger. Subconsciously, it gets into you and I’ve seen it week in, week out throughout my career.
"They’ve been on rubbish money for three years, and then all of a sudden they get that big contract.
"The handbrake is straight up and they think they don’t have to keep doing the things that they were always doing before like going to the gym in the morning because they’ve already got that contract for four years.”
Arteta won't do it, but Nathan Butler-Oyedeji is a striker.
Also, Arsenal will be fine, as end-of-the-worldish as it seems, judging from most of your reactions. If Arsenal doesn't win the title, life will go on, and the Arteta Outers can drown in paroxysms of grief and bay for blood.
However, it is possible that the uninjured players can rally and win the title - and a lot of people will look real foolish with egg on their faces for not supporting them in their lowest point, even while shouting with glee and happiness.
He is big. Great touch. Can head. Can pass. Can shoot. Great right foot. Runs for days. Power. Pace. Can finish. He is the best available option for me. Merino aint it and don’t even start me about Sterling.
To be fair to Sterling though he has always been better on the left side and has mainly played right for us. I’ve never liked him as a player, not even when he was scoring lots of goals for city, I always found him very limited but good at what he does. Very similar to auba for me. Good off the ball. Good at ghosting into space for those scruffy tap ins
But everything beyond that he is below average. However I’d play him left wing only for now with tross giving a rest to whoever needs it most across our front 3
I usually agree with you Pedro but Merino as a no.9 cant stretch that far. But agree no tears over the lack of a journeyman striker for 40m in the window and there needs to be a review of physical training demands -for that to happen in the sun of Dubai??!
"Upping the intensity at Sobha Realty Training Centre"
This is a headline on twitter I wasn't expecting to see today, Arsenal put out 15 second vid showing our preparations for the foxes tomorrow, I would've thought we would be lowering intensity of our training sessions but Arteta knows best apparently.
Surely, I can’t be the only one who finds the whole fitness debate boring as hell.
It’s all been done to death too during the Wenger years fellas.
I was a Wenger hater for pointing out the obvious then, like when he would get two players injured ( Ox, Walcott) in a span of 10 minutes on one fa cup night away to Sheffield while in a title race.
So I’m sitting this one out while closely monitoring Haaland and Salah’s minutes thinking until those two bastards break down it’s all down to bad luck.
It’s got to be.
If anything, I blame Havertz for misleading Arteta he never gets tired and loves nothing more than getting stuck in, in the 95th minute of league cup 0:4 Newcastle shellacking.
African kids run 10kms daily to school while kids in Europe a dropped to training grounds in cars.
In their 20s the players in Europe are then expected to run like the Africans. They break down, then surgeries are performed on them because healthcare is business.
- on if Ben White could be involved against Leicester:
Yes, Ben has been training more regularly now so we still have to manage his load a lot but he’s going to be available yes.
- on what has caused the number of injuries this season:
You cannot prove it, so the evidence we can provide is very limited in many aspects and every case is very different. Obviously some of them we know are based on load and minutes, that’s inevitable. We have players who have been injured and who have played 130 games in the last two seasons, so in the end it’s an accident waiting to happen if you continue to load and load. Is it this season, is it the accumulation of that, is it the stress of that, is it luck, is it preparation, is it methodology?
-on whether he would have signed somebody knowing what he knows now:
No, but we were always put in that situation where we were an injury or two away from a very risky situation. When you try your best and do everything that you think you’re capable of, and you have done your homework and try that, and you don’t achieve it, you can have regrets but at least you know that you’ve done it.
Arteta has not done his best as he suggests. He's thrashed Saka to death ( as have England) and he's even brought him on as a sub after an hour away to Preston when we were 3-0m up. Mindless and amateurish,
If Arteta plays trio of Trossard/Sterling/Nwaneri for the 90 minutes and we don’t see two of MLS/Calafiori/Zinchenko/Tierney simultaneously on the pitch, then he hasn't learned shit from the injuries.
If we do see more active rotations and new options across the pitch, then there’s hope..
Well that was a decent win in the end- I said right after Kai’s injury we needed to think out of the box to solve the forward problem. Use Calafiori and / or Merino as CF. Looks like Merino will have the job although I’d like to see Cala tried too.
After months of thinking by most of us that we’ve made a terrible signing, it would now be hugely ironic if Merino succeeded as a CF and his goals helped clinch the Prem title.
They are alot of clubs better set up than Arsenal that will win any good coach the league and other titles in 2 seasons at most. If they don't do that, they are fired. That's accountability. Proper set up complete with active board members, DOF, recruitment team and scouts, medical center and the coach knows his place...
It's absolutely ridiculous that we may wait for 10 years of a "winning" project to win 1 league trophy and we call ourselves a top club. It's a shambles.
We absolutely don't work nor think nor act like a top club. Atleast not yet. Alot of people have smelled bullshit already and ran. Gazidiz, Raul (fired but would really have been happy to have left), Vinai, Edu. Why is Arteta still here? If he backs himself, he'll leave this summer.
if we can get a top winger who can play across the front 3 and a top out and out CF then why would he need to leave? he has come close to winning the Prem for what will be 3 successive years. If he strengthens the team then the ballsiest move is to stay and prove he can win the top trophies
The thinking process is that we'll be challenging for titles for many years to come.
I have no evidence that when/if we finally win a big trophy, it will be the start of an Arsenal golden era, but you don't have evidence it won't either. What is factual, is we're challenging for the PL for a third season in a row.
Clearly, we are showing greater consistency than any other club in the PL in that period and while it hasn't brought us any trophies, I can understand and see the progress we've made compared to the years before. The foundation we're on is solid.
The hope is to keep being in contention for the title until the logical thing happens and our year finally comes. Then keep repeating what we've been doing but with winning mentality/funds/prestige added to our team/club and hope we that one trophy will be the platform to elevate us onto winning more in the years that follow.
If Arteta believes in himself so much and is not solely responsible for the shit show at The Arsenal, he will walk this summer. If infact he's responsible and is not sure of himself but is happy to hide behind the laxity at Arsenal, then he'll stay. Let's watch this space.
The premier league really is a joke, it seems like city are going to get away with all this bullshit
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster questions Ayden Heaven’s move to Old Trafford;
"It does raise a lot of eyebrows and questions about what kind of character is happy to leave Arsenal when there’s possibly a pathway for him to be part of a very successful first team.
"To then go and join Man United, which from the outside is toxic, chaotic and you don’t really know what the playing style is, that would straightaway make me question why he’s done that.”
“When most players get that big contract, they soften and they lose that hunger. Subconsciously, it gets into you and I’ve seen it week in, week out throughout my career.
"They’ve been on rubbish money for three years, and then all of a sudden they get that big contract.
"The handbrake is straight up and they think they don’t have to keep doing the things that they were always doing before like going to the gym in the morning because they’ve already got that contract for four years.”
Arteta won't do it, but Nathan Butler-Oyedeji is a striker.
Also, Arsenal will be fine, as end-of-the-worldish as it seems, judging from most of your reactions. If Arsenal doesn't win the title, life will go on, and the Arteta Outers can drown in paroxysms of grief and bay for blood.
However, it is possible that the uninjured players can rally and win the title - and a lot of people will look real foolish with egg on their faces for not supporting them in their lowest point, even while shouting with glee and happiness.
I choose to continue supporting the team calmly.
Imagine they chavs paid over 100m for Enzo and he's so fucking bad. Compare him to Rice and its laughable
Compare to to jorginho who he replaced at Jorge's age and it's laughable.
I even think Merino is better than him
Goal for Chelsea disallowed for push in the back.
Trolling my pool friends about it 😆😀😀
Genuinely would use Rice as our 9
He is big. Great touch. Can head. Can pass. Can shoot. Great right foot. Runs for days. Power. Pace. Can finish. He is the best available option for me. Merino aint it and don’t even start me about Sterling.
To be fair to Sterling though he has always been better on the left side and has mainly played right for us. I’ve never liked him as a player, not even when he was scoring lots of goals for city, I always found him very limited but good at what he does. Very similar to auba for me. Good off the ball. Good at ghosting into space for those scruffy tap ins
But everything beyond that he is below average. However I’d play him left wing only for now with tross giving a rest to whoever needs it most across our front 3
Can’t rest Tross. We have only 2 senior forwards with Tross being the other. Who’s going to play instead?
I think Rice can play 9
Ethan right or anywhere across the forward line or both 8 positions
Sterling left
Sterling can play right and r false 9
I think both tierney and MLS can play left
Saka coming back who can play left or right and is an option at 9
He has great movement and scores goals
We have to be creative now
Zinchenko needs game time
White is ready to play
Need to rotate kiwior cala white snd zinchenko into the rear positions
We have merino Jorginho partey Odegaard Rice zinchenko mls and Ethan as midfield option
He has to be smart now and lose the rigidity mindset of burning the same players over and over
'lose the rigidity mindset' - good luck with that
Benny Blanco as our 9! You heard it hear first
I usually agree with you Pedro but Merino as a no.9 cant stretch that far. But agree no tears over the lack of a journeyman striker for 40m in the window and there needs to be a review of physical training demands -for that to happen in the sun of Dubai??!
yeah, you are right tbh
"Upping the intensity at Sobha Realty Training Centre"
This is a headline on twitter I wasn't expecting to see today, Arsenal put out 15 second vid showing our preparations for the foxes tomorrow, I would've thought we would be lowering intensity of our training sessions but Arteta knows best apparently.
Surely, I can’t be the only one who finds the whole fitness debate boring as hell.
It’s all been done to death too during the Wenger years fellas.
I was a Wenger hater for pointing out the obvious then, like when he would get two players injured ( Ox, Walcott) in a span of 10 minutes on one fa cup night away to Sheffield while in a title race.
So I’m sitting this one out while closely monitoring Haaland and Salah’s minutes thinking until those two bastards break down it’s all down to bad luck.
It’s got to be.
If anything, I blame Havertz for misleading Arteta he never gets tired and loves nothing more than getting stuck in, in the 95th minute of league cup 0:4 Newcastle shellacking.
African kids run 10kms daily to school while kids in Europe a dropped to training grounds in cars.
In their 20s the players in Europe are then expected to run like the Africans. They break down, then surgeries are performed on them because healthcare is business.
Yet only Europeans and South Americans (European heritage) win world cups 🤷🏻♂️
Incase you didnt know, Brazil has the most significant African diaspora, with 56% or about 120 MILLION. The same for France in Europe.
Africans did Not psrticipate in the WC before the 60's
Finally we have the root cause of Partey’s checkered fitness history; his parents dropped him off to training in a car, apparently.
Parteys problems are Age related. Injury free in his 20s.
That would be his 30’s then Sid-according to you…
Arteta press conference:
- on if Ben White could be involved against Leicester:
Yes, Ben has been training more regularly now so we still have to manage his load a lot but he’s going to be available yes.
- on what has caused the number of injuries this season:
You cannot prove it, so the evidence we can provide is very limited in many aspects and every case is very different. Obviously some of them we know are based on load and minutes, that’s inevitable. We have players who have been injured and who have played 130 games in the last two seasons, so in the end it’s an accident waiting to happen if you continue to load and load. Is it this season, is it the accumulation of that, is it the stress of that, is it luck, is it preparation, is it methodology?
-on whether he would have signed somebody knowing what he knows now:
No, but we were always put in that situation where we were an injury or two away from a very risky situation. When you try your best and do everything that you think you’re capable of, and you have done your homework and try that, and you don’t achieve it, you can have regrets but at least you know that you’ve done it.
https://www.arsenal.com/news/every-word-artetas-pre-leicester-presser-0
I bet he would still play Saka, Havertz and Saliba in the league cup if he knew what he knew now.
That's a whole lot of waffle, says a lot and nothing at the same time
Arteta has not done his best as he suggests. He's thrashed Saka to death ( as have England) and he's even brought him on as a sub after an hour away to Preston when we were 3-0m up. Mindless and amateurish,
Saka shouldn’t even have been on the coach that night.
The next two games would be a Litmus test.
If Arteta plays trio of Trossard/Sterling/Nwaneri for the 90 minutes and we don’t see two of MLS/Calafiori/Zinchenko/Tierney simultaneously on the pitch, then he hasn't learned shit from the injuries.
If we do see more active rotations and new options across the pitch, then there’s hope..