I was at the shaktar game it's the worst I have seen us play in a looong time. Please play Nwaneri he can't be worse than what's was out there the other night. We may even create something
Two teams with max points in the CL, Pool in 2nd and Villa top of the table. Then there are 7 teams with 7 points. 3rd City and 9th Arsenal. WTF is happening to my team 3 goals in 3 games and 1 of them was an own goal. Arteta has set up a front line that produces 2 goals in 3 games. that is anything but generational it is abysmal, embarrassing. If he continues that way we will play two extra games and if we get a difficult to beat opposition we exit the CL before the knock out stages.
Pedro are you sharpening your pencils for Arteta's obituary?
Squad assembly is as important a characteristic as in- game management, tactics, formation, substitutions etc. However, it's regarded here as less important. Arteta does not seem to learn. Three seasons ago he quite rightly discarded misfits and those whom he did not like, which is his prerogative. For example, players sold or loaned out included Mustafi, Sokratis, Torreira, Guendouzi, AIM, Kolasinac etc. However, squad numbers were not replaced and by the end of that season, a "4th place trophy" we should have easily have secured disappeared as injuries, poor form took over and we lacked numbers, let alone quality in the run-in. This was ridiculous and negligent. This pre-season, Arteta had the opportunity to further improve the squad and build on two seasons' 2nd place. What does he do, get rid of Smith-Rowe, Nelson, Nketiah, which we can all understand to some extent. However, he then buys yet another defender and defensive midfielder in Calafiori and Merino and loans in the has-been, Sterling. Where is the balance? We have no-one to understudy Saka or Odegaard,refuses to play Nwaneri and picks another has-been, Jesus, to play and as a captain last night! This follows the highly creative midfield of Rice, Partey and Merino against the mighty Bournemouth. Arteta has not given the club the best chance of success this season and his risk averse and safety first tactics will be found out against better clubs going forward.
I think Rice's transfer looms over our budget and our needs still have to be heavily adjusted according to West Ham's tough conditions aka paying the lump sum of the transfer in the first couple of years.
I wonder how badly our finances were affected by Arteta decision to sign Ramsdale as our No 1 and then change his mind four months later to sign another No 1 that we couldn't afford, had to do loan deal for a season before purchase, and club lost £££ on Ramsdale sale this summer.
How do you know how much we have to spend or not spend? Spending £80m+ on the defence and defensive midfield, plus another youth keeper was hardly priority was it? In four years, Arteta has not managed to find anybody, internally or elsewhere who can adequaely fill in or help to rotate Saka and Odegaard.
Arteta got rid of players and never replaced them or brought in players that never should play for Arsenal. Easy to solve get rid of the manager that causes those situations.
🚨 Understand Bukayo Saka is expected to be available for the upcoming match against Liverpool, having trained, pending any last-minute changes or niggles, meanwhile Riccardo Calafiori is set to undergo a crucial scan scheduled for today.
We are flaming Arsenal while City have been getting away with it.
I saw a table on twitter that shows the xG for and xG against only while teams were 11v11. The Arsenal some love to flame have the highest xG for and the lowest xG against. Shocking for some, I know.
We'll go back to our best from the games against City, Leicester and PSG. We just need to get a couple of bodies back - mainly Saka, and be a bit smarter to avoid getting red carded. If we were 11v11 we would have been 1st on the table and not by a point either.
City drew in the last minute against us and a few days ago scored a winner in the last second. If the goals in the last second didn't go in, we'd be talking about a crises there but since they did all is fine? I'm more interested in the other 94 minutes of the games and especially when it's 11v11 cause surely this avalanche of red cards coming our way will stop soon. Surely...
For the record, I am not of the same opinion as Pedro saying we win the league after pep leaves. This year is a must for me. It is essential we win it. Otherwise we will be in danger of losing our best players.
But I am not mad at the fact that we aren't as smooth as we could be about our football. There is context to it. We aren't playing at our best but we have deserved to win most of our games, and we have. Performances will improve.
That is what sort of patience I am talking about. Yeah the football isn't as good as it could be but there are factors attached to it. And I am of the opinion that Arteta will get it right. Our fixtures are fairly spread out to our advantage. We have 2 hard games at times but we have already passed the hardest fixture runs of our season with Villa, Spurs and City away. After our next batch of fixtures involving Newcastle and Inter and Chelsea, we have a smoother ride than our challengers.
And the league will be close contested. And I haven't completely written off our signings. I think Merino will come good and we have already seen what Calafiori offers us. Sterling has been poor. But I am not completely writing him off for now either.
The mood will be different if we win on Sunday against Liverpool. And I believe we will
So why is it that we cleared the deck of attacking players who were backup but did not replace them in the window?
It was criminal negligence to enter the last hours of the window without a striking option, that we were willing to take the chance stands as an indictment.
The squad is too tilted towards defense, that's why we have only two players creative players in the entire squad.
I was at the shaktar game it's the worst I have seen us play in a looong time. Please play Nwaneri he can't be worse than what's was out there the other night. We may even create something
Two teams with max points in the CL, Pool in 2nd and Villa top of the table. Then there are 7 teams with 7 points. 3rd City and 9th Arsenal. WTF is happening to my team 3 goals in 3 games and 1 of them was an own goal. Arteta has set up a front line that produces 2 goals in 3 games. that is anything but generational it is abysmal, embarrassing. If he continues that way we will play two extra games and if we get a difficult to beat opposition we exit the CL before the knock out stages.
Pedro are you sharpening your pencils for Arteta's obituary?
Seems the Barca academy has spurn out a bunch of good players this time around, they all looked very assured against a very good Bayern team
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this: Over half of Barcelona's starting XI is 21 or under. Six players; Four 21 year olds and two 17 year olds.
A 17 year old centre back and a 21 year old left back. All 3 in midfield are 21. But, Arteta is scared shitless to play a very ready Nwaneri.
And they are playing very well against Bayern.
""""That was a dreadful performance against Shaktar. Complacent, sloppy, fatigued, uninspired. Lucky to escape with three points""""
I don’t understand this with Jack going to Norwich as a first team coach? If he was gonna be the head man then I’d understand
In last night's game if it were not for a Ukrainian bum, we were done.
As Sid says "let that sink in"
Has anyone listened to the Pod
Johnny Cochran with his pointy cruella Seville girly shoulders crying and whining non stop
Man up you pansie
And sit up straight and out your shoulders down
Look at Matt and Pete
You’re an actor and your body language is atrocious
You convey pure soy consumption
Whining about how we got away with Muffet injury wise last year
We lost 4 starting players for almost a year
Jesus
Parted
Martin Eli
And timber
How is that getting away with murder
Let with lose their starting 9 LW holding mid and defensive Swiss Army knife for a season and see what’s getting away with murder
When you factor in the refereeing…
Sit down you little hamster faced weasel and stop whining
Also
Level up your voice a couple of octaves. You sound like a mouse
Squad assembly is as important a characteristic as in- game management, tactics, formation, substitutions etc. However, it's regarded here as less important. Arteta does not seem to learn. Three seasons ago he quite rightly discarded misfits and those whom he did not like, which is his prerogative. For example, players sold or loaned out included Mustafi, Sokratis, Torreira, Guendouzi, AIM, Kolasinac etc. However, squad numbers were not replaced and by the end of that season, a "4th place trophy" we should have easily have secured disappeared as injuries, poor form took over and we lacked numbers, let alone quality in the run-in. This was ridiculous and negligent. This pre-season, Arteta had the opportunity to further improve the squad and build on two seasons' 2nd place. What does he do, get rid of Smith-Rowe, Nelson, Nketiah, which we can all understand to some extent. However, he then buys yet another defender and defensive midfielder in Calafiori and Merino and loans in the has-been, Sterling. Where is the balance? We have no-one to understudy Saka or Odegaard,refuses to play Nwaneri and picks another has-been, Jesus, to play and as a captain last night! This follows the highly creative midfield of Rice, Partey and Merino against the mighty Bournemouth. Arteta has not given the club the best chance of success this season and his risk averse and safety first tactics will be found out against better clubs going forward.
All I understood from this post is why did we not spend more money? What if this is all the money we were allowed to spend?
The choices we made with the money we had have to be scrutinized when you consider what needs were more dire.
I think Rice's transfer looms over our budget and our needs still have to be heavily adjusted according to West Ham's tough conditions aka paying the lump sum of the transfer in the first couple of years.
We did spend money this past summer, just on the wrong profile of players, doesn't have much to do with Rice fee
I wonder how badly our finances were affected by Arteta decision to sign Ramsdale as our No 1 and then change his mind four months later to sign another No 1 that we couldn't afford, had to do loan deal for a season before purchase, and club lost £££ on Ramsdale sale this summer.
Rice's transfer is the one affecting us by far the most. Like it's not even close.
How do you know how much we have to spend or not spend? Spending £80m+ on the defence and defensive midfield, plus another youth keeper was hardly priority was it? In four years, Arteta has not managed to find anybody, internally or elsewhere who can adequaely fill in or help to rotate Saka and Odegaard.
Who's that adequate replacement for say Salah and Haaland? Asking for a friend.
Arteta got rid of players and never replaced them or brought in players that never should play for Arsenal. Easy to solve get rid of the manager that causes those situations.
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🚨 Understand Bukayo Saka is expected to be available for the upcoming match against Liverpool, having trained, pending any last-minute changes or niggles, meanwhile Riccardo Calafiori is set to undergo a crucial scan scheduled for today.
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If Saka and Timber make it, we'll be so back.
Chelsea (1.06) 0-2 (1.18) City
City (1.55) 2-1 (1.05) Brentford
Newcastle (1.34) 1-1 (1.27) City
City (1.37) 3-2 (2.76) Fulham
Wolves (0.76) 1-2 (1.37) City
We are flaming Arsenal while City have been getting away with it.
I saw a table on twitter that shows the xG for and xG against only while teams were 11v11. The Arsenal some love to flame have the highest xG for and the lowest xG against. Shocking for some, I know.
We'll go back to our best from the games against City, Leicester and PSG. We just need to get a couple of bodies back - mainly Saka, and be a bit smarter to avoid getting red carded. If we were 11v11 we would have been 1st on the table and not by a point either.
City drew in the last minute against us and a few days ago scored a winner in the last second. If the goals in the last second didn't go in, we'd be talking about a crises there but since they did all is fine? I'm more interested in the other 94 minutes of the games and especially when it's 11v11 cause surely this avalanche of red cards coming our way will stop soon. Surely...
In other words we have players with lower than average finishing ability
I saw a table where Eddie currently averages 0.2xG per 90 mins played in the PL. 👀
For the record, I am not of the same opinion as Pedro saying we win the league after pep leaves. This year is a must for me. It is essential we win it. Otherwise we will be in danger of losing our best players.
But I am not mad at the fact that we aren't as smooth as we could be about our football. There is context to it. We aren't playing at our best but we have deserved to win most of our games, and we have. Performances will improve.
That is what sort of patience I am talking about. Yeah the football isn't as good as it could be but there are factors attached to it. And I am of the opinion that Arteta will get it right. Our fixtures are fairly spread out to our advantage. We have 2 hard games at times but we have already passed the hardest fixture runs of our season with Villa, Spurs and City away. After our next batch of fixtures involving Newcastle and Inter and Chelsea, we have a smoother ride than our challengers.
And the league will be close contested. And I haven't completely written off our signings. I think Merino will come good and we have already seen what Calafiori offers us. Sterling has been poor. But I am not completely writing him off for now either.
The mood will be different if we win on Sunday against Liverpool. And I believe we will
Do you think Guardiola rushes Merino in to the starting 11, if the shoe were on the other foot?
My take is that he wouldn't. He does that to many of his signings, even Gvardiol. He makes them wait until they get the pulse of the team.
Arteta is going to have to choose two of Partey, Rice and Merino. He can't play any two away from their best position to jam in the third.
Also, injuries are part of football
So why is it that we cleared the deck of attacking players who were backup but did not replace them in the window?
It was criminal negligence to enter the last hours of the window without a striking option, that we were willing to take the chance stands as an indictment.
The squad is too tilted towards defense, that's why we have only two players creative players in the entire squad.
There's also news going around that Guardiola has agreed to extend his city contract by one season.
Pedro and his ridiculous theory of Arsenal waiting for Guardiola to depart before taking over, looking more stupid by the day.