Recent content by GoonerBear

For the Feyenoord / Dutch guys, how’s his time there viewed in comparison to someone like GvB who also won the league there?

Has he?

Good one! :D

We all looked at the run in a while ago, and those games vs Spurs and Utd away stood out like sore thumbs. Without being too disrespectful to Bournemouth and Everton, it’s looking increasingly like the Spurs and Utd games are going to go a long way to decide our season. I’m not having...

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I’m sure they hoped Nkunku would be that guy. Yeah, I think you are probably right. My thinking is that it should be easier to tweak the team and structure to get results against teams you should be beating next season, than look way off in level regularly when competing against the best...

Again, another very decent performance against a top team, and it’s not been a 1 off, they’ve played well in a few different big games, and if they had a clinical no 9, could and should have won a few of them. They’ve obviously suffered a lot of lows, but I think the good performances and...

We did mess up the Bayern game. We went 1-0 up, White should have made it 2-0. But we shouldn’t have chased the game. There was no need to. Then a catalogue of errors leads to the equaliser, you can also say similar allowing them to take the lead. Then you are chasing the game. Now, it’s just a...

Fair point, but it's hard to put a time scale on it, as each season is different, and each will have it's own context. Everyone will have a different opinion when that point is reached as well. Some might even have it now.

While others were saying last seasons title challenge was a 1 off. One seems a bit more correct than the other.

Its the first time we were actually in the Champions League for 7 years, the first time our manager has managed in it, and the the first time many of our players have played in it. Experience counts for a lot. Its also a knockout competition, sometimes settled by fine margins. You were playing...

Highly experienced team who have many players that have won the lot dealt with a highly pressured knock out tie better over 2 legs against an experienced young team that have won nothing is hardly a big surprise!

Bayern haven’t been consistently great this season, that’s all very true, they’d happily admit that. But at the end of the day it’s still Bayern, the likes them and Madrid can still get their shit together and compete and even win Champions Leagues even when domestic form isn’t great. Im...

I’ve been having a good think what I think the current state of the team / squad is, and how we improve on it, and the main issue for me is I think we are missing that star quality in the forward areas. You get to this stage in the Champions League, or competing for league titles, and you are...

Indeed, its very true, never mind on field, off field as well, and dressing room culture is something that we the fans have very little insight to. I'm not sure even as good as we have been, that we have struck the balance right with the number of young players we have, i think Arteta would...