Him costing less than Kepa is one, I assume
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?Bad manager choices I’d put it down to for falling so far behind, everyone knows Arsenal were set up to play attacking stylish football and had players to play it but never had the manager to coach it after Wenger left.
Looks big in the net..
Are those guys really a higher level than what they signed?
You and other Arsenal fans here were delusional last year and you deserve the stick. Just go into my profile and read the discussions I had with you and other Arsenal fans, most memorably you arguing about how good and young squad you have, whereas I told you it was pure shit. One year later and I’m wondering if you still think Gabriel/Saliba/Martinelli/Saka still a prospect on Greenwoods level?
Better than what they have anyway, White I don’t rate at all and would’ve signed Dunk instead.
Time will tell on Odegaard but he wasn’t exactly pulling up trees last season.
He's a very good all round keeper when on form. Decent with the ball at his feet and at sweeping, commanding and a good shot-stopper. He had a terrible first half to the season last year which sticks in everyone's mind but he improved a lot in the second half of the season and actually finished with better shot-stopping stats than both Henderson and De Gea (although both were disappointing). Last season he was 5th in the league for collecting crosses and 9th for sweeping. I think they're buying him on the potential of him being a very solid PL keeper. I think the big question mark is over his mentality and if he gets stuck in ruts of prolonged poor form.
He's a different type of player to McGinn really. I think McGinn's spectacular goals flatter to deceive though, he's a good Premier League player don't get me wrong but not one to elevate Arsenal anywhere.
Gabriel isn't shite in the air.
Chelsea don't do with failed project especially managers. I didn't know exactly what is chelsea s board bar for managerial continuity. But they don't keep around the manager if they think they are not good enough.
Frankly Klopp wouldn't have survived for first two seasons at chelsea like he did with liverpool in his initial days.
Totally contrast style of managements. Can't able to compare chelsea model to arsenal model from spending to ruthlessness to set the bar for continuity.
Calling him shite might be a bit hyperbolic, but he's not exactly great in the air either.
I wonder why Arsenal went for Ramsdale for their back up goalie even they could have got someone like Sergio Romero on a free transfer.
Probably didn't want to stay in England
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It just seems the journos are being extra careful while writing about Arteta out of some fear (not backed by stats or eye test) of what if Arteta turns things around
Hopefully they can take points fro Chelsea tomorrow
Comfortably worse than Spurs/Leicester and solidly midtable. Not sure they can risk keeping Arteta on much longer.
Looked awful. A bit better in the second half but I don't think Chelsea even needed to play that well to beat them.
They're a mid table team. I don't think this is a Lampard situation either; a quality side limited by the manager, everything about them is just average.
They are done. Not top 4 fight any longer, but EL and conference league or however that shit is called. They now transition into Everton
They were without thier 50m CB but holy feck, Holding wouldn't even get into the Leeds team
Hold on, they never played their £50M defender?
Agree. Prime SAF could manage this lot and still not finish top 3. Terrible slide into mediocrity from what once was a perennial contender.
Well Emery did much better with a worse Arsenal squad when the league was very competitive. Clearly the coach.
Where do you think this team would finish with a quality manager?
He has Covid
Those Arsenal youngsters must be some of the most overrated in Europe by their own fans. Saka, Smith-Rowe, Martinalli who AFTV talk about like Real could try to sign him any day. It's ridiculous. COmbined with Tierney who's fine but I swear he's fit for less than half of their games.
I think the same thing is happening like it happened with us and Januzaj when the rest of the team was absolute shambles and some of us were overrating him.
Oh dear
Blaming injuries, missing 9 big players. Blame blame blame. Never Arteta fault. I have a few Gooner friends and they have pretty much written off this season. Bit drastic. But I love it when Arsenal are struggling.
To be fair, we do have a lot of injuries. Gabriel, White, Partey, Odegaard, Aubameyang, Lacazette probably missing from the first XI. However, that's no excuse for giving Reece James the freedom of the right flank, & also just goes to highlight how weak the squad options are as well.
Hopefully at the very least of shows MO the Arsenal fan on here that Mari is poor & Gabriel is miles better, never mind Harry Maguire!
Willian!He will say it was his daughter posting on his account.
It’s been said that one of the big selling points in Arteta’s favour was this apprenticeship with Pep and the fact he was going to go down a similar route. But the style of play he’s introduced is nothing like Pep’s and he’s spending massive money on some pretty questionable signings. You wonder when he’ll run out of credit. He looks to me to be a guy who’s creating an expensive squad that the next guy in the door will have to immediately dismantle.
Sambi doesn't look too bad
Reminds me of LFC before the structure of the club got revamped and we signed Klopp. But before that it was similar to this Arsenal. A club with no real strategy or direction, splurging loads of cash on average players - partly due to no Europe - and showing zero signs of real progress.
He's trying to bruteforce a way of playing that suits world class players that can just adapt on the fly and create brilliance out of nothing because he was surrounded by that at City.
Not understanding that he can't do the same thing (offensively at least) with our squad after 2 years will be the end of him.
I have no doubts he will be sacked in December at the latest or after the Leicester game on October 30th.
He looks pretty tidy and a good depth signing. He seems pretty fluent in English and speaks French so he should be able to fit in very well.
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Poor guy.
Souness would have called a press conference at Buckingham Palace if any Mancheser United had posted something like this.
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