Think he had a meltdown in the F1 thread if memory serves me correctly.
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Arsenal have been building a young team since 2005 though and haven't really challenged for the PL title since.
Is there a genuine debate about Arsenal and our squads being close?
No chance whatsoever.
They have no one on the level of: Shaw, Varane, Pogba, Bruno, Rashford and Sancho.
Auba is a busted flush. Saka is still just a kid. No midfield. Partey is overhyped. Tierney is alright. Gabriel is alright. Sold your best GK to Villa. Your two best midfielders were on loan from Madrid. You have Cedric or Bellerin at RB. 70+ Million on Pepe. Laca is finished. ESR is good. Xhaka who looked okay at the Euros is desperate to leave.
Clubs an absolute mess.
No chance whatsoever.
They have no one on the level of: Shaw, Varane, Pogba, Bruno, Rashford and Sancho.
Auba is a busted flush. Saka is still just a kid. No midfield. Partey is overhyped. Tierney is alright. Gabriel is alright. Sold your best GK to Villa. Your two best midfielders were on loan from Madrid. You have Cedric or Bellerin at RB. 70+ Million on Pepe. Laca is finished. ESR is good. Xhaka who looked okay at the Euros is desperate to leave.
Clubs an absolute mess.
I don't like to write any team off before the season but the arrogance arsenal fans show is funny. I saw countless bitter arsenal fans mocking varane for some weird reason. I feel for them Manchester United are still their biggest rivals and they are still stuck in early 2000s time. They are still bitter how sir alex owned wenger, still bitter we ended their unbeaten run.
It doesn't mean its not the right strategy. It's not young players exclusive, but most teams try a similar strategy to a degree, Utd have spent big money on Sancho, Wan Bissaka, James, Amad for instance to go along with Rashford, Greenwood & McTominay, Chelsea spent on guys like Havertz, Chilwell, Pulisic to add to the likes of James, Mount, Gilmour.
It's not rocket science, if you buy too much at the higher age group it tends to be big wages, past their peak & then little sell on value, which doesn't lead well to continuous squad building, especially when you are out of Europe & funds are limited. When you think we've had to do a squad revamp & we got next to nothing for Koscielny, Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Mustafi, Sokratis, Kolasinac, Luiz, Monreal, Cech, Ramsey & Welbeck, & it doesn't make it easy to rebuild when you don't get money in.
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This is probably the most inaccurate analysis on Maguire I've ever seen, with a hilarious take on Shaw as the cherry on top. But this poster has proven continuously to be either blindly deluded or a comedian, and because I'm feeling nice, I'll go with the latter. Well done sir!
But are they in less of a mess than Everton, Spurs, Hammers? Do not see them challenging for top 4, but are they then competing with Leicester for Europa spots?
Just realized Odegaard is 22. I had it in my head, he was like 19. That slightly changes the perspective of his loan period last season for me.Rumours that there might be an opening to get Odegaard back with Madrid needing money and not trusting him enough. Anything under 40M i'd take him to play alongside or rotate with ESR. Over that and maybe pushing the boat for Maddison is a better solution with proven PL goals & assists. Leicester will tear us apart though and will probably ask for 60+
Looking more and more likely that we'll go into the season with Chambers/Cedric at RB which is a bit scary
Sambi Lokonga is better than Paul Pogba.
The guy is a troll. If he doesn’t get banned I can see him achieve a Glaston status around here, although I doubt he’ll stick for long once the season starts.
I highlighted a few things just In case you guys miss the jokes. Mods, this guys deserves a tagline award of some sorts. Please stay at least until christmas ya? We promise you some fireworks. Mods please promote this guy, he is simply a must have in every arsenal thread.
Glaston is subtle. This one has bolted right out of the blocks.
MO must be 12 or something and seems to be getting his assessments on Utd players from random Arsenal fan Twitter accounts.
It's comedy gold though, needs to be posting in all Arsenal related threads.
Another closed door game today vs Watford. Next up a nice interesting game vs Chelsea on Sunday. 
Please promote MO.
You get to see future AFTV scapegoat up close and personal. Exciting timesAnother closed door game today vs Watford. Next up a nice interesting game vs Chelsea on Sunday.
Thats your opinion. Both teams have struggled in recent years. United havent won and only reached won Europa final. Whilst we're no longer a CL club. But lets agree to disagree.
Arsenal are going nowhere under Arteta next season. We're more likely to finish 10th than 3rd with this plum in charge.
Was a bad decision hounding Wenger out with no solid contingency implemented. Pains me to say, but we deserve our current state after the way some fans were acting during Arsenes last couple of seasons.
Arsenal squad is absolutely nowhere near Utds.
You'd have to be mental or a WUM to try and claim that.
You'd have to be mental or a WUM to try and claim that.
Arteta had a similar stratergy in most matches theoughout last season. We only looked consistently solid in the Holding-Mari partnership and with Partey protecting them.
So Holdings been bad these last 18 months or you just saying that without regularly watching him?
I have regularly watched and regularly laughed at your lot. Your entire side have been dogshit for 2 seasons now and Arteta parking the bus against every side he faces doesnt mean one player from your 11 man, bus parking defence is playing well.
I agree, its been poor the last two seasons. But some players have performed well despite the manager. Just needs to sack Arteta soon as possible to get the who team performing to their potential.
They'll finish 8th again but us and United will keep him in a job by handing Arsenal 10-12 points between us.
Very kind of you. Now if the other teams were as charitable we'd make top four.
Think that's a bit of an exaggeration. When we switched from 3 at the back at Xmas we scored the same amount of goals as Utd almost from Xmas onwards.
Nah, not this season. The gulf will be even more apparent this year. Arteta will be gone by xmas.
Still couldn't get over that mad pass from jorginho to the net.
. Jorginho after passed towards goal searching for kepa where the hell are you kepaaa.Comedy gold that was.That game didn't bother me too much, it was a borderine dead rubber.Still couldn't get over that mad pass from jorginho to the net.
The loss at The Emirates was the one that got me, genuinely wanted to throw up.
We'll both comfortably finish above them but for some bizzare reason they have us by the balls on head to heads.
Yeah agree, but like I said not this season. The way we're strengthening and what they're doing in the market up to now is just going to expose them even more now. I can't see them getting anything from the top 4 this season.
Another defensive brainfart for Arse.
Watford with living up to their name with their kit.
I heard we're deliberately not keeping a clean sheet until Ben White plays so it looks as if he's making an impact.
Looking forward to it. I read some stat somewhere that he has a higher aerial win percentage than Giroud & Calvert-Lewin....could that be true? I'd be surprised if that's the case.You get to see future AFTV scapegoat up close and personal. Exciting times
They've fully transformed into a midtable team and become game-raising cnuts.
If Ben White is going to fix their defence, Aaron Ramsdale is seen as the solution in goal and no one replaces Granit Xhaka then yeah, things are not exactly looking up for them.
I don't get it with White. He's not looked anything special in the games I've seen him, and statistically he's awful. Maybe I'm missing something.
I don't get it with White. He's not looked anything special in the games I've seen him, and statistically he's awful. Maybe I'm missing something.
With latest premier league rules about headers in training I doubt he will fine tune the skill any time sooner though. He wins headers but rarely directed it proper.
I can't agree with that. We went to last match against villa needed to win to ensure other team results not affected to our top 4 place especially dependant on Spurs just not looked right. Thankfully Leicester again lost their way.
Hahahahaha! You guys.
Come on, be reasonable. There's maybe five positions where you can have a serious conversation about who has the better first choice, or agree that the options are broadly comparable - goal, the more defensive CM spot, left flank, right flank, striker. For the rest, it's not even close enough to be worth discussing.
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Could be true, but he isn't a particularly dangerous aerial threat in the opposition box, though he's a pretty effective presence defending corners and freekicks in his own box.
We joke around a lot but I actually rate Abraham and I would hate the idea of him going to Arsenal. He just isn't quite good enough for Chelsea right now.
Didn't Holding come out and say no European football is a blessing in disguise?
“With no Europe this season we’ve got no distractions or fixture congestion and can really focus on our Premier League games. I think Liverpool did the same a few years ago, and Chelsea similarly when they won the league in Antonio Conte’s first year. So it can be a blessing in disguise in some aspects. We’ve just got to think of it that way and hit the ground running.”
No excuses then this year...
“With no Europe this season we’ve got no distractions or fixture congestion and can really focus on our Premier League games. I think Liverpool did the same a few years ago, and Chelsea similarly when they won the league in Antonio Conte’s first year. So it can be a blessing in disguise in some aspects. We’ve just got to think of it that way and hit the ground running.”
No excuses then this year...
He does.
20-21 PL, per Fbref:
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| Player | Span | Nation | Pos | Squad | 90s | CrdY | CrdR | 2CrdY | Fls | Fld | Off | Crs | Int | TklW | PKwon | PKcon | OG | Recov | Won | Lost | Won% |
| Tammy Abraham | 2020-21 | eng ENG | FW | Chelsea | 11.6 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.90 | 1.03 | 0.43 | 0.34 | 0.17 | 0.34 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.05 | 3.36 | 2.41 | 58.2 |
| Olivier Giroud | 2020-21 | fr FRA | FW | Chelsea | 8.3 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.93 | 0.72 | 0.72 | 0.36 | 0.48 | 0.48 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.58 | 2.41 | 3.98 | 37.7 |
| Dominic Calvert-Lewin | 2020-21 | eng ENG | FW | Everton | 31.9 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.16 | 1.25 | 0.60 | 0.47 | 0.16 | 0.38 | 0.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.61 | 4.48 | 4.61 | 49.3 |
What was the point of the game against Watford? Considering Watford played two nights ago, seems a bit strange that Arsenal would play them and waste potential to squeeze in another proper pre season run out?
Hasn't Calvert Lewin partaken in a) alot more minutes on the pitch, and b) contested a lot more aerial balls? In which case these stats need to be taken with a massive load of context.
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