Anzac wrote:
Captain wrote:
Why are you so convinced we don't have a 'spine fit for purpose'? You can argue your opinion of the quality, but I think we have exactly the squad we hoped to have.
Based primarily upon what we saw last season, Arteta's comments about wanting to play 433, and our starting midfield and forward options have not changed.
I cannot believe we have the squad we want with those same players involved, as Xhaka is not suited to the attack and visa versa, let alone the midfield does not provide goals and the primary goal scorers do not create for themselves, and Pepe is wildly inconsistent.
okay, but everything ive read in the last month has said that all of these recruitments and new signings were arteta's idea and these are the guys he wanted. so....why are we buying these players if they arent allowing him to play the system he wants? if we want to play a 4-3-3, why did we spend £50m on ben white and not spend that on a CM and keep saliba here to play CB? i know the people who still cling to hope with arteta have billed this as a 10 year project where he will need an exactly perfect squad of players to execute his incredibly brilliant vision. but that is fantasyland stuff. we spent a shitload of money, and devoted £75m of it on a CB, when we already had one of the best CB prospects in europe on our books, and a backup goalkeeper. if ramsdale was bought to be the #1, then keeping leno on the books and letting his value further deteriorate was just stupid planning.
our summer business was peculiar. i see some bright spots, and some decent business, and also see a bunch of extremely questionable decisions. and arteta's fingerprints (his whole hand, really) was all over every move we made. this is his team and his squad. he wanted to keep xhaka. he wanted to buy ben white and ramsdale. this is his team
