And now … we play the waiting game

Burnwinter

Seems clear the current structure doesn't have what it takes.

Good news is that history sweeps all before it, and not only will Mesut Özil's contract eventually expire, and Unai Emery's El Greco nose whistle up its last phthisical susurrations in our manager's bucket seat, but also the good things that are happening at other Premier League clubs will come to an end.

It's frustrating that we have to sit on our hands and wait for it, but it doesn't look like anyone's going to step up right now. Our club's become the graveyard of dreams.

Gazza M

Soul searching thread?

I accepted there would be wilderness years in the wake of wenger. Looking back, i didn't even expect us to be in CL qually contention this season, so that's something

I just can't stomach that the scum are doing what they're doing at the same time as our demise, and we're incapable of stepping forth and fighting against the forces of darkness. Makes this whole thing go from unpalatable to vomitous

mdgoonah41

i hope this club is good again and we win the league before i die

Gunner89

mdgoonah41 wrote:
i hope this club is good again and we win the league before i die

Either you start cutting down the booze and eat your veggies or hope Emery gets sacked.

Burnwinter

We'll be heading back into next season in the same place as we started this one, but with less optimism. Difference and repetition, this is the new normal.

Speaking of soul-searching, the mild sense of grief is when you start to accept it, and you think nostalgically of the good old days. Watching these failures, I'm starting to understand how the addled minds and hearts of those middle-aged tragicomic glory hunter fans function.

I'll still be following our fortunes and watching matches, but it's been years and years since I expected strong performances from us, we've been paper tigers for a decade now.

Qwiss

We wont do anything with Kroenke. Look at the way the rats like Egghead and Mislintat all fled the ship when they realised there was no interest from the owner in making us competitive. We have a shit owner and it'd take a miracle for us to become competitive again under him. Winning a Europa is probably as good as its likely to get and we failed that so, here we are.

Gunner89

Egghead wasn't any good for the club. Was a liability.

Mislintat can't say for now but we did get some good players thanks to him.

Shady

Qwiss! wrote:
We wont do anything with Kroenke. Look at the way the rats like Egghead and Mislintat all fled the ship when they realised there was no interest from the owner in making us competitive. We have a shit owner and it'd take a miracle for us to become competitive again under him. Winning a Europa is probably as good as its likely to get and we failed that so, here we are.

Agreed.

Inflation in football seems to have neutralised the supposed financial advantage that the Emirates Stadium was supposed to give us.

Lots of external investment is the only way we're getting back to the top.

Ray

Even a half bothered Abramovich turned up to watch Chelsea. Kroenke probably doesn’t even know there’s a final on today.

lorddulaarsenal

Burnwinter wrote:
We'll be heading back into next season in the same place as we started this one, but with less optimism. Difference and repetition, this is the new normal.

Speaking of soul-searching, the mild sense of grief is when you start to accept it, and you think nostalgically of the good old days. Watching these failures, I'm starting to understand how the addled minds and hearts of those middle-aged tragicomic glory hunter fans function.

I'll still be following our fortunes and watching matches, but it's been years and years since I expected strong performances from us, we've been paper tigers for a decade now.

I dunno about that. Gimme two physical centrebacks and a wide man and I’ll be more enthused going into next season than I was this

lorddulaarsenal

Atleast we’ll be shit but we’ll kitted out next season

Shady

We've needed those hypothetical players for a decade.

Klaus

Burnwinter wrote:
We'll be heading back into next season in the same place as we started this one, but with less optimism. Difference and repetition, this is the new normal.

This is what I hate about us. This is exactly where we were with Wenger in his last two years, and we're still at the same place now. This was supposed to be a season where we brought some optimism back into the side. No one demanded trophies or even success, but I wanted a little bit of excitement and a sense of direction. A feeling that wheels were being put in motion, that some of our issues were being recognised and addressed. There's nothing of the sort. It's all been a wash. We've managed to equal the worst season Wenger served up in 22 years as Arsenal manager, and the people in power are trying to spin it off as an achievement.

Burnwinter

Exactly, the two classy CBs and the electric winger aren't coming and we know it. Just more Eurotrash lucky dip

Burnwinter

Kroenke's only 71 so we've quite likely got another couple of decades of him shrivelling at the helm.

Gazza M

We look no closer to solutions than we did 12 months ago

The current team really looks like a placeholder that will never amount to anything. A hodge podge of also rans brought in by scattergun recruitment

My depressing prediction is that we'll go nowhere until we dump all our 'top' players contracts and rebuild with a proper identity and leadership

RC8

Wenger was a good coach, and our failure to build a challenge in his latter seasons was down to a terrible, mentally weak squad. I believed as much then and I maintain it now that there is even more evidence of it.

It's silly to (understandably) keep most of that squad and expect a different result.

Klopp's first season with Liverpool led them to 8th and to lose the Europa League final against Sevilla.

It's early days for Emery, but ONLY if he clears out and replaces many of these fragile losers with proper players.

goon

Qwiss! wrote:
We wont do anything with Kroenke. Look at the way the rats like Egghead and Mislintat all fled the ship when they realised there was no interest from the owner in making us competitive. We have a shit owner and it'd take a miracle for us to become competitive again under him. Winning a Europa is probably as good as its likely to get and we failed that so, here we are.

Meh, blaming Kroenke is too easy. People talk about lack of ambition but we went through a period where we spent big and we fucked it up royally. We bought the wrong players, we had the wrong manager and we had the wrong set up and now we are paying for it, big time. Look at United, they’ve spent tons more than us and are struggling to get out of the funk. It’s not easy, the sooner everyone accepts that, the easier it will be to live with.

Gazza M

goon wrote:
Qwiss! wrote:
We wont do anything with Kroenke. Look at the way the rats like Egghead and Mislintat all fled the ship when they realised there was no interest from the owner in making us competitive. We have a shit owner and it'd take a miracle for us to become competitive again under him. Winning a Europa is probably as good as its likely to get and we failed that so, here we are.

Meh, blaming Kroenke is too easy. People talk about lack of ambition but we went through a period where we spent big and we fucked it up royally. We bought the wrong players, we had the wrong manager and we had the wrong set up and now we are paying for it, big time. Look at United, they’ve spent tons more than us and are struggling to get out of the funk. It’s not easy, the sooner everyone accepts that, the easier it will be to live with.

Better ownership wouldn't have allowed us to the fuck the money up this much

flobaba

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
Atleast we’ll be shit but we’ll kitted out next season

And in the short term, at least I’m not trying to head back home from Baku