@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

It would actually be more entertaining watching us in the Championship

Anyways I’m pretty much at the stage where I’m past caring

It’s getting hard to care. But we are here so there’s still something. The problem with Arsenal is that we haven’t had a sudden issue like a manager departing and everything suddenly falling apart. What’s sad is that we’ve been dying slowly, like we’re suffering from a cancer. So no alerts have been raised. Nobody has has had to hustle to solve an imminent crisis.

But what has happened is over the years under-investment, poor scouting, revolving door of leaders has led to a consistently declining average league position. It’s been gradual, but we’ve gone from 1st/2nd to consistently top 4, to struggling to get into top 4, to 5, and now this. As an organization we do not have a competitive DNA. We have not put the systems in place to ensure that we are consistently at the top of the table, wherever it’s elite scouting, aggressive squad turnover, building a resilient mentality, etc. and in the absence of these systems, I do not see how we turn around this season or this clubs fortunes. It’s not as easy as just appointing a manager. He will also need access to funds and scouting. He will need quick decision-making. And then he will have to overcome the rotten attitude that has consumed the squad over these barren years.

Old man Wengs did a better job on his tod than our so called modern management structure. Says it all.

The continual emptying of the stadium is my only catharsis now.

We'll finish in the bottom half similar to Mourinho's last season at Chelsea.

We won't do shit in the Europa either with that defense.

Poor Freddie has been given a lopsided squad with confidence at its lowest. Any manager would struggle badly here at the moment.

Oh to be a gooner.

The club has been mismanaged overall for the past 10 or so years. We acted with total complacence when we were top 4 as if no-one would ever threaten us so we didn't need to improve the squad/aim higher. Wenger is as responsible for the failures in that period as anyone.

The board/owners are a joke, it's clear we don't have anyone that cares about the club so that dither and delay exemplified by the handling of the Emery situation. Waited too long and actually don't seem to have planned for his sacking hence they are taking about taking their time for a replacement.

It's difficult to see a way forwards from here as it would require a whole new mindset from the owners now and I just can't see it. They've successful overseen are decline to an average mid-table side. I fully expect it to get worse because Abby good players we may have will be picked clean by other big clubs and we'll have little to keep their interest.

Mismanaged from top to bottom, but some of the problems are just basic stuff that can be fixed immediately. Why is Luiz and Sokratis still playing together? It's clearly not working. It's the worst cb pairing in the league. Why isn't Pepe starting? Say what you want about him, but he's taking on defenders and creating mismatches and chances. I haven't seen many players cause that many problems for van Dijk for instance. Drop Lacazette and play Aubameyang in the middle. Lacazette is clearly out of form. And on and on...

Ultimately cheaping out and replacing Per and Kos with Sok and Luiz was a monumental fuck up, and has cost us badly for two seasons.

Pepe plays football like he's on the street. Goes for the kill every time and loses the ball 9/10. It's not surprising he doesn't play.