Claudius wrote: You keep playing Willian, Lacazette and Xhaka together and of course we will have a team that moves slowly like bitumen. Thursday’s team has more athleticism and players who have the versatility to hold multiple roles as needed as the game states alter. In contrast those 3 players are very predictable in their movements and actions. Willian has historically run p and down the flank and crossed. We are asking him to cut inside and he is lost in the interior. Xhaka passes between the lines and rarely moves with the ball. With a packed defense, his passes inevitably go wide. Lacazette runs like he’s on a green treadmill, can barely turn his man, and has poor passes and pas & move ability. He’s the Xhaka of strikers. Together they’re the Bermuda Triangle. We should never play more than one if we want dynamism. Pépé, EsR, Nelson and Elneny can help.
You keep playing Willian, Lacazette and Xhaka together and of course we will have a team that moves slowly like bitumen. Thursday’s team has more athleticism and players who have the versatility to hold multiple roles as needed as the game states alter.
In contrast those 3 players are very predictable in their movements and actions. Willian has historically run p and down the flank and crossed. We are asking him to cut inside and he is lost in the interior. Xhaka passes between the lines and rarely moves with the ball. With a packed defense, his passes inevitably go wide. Lacazette runs like he’s on a green treadmill, can barely turn his man, and has poor passes and pas & move ability. He’s the Xhaka of strikers. Together they’re the Bermuda Triangle. We should never play more than one if we want dynamism. Pépé, EsR, Nelson and Elneny can help.
Ceballos further compounds the lack of athleticism.
Claudius wrote: Stale of 3 captains. Or 2, depending on which ones you recognize https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/13515879/mikel-arteta-arsenal-manager-patrick-vieira-william-gallas/
Stale of 3 captains. Or 2, depending on which ones you recognize https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/13515879/mikel-arteta-arsenal-manager-patrick-vieira-william-gallas/
I don't think PV or TH have any better credentials as managers to warrant replacing Arteta with either.
I'm not sure the supporters would accept Allegri's pragmatic style of results first football.
I also see Conte 'linked' of late, but again question if he would want to impart his own vision.
Coombs wrote: The more I reflect the more I feel Arteta can come good here. It'll likely hinge entirely on Holding this season.
The more I reflect the more I feel Arteta can come good here. It'll likely hinge entirely on Holding this season.
He's fucked then.
Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert wrote: Coombs wrote: The more I reflect the more I feel Arteta can come good here. It'll likely hinge entirely on Holding this season. He's fucked then.
We’re all fucked
Coombs wrote: The more I reflect the more I feel Arteta can come good here. It'll likely hinge entirely on holding this season together by hook or by crook. Tomorrow is a new day.
The more I reflect the more I feel Arteta can come good here. It'll likely hinge entirely on holding this season together by hook or by crook. Tomorrow is a new day.
I don't think so, I think we need a Fernandes style miracle personnel-wise to turn it around. But I'd still hold on to Arteta. It is definitely hard to determine progress if we keep getting dumb reds. Of course, Arty does not help his case by continuing to pick wasters.
We need to replace the wasters so he doesn't have to pick them.
Coombs wrote: We need to replace the wasters so he doesn't have to pick them.
He chose the worst of them. Signed Willian and chose to keep Luiz, Xhaka, etc
Qwiss! wrote: Coombs wrote: We need to replace the wasters so he doesn't have to pick them. He chose the worst of them. Signed Willian and chose to keep Luiz, Xhaka, etc
It's just a wildly contextless way of putting it. He's also identified and pushed to sign their replacements, so? Which version of history suits you?
There aren't 2 versions there, they've not been replaced. Theyre both playing today. All we have is reality. And in reality Arteta was backed this summer and he's failing.
he talked xhaka out of leaving didn't he?
By all accounts he really pushed us to sign Cedric as at that point of time he didn't want to keep AMN.
Qwiss! wrote: There aren't 2 versions there, they've not been replaced. Theyre both playing today. All we have is reality. And in reality Arteta was backed this summer and he's failing.
Failing at what? This is a team full of garbage that is the result of decades of mismanagement. Arteta is being blamed for what came before he was even a manager, let alone ours. Its fucking nonsense, the shit being spewed here. Total nonsense.
He's made his own mistakes but so had every manager on earth. I think that fundamentally people become quite stupid when it comes to football, as if it's some alternate universe. It's the same damn complicated world you live in, not a video game governed by numerical rules.
Having said that, I don't think Arteta's going to make it. The narrative will be turned into the usual pulp fiction, it already has, but Arsenal is a mess and you'll all be calling for the next guy's head soon enough.
fuuuuck me. we're in a relegation battle. i don't care who's on the team. we can play a bunch of donkeys for all i care. he picks them and the tactics around them. this shit is dreadful
Coombs wrote: Having said that, I don't think Arteta's going to make it. The narrative will be turned into the usual pulp fiction, it already has, but Arsenal is a mess and you'll all be calling for the next guy's head soon enough.
Every week you get proven more and more wrong about Arteta and instead of sucking it up and admitting it you are coming up with this bullshit.
Coombs, Arteta was adamant about:
Signing Willian Keeping Xhaka Keeping Mustafi
While exiling Ozil, AMN, Sok, Douzi, etc
There's plenty of squad issues on him.
Time to go.
Arteta seems like an intelligent guy, but he also seems way too stubborn for a newbie manager. All top managers are stubborn, but when it's your first managerial job you need to be willing to learn from your mistakes. We all knew we'd have a manager learning on the job, but if he thinks he has it all figured out already then he never will.
The results are just so poor though. Worse yet, the football is just so, so dire.
It’s getting hard and harder to see what is going to change it with each game, I can’t find anything to cling on to.
It doesn’t really matter where you think the fault lies, you almost have to sack him for the sake of it.
Qwiss! wrote: Coombs wrote: Having said that, I don't think Arteta's going to make it. The narrative will be turned into the usual pulp fiction, it already has, but Arsenal is a mess and you'll all be calling for the next guy's head soon enough. Every week you get proven more and more wrong about Arteta and instead of sucking it up and admitting it you are coming up with this bullshit.
Unless Coombs really think 16th is where this squad is good enough to be and Arteta isn't underperforming.
I can't believe people are blaming all these basic team selection sqaud management game management on previous managers and DOF. We have mismanaged the club for years to be out of top4, not a relegation contender.
