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  • Official: Mikel Arteta is the new Arsenal manager.

Sicario2 - Tier 1 I'm saying - as I have repeatedly - that the league table after 13 games is no reason to panic. Of course that's only true if you believe in how good this team and manager are. As I have also said, for me it's a trust issue and I clearly have more trust in team and manager than some of you.

And that's absolutely fine. However you feel about the team is how you feel, I'm not here to tell you you're wrong. I'm just quibbling with the very specific assertion that a manager who led a team to a points tally we've only ever bettered once, by one point, could be said to be "not good enough". I don't see that that opposing that view should be controversial.

    if slot betters our points tally from last season, I'd be stunned and seriously pissed off. the scousers landing 2 oustanding managers back to back is a statistical anomaly that i wouldn't be able to stomach. you're supposed flail in the wildnerness for 3-5 years. those are the rules. the small comfort is that they're due a significant rebuild soon, especially if those contract with salah and co talks keep stalling.

      Gazza M the scousers landing into 2 oustanding managers back to back is a statistical anomaly that i wouldn't be able to stomach.

      Absolutely my fear and why I'm struggling to cope with this season so far 😂

        Gazza M the small comfort is that they're due a significant rebuild soon

        Yep it's just a bloody pity they are not having that blip now—almost seems rigged that suddenly both Van Dijk and Salah are having a late career Indian summer.

            VVD looked busted post injury. him rolling back the years at 33 is perverse

            Sicario2 - Tier 1 it depends. If Liverpool keep up their current form all season it'd be hard to criticise anyone for not catching them. However if we keep up our form to date for the season there will have to be questions. We are currently on course for 75 points, thats not good enough, we have to improve.

              Burnwinter playing for contracts. Hopefully the both sign with foreign clubs in January and take the foot off the gas.

                Listening to pundits. Apparently Rice had taken 19 corners before Arsenal. He’s since taken 90. Arteta and Jover have added a layer to a fantastic player

                  Was it Michail Antonio who was talking about his ball striking technique last season?

                  Hits them with a nice amount of top spin. Saka has a good delivery too albeit slower flight but flatter with more side spin

                  We've scored 15 goals in the last 2 weeks and people out there calling us Stoke, they ridiculed us for years for being soft and pushovers and now they can't take it.

                    If you look at the top 5 top corner scorers in Europe, you have Leverkusen who almost won the Invincible treble and City in the top 5. It's clearly something other top teams also thrive on. The fact that we are better than everyone else at it should be applauded, but even our own fanbase find it worth criticising.

                      Claudius

                      His and Saka's corners got me thinking how they could be just as good scoring freekicks, but then I realised, I don't recall the last time we had a fucking freekick (in a central position), let alone who our freekick taker was, not to mention when we last scored one. Have we even been given a freekick this season? (I mean one that was taken centrally, rather than out wide where we crossed it in.)

                          daredevil I've seen people who think we should be scoring more open play goals. I have not seen people say we should score fewer goals of any type.