• The Arsenal

  • Official: Mikel Arteta is the new Arsenal manager.

He’s 2nd in league. 3rd in champions league. We’ve been here before. This isn’t terminal.
But the squad is beat up and we seem to have picked up 2 more injuries, and we still have six more games this January. So the solution is clear. We need to to force the issue in transfer market. Or risk serious cascading effects with Martinelli, Odegaard, Timber etc

    Claudius So the solution is clear. We need to to force the issue in transfer market. Or risk serious cascading effects with Martinelli, Odegaard, Timber etc

    Imagine all we end up with is bringing in another defender to cover the departure of Tierney and/or Zinchenko?

    Edit:

    HomeSteak Claudius 3 injuries. Timber is injured as well. Or at least thats what they are saying online

    Didn't realise this when I made the post. Arteta probably thinking "All hands on deck then Josh, we got a priority signing to make."

        HomeSteak you can’t be serious man. Don’t open your mouth if you don’t have nice things to say

            • Qwiss

            • Post #3861

            Wenger used to be great at changing things up and getting new combos to work when we were in spells like this. I fear Arteta is too rigid to pivot like that.

              Qwiss Wenger the master of 4 forwards when the chips are down.

                  Wenger also went to 3 at the back towards the end of the diabolical 16/17 season and it helped us get a few crucial results.

                  By the way if we don't get a top scoring CF then we absolutely need to get a reliable goalscorer from the left because Saka isn't enough. Also until we do that we need somehow find an attacking player to play in the 8 because Rice is not going to cut it supporting Havertz/Jesus and Martinelli/Trossard otherwise we are just camped outside the box and going from side to side. Unfortunately we sold the only other attacking midfielder we had in the summer without replacing him.

                  Qwiss

                  He pivoted just last season.

                  I can't see where that pivot will come this season, though.

                    Such a good manager - just do yourself a favour and get a striker and winger with the required ability. We won’t progress otherwise

                    Not sure what to make of that?

                    Is it the Kroenkes? Though why spend on Merino and Cala if funds are limited?

                      Time to buy a new left back!

                      A lot of fans are going to switch off or get uppity if we don’t get a striker in - be silly not to

                      Even if we do get a worldie they probably won’t be able to play Champs League