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Official: Mikel Arteta is the new Arsenal manager.

Claudius

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

Coombs

Claudius at least he had 4 forwards in his team.

Claudius

Coombs was also an era when academies actually created forwards.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

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.

Big Willie

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.

daredevil

Qwiss

He pivoted just last season.

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

lorddulaarsenal

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

lorddulaarsenal

Not sure what to make of that?

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

Qwiss

lorddulaarsenal what was that spend £80m-ish combined? It's not much for a club with title aspirations.

JazzG

lorddulaarsenal Not sure what to make of that?

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

We've dominated Man Utd, literally created chance after chance and so he isn't going to come out and throw his players under the bus.

It is like it is in the DNA of the club, we had this under Wenger as well fucking chance after chance we create and still can't score! I mean look at the chances yesterday, those players score them 8 or 9 times out 10. Unbelievable really.

Gurgen

Time to buy a new left back!

lorddulaarsenal

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

lorddulaarsenal

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

Claudius

lorddulaarsenal
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/best-strikers-in-the-world-ronaldo-lewandowski-harry-kane

Looked at a few of these lists. Marmoush and Osimhen are the only two players who could help in champions league. I doubt Isak is an option given where Newcastle are headed. If we could get Gyokeres even if he was cup tied, would be worth it. And I’m still a Sesko fan.

GooneriC

Team looks stale and bereft of ideas , no individuality no drive no urgency no style. Just slow and boring to watch . We played against 10 men , and we took so long on throws and set pieces they could as well have been sipping lemonade and chilling before they organized to get defending.

invisibleman18

Another trophyless season and not even really challenging for the league this time so it's probably fair for questions to start to be asked. Of course every team will be worse off without their best player but for the amount of money spent the whole thing shouldn't completely fall over with one injury.

We really are a punish to watch too. Pointless even going forward when there's noone there to do anything. Havertz maybe had a purple patch for a handful of games or whatever it was but he's clearly not a striker and we're now paying the price for an investment that never made sense. Like Sterling and Luiz and all the others, there's a reason Chelsea let them come here.

Burnwinter

Arteta's maybe starting to lose his grip a bit, there's the ambience of declining trust. Josh Kroenke has also dropped away. It's very hard to imagine us progressing much in Europe based on these performances.

We need a shot in the arm of some kind. I agree the foundations are good and that Arteta's a good manager, but our stocks are dropping and a big chunk of our performance is set by the runaway sentiments inside and outside the club.

Don Pacifico

Season has not gone well and not getting a forward in during the summer window has clearly contributed to our underperformance.

Things don't look great but we're just about in with a shot in three competitions still. Likely won't go our way but I see no way we get to the end of August without signing the attacker(s) we need.

All this being said, we've had a tremendous amount of bad fortune this season. Bad fortune that could have mitigated by recruitment but bad fortune nevertheless. I can understand the gloom but some of the histrionics after the match appear to be dismissive of this fact.

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Don Pacifico

Bad fortune my ass. This is elite sports. You can’t blame bad fortune over a period of 6 months esp when the same mistakes keep occurring. Also you make your own luck.

This team and manager will never get a buy because of ‘bad luck’. That simply won’t wash. Most feeble excuse ever.

Anyway, I really don’t know how Arteta turns this around. This is his biggest test at Arsenal since Dec 2020. Where’s his ESR now?

Gurgen

That is true, the number and concentration of the injuries and the corrupt refereeing decisions have been incredible this season.

Qwiss

Gurgen we have had some bad decisions against us this season but we had the reffing in our favour yesterday and still fucked it up. I'm pretty sick of refs as an excuse at this stage.

Gurgen

Qwiss that's one game, in the cup. Refs have cost us 10+ points in the league.

Gazza M

that's why, short of us missing top 4, I'd give him another season to take a swing at it. there have been some genuine headwinds this season. we had mainly tailwinds last season aside from timbers longterm injury. arteta has to come to grips with the fact that his football is prone to creative droughts and recruit accordingly from now on. failure to acknowledge the shortcomings in his approach and make the necessary adjustments will be the end of him

awooga83

Gazza M I can understand this perspective but it has to accompanied by proper acknowledgment that at three moment what he's built is missing key components. I've seen some views of but for the bad luck we'd actually be fine but we've still had major issues when I'm the good seasons, goal scoring has been a long term issue despite racking up some big wins. It can't be just go again a you were. If he's not capable of acknowledging the flaws we've had then we should be looking for someone else.

Bernard Woolley

Gazza M Fully agree with this. This could be an indication of any number of things - that the last 2 years were an incredible purple patch, that Arteta doesn't have the resilience to come good when there's a little headwind of either injuries or bad refereeing, or that this is a one-off shitstorm from which he can come back with 1 good summer. Next season will give us the answer (assuming our hands are not tied behind our back financially) and that's the time to make the relevant judgment. If we are not up there and challenging in January 2026, I'd look to bring in another manager and give him the summer to recruit as he wants.

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