Apparently our practices are proper. Our players give it to each other. This is the cost of being the boss

    Claudius proper stupid. A broken midfielder, a backup defender, and a nothing keeper on loan is all we have to show for this window. It's really bad.

        never been so happy for the upcoming international break. that should eat up a couple weeks of his rehab time.

        well at least he learned that an arsenal practice duel hits different from those la liga duels he was winning.

          Yeah hard to look at what's happend and think we've made steps forward on where we were last year as a team.

            awooga83 the only consolation is that at the start of last season we looked worse for a while before we looked better. That's enough to lose you this league. I don't expect that to happen now, we 'just' need a miracle in terms of injuries.

              Coombs

              Vieira played almost 600minutes last year.
              Nketiah played around 1400 minutes.
              ESR played around 500minutes.

              That means our existing players (+ Merino when he comes back few months later) need to share an additional 2500 minutes (about 28 matches) amongst themselves, with more matches scheduled this year due to new UCL. It's insane and by next year they might be burnt out already given that most of them also played the Euros this year.

              It's a huge gamble by our team to not sign depth up front. Even a free transfer for Depay would be better than what we have currently.

                It’s been a while since we’ve had deadline day meltdowns 😆

                Disappointed by the lack of reinforcements in attack if this is how it ends. Seems like we’re gambling a lot of Jesus staying fit and being a good option on the wings, and on Martinelli re capturing some form.

                But we will still win the league.

                  Yeah I much prefer this squad to the one that started last season. This time last summer a Saliba or Partey injury was as critical as an injury to Odegaard and Saka. We’ve at least neutralised those two risks.

                  But either way, we’re not competing against ourselves - the real question is whether we’re better than City and I’d say no. Unless we get lucky.

                    Coombs I think we've gone slightly up in terms of quality, but down in terms of depth in attack. Playerwise looking at the squad we probably have the best defense and the fourth best attack in the league, which usually isn't enough if you want to win the title.

                      goon gambling a lot of Jesus staying fit

                      I don't see how this could possibly go wrong.

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                        Crazy, absolutely crazy.

                        goon The meltdown is unreal online. People are legit raging 😂 All the ITKs in the mud currently.

                        Edu spend the whole summer telling people to be excited doesn't help.

                            Clrnc Edu spend the whole summer telling people to be excited doesn't help.

                            He literally told us we wouldn't be disappointed in the end of the window. 😆

                                Mirth not sure a Partey injury was as big as that then, nor would it have been now. More importantly, how exactly have we mitigated that very probable occurrence? We're down two midfielders any way you slice it. Merino doesn't count if he can't play.