Spend big on Araujo - Tet will get that new centreback rush and we can play Gabriel upfront

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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?

      Sicario2 - Tier 1 you've not really responded to what I said. I said that recruitment could have helped mitigate our bad luck.

      But we also shouldn't discount it completely. Real life (and football) doesn't operate in a vacuum and we are subject to factors outside our control. The fact you choose to ignore this is your choice but I consider it entirely unreasonable not to at least take it into account when assessing our performance.

        who is this guy?

        Kyle Walker has been roasted a few times in the league and decided to dip. Thought he would end up in Saudi, their adultery laws might have put him off 😉

        I was against any panic buys this month unless it was bringing forward a signing we had earmarked for the summer but the injury crisis might necessitate a move to at least ensure we solidify top 4 status by the end of the year. At this point, I'd be checking to see if there is any fee that would get Brentford to move Mbuemo, Bournemouth to move Semenyo, or Bayern to move Sane. We need an attacker desperately and I don't think moving for any of those 3 would necessarily sacrifice our long term plans (Semenyo would be my pick but I would doubt strongly that Bournemouth would entertain moving him given their position in the table). If none of those are viable, I think we have to at least consider paying Nico Williams what he wants even with the wage ramifications down the line. Right now, I am not confident that a forward rotation of Martinelli, Havertz, Trossard, and Sterling can really do anything - especially with Odegaard in this form and Merino looking like a passenger most games. I don't want to get desperate but I fear we might look back at this period in May and realize we had to make a signing to save top 4.

        BBC running a big story on how we need a striker. This is not good for us, but it is a situation of our own making. Arteta will probably double down on who he's got if he's calling the shots, because he won't want to look responsive to media pressure.

        Would like us to maybe go for a young striker with potential alongside a more established CF option to start. Was a shame that after selling Balogun and Biereth, we didn't have anyone else of similar promise from our academy to act as option off the bench.

          DKGooner we'd be hearing calls to start chido obi if he was still with us by now. 😂

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            Sami Mokbel is very reliable usually when it comes to us.