• naz

  • Post #57

We've only won more than 2 matches in a row twice this season in the EPL. Our consistency is not good enough.

    • Coombs

    • Post #60
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    Claudius and potentially 4 points further off the top, so a 6-point swing. Regression.

      Claudius no we are potentially 9 points behind in Feb if Liverpool win their game in hand.

        Claudius So what are we now - two points behind where we were last season after the same round of matches?

        Maybe, but we ended last season with 1 loss and 1 draw over the course of the remainder of the season and still missed out. You reckon we can put that kind of run together again?

            Points and position aside, it’s clear this team is floundering.

            Getting back Ben White won’t be enough to kick on.

            Big Willie we were similarly laboured in the first half of last season as well, so it's not good that we're doing worse at the same point this season. and we're definitely not putting the same kind of insane run down the stretch.

              Don Pacifico entirely possible the owners are looking at it that way, too. I would be. Over a 100m spent on Rice, you'd think we'd have bought the next Gerrard or Lampard, not a better version of Mathieu Flamini. Or Havertz, 65m and 300-odd-k a week on a bloke who has spells where he looks like he's the second coming of Ali Dia (look him up if you don't know the story). Calafiori? Can't even get out on the pitch. Waste of money.

                • JazzG

                • Post #66

                TambourineMan I still don't think it is done, Liverpool will drop points but fuck me we need to get our act together.

                Part of the problem isn't in our control, we are literally running on fumes and our squad has been absolutely decimated with injuries. Did you see our bench today?

                    It's done. It's not our season. Nothing is going for us.

                    Last season things were going for us and we should have won it.

                    @Sicario2 - Tier 1 was right when he said no guarantee we'd keep getting chances at the title like we did in the last 2 seasons.

                    JazzG I wish I could be so positive like you. It's done. 6 points, 1 game in hand, away game at Anfield for us, better GD, that's probably 13 points in front. It has been over since Saka got injured.

                    This should have been an easy title...well it still easy, just not for us.

                        Think this squad and leadership at Arsenal are having a nasty, bad beat season, and the test is now whether they can adapt and grow from this position or there's a crumbling and fragmentation of the structure.

                        Declaring the project's over doesn't make it over. Football projects end by imploding under the combined weight of failed expectations and overrun budgets, and in few other ways.

                        Coombs you say that but we're the same club that had to buy Raya on loan before paying a fee and have been reported to be struggling to finance Nico Williams due to his likely wages.

                        This notion we can spend money without worrying about the consequences is not grounded in reality.

                          naz that's a damning statistic.

                            Don Pacifico suggests ambition to get into the CL and stay there. Now thats done the investment has dried up. Last summer we made a lot of PSR positive sales by selling the likes of Smith Rowe and Eddie for big money. Most people who took the time to go through our finances said we were above any PSR worries even before that. Yet investment last summer was practically non-existent.

                            The only question about last summer for me is was Edu already mentally checked out of the job or have the Kroenkes decided they're happy enough keeping us in the conversation so that we are attractive to any potential super league.

                                Qwiss yeah I'm starting to think this is closer to the truth. The threat of being outside the champions League and all that means for then, such as being at the table of Europe's top clubs to negotiate for things like the super League or have influence led to investment. Now we are back in that camp it looks very much like they are happy to coast there again.

                                  I sincerely doubt KSE has decided to stop spending. I wouldn't be surprised if they were pushing back harder on some of the signings proposed to them.

                                  Firstly we remain very close to what we need for a title-winning campaign, and I believe a couple of major trophies would be a commercial gamechanger for us. Secondly KSE need to spend large sums to maintain us in the top four in any case.

                                  My understanding has been that it's been Tim Lewis who has done a lot of the advocacy and upward management under the current structure.

                                  Perhaps Lewis's relationship with Arteta is faltering based on the way last season ended, Edu's departure, this season's progress and so on. Given how we're tracking it probably should be. KSE should be asking why we have a lopsided squad and we're slipping back from last season's level, key players like Saliba are starting to shop themselves around a little bit, and so on.