Jack won something with Luton. Get him in.
Flik has won more year with Barcelona, that sucks
tazmania Most fans are still behind him, and will be no matter what, for some reason. It's all on the owners, they sacked Mallone at Denver for less, so maybe we get lucky and they step in
HomeSteak unfortunately we don't have an elite player in the game like jokic is in basketball that they have to keep happy. the only one who has the potential to be like jokic is dowman and he's not in the making demands stage of his career yet.
I don’t want to see Arteta go but atleast there are now a few decent options. Enrique, Cesc, Iraola
lorddulaarsenal Yep, we need more passes between goalkeeper and defenders next season, then as the time goes on switch to risky passes between goalkeeper and defenders, football at its best. Literally nobody else guarantees this type of football.
lorddulaarsenal still think he’s the best manager in the world?
Sicario2 I do yes.
Who else can make the goalkeeper win 10+ man of the match awards per season? It’s unprecedented in the history of football.
Proper make or break week for Arteta - get us eliminated in the CL and then lose on Sunday = he has to go. At most give him the end of the season but failure to win anything this season should result in his dismissal. We can't be doing the same shit every season and expecting different results - we've been here with Wenger.
The thing is he should have learnt more the pass back to the keeper stuff is failing a lot and making us spend too much time in our own area when we need to win games. That should be something he's working on changing but I don't believe he'll do anything. Rays being one of the top players with touches at home to Bournemouth should be a massive alarm especially when the team constantly opt to pass it back to him as the nice safe option. That should be you first thing getting them out of doing that it's killing games. It's a hanging on style not a how are we going to win this game.
awooga83 I don't get the impression from listening to Arteta that he understands the problem properly. He knows they aren't doing what he wants, I just don't see that he is able to coach them out of those habits and change the mentality.
awooga83 The thing is he should have learnt more the pass back to the keeper stuff is failing a lot and making us spend too much time in our own area when we need to win games.
I think this worked earlier in the season when everyone was 100% and they didn't have the nerves they have now. There is a huge difference in our ability to pull it off now vs early in the season. There are so many mistakes that look simple but with the pressure and the lack of intensity in these tactics it feels like players are just mentally not quite as sharp. I think if you go out and play a simpler game this late in season where you can just go for it maybe it'd take some of the pressure away and you can just push through. That this pattern is repeating towards the end of each season certainly suggests there is some issue there.
Qwiss totally agree and I think your right with the extra nervousness that we seem to carry it makes this even more difficult to execute successfully. The frustrating thing is I don't see him trying to change it, it should be obvious carrying on this style I think forget the city match we will drop more points in the other matches. You need to react before you fall behind.
awooga83 you can see with Pep he'll often change the way they play as the season goes on, Wenger did it too. Fergie had plenty of way to approach games. Arteta is more like Rafa Benitez, he has one system and that's it. I think it becomes predictable eventually as well the other points on sharpness. We are scoring way less corners because teams are ready for it now. Teams aren't sucked into that pass around the back thing and haven't been for ages, way before the league cup final teams would stand off it. It only works now if you can go ahead but we were still doing it at 2-1 down with 5 minutes left. Opposition are delighted for us to waste time like that.
Yep agree and that's why the corner thing when it was discussed was frustrating because it was ours just people don't like it but as you say it's was foreseeable that teams would figure out and minimise it so having it as the backbone of your approach is not good or resilient enough. I think you are spot on with the playing style at almost always have seen this under Arteta that it gets figured out and we become less effective and he doesn't really have another idea. Again you want to have a number of approaches to matches to give you options. But it's clear at don't the players have no idea when the opposition don't get sucked in.
Like you said it's totally depressing when we need a goal against Bournemouth and we are spending so much time in our own half it's not clever or great tactics it's totally stupid and the opposition are very happy to see us go back.
awooga83 Like you said it's totally depressing when we need a goal against Bournemouth and we are spending so much time in our own half it's not clever or great tactics it's totally stupid and the opposition are very happy to see us go back.
You don't want to panic in those situations but there is patience and there is taking the piss.
Even in Wenger's shit days we could at the very least put pressure on the opposition when chasing a goal.
Gurgen Mertesacker up front doesn’t look so bad now
Gurgen
Our ability to play vertically at pace fell off a cliff when we replaced Xhaka with Rice. I vividly remember the United game in 23/24 and how it compared to the 22/23. We had them on the ropes in 22/23 as we chased a winner and even though Rice also found a winner in 23/24 - I remember getting pissed at how slow Rice was at moving the ball. Too many touches and too relaxed - he just lacked the urgency and Zubi replacing Partey has also worsened things from a build up perspective.
Arteta is even too cowardly to sub a defender for an attacker.
lorddulaarsenal He’s also made us the strongest we’ve been defensively since George Graham’s time in charge
We will in all likelihood end up conceding more goals than the Invincibles. Infact we haven't had a season under Arteta yet, where we have conceded less than the Invincibles. That's while playing extremely conservatively and slowly, and also having what is arguably not just the best back 5 in the League, but also in Europe.
lorddulaarsenal he’s not even in the top 10 and that’s if he wins the title
