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Arteta - one more year and that’s it

flobaba

Mmm, everyone getting on the Martinelli out /to the bench train eh? Chooo choooo. Comrade Claudius, there’s room for you too. Alllllll aboooard.

One of the thing Arteta has been stressing even while he constantly signals the desire to upgrade, is the need to keep the existing ones feeling valued. That should be the focus if we’re looking to upgrade Martinelli. We should still keep him. Too useful to let go of.

Big Willie

flobaba Mmm, everyone getting on the Martinelli out /to the bench train eh? Chooo choooo. Comrade Claudius, there’s room for you too. Alllllll aboooard.

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Yeah, but umm, no. If we get someone in and he ends up being better so be it, just means we'll have one of the very best on our hands. Competition is good for everyone. Still think he's got a lot to offer us, even as a starter if Arteta tweaks our attacking shape and patterns. If we have someone at CF who can draw defenders onto them the way Saka and Martinelli get double teamed it'll open the pitch up for Saka and Gabi.

I'm with you on Goku though. Deffo need to be all over that and get him in. Never understood people turning their noses up at him. Guy is a pure striker with a great eye for goal and an even bigger desire to get it. He's also pretty good on the ball and able to link up with those around him.

Claudius

Big Willie whole team contributes to creativity, including the GK and CBs. Calafiori last weekend was an extreme example, appearing at left wing and right 8 at various points.
flobaba, if we’ve learned anything this season, it’s that we need more depth. Not less. Martinelli plus Rodrygo sounds better than one or the other

Burnwinter

daredevil Martinelli's complete inability to beat his man

Useful write-up, but this is a stretch.

Martinelli's perfectly capable of beating his man and has run a lot of rightbacks ragged this season.

The real problem is not the lack of creativity from Rice but the lack of threat from the centre.

daredevil I've watched enough of Gabi now to say that he's just not going to be the player we want on the left.

This might be true. He does have limitations.

Gazza M I believe the most likely way our overload situation will be resolved is by recruiting the right ST and LW.

I agree. It starts with signing a 9 who is an elite goal threat and draws defenders. If we can upgrade Martinelli (a big if), great.

Don Pacifico

Big Willie He's also pretty good on the ball

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Potentially no surprise that I'm sceptical but I don't think he'll find this as easy against teams that pack the box against us (many!) compared to the amount of space he's afforded in Portugal.

SimplyThePest

Gazza M Klopp deployed a somewhat workmanlike midfield while relying on the three forwards and two fullbacks to deliver the bulk of the end product for much of his time at Liverpool. It just can't be workmanlike everywhere which is the approach I think Mikel tends to defer to.

A Zubimendi-Rice-Odegaard trio needs some real firepower in front of it and for the fullbacks to be allowed to provide more width than they do at current.

Gazza M

SimplyThePest klopp also didn't rely on medium paced methodical passing. it was all based on getting the ball to the forwards quickly in order to isolate the opponents. we could do with upping the risk appetite in our passing by 20% or so. we can cope with the blowback as we have a very athletic back four, and a defensive freak in rice

Coombs

The problem isn't that Martinelli can't beat his man, it's that he needs to beat him 2 or 3 times because he starts his dribbles so ludicrously far away from the opponents goal. He's devastating one-versus-one when he's on the goal line driving into the box, which is where he used to spend a lot more time. You'd see a lot more goals and assists if that's actually where he got to play. He gets that chance like once per game if he's lucky in the current setup, and when it doesn't come off he gets slaughtered by the fans because its a 100% failure rate for the match.

Gurgen

Coombs yeah exactly, he beats his man plenty and then crosses into oblivion because we have no striker.

RocktheCasbah

Has anyone seen Adam Clery's Zubimendi video? It seems pretty encouraging for improving the balance of the team:

Don Pacifico

RocktheCasbah watched that over the weekend. Was interesting, particularly the suggestion that it opens up more ways of playing (potentially shifting the balance of our midfield to something a bit more offensive etc.).

Sicario2

Come on Mikel!

Don Pacifico

Sicario2 Twitter summary is not an accurate reflection of what he actually says (specifically the bit about Rodrygo) but it's all spot on (and in line with what Arteta has been expressing for a while).

Qwiss

"We have to add goals, we have to add numbers and we have to add creativity and that will be in a number of positions" sounds very positive. At least 2 attackers then.

Big Willie

Qwiss "We have to add goals, we have to add numbers and we have to add creativity and that will be in a number of positions"

May even mean a keeper who is even better on the ball than Raya. Or another ballplaying defender because like @Claudius used to say, our playmaking is hugely dependent on our backline.

This post was made with my tongue firmly in cheek. However with Tet, you can never assume.

Qwiss

Big Willie I was thinking when he says more creativity he might mean Zubi

Big Willie

Claudius whole team contributes to creativity, including the GK and CBs. Calafiori last weekend was an extreme example, appearing at left wing and right 8 at various points.

This is exactly what I (somewhat jokingly) meant when I said you can not be certain what Arteta will do to sign multiple players to solve our creativity issue.

flobaba

Claudius Martinelli plus Rodrygo sounds better than one or the other

Agreed, that's my preference as well.

Claudius

Big Willie btw. Calafiori will be like Weenger’s proverbial new signing if he’s fit next year. The guy is cavalier talent and swagger

USArsenal

Would we prefer Rodrygo + Martinelli..... or Williams + Martinelli?

Qwiss

USArsenal Martinelli + Williams for me. Think Williams has the higher ceiling.

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