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Arteta - one more year and that’s it

JazzG

Years of humiliations in these fixtures and we now going into them with the opposition worried about how they defeat us.

Mirth

JazzG in the absence of trophies, this is Arteta's greatest achievement so far. Even with 6 min added time today, I felt reasonably calm we'd hold out.

Dom

JazzG

It's a seriously impressive achievement but I feel uneasy knowing this. Americans on reddit are going to turn this into some cringe 'THE STREAK!' meme and we'll get thumped by Liverpool or City soon after.

HomeSteak

JazzG that has not been the Top 6 in years. We lost to teams in the top 6, a few times-Villa, Newcastle. Still impressive, and it feels good as this was a huge problem under Wenger

JazzG

Mirth Agreed, you feel confident now that once we have a lead more often than not we can see that game out.

We just need to work harder on how we play in transition, clear with new additions it will take a bit of time to find the right balance but even today we could have polished them off if we had been more composed on the counter.

flobaba

What’s the point of us buying a striker like Gyokeres if we are going to continue to play like he’s Merino/Havertz?

Meatwad

flobaba
his job is to actually look like he's a class striker. it's not always someone else's fault. personal responsibility and all that.

flobaba

Meatwad let’s meet in the middle then. If we played Thierry Henry in this role as center forward, like this I’m pretty sure he doesn’t become a legend here. A manager gives their best players the best platform to perform. We’ve seen what this chap does best - run the channels, carry the ball into and finish in the box, We out here playing him like he’s peak /Giroud. We are doing this wrong. It’s basically what we tried to do with Aubameyang all over again.

daredevil

I can see fan sentiment turning this season if he doesn’t deliver - irrespective of how close we get.

A lot of fans aren’t going to be happy with spending 110m on Havertz and Madueke given how all thought it was a head scratching allocation of funds.

JazzG

banduan

Mikel forgot he won there before, both as manager and player.

TambourineMan

If this is the quality of football we have to sit through, and we aren't winning anything - what is the point of him?

Burnwinter

TambourineMan If this is the quality of football we have to sit through, and we aren't winning anything - what is the point of him?

We have maximum points after winning ugly at Old Trafford. We've maintained and improved our first XI. We're 5/2 to win the league across the bookies. If you know something no one else does, I'd get right onto arbitrage.

Xcdude24

Not sure where the right thread is for this but it would be interesting to hear our fitness plan for the season. We looked well off the mark physically today, and I wonder if the staff are aiming towards peaking at the end of the season. We’ve looked so jaded at the tail end of the last couple campaigns, and it seems possible that maybe there’s an approach of delaying anaerobic fitness. I also wonder if the lack of a major international tournament hampers match fitness at the onset (i.e., more of a gap in anaerobic training).

This is well outside my area of knowledge so mostly speculating.

TambourineMan

Xcdude24 people were saying the same shit last season and it was pure fiction then, and is most likely pure fiction now too.

Burnwinter

Xcdude24 We looked well off the mark physically today, and I wonder if the staff are aiming towards peaking at the end of the season.

I was having a look and the timing of the preseason tour / Emirates Cup relative to MD1 was more or less the same as last year. In 2024 the squad had also been back in London from the US tour for a fortnight, and we played the Emirates Cup over the same weekend.

Seems to me we maybe could have delayed de-loading or tapering preseason, and spent more time on intense fitness work. Or maybe the Euros played a part in the condition some players were in by this stage last season. Only speculation though.

Our early fixture list is sparse. We have two more well-spaced league matches and then an international break before mid-September.

mohan

What is the use of us peaking at end of season if we already out of contention by February

TambourineMan

Burnwinter we aren't winning the league and I've put money on it via Liv @2.8 and City @4.0 - basically free money unless Chelsea/United do something extraordinary, but seeing as that is not happening either, this will be an easy win.

Qwiss

Burnwinter looking at other teams pre-seasons I think we had too many big games. We need to sprinkle in some fodder for the lads to go out and just cruise, have fun and bang in some goals.

QuincyAbeyie

TambourineMan You think we'll finish 5th behind United and Chelsea since one of them doing something extraordinary is a possibility but not us?

TambourineMan

QuincyAbeyie I have us for 3rd (in the predictions thread) and think that's where we'll finish. Chelsea or United winning would be as I said, an extraordinary outcome and not one I'm expecting.

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