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Arteta - one more year and that’s it

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

It's in our blood!

Meatwad

also signing this many players and having them integrated this quickly lays waste to one of wenger's old talking points about buying more than 3 players and destabilizing his squad.

Meatwad

oh and thierry's comment about us needing to win isn't controversial. i guarantee you every player in the squad knows they must deliver something big this season. if they know then arteta is certainly transmitting it as well. will we be diamonds or pipes at the end of the season?

TambourineMan

Honestly we could sign Mbappe and it wouldn't matter.

The biggest upgrade we can make as a club in on Arteta.

1 in 9 with Rice and Merino, it'll be 1 in 10 after today and he'll probably go with the same thing again next week against Newcastle. Fully expecting to be 9 points behind Liverpool this time next week.

Burnwinter

TambourineMan 1 in 9 with Rice and Merino, it'll be 1 in 10 after today

Good work the people who invented "Rice and Merino" as the special negative codephrase for Ødegaard and Saka being off the pitch at the same time. You could check the contrived stats on that too, surely.

TambourineMan

Anyway, we're not scoring today. I'm off to bed but just wanna say before I go - fuck Arteta and his cowardice. Cost us the game today by being a fucking pussy again. Can't wait for this disgusting rape-apologist to leave our club.

Burnwinter

TambourineMan Anyway, we're not scoring today. I'm off to bed

The same bloke half this forum said might as well be taken to the rubbish tip all summer came off the bench and scored another beautiful goal. Not everything is already known. And yeah it's 3am here as well …

HomeSteak

He will never change

GooneriC

Well he better , otherwise the support will turn on him and so will the players. Look at the attacking players we have now and the football we are playing ,its a farce

Mirth

The fact that Arteta himself made two changes at HT instead of the 65th min says it all.

tazmania

Mirth he better learn from it and start with some courage. He probably can't even spell courage

Qwiss

Mirth I'm hoping it means he's learned from it. We were so much better after those changes. We need a creative mid starting every game from now on.

Sicario2

tazmania it’s nearly 6 years. How much more learning does he need?

RowJimmy

tazmania
Tough guy.

Rohit

I don't mind being cautious in big games. Arteta has had success playing in that manner. We don't have to compromise player setup to exercise caution though. We need a link between the rest of the team and the forward line in the XI. That link can't be Merino.

DiabyKungFu

Rohit That link can't be Merino.

That link is Martin Odegaard. I think the whole "Rice and Merino" stuff is just a restatement of "Martin Odegaard is an excellent player who fits our entire team together", whether people want to acknowledge that or not.

GooneriC

That link should have been Eze from the start today.

DiabyKungFu

GooneriC That link should have been Eze from the start today.

Maybe. It's possible. It should be noted that Eze and Nwaneri have a combined 0 good games in central midfield against good teams. On one hand, you can't have such a good game if you're never given an opportunity to play in such a game. On the other hand, I think it would be wise to be a little more circumspect and less outraged about how "obvious" it is to play Eze or Nwaneri in midfield here.

Relatedly, "The problem with Mikel Arteta is that he's not good at coaching against the big teams" is an all-time giga omega galaxy brain take.

Rohit

Yeah, in his absence it can't be Merino.

Mirth

DiabyKungFu It's possible. It should be noted that Eze and Nwaneri have a combined 0 good games in central midfield against good teams

Granted. But also Merino and Rice also don’t have any good games to point at - and they’ve actually been given opportunities.

RowJimmy

DiabyKungFu
Eze had a good half today - his best performance for us (small sample size). He's a midfielder, not a wing. The question of where he plays when Odegaard returns is not a simple one.

DiabyKungFu

DiabyKungFu Maybe. It's possible. It should be noted that Eze and Nwaneri have a combined 0 good games in central midfield against good teams. On one hand, you can't have such a good game if you're never given an opportunity to play in such a game. On the other hand, I think it would be wise to be a little more circumspect and less outraged about how "obvious" it is to play Eze or Nwaneri in midfield here.

The idea that Eze and/or Nwaneri are good replacements for Odegaard just became much less "obvious" than it was already.

DiabyKungFu

Mirth But also Merino and Rice also don’t have any good games to point at - and they’ve actually been given opportunities.

Yeah. Martin Odegaard is an excellent player who fits our entire team together.

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