This is why I'm saying what I'm saying. Xhaka just had that dramatic trajectory, and good luck to him, but it only came after years of wilful and fitful performances.

I thought that too. Has that hunched beast like quality

White shirts for Arsenal? Yeah nah. You know that colour we used in the last season at Highbury - have we ever used that again? It's probably too close to our normal red I guess to work as a change st...

we will definitely be dropping points from here on till the end. Mainly cos the injury issues will be persistent, cos the players covering are overworked. Kai's running on fumes. That's why I'd rather...

— with how tight our games are, and our injury crisis at LB, it’s a good time for Arteta to toe the line. He needs the red card rescinded right now more than any extra attention on refs, or more likel...

only taken him 5 years to realise hahaha

As someone who was there is was I can vouch for it was incredibly boring from when we got the first goal until the time of the second unmemorable . We might have been in auto pilot etc but when we fac...

it should be possible in theory. In reality we don't have a DoF, our last one had most likely little to no say in who get signed, the next one will be appointed by the manager and the owner is a billi...

yep. Haalands beeing outscoring his xG for a few years but this season he's falling behind it. Yet he still has 17 league goals because he still does the same things. The variance on the xG isn't that...

most of our signings under Arteta have come from our own league. He has a huge domestic league bias and its been fairly successful in comparison to other clubs spending.

Or was it a subtle hint that they are to us what Kane was to the Undertaker haaha

On that note, at this stage of the season Arsenal are exactly where they were this time last year at 2.05 PPG. Liverpool running a little higher at 2.35 compared to 2.25 last time out. They've been on...

yeah I read about that. There was talk of some bad behaviour from them. I get that the club has to be careful with stuff like that but I get the feeling they don't really appreciate the atmosphere tho...

Just clocked that out next five fixtures are all at the emirates - time to go on a run of wins to get the confidence sky high. Throw in a new signing and everything could be all gravy

When Jebus was on his hot streak before the World Cup, that's what he was doing.

I feel like that Mbeumo goal is over-discussed. If it was a systematic issue, yeah, but losing the ball due to aggressive playmaking and then not recovering - can’t get agitated over that.

I think Timber's already doing that. I don't know if it was just Ipswich but we're starting to do a lot more runs up the middle now, Timber among those joining.

if you're lacking confidence an entire calendar year...

it’s not just age, it’s position. The first thing to note is that Arteta got rid of both ESR and Vieira to clear a path for this kid. So he was clearly not marginalising him Second - and this is true ...

I'll add that with Tierney wide we saw our LWF (Trossard) constantly in dangerous positions in the channel. In contrast, with an inverted LB we see Martinelli out wide and Rice often in the channel. I...