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Offical match day thread

Discussion in 'Arsenal' started by PINKIE, Aug 5, 2019.

  1. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    Yeah can’t argue with that. We are well below the standard we should be at.
     
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  2. omogooner

    omogooner Well-Known Member

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    Annoyingly fans are clamouring for him to be backed in the transfer window.. My analogy is this: Do you have to wait until someone has several millions to understand how good they are with money? I give you £1000, you blow it all on cheap whores, what would you spend a million bucks on?
     
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  3. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    To be fair. The money Arteta has had so far has been spent well. Tierney and Partey
     
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  4. BrunelGunner

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    Tierney was signed under Emery in the 2019 Summer window.
    He's a great player, but his injuries are very concerning.

    Partey has been very underwhelming so far if we're being honest. He's still a cut above our current options, but he hasn't had the transformative impact we all hoped. He may get better next season, but we've not seen the best of him in an Arsenal shirt yet. Whether that's down to first-season syndrome or Arteta's confusing tactics, I'm not sure. I hope it's the former.

    Let's also not forget Arteta signed Willian on a 3-year deal from Chelsea when most people did not think it would be an appropriate signing and, quelle surprise, it hasn't worked out.

    Gabriel was an Arteta signing and he had a great start to his Arsenal career, but has been on a downward slope the last couple months.

    Arteta also didn't pick Saliba for 4 months, favouring Mustafi ahead of him in the pecking order (a man who had no future at Arsenal), only to then loan out Saliba back to France and subsequently cancel Mustafi's contract in January. Awful mismanagement of a young player.

    Ultimately, you need to ask questions about why the standard of performance has been so underpar for the entire season, bar one or two purple patches.

    I still think the calibre of our squad isn't top 4, maybe even top 5 worthy, but there's no way in hell we should be sat 10th in the league.
     
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  5. white_gunner

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    It’s not necessarily Artetas man management or signings that I disagree with.

    It’s mainly the fact we play **** football. We’re pretty poor going forward. And I wouldn’t even say he has “fixed the defense”. It’s just not working. Yesterday’s game could still be going on and we STILL wouldn’t have scored. (VAR would have chalked off another 3 mind you...)
     
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  6. TheBear

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    No way - we've had much weaker sidews do better.

    They are underperforming big time - and we see that by the way we perform in one off games.
     
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    Completely agree with this. Teams of Denilson and Bendtner’s did far better than this.
     
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    Soo most important game of the Season and we have Xhaka at LB and PEPE upfront!?
     
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    What does Martinelli have to do to get a start?
     
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  10. Bergkamp10

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    Looks like we could go with 3 at the back with 5 in midfield ?? Or a back 4 with Xhaka. Lets hope we can keep it tight and get a goal or 2
    Coyg
     
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    What a start, that’s why we hired Emery!
     
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  12. omogooner

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    Who does this guy think he is? Pep? You have Martinelli and Auba and you start without a recognised striker! What a tool! He thinks he is cleverer than he really is!
     
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  13. omogooner

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    2nil down, game and tie effectively over! Another tactical master class from PepTerta!
     
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  14. TheBear

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    Terrible, sort this **** out Arteta
     
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    I don't understand how so many other teams find pressing high so easy, yet we're crap at it and teams bypass our **** press so easily. It can't be that hard because SO many teams do it better than us.
     
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    2-0 down at half time, looking like we haven’t really shown up.

    I think this is Baku levels, I really do.
     
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  17. omogooner

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    Probably best we are put out of our misery few weeks to season end, at least we can all relax!
     
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  18. TheBear

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    Xhaka at fullback when Saka can play well there.

    Smith Rowe as a No.9 when we have Auba and Martinelli available.

    Arteta is taking the piss
     
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  19. Bergkamp

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    Ceballos should be no where near our starting 11, get him off
     
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  20. omogooner

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    I dont know why he tries to over think things.. Just vanity at the expense of pragmatism!
     
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