Even Newcastle can attract better players than we can now. Have we lost our ability to attract top talent? I think so.
How can they? They got rejected by players whoâd join Arsenal in a heart beat lol
They even got rejected by our former manager
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The entire value of the like-for-like comparison is that it might help control for situations in which youâve played a particularly soft or hard portion of your schedule in aggregate. So its useful, say, when youâve played eight matches because maybe those eight represented a very hard run or a very easy stretch.
When youâve played half the season then youâve basically played a representative schedule by definition, as youâve played every team once and a roughly equal number of home and away fixtures. You might have played Wolves away rather than Wolves home in the previous season, but thatâs balanced out by, for example, having played Villa home rather than Villa away. The aggregate schedule strength is all that matters in the end and the aggregate of a half season this year and a half season last year is going to be roughly equal.
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Werenât we in from Bruno Guimaraes? Newcastle even trolling us in their video reveals
We never challenge for the League and itâs over a decade since we even got past round 1 of the CL.
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He joined Newcastle because we didnât put a bid in to sign him not because Newcastle are more attractive
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Thatâs probably because you still have hope that Edu/Arteta we will get it right. 
We didnât even bid for him
I think it was a video of Guimaraesâs team. On twitter the consensus seems to be that his agent (a certain Kia J.) may be behind this.
Nor do 14 odd other teams in the league. A host of those teams still attract good players.
If anyone thinks playing at Arsenal in London in the Premier League on good money, is not attractive, then I donât know what to say.
Players we bought this season although some turning out decent are not elite targets.
The other factor in getting them bigger clubs were not bidding against us.
Bottom line we need them bigger targets and London isnât an ace like it was 20 years ago either or being undefeated in 2004.
Itâs all about relevance.
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We signed those shitters because we had terrible recruitment and no vision.
In the years from 2015-2019 we could easily have been competitive for players like Mane, Salah, Son, Grealish, etc. We had a legitimate chance at Kante and wouldnât pay the agent fees. Instead, we spent 200m on Xhaka, Mustafi, Laca, and Pepe.
Whether we have the right people in charge now is a huge question. But a club like Arsenal can absolutely find and attract great players if we get the recruitment right.
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Youâve still done nothing, in my opinion, to convince me that the measure in that tweet is less representative than your measure of 21 games. Neither are perfect but yours seem worse and less balanced.
Thatâs not necessarily true. Youâre assuming itâll be balanced out, but thatâs absolutely not a fact that it will.
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Same here.
Although we are all bewildered by how we are left with handful of players but are we really going to lose sleep over Chambers, Kolasinac etc.
We only have two shit players now in Cedric and Xhaka who we need to get rid somehow.
At least we wonât be distracted in summer trying to offload shit ton of shitty players like we did in last few windows.
But on the other hand, the amount of critical incoming have increased.
Backup CB, Back up RB, First Choice Midfielder, Back up Midfielder, Winger, 2 Strikers.
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Alright, I donât think weâre going to convince the other. But I do acknowledge that âfundamentally stupidâ may have been too strong. Arsenal gets us all a little heated at timesâŚ
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All good mate 
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Why would any decent player be attracted to us rather than Man City, Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool, spurs, Aston Villa, West Ham, Newcastle, as well as several decent European sides.
What do we have to offer that these other clubs couldnât?
We donât have good decision makers.
We donât have an ambitious board.
We donât have any world class players.
We donât have a proper manager.
We donât play in Europe.
Weâre a club on the slide.
Weâll see in the next window what players we can attract.
I think you might be surprised how difficult it will be and what we end up with.
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If you canât see why weâre definitely more attractive than these three then I donât think anyone will likely have success in explaining it to you haha.
Iâd have been on board with your post if you hadnât gone as far as to name these three clubs lol (I would have questioned Spurs too, but thatâs less notable than these three and more understandable)
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We spend a lot of money for a club that doesnât have an ambitious board lol
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We may not have players lining up to join us but there are handful of big more attractive clubs than us and thousands of decent players out there.
We shouldnât have trouble finding gems who are not being sought after by other big outfits.
None of Ramsdale, Odegaard, White, Gabriel, Tomiyasu were hyped with offers.
The latter two show that we can find really good bargains.
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