confused them with West Ham, my bad
I thought so 
almost accepted it for a minute and had to check they didnāt win a domestic cup quickly lol
Bottom line is this also
Top players want to join clubs that can compete and potentially win the CL and PL, goes for player retention also.
Winning some domestic cup or 2nd rate European comp but finishing 7th aināt satisfying Saliba and Saka types.
Rice doesnāt join us over others if we donāt look like we can win the majors.
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Letās hope we win, because my god this off-season will drag onā¦
I remember a couple years ago city players being asked about if Arsenal had the advantage in the run in because we only played once a week and they were playing twice a week. And they said no when you find a rythym its better to play more frequently.
Weāre gutting our team every few days and absolutely stumbling through the most important part of the season yet again.
Maybe its more important to find form and confidence and carry that through.
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I do think it is easier when your squad isnāt already down to the barebones.
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Arteta has done some brilliant work, but 5 wins away from the league leaders and no trophies has me thinking he should be given one more season to show that he is the man to drive this team towards serious honours. If heād bagged a domestic this year, heād be given grace. However, weāve been dumped out of two competitions (maybe 3 by next week) after capitulating at home. This needs assessing.
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Nonsense
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Would a league cup this season really change your perspective on him staying for the 26/27 season if we donāt win the league or CL next season?
I think almost anyone who would want him gone at the end of next season for not winning one of the big trophies would still want him gone even if there had been a league cup win this season.
You see it on here sometimes, people saying āwe spent 700 gajillion on players and havenāt won a trophy in 5 yearsā, intentionally placing the cut off point just after the FA Cup that Arteta has won, because ultimately, people donāt actually rate domestic cups that highly. If they want to criticise Artetaās faulure to win big honours theyāll choose a timeframe for their argument that discounts the one trophy he actually has one as our manager.
Arteta can win domestic trophies and people will shorten the timeframe theyāre assessing to ignore he ever did, or dind some other way to discount or ignore it. If we won a league cup this season but failed to win a big honour next season, people would essentially just ignore the league cup win and continue with their argument. āHeās spent 900 gajillion and he hasnāt won anything (except a shitty League Cup)ā
Itās difficult (maybe) to believe but it would have changed things dramatically for me. Beating Newcastle over two legs before dealing with Liverpool would answer some mentality questions for me. Next season, fully fit, new signings, Nwaneri and MLS experienced- I expect us to be in the title mix. If we were to fall short again but had a trophy with this set of players, my mindset would be that it is just a matter of time.
The nature of the cup exits has affected my belief in Mikel getting us over the line.
Iād accept a close second and a cup next season, but how long do we accept no major title AND no minor trophies? No other top club does.
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Lost to the winners
Lost on pens
1-0 down to the best team in the comp
2/3 while our squad was ravaged and missing its most productive player. This cup exit stuff is nonsense.
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Cāmon now it was Man Utd, man. And weāre playing at home, not their ground.
Newcastle are a good side, but theyāre not some heavyweight team gunning for titles every year.
Man Utd are beyond trash.
We had the players to deal with them, they just didnāt turn up.
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You say that yet Liverpool havenāt beaten Amorimās Utd and neither has City.
You know who has? Us.
What are we even talking about here? Theyāve been shitting the bed against shit teams and turn up in these big games for years now. They slapped City in the FA Cup final last season.
Nah, we couldnāt handle both games at that point in the season, I said it before a ball was kicked. We had to prioritise one or the other and we didnāt so we lost both.
The squad was running on fumes already, those who were there werenāt in form and plenty were out injured. Jesus got crocked in that game to make it worse.
I also donāt get this āitās man unitedā stuff, in a cup game it doesnāt matter who it is. They went all the way last year despite being trash and even beat city in top form. Thatās how cup football works, you donāt get results on entitlement.
The fact they got a red is the real slight against us for not winning that, they managed 60 mins a man down.
I havenāt even started yet!
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Penalty shootout is 100 percent luck. It could Manchester United it could be Woking FC. It doesnāt matter
Thereās some element of truth to that, but having a keeper who doesnāt dive so early would helpā¦
Iām not mad about the shootout, Iām mad about the 120 minutes that led to it (well, not mad any more, Iām over it now just about lol)
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Yep same here the actual match was infuriating 
Losing to ten man United, the worst United team
Most of us have ever seen, AT HOME, is justifiable?
What the fuck is wrong with fragments of this fanbase? Going out 4 nil on aggregate to Newcastle is justifiable as well because they went on to win it?
Oh and not scoring and losing at home to PSG is acceptable because we were missing one player from our quarter final game?
Wow wee
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