If his form towards the end of the season is anything to go by then happy with him staying as our back up striker. Can see him netting 10+ goals in PL with sufficient game time.
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Just got this feeling that he is gonna be one of those players that now he has got his contract his goal tally is gonna dry up. I dont mean the sort to just lounge about doing nothing but more of he is going to be frustrating like how he used to miss sitters etc. Really hope i am wrong though.
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This is something I’m worried about too. Happened to Ozil and Auba. As soon as they signed, they became shite shortly after.
Eddie has a higher hunger index than those dudes
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Plus, they were on 300+k pw and om their last big contract. Eddie’s just getting started.
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The biggest change for me for Nketiah was work rate - he was always a poacher/goal scorer but had a low work rate.
I think Arteta is demanding in terms of work rate from his players, so I am hopeful that will continue and if it does then I think he will always bring something to the table
His workrate was fine. I think his ability on the ball when it comes to carrying it and distributing has improved massively.
His awareness and overall understanding has also improved.
Not sure if @Stroller remembers this but I used to complain about how easily he used to give away fouls because of his pressing. I think defenders started preying for him rushing in and winning cheap fouls. Got some cards for it too.
I think he’s now playing with a much calmer head and is actually shithousing himself. The West Ham game was a prime example.
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Wage bill cleared only for it to be filled right back up with Arteta doods, which is fine. If Arteta can’t get results with all his doods he needs to be sacked, glad the clubs backing him fully so he either produces or has no excuses once he gets sacked. Only hope I have is if we have to hire another manager in a few months or a year, the club is smart enough to get someone who can work with the players he inherits and doesnt have to take close to half a decade to form his own squad to finish 4th.
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Meh
Half a decade to form his own squad to finish 4th 
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Arteta and Edu have done better business in the market in the last 18-24 months than Wenger did in his last 3 years for sure.
Instead is signing wasters like Mustafi, Xhaka and Lacazette we’ve filled the squad up with some good high quality signings.
No excuses for Arteta next season but no doubt the squad will be left in a much healthier position than your messiah left it in.
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Its far too simplistic to say that. Go look at the Mustafi and Laca threads when they signed on. Ppl were under the impression that we’d signed top players, their potential went unfulfilled tho. Wenger had Laca playing pretty good tho, contributing Gabriel Jesus numbers goal contribution wise.
So time will tell if these doods end up being worth the money. It’s easy to say that our windows have been so much better when ur experiencing the euphoria of signing new players. We’ve got what amounts to a fully rebuilt back line and we only conceded 3 less goals than Wenger’s last season, one spot better in the table, and wut 5 points better? (Mainly down to Arteta being kind of a pussy and parking the bus when 1 nil up, which makes for terrible football and I’d still take the Wenger aesthetic every day of the week) so Idk bruh 
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I knew Mustafi was shit mate
Yes you did call that one from the get go personally.
I think @BigWeng_4LYFE is just pointing out what the general noise was from Arsenal fans.
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And I knew Laca was shit a month into watching him. So wuts ur point? We’ve made one signing so far and the doods never played a minute in the PL so how can u be sure that these signings are so amazing? Do you think White, Gabriel, and Ramsdale have improved since they came here? Again we conceded 3 less than in Arsene Mugabes worst season ever…
Again ppl swear that the club was left in a mess yet the next season they hit 70 points with a mediocre manager and the club went out and spent 50m on Partey and 80m on Pepe without batting an eyelash. Roster was just fine the way Arsene left it to contend for top 4. It needed a couple upgrades and a top manager to get more out of that team than what we got…
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Btw lolol
Oh he even conned him by December of the first season.
Hopefully we don’t experience something similar with Ramsdale.
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All of our defenders look pretty good but like i said earlier isnt it a red flag that we conceded more goals than last year with these new hot young signings?
So I’m not allowed to feel like he did well after the initial good start lmao?
I told you he was shit before we signed him and the. He had a good start and then I said he’s proved me wrong in certain regards
It’s not wrong to change your mind and admit you might be wrong sometimes you’d do well to remember that sometimes lol
And then ultimately he ended up being shitter than even I imagined lol.
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Big daddy Weng was filling out squad up with shit like Perez, Mustafi, Xhaka, Laca it was such bad squad building.
Whoever comes after Arteta will inherit an infinitely healthier squad and that’s the benefit of being run by a competent set of people and not a stubborn dinosaur resistant to change and modernity.
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