So he’s changing to 13 or 31 then?
Saudi lads give us 60m for him thanks
think we should sell next summer if this form continues and use the money to bring in a baller-LW.
We only paid £6m. Love the kid, but he’s finished.
He needs more time to fix his mental side…
I believe he has a mental block
Indeed. I do wonder whether there is an underlying mental shift that’s contributing to his struggle.
Other than Vieira leaving to go on loan… not sure what else there is. Ofc there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes that we’ll never know about till he does an interview or something.
Not been that bad today outside of his miss. People overreacting again
Self belief?
Confidence??
Perhaps. It’s Arteta’s job to help there. But there’s only so much a mentor can do.
Can’t carry him forever.
His end product was shit but his movement was major improvement from previous games.
Both defensively and offensively.
Put in a serious shift. Not exactly sensational but that was solid.
I’d really like to think he just needs one of these to go in and he’ll be back on track.
Man quickly turning into a defensive winger
Welbeck 2.0
Guy getting desperate and posting the team of the week as his story
thought he was stellar bar from maybe that one finish. didn’t watch all the other games but happy he got in the team of the week.
The finish was horrible, but even Henry had those pretty regularly.
I still think his biggest issue is that he’s not getting himself into enough good postions, and that’s the biggest change compared to 2022/23.
Maybe that changes now with Timber and Merino, that whole left side was quite problematic for most of the last season.
True, but significantly, he also scored like 15 of those goals a season
I think the most puzzling thing for a lot of people right now is that the very first qualities Martinelli showed when he initially came onto the scene were his runs into the box and his finishing. There was a time early on where a lot of talk was around if his ultimate position would be central. He continued to improve in these areas until 22/23, but the drop off last season in output which has continued into this campaign so far is stark, and it just feels a little strange for him to have lost his shooting boots to such a degree.
Like some have said with this particular chance at Sp*rs it wasn’t actually a poor miss by any means, scoring from that angle isn’t easy. The frustration has just built up with him a little so it’s always in focus even when the chance he doesn’t take is a difficult one.
Don’t think he’s improved much if at all, setting aside the goal scoring of 2022/2023 now seemingly an outlier his all round game has seen no genuine change.
Not creative, suspect decision making, very few moves in his bag in terms of beating his man, defenders acclimatised to what he offers, low/inconsistent techinal ability.
Currently he’s hugely upgradeable, should be no sentiment here.